Facing accusations of inappropriate relationships with her teenage fans and grooming, Colleen Ballinger decided that the best course of action was to respond with a ditty on a ukulele explaining that she was actually the victim of a “toxic gossip train.”
Read More"I’ve just left a dinner with a well-known casting director. He had asked me to join him to talk about the potential he sees in me and learn about my career goals. I thought that’s all we would talk about. I was wrong."
Read More“It is OK to take up the space you require. The world needs you to take up the space you require.”
Read More“St. Martin could have shown empathy. That’s what good spokespeople are supposed to do. Instead, if anything, she was defiant over the current business model that works for the rich and doesn’t work for everyone else.”
Read More“Many of us in the industry have always looked at the theatre as a safe place, a place where you can truly be yourself bound only by the limits of your imagination. That is why it is so extra heartbreaking when we uncover stories of abuse and mismanagement and toxicity in our theaters, because, for a whole bunch of us, the stage is a lifeline.”
Read More“While there are worse ways to spend 17 minutes and 40 seconds, the best I can say about her five-track exercise in self-pity is that it exists.”
Read More“A list of references made to everyone’s favorite Halloween cult musical.”
Read More“Would the show have worked on Broadway? The question was inescapable as I exited the Raimund and looked at the marquee shining bright, envisioning what would have happened if I was looking at it outside of the Broadhurst Theater in New York. In this writer’s opinion, I don’t think it would have.”
Read More“Whether it is a song, a moment of silence, a circle in the water, the telling of stories, the things we do in the aftermath, alone and together, help us to make sense of the most perplexing aspect of our experience as humans.”
Read More“The Little Mermaid is a mythical creature who can look like anything and anyone! You’re telling me it’s easier to believe that a character has a fish tale than that she’s Black?”
Read More“He’s an artist who has lost the favor of his original industry, one based on innovation and boundary-pushing that he was a healthy beneficiary of. All he can do now is spew right-wing talking points for the niche audience that consumes media based on political affiliation.”
Read MoreSome shows contain scenes with explicit violence, full-frontal nudity, and in some cases, even scenes depicting sexual acts on stage. As one can imagine, this often provokes controversy and often can spark outright negative reactions from the audience. In cases such as this, it is worth asking: Are there instances in which theatre goes “too far”? If so, what would they be?
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