Saturday, October 28, 2017
Originally published on Longreads.com View this story online A fat person walking into a doctor’s office can expect lectures, condescension, and misdiagnoses from a medical culture that ch…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 02:38PMFriday, October 27, 2017
According to Kazan’s compelling After the Blast, progress for women is moving slower than we think. In this post-apocalyptic play, directed with clarity and compassion by Lila Neugebauer …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 02:58PMTuesday, October 17, 2017
Originally published on The Culture Trip View this story online The need for “safe spaces” has been written about endlessly in the press. Some espouse the belief that people, especially …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:03AMThursday, October 12, 2017
Originally published on Vanity Fair Hollywood View this story online Star Donna Lynne Champlin talks Paula’s groundbreaking past—especially that abortion arc—and what’s coming next i…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:20PMWednesday, October 4, 2017
Originally published on The Culture Trip View this story online The program notes state that Ruhl wrote For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday as a gift to her mother, Katherine, who p…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:11AMThursday, September 21, 2017
Originally published on The Culture Trip View this story online No matter where the audience looks during A Clockwork Orange, male muscles are visible–flexing, tensing, and bulging. The c…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:29AMFriday, September 8, 2017
Originally published on Vanity Fair Hollywood View this story online Facing puberty is bad enough—but try doing that while also juggling an absent mother, a disturbing father, and an amorp…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:07AMSaturday, August 19, 2017
I often go to the theater to escape my life. Not that my life is horrible, but who doesn’t need a break now and then from their everyday problems, jobs, or relationships? Plays and …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 12:37PMFriday, August 18, 2017
Originally published on Show-Score.com View this post online I didn’t cry a lot when I was sick. I was too busy, stressed, and scared to allow myself to break down in tears. It was almost …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:18AMFriday, July 14, 2017
Originally published on Glamour.com View this story online Miranda and her boyfriend, Daniel,* have been together for almost two years. They’ve traveled around the country, spent holidays …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:39AMSunday, June 25, 2017
Originally published in DAME magazine View this story online It never occurred to Jessica* to not report her rape. After being attacked at a bar when she was 24, she immediately told her fri…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:11AMFriday, June 9, 2017
Originally published in Dame Magazine View this story online The Tony Awards are hardly known as a feminist event, but on Sunday, June 11, if we are lucky, we may be witnessing a first. In t…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 04:44PMWednesday, May 24, 2017
Originally published in Fusion Read this story online In Front Lines, Fusion speaks to activists leading the charge in all kinds of ways. Nasreen Alkhateeb’s teenage rebellion wasn’t too…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:39PMFriday, May 19, 2017
Originally published in The Village Voice View this story online Just over a year ago, when Jinah Parker began working on She, a dance- and spoken word–centered exploration of violence aga…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:29AMMonday, May 15, 2017
Originally published on Broadway News View this story online A pivotal moment pauses a boisterous cocktail hour in the second act of “Oslo,” the new Tony-nominated play chronicling behin…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:56AMMonday, May 1, 2017
Originally published in the New York Times View this story online Alerts sound about 10 times an hour on Kris Andersson’s phone, but the multitasking performer may be keeping the pa…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 03:21PMTuesday, April 25, 2017
Originally published on TeenVogue.com View this story online She never meant to become a symbol of the feminist movement. But throughout her career, which began at the age of eight, Elisabet…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:44AMThursday, April 20, 2017
When it comes to makeup, experts always say that less is more. Though the new musical War Paint chronicles the rivalry between the groundbreaking cosmetics titans Elizabeth Arden and Helena …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:10AMThursday, April 13, 2017
Originally published on The Culture Trip View this story online Given the time it takes to complete a script, playwrights are seldom first responders to a political upheaval. Yet Donald Trum…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 03:53PMWednesday, April 5, 2017
Originally published on Paste Magazine View this story online Before Joan of Arc: Into the Fire begins at the Public Theater, the words, “She was warned. She was given an explanation. Neve…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 05:11PMOriginally published in Paste Magazine View this story online The steady beat of tom-toms seems go on for eternity in the breathtakingly realized production of The Emperor Jones at off-Broad…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:17AMThursday, March 30, 2017
Originally published on Vice.com View this story online As queer clergy and churchgoers increase in prominence and visibility, many say the divide between the Church’s progressive and …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 08:58PMOriginally published on The Culture Trip View this story online Are we just animals? Or are we a different species altogether, one compromised by our animal instincts? That’s one of the qu…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 12:03PMWednesday, March 22, 2017
It’s an ironic experience, to say the least, to watch a merciless exploration of fame and its dismissive treatment of women performed by arguably one of the most famous actresses in Americ…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:58AMMonday, March 13, 2017
Originally published on Paste Magazine View this story online Gideon Glick has grown up onstage-as a former teenager and now millennial would say-literally. The actor made his Broadway debut…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 03:19PMSaturday, March 11, 2017
Originally published on The Culture Trip View this story online The play opens with 55-year-old Linda declaring to an unseen group of other middle-aged women, “We know you’re out there…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:23AMMonday, March 6, 2017
Originally published on Mic.com View this story online Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheim’s musical about revenge, lust, murder and cannibalism, has found yet another home in New York City…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:48PMFriday, March 3, 2017
Originally published on Vice.com View this story online Should we lose hard-won anti-discrimination protections and healthcare access, an already marginalized community may suffer tragic con…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 02:44PMWednesday, March 1, 2017
Originally published on Paste Magazine View this story online An admittedly anxious person who often copes with stress or uncertainty by cleaning, I was curious as to how I would feel during…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:02AMSunday, February 26, 2017
Originally published in Paste Magazine View this story online “Mom doesn’t dance too much,” Karen Ziemba says, a bit wistfully, of her latest performance. The statement, and how the To…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:07AMThursday, February 23, 2017
Originally published on Mic.com View this story online No one can accuse Jake Gyllenhaal of being a slacker. The Oscar-nominated actor is known for playing intense, perhaps tortured characte…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:14PM 
