Pig Icons in American Culture
Hungry Pig Within the first five minutes of Civilization (all you can eat), the audience is introduced to Big Hog; DC favorite Sarah Marshall’s intricately crafted and cunning pig character. Big Hog...
View ArticleCan You Smell What Woolly Is Cookin’?
Just this past weekend we wrapped up our second run of The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, said bye to Mike and Jean-Michele, and said hello to… Paradyse? James Long is Paredyse We’ve started...
View ArticleHow To Take a Punch (Or a Kick) To The Face
You sit in the theatre, watching two men in spandex panties getting ready to throw down. You can’t help be skeptical and excited: “these are actors,” you think dubiously, “there’s no way they’re going...
View ArticleIs Wrestling Real?
In The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, larger-than-life figures emerge from darkness into the theater. The music booms, the costumes are flamboyant, and the entertainers gyrate their way to the...
View ArticleYour Dream Career
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity is not just for wrestling fans. The story is told through the lens of wrestling, but the lessons can apply to anyone in search of a dream career. The play opens...
View ArticleDo We Need Something to Hate to Discover What We Love?
‘Old Glory’ and a portion of his patriotic elaborate entrance. When I first read THE ELABORATE ENTRANCE OF CHAD DEITY, it worked for me on a number of levels. I loved that the content was...
View ArticleIn Search of Cultural Balance
I’ve never been particularly attached to the clothes I wear. I have always happily worn different outfits to fit the social situation required — unlike others, what I wear does not define me or so I...
View ArticleAll Together Now: two hundred years of American public assembly
excerpted from the AMERICAN UTOPIAS playbill Even before the Declaration of Independence, a public demonstration in Boston Harbor proved the political impact that could be unleashed by Americans taking...
View ArticleMy Experience at Burning Man
It can be difficult to explain what Burning Man is like without sounding like a cult, or worse, a cliche. But what I love about Burning Man is the impossibility of it all. Sure, we build an impossible,...
View ArticleMy trip to Disney World
We asked you to share with us photos from your trips to Disney World and here are some of the awesome snapshots we got. Thanks everyone! How about you? What was your trip to Disney World like?
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