With Virtual Theatre on the Rise, Artistic Director Gets Creative to Excuse Lack of Diverse Casting.10/21/2020  BOSTON, Mass. – With Zoom performances eliminating the need to cast from the limited pool of local actors, Boston Stage Artistic Director Michael DuBarry led his staff in an hours-long session to brainstorm how not to hire actors of color for their upcoming virtual production of Into The Woods.
“With a cast this big, we really had to push ourselves,” says DuBarry. “Boston Stage audiences come not only for predominantly white casts, authors, and creative teams, but for well-constructed arguments as to why we continue to cast white actors in a city as diverse as Boston.” With other local theaters hiring artists of color from the nation’s most segregated city, and casting a broader net for national talent, DuBarry wanted to rise to the challenge. “We don’t want a lynch mob after us.” Blanche Zimmerman, the Artistic Associate overseeing casting, took on the bulk of the project. “We got headshots from great actors of color from all over the country, and it was sad to have to ignore them,” says Blanche. “We did cast Christina Lansbury out of Seattle, as the Baker’s White, I mean, Wife. I’m sending her some Red Sox swag to decorate her background so she seems like a local white actor.” Blanche excused herself for a meeting with her intern to discuss the timing of emails informing Broadway actors of color that their headshots had somehow gone to spam. One lucky local actress of color did land a role: Solange Cobb, born and raised in Mattapan to Haitian immigrants, plays the Witch. “I didn’t want to play the witch,” she scowled. “I swore to myself after a fringe production of The Crucible that I’d never let another white company cast me as a witch. But I haven’t worked with Boston Stage, and I wanted to get a foot in the door. Turn down a role? In this pandemic?” Solange is hopeful for a continued relationship with the theatre. During a meeting in DuBarry's office where he asked her why she was so angry, Solange noticed a stack of plays on his desk, in preparation for next season, including MacBeth.
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I wanted to go to the protest, but I’d never been before. I have visceral memories of 2016 and 2017, staring out my window at work to see the Women’s March, the People’s Climate March, and others, quite literally pass me by. Well, I quit that job. And in the Covid-times I’ve lost others. What can I say, I’m available. I waited too long and fretted too much about making a sign, then finally ripped an old box apart to paint “Black Lives Matter” on one side, and the names of Black men and women killed by police on the other, adding “Not One More.” I found a list. I’d be lying if I said I recognized all of the names – I didn’t. I fretted more: what if someone asks me “who is Marco Loud?” and I don’t have an answer? This added to my list of things to learn. I have so much learning to do. I am a good student, but have left myself badly schooled. I left the sign at home, and took my body and my voice. Dorchester is the biggest and most diverse neighborhood in Boston. Diverse, but segregated. I live where the white end meets the Vietnamese strip. You can almost see the line drawn on the street where Dorchester turns Black. On Tuesday, as I walked from my home at Savin Hill to Franklin Park – 1.7 miles – I saw it. Walking down Columbia Road, the sidewalks started to thicken with protesters, sign holders. More joined us as people climbed out of parked cars and walked the slope to the park. Anecdotally, all of the protesters walking in my vicinity were white. White people driving into Dorchester, taking Dorchester parking spaces, to protest that Black Lives Matter. Cool. As we passed clusters of friendly, helmeted cops standing by, the white youth shyly hid their ACAB signs. I arrived at 5 to find the park at Blue Hill Avenue teeming with people – largely Black, here. Within seconds the crowd swarmed into the intersection of Blue Hill and Columbia, taking the streets hostage for an 8 minute, 46 second “die in,” commemorating the murder of George Floyd. The cops stepped into traffic to pause cars as we lay on hot concrete, escorting our movement.  At the Die In. 6.2.20 After the die-in we marched into Franklin Park, filling both lanes of Circuit Drive, chanting our way to the Shattuck Picnic Grove. Things were friendly, enthusiastic. The chanting never ceased. Nearby me, one Black woman was distraught with anger, yelling at white folx not to take over, yelling at Black folx “you letting these white people be louder than you.” I think some well-meaning whites, trying to keep up the vigor of chanting, had in fact taken it over, rather than amplifying the chants of the Blacks in the crowd. Any time the chanting slowed or quieted, this woman’s cracking voice raised up, haranguing, passionate. I saw clusters of white folk glance at her nervously, then side step the crowd and move away. We blocked the road, but it didn’t seem to bother the traffic. We passed two cars, stalled by the throng. One, an older white couple, rolled down their window and chanted with us. Behind them was a young Black man and his daughter – her smile peeking from the sun roof. He leaned against the door, blasting “Fight the Power,” as though he’d parked here just to DJ the march. We reached the Picnic Grove for a program of speakers organized by Violence in Boston, with Tito Jackson, Brother Dee, and many others. I was far back in the crowd and couldn’t see the speakers, and could hear them only rarely. Another moment of silence, with visceral sobbing pouring out of people all around me. The program ended shortly after 7, with urges us to disperse and go home peacefully. Then things got interesting.  At the Vigil. 6.2.20 I turned around to see – leaning into the chain link fence behind us – a dozen police in riot gear. Standing at ease, if one can be at ease in riot gear. Such a visual can’t help but raise the hackles. The crowd split out of the park – some broke west towards Forest Hills, another east to Blue Hill. I went east. We chanted, sang, in a joyous mood. Suddenly ahead I saw blue flashing lights: a cop truck. The crowd surrounded it, chanting “I Can’t Breathe,” “Enough is Enough,” and “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot.” It was all well behaved, passionate, but determined. Sirens behind me. Shouts and screams. I turned to see the crowd part before eight motorcycle cops speeding towards us. The man in front of me – between me and the motorcycles – his long dirty-blond hair spraying out behind mask elastics, refused to move. Realizing he would be alone otherwise, I too refused to move, standing with him. The lead cop turned his bike towards us. While driving, he actively veered his motorcycle toward us, daring us: move or be hit. My memory like a camera roll – I can scroll through snaps of these moments. His scowl. His front wheel between the legs of Dirty-Blond. The bike screeched to a stop – would have hit Dirty-Blond if his legs weren’t spread – and the cop hopped off the bike, screaming, all chest, into Dirty-Blond’s face, pushing him back. D-B held his hands up and screamed the fuck back. Fury behind a face shield. Two hands raised in peace. A gloved hand dropping to the belt to grab the baton. A woman screaming. The cop reach for his baton when two other cops leapt off their bikes and grabbed him, pulling him back. A third cop walked down the row of parked bikes, silencing the sirens. The crowd turned livid – hundreds of hands up, hundreds of voices screaming “Hands up, Don’t Shoot,” as the first little piggy took a breather and calmed down. We kneeled, refusing to give ground, chanting “kneel with us.” None of these cops did. Within moments the moto cops returned to their vehicles to turn around and leave. The crowd delighted in making this hard for them, and cheered when the cops drove away. Na na nah nah. Na na nah nah. Hey Hey. Goodbye. The thrill of a brief small victory.  My heart raced, my brain running film of that wheel nearly crashing into us. Of that scowling scream, of that hand on the baton. The spark that nearly ignited had come so quickly, so unnecessarily. Without warning. And with what seemed like intent from the police, who didn’t need to drive towards protesters to get them to move. I walked through the Park’s golf course, back to Blue Hill Avenue, feeling good, even elated. I’d done OK. I’d lent my body and voice. I’d had a close encounter with violence but it diffused as quickly as it started. I had a story: I had seen how quickly and willingly the police would threaten and spur violence, but how the crowd wouldn’t be forced easily. Eight p.m. Twilight falling. I reached Blue Hill Avenue with clusters of other sign-holding protesters nearby. Cars in all directions honked and cheered and held fists out of windows. Men taking bags out of cars asked “was it powerful? Was it peaceful? Do you need anything, brother?” The neighborhood was with us. Two blocks from the park I barely noticed more blue lights – had I grown immune so fast? – until I really looked and saw, speeding towards the park, flanked by escorts: two Humvees, 8 vans, and two busses full of armed National Guard: dogs, riot shields, gas masks. I filmed it, posting to Instagram and Twitter, to warn those who were still in the Park. I spent the next half hour, fretting, checking hashtags, walking to the park and back again – wanting to go, wanting to help, not sure if I would find the crowds or be helpful if I did.
From what I gather, the People marched to BPD headquarters, then to the State House, closely watched by soldiers the whole way. One woman drove into the crowd. I later learned two people were arrested – one of them a sometimes colleague. Otherwise, peaceful. All night I felt anger, anxiety. Had I left too soon? Had I not done enough? I know the real answer. I have not done enough. I did not show up soon enough. We are a peaceful army, armed with signs, bodies, and voices. And we are fighting a literal army. Small victories add up. But small victories are not enough. What then? Education? All the books you read and all the docs you watch mean nothing if you don’t change your actions. Baby steps only take you so far. One baby step is to go to the protest, sign or no sign. One baby step is to let the Black folx lead: add your voice to theirs instead of taking over. Stay present to witness the pain and anger of the Black folx around you – don’t make a sign saying “Black Lives Matter” then step aside when Black anger makes you uncomfortable. We are so far behind. I am so fretful to take small steps. And I am fearful the smallest steps are too late. We need to take a million baby steps, take them quickly as possible. For we are so far behind. But I’m available. And I’m taking them. I read and watch and listen to a bunch.
Here's my list from 2018. [Notes to Skip if you don't care: I don't record food. I tend not to eat food except for food. I realize cuisine is a thing, but I'm not gonna record every meal. And I rarely eat out in an artistic way. The key below is inconsistent. Sorry - it gets to be a lot. Email me with questions.] My Favorite 10 THINGS OF THE YEAR (in no order) - Obehi Janice Casanova at MFA - The Interrobangers by Sloth Levine - Steering the Craft by Ursula K. LeGuin - Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut - TOP GIRLS by Carol Churchill at the Huntington Theatre - On Beauty by Zadie Smith - Courtney Barnett live at MassMoCa - Lindy West's The Witches are Coming at MFA - My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Otessa Moshfegh - The Handmaiden by Park Chan Wook - The Power by Naomi Alderman - Seeing 1, 2, 3, FOUR kick ass shows directed by my BFF DMS KEY Television Film Concert. Magazine Book PLAY (read) PLAY (live). ART 1.1 Good Place 1.12 and 1.13, and 2.1 Walking Tour of Mexico City (Uly was great) 1.2 Good Place 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 Museo de Nacional Antropologica 1.3 Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut 1.4 Marietas Islands Good Place 2.6 1.5 Yalepa Good Place 2.7 1.6 Houston Airport 1.7 Good Place 2.8 1.8 David Bowie, The Last Five Years 1.10 Handmaid’s Tale 1.7 1.12 Cheers 1.1 and 1.2 1.13 Esquire, January (James Baldwin’s MLK Reflection) Cheers 1.3 and 1.4, 1.5 1.14 Cheers 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10 PKD’s Electric Dreams 1.1 1.15 Vanity Fair February 2018 Cheers 1.11 1.16 Great Mysteries: Ghosts, by Robert Jackson Handmaid’s Tale 1.8 The Good Place 2.9 1.19 Handmaid’s Tale 1.9 and 1.10 1.20 The Good Place 2.10 1.21 Marvelous Mrs. Maisel 1.1 1.22 Marvelous Mrs. Maisel 1.2 1.23 The Ballad of Narayama (1958) Finished Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 1.26 finished Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince The Good Place 2.11 1.27 HYPE MAN by Idris Goodwin, dir. by Shawn LaCount 1.28 MMM 1.3 1.29 MMM 1.4 1.31 finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2.2 Cheers 1.12 and 1.13 2.3. Cheers 1.14 2.4. Super bowl LII 2.5. Cheers 1.15, 1.16, 1.17 My Next Guest Needs No Introduction: Barack Obama The Good Place 2.12 2.6 Steering the Craft by Ursula K LeGuin 2.7 Vanity Fair Feb 2018 2.8 Farmer’s Almanac 2018 Cheers 1.18 and 1.19 2.9 MR. BURNS, A POST ELECTRIC PLAY by Anne Washburn 2.10 Cheers 1.20 and 1.21 Fawlty Towers 1.1 My Next Guest Needs no Introduction: George Clooney 2.11 White Wolf Woman and other stories; Teresa Pijoan 2.12 Fawlty Towers 1.2 The Greatest Showman 2.13 Fawlty Towers 1.3 2.14 Fawlty 1.4 and 1.5 2.15 The Lorax by Dr. Seuss 2.16 NOMAD AMERICANA by Kira Rockwell 2.17 TORREY PINES by CLyde Peterson 2.18 Mrs Maisel 1.5 2.19 Quickening the Dust by Allison Maria Rodriguez at DAP Last Week Tonight 2.18 2.20 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain 2.21 Fawlty 1.6 2.22 Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 2.24 Mrs. Maisel 1.6 2.25 Chris Rock: Tamborine; Bigger and Blacker 3.4 finished All The Birds in the Sky by Charles Jane Anders. 3.6 The Children of the Morning Light: Wampanoag Tales as told by Manitonquat 3.7 Into the Woods dir. Rob Marshall 3.9 Bestiary by Donika Kelly The Trip to Spain dir. Michael Winterbottom 3.11 Vanity Fair April 2018 3.12 My Next Guest...Malala Yousafzai 3.16 VIRGINIA WOOLF'S ORLANDO by Sarah Ruhl dir. A. Nora Long 3.17 Veep 6.1 3.18 veep 6.2 3.19 Paul Revere’s Ride by David Hackett Fischer Extraordinary Houses of the World, FORESTS 3.20 Fawlty Towers 2.1 3.21 ROXANE GAY: WITH ONE N 3.22 Esquire April 2018 3.23 THE IRISH AND HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY dir. DMS 3.24 Extraordinary Houses of the World: COASTS 3.25 Veep 6.3 3.26 Fawlty Towers 2.2 and 2.3 3.27 Fawlty Towers 2.4 and 2.5 Pacific Rim: Uprising 3.28 The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling Pt. 1 3.29 The Zen Diaries of GS Pt 2 Comedians ICGC w/ GS 3.30 TedTalk: Titus Kaphar; Monica Byrne 3.31 We are Never Meeting in Real Life, Samantha Irby CICGC Letterman 4.1 Animal Talk by Penelope Smith 4.2 Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter Book I of Ovid’s Metamorphosis Last Week Tonight 4.1 VEEP 6.4 4.3 The Dramatist May/June 2017 CICGC Steve Martin; Amy Schumer Bob Dylan: No Direction Home 4.4 The Dramatist, Season Review 2016-17 Steve Martin Master Class 1 - 3 4.5 SM MC, 4 - 6 The Dramatist, July/August 2017 4.6 The Dramatist: Edward Albee 4.7 The Dramatist November/December - International Master Class; Aaron Sorkin ep 2 - 4 4.8 Master Class Sorkin 5 - 6 4.9 Master Class David Mamet 1 - 11 The Dramatist, Jan/Feb 2018 - Censorship 4.10 The Dramatist March/April 2018 Twin Cities Edition Master Class Mamet 12 - 15 4.11 Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block THE TEMPEST by William Shakespeare 4.12 The Dramatist Nov/Dec 2013 MC Mamet 16 - 20 4.13 The Dramatist July/August 2009 Self Producing MC Mamet 21 - 25 4.14 Witch Baby by Francesca Lia Block. MC Mamet 26 Closing Done American Masters; John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I’m Saying it Fleabag 1.1 4.16 Negrosis screenplay by Corey Allen Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, by Francesca Lia Block CICGC Chris Rock; Stephen Colbert 4.17 The Spy Who Loved Me 4.18 CICGC Kristen Wiig; John Oliver 4.19 The Day After Tomorrow CICGC Kevin Hart Will Ferrell, Julia Louis- Dreyfus, Judd Apatow 4.20 Missing Angel Juan by Francesca Lia Block The Matrix by Wachowskis CICGC Jim Carrey 4.22 Vanity Fair April 2018 Errol Morris Wormwood Ch 1 - 6 4.23 Veep 6.5 and 6.6 4.24 RAMPAGE 4.26 Shonda MC 3 4.28 BROKELAHOMO by Ryan Landry dir. Robin Smith 4.29 Michelle Wolf’s WHCD set Veep 6.7 4.30 Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut 5.1 Shonda MC 4, 5, 6, 7 5.4 - 5.6 Getaway House 5.6 THE SUPERVILLAIN CLUB by Lila Rose Kaplan 5.10 Life of Pi by Yann Martel 5.11 Vanity Fair May 2018 WIG OUT by Terrell Alvin McCraney 5.13 TOP GIRLS by Carol Churchill Handmaid’s Tale 2.1 5.14 The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz 5.15 Overboard with Anna Faris 5.18 The Art of the Memoir by Mary Karr MC Shonda Rhimes Ep 8 5.19 Meem 4 Boston: A story ballet about the internet (ICA, chor. Ryan McNamara) 5.20 RBG dir. by Nancy Wolf et al 5.21 Border Districts by Gerald Murnane 5.22 Handmaid’s Tale 2.2 and 2.3 5.25 HERITAGE HILL NATURALS by Fran de Silveira 5.26 The Dramatist May/June 2018 Handmaid’s Tale 2.4 5.27 Deadpool 2 5.28 Handmaid’s Tale 2.5 5.30 Zadie Smith: Feel Free 6.3 Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash 6.5 Esquire May 2018 6.7 Martha’s Brainstorm 6.8 Martha’s Brainstorm 6.9 Climate Change Open Mic 6.11 ANNIHILATION (novel) by Jeff Vandermeer 6.12 Esquire June 2018 Parts Unknown 1.1 Myanmar parts unknown 1.2 Koreatown LA 6.13. Parts unknown 1.3 Colombia THE WIZ dir by DMS 6.16 Vanity Fair June 2018 6.17 WC Germany v Mexico 6.18 WC: Sweden v S Korea WC: Belgium v Panama WC England v Tunisia 6.19 WC Poland v Senegal WC Colombia v Japan Oceans 8 (dir Gary Ross) Dr. Marston and the Wonder Women 6.20 WC Uruguay v Saudi Arabia 6.22. My Next Guest...Tina Fey 6.24 Skyfall 6.25 Parts Unknown: Libya WC: Portugal v. Iran WC: Uruguay v Russia 6.29 On Beauty by Zadie Smith Hannah Gadsby Nanette 6.30 Kid Gorgeous, John Mulaney 7.1 WC: RUS v SPA WC: CRO vs. DEN Won’t you be my neighbor 7.4. TEETH the musical 7.5. Authority by Jeff Vandermeer My Next Guest...Seinfeld and Letterman Parts Unknown: Montreal/Quebec 7.6 The Comedy Lineup Michelle Buteau; Ian Kramer 7.7 WC Quarters Extraordinary Houses: Mountains? 7.10 WC Semis 7.11 WC Semis 7.12 Courtney Barnett, with Vagabon 7.13 Six Flags Great Escape Ali Wong Hard Knock Wife 7.14 WC 3rd place game 7.15 WC Final The COmedy Lineup: Taylor Tomlinson, Sam Jay 7.16 Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer MC: Judd Apatow Ep 1 - 7 Comedy Lineup: Phil Wang, Sabrina Jalees 7.17 Apatow masterclass 8 and 9 The World’s Most Extraordinary Houses UNDERGROUND 7.18 Apatow MC 10 - 11 Girls 1.1 Screenplay and Episode 7.19 Apatow 12 - 13 The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death, by Colson Whitehead 7.20 apatow MC 14 7.21 Judd Apatow MC 15 MadDash 2018 7.23 Apatow MC 16 - 17 ATLANTA Pilot: teleplay and episode Comedy Lineup: Jak Knight; Tim Dillon 7.24 Apatow 18 - 19 Skyscraper 7.25 CICGC: Zack Galifinakis; Dave Chapelle; Ellen DeGeneres FLEABAG 1&2 (outlines) Grand Designs 11.1 South Yorkshire 7.27 MC Apatow 20-22 Grand Designs 11.2 North London 7.28 Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey Pilot teleplay: INSECURE Issa Rae and Larry Wilmore THE LEFTOVERS by Josh Wilder dir. Summer Williams The Stand Ups Aparna Nancherla 7.29 Mission Impossible: Fallout Grand Designs 11.3: York 7.30. MC Apatow ep 23, 24, 25 Fleabag Ep 3 - 6 The Stand up: Rachel Feinstein 7.31 MC Apatow ep 26 - 29 Grand Designs Tiverton 8.1 MC Apatow rewatch ep 10 MC Apatow 30 - 32 Vanity Fair August CICGC: Brian Regan, Tracy Morgan 8.2 Last Week Tonight Ep 18 CICGC: Hassan Minaj; Dana Carvey Grand Designs: Strathaven 8.3 CICGC: Neal Brennan; John Mulaney, Kate McKinnon 8.4 Acadia National Park 8.6 CICGC: Alec Baldwin Gasping for Airtime by Jay Mohr 8.7 Dramatist: Season in Review 2018 CICGC Jerry Lewis Faces Places dir by JR and Agnes Varda “Important VIdeos” 8.8 Continued “Important VIdeos” 8.9 Continued “Important VIdeos” Variety July 2018 8.10. Variety August 2 The 40 Year Old Virgin 8.11 Dramatist Magazine August 2018 Don’t Think Twice dir Mike birbiglia 8.12 ”Important videos” Insecure 2.1 and 2.2 8.13 Finished “Important VIdeos” Vanity Fair September 2018kr INSECURE 2.3 and 2.4 8.14. Steve Martin MC 1-10 George Carlin What am I Doing in New Jersey 8.15 Steve Martin MC 11 - 15 INSECURE 2.5 8.16 Steve Martin MC 16 Lindy West: Witches Insecure 2.6 8.17 Steve Martin MC 17, 18, 19 OUR DEAR DEAD DRUG LORD by Alexis Sheer 8.18 Steve Martin MC 20, 21, 22 Tell Them Anything You Want, dir. Spike Jones (about Maurice Sendak) An Emmy for Megan Ep 1 Get Smart 8.19 An Emmy for Megan Ep 2 - 6 Steve Martin MC 23, 24, Bonus (done) ICA Watershed: Diana Thater ICA: We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965-85 Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death Caitlin Keogh: Blank Melody Insecure 2.7 and 2.8 8.20 Insecure 3.1 8.21 The Chance You Won’t Return, by Annie Cardi Crazy Rich Asians dir. Jon Chu 8.22 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, dir. Richard Brooks 8.23 CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, writ Tennessee Williams 8.24 Esquire September 2018 GOD OF CARNAGE by Yazmina Reza, trans. Christopher Hampton Hot Girls Wanted, dir. Rashida Jones Carnage dir Roman Polanski 8.25 Breaking Bad Pilot 1.1 8.26 Dead Letter Office 8.28 Born Standing Up, by Steve Martin THE ODD COUPLE by Neil Simon Insecure 3.3 The Standups: Joe List 8.29 DEATHTRAP (play) by Ira Levin The StandUps: Gina Yashere 9.1 CICGC Norm MacDonald; Kevin Hart 9.2 Hot Girls Wanted: Girls on Top 1.1 9.3 Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell I love you, Man Comedy line up: Janelle 9.5 Heart of a Dog, w/d by Laurie Anderson THE BLACK CLOWN (A.R.T.) 9.6 HGW:TO - Love Me Tinder Assorted Stand Up CICGC Brian Regan 9.7 My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Otessa Moshfegh pilot BREAKING BAD CHT Ghost Tour 9.8 THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA by Edward Albee What we Do in the Shadows, dir Taika Waititi The Comedy Lineup - Matteo Lane 9.9 MADE IN HEAVEN by Steven Bogart Insecure 3.4 9.10 PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE by Steve Martin Insecure 3.5 9.11 LOST pilot episode screenplay 9.12 CICGC Bill Maher, Sarah Silverman THE NICETIES by Eleanor Burgess 9.13 CICGC: Lorne Michaels; Jay Leno The Standups: josh Johnson; Aisling Bea 9.14 CICGC: Margaret Cho The Handmaiden, w/d Park Chan-Took NORM SHOW: David Spade; Drew Barrymore 9.15 Notre Dame vs. VBilt Kitchen Confidential NORM SHOW: Judge Judy CHT Ghost Tour: Josh 9.16 Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story A Quiet Place CHT Ghost Tour: Steward 9.17 2018 Emmy’s 9.18 Insecure 3.6 9.19 Norm: David Letterman Norm: Jane Fonda 9.20 HAMNET by Deep End 9.21 Obehi Janice’s Casanova 9.22 Trajal Harrel: Caen Amour 9.23 Fire Free Zone by Theresa Rebeck The game, dir. David Fincher Norm show: Lorne Michaels 9.24 Norm Show: Chevy Chase Insecure 3.7 9.25 Norm Show: M. Night Shyamalan Norm Show: Michael Keaton The Office 3.14: Ben Franklin 9.26 Vanity Fair October 2018 Norm Show: Billy Joe Shaver 9.27 The Office 3.15: Phyllis’ Wedding 9.28 JJK’s First Ghost Tour 9.29 The Good Place 1.1 9.30 Shelburne Orchard! The Good Place 1.2 10.1 Insecure 3.8 10.3 John Oliver: Kavanaugh 10.4 The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes, 2.1 USA 10.5 The Good Place 1.3 and 1.4 10.6 Dangerous Liaisons The Comedy Line up: Emma Willman 10.8 Comedy Lineup: Max Silvestri 10.9 A Star is Born, w/d by Bradley Cooper 10.10 Parts Unknown: Vietnam (w/ Obama) 10.11 Parts Unknown: Nashville Great British Bake-off 2.1 (Netflix) Vanity Fair November 2018 10.13 Ladybird, w/d Greta Gerwig 10.15 Parts Unknown: Houston; Japan Most Extraordinary Homes, 2.2 Portugal 10.16 The Good Place 1.5 10.18 Goldeneye 10.19 Two Weeks Notice Homecoming Podcast 1.1 10.20 The Oath The Good Place 1.6 10.22 Homecoming Podcast 1.2 10.23 The Good Place 1.7 Comedy Lineup: JR De Guzman 10.24 Homecoming 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6 RAW by Julia Ducournau 10.25 Sherlock 1.1 Homecoming 7 10.26 Homecoming 8, 9, 10, 11 Sherlock 1.3, 2.1 10.27 Homecoming 12 Sleepy Hollow (animated) Sherlock: The Reichenbach Falls (2.3) 10.28 It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Sherlock 3.1 The Empty Hearse 10.29 Teen Wolf 10.30 Queen Live Aid Performance 10.31 A Childhood: The Biography of Place, Harry Crews War of the Worlds by Mercury Theatre MACBETH dir. by Dawn M Simmons 11.1 Daybreakers by Spierig Brothers 11.2 Species 11.3 NSFW by Lucy Kirkwood Dolores Roach 1, 2, 3 11.4 Dolores Roach, 4, 5, 6 11.5 Dolores Roach 7, 8 11.6 Veep 5.2 11.7 Veep 5.5 11.8 Mad Monster Party (Rankin/Bass) 11.9 BARCC Gala 11.10 The Big Sick, d. Michael Showalter, w. Kumail Nanjiani and Emily W 11.11 Samantha Bee 11.9 11.12 dirty rotten scoundrels by frank oz 11.13 365 Days/Plays: Nov - Dec. 11.14 Comedy Lineup: Kate Willet 11.15 Veep 5.6 (finished) 11.16 The Fingersmith by Sarah Waters The People Vs. OJ Simpson Ep 1 11.17 Gimme Danger, w/d Jim Jarmusch 11.18 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, w. Bill Goldman, dir. George Roy Hill 11.19 The People vs. OJ Simpson, Ep 2 11.20 Veep 5.7 11.22 Blood & Ivy, by Paul Collins Veep 5.8 Neo Futurists Plays 1 - 15 11.23 Veep 5.9 Neo Futurists plays 15 - 30 11.24 Esquire November 2018 Veep 5.10 NeoFuturists Plays 30 - 50 11.25. Widows, w/d Steve McQueen (w Gillian Flynn) People vs OJ Simpson Ep 3, 4 Vanity fair December 2018 11.26 People vs. OJ Ep 5 11.27 finished 100 Neo Futurist Plays People vs. OJ Ep 6 11.28 People vs. OJ Ep 7 11.30 People vs. OJ Ep 8 and 9 12.1 People vs. OJ Ep 10 Veep 1.1 12.2 Holiday in Handcuffs (muted) Patriots vs. Vikings Four Christmases 12.3 The Power by Naomi Alderman American Vandal 2.1 12.4 Dramatist Guild Oct/Nov 2018 Extraordinary Homes Switzerland Veep 1.2 12.5 National Geographic October 2018 American Vandal 2.2 12.6 American Vandal 2.3 National Geographic November 2018 American Vandal 2.4 12.7 American Vandal 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8 Rolling Stone November 2018 12.8 Cooking Light November 2018 Black Panther 12.9 The Favorite by Yorgos Lanthimos 12.10 Atlanta 2.1, 2.2 The Dramatist Nov/Dec 2018 12.11 Veep 1.3 12.12 Extraordinary Homes Japan 12.13 Veep 1.4 12.14 Atlanta 2.3 and 2.4, 2.5 12.16 Home Alone 12.17 Atlanta 2.6 12.18 Born to be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey, by Mark Der Atlanta 2.8, 2.9 12.19 Atlanta 2.10, 2.11 Esquire winter 2019 12.20 Vanity Fair December 2019 Veep 1.5 Mrs. Maizel 2.1 12.23 Penultimate Human Constellation by Ben and Steven Ostrowski THE INTERROBANGERS by Sloth Levine 12.24 Veep 1.7 12.27 All Rights Reserved by Greg Katsoulis Veep 1.8 12.28 Courtney Barnett: Tell me How you Really Feel 12.29 Throwing Shade 12.30 Throwing Shade Veep 2.1 12.31 Fellowship of the Ring The Two Towers Return of the King |