9th
Sadly, it’s not opening until May 2009, but you can subscribe to the theater for their shows next season (I’m in!) to be guaranteed a seat.
There’s also a Neil LaBute play next year, which is great if you’re like me and enjoy theater that makes you cringe.
I read this too quickly, and at first thought Merritt and LaBute would be collaborating on a scathing social satire with bittersweet songs of rumination and unrequited love. But separate works in 2009? Even better.
…in this email (below), which describes “Testicle Appreciation Day.” William was diagnosed with cancer last year. The following, which he authored this morning, is inspiring in more ways than one.
This day, April 25, shall be henceforth referred to as testicle appreciaton day, during which everyone is encouraged to examine their own set, or if you don’t have any, a set belonging to a special friend. It is my hope that by next year, everyone you know will be taking the day off to look at, feel up, and generally spend some quality time with testicles. These examinations should be fun, they should be thorough and they should include whipped cream or something. Mostly though, they should be in search of lumps and masses commonly associated with cancer. If you do not know how to search your nuts for lumps and masses i will briefly explain:
“…as John McCain not only consolidates his own party but encroaches on theirs by boldly venturing into Selma, Ala., on Monday to woo black voters.”
Culprit: Maureen Dowd, “Wilting Over Waffles”
News Organization: The New York Times
What exactly is bold about visiting the nation you want to lead?
I spent the weekend catching up on Boulevard’s past few issues. It’s one of the few literary journals that can both fascinate and enrage me in a handful of pages. Someone’s stylistic departures leave me reeling; a page later I’m bolted upright and shaking my fist. From Boulevard #68/69’s Symposium: Writers and Readers Under 35:
“This is the most passive, confused, disoriented, malingering, abstract, ignorant, brainwashed, unified, coddled, meaningless American generation ever, and it shows in its reading and writing. It is also the most tolerant, self-sufficient, understanding, empathetic, multicultural, uplifted, vocal, articulate, knowing, ironic, sensible, pragmatic, disciplined, ambidextrous, wholesome generation on record. The two tendencies exactly cancel each otherout. Its strengths are the mirror image of its failings…” -Anis Shivani.
Shivani goes on like this for five pages. Just thought you’d like to know…