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A chat with Hershel Blatt

Blood, Sweat, and Queers has really got me into this classic ensemble vibe—kind of like being part of a theater troupe —which is also a scene in the play! Everyone works as a team. We all have different tracks, portray multiple characters, ages, accents and there’s a lot of moving pieces—similar to Exagoge, but here it feels like all our puzzle pieces are connected instead of independent elements that come together.

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Theater for theater's sake

It seems to me that underneath the reporting of this crisis, there is an idea that we in America have always struggled with: theater is a public good.  Theater, just plain entertaining theater, is worthwhile, whether or not is also serves a social good.  It is something that most of us who work in theater deeply believe, but it absent from theater funding discussions in recent years.  And if we don’t state it, loudly and often, no one will.

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theaterEdward Einhorn