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DREAM ME A WINTER: DRUGS, SEX AND A LONGING FOR NORMAL

Dream Me a Winter was written by Simon Farquhar for the Old Vic 24 hour Play Celebrity Gala 2006, the esteemed theatre's annual funding raising event. Farquhar was required to pen the script overnight. The cast then had hours to learn their parts. The Old Vic production was directed by Josie Rourke and starred Tamsin Outhwaite, Patricia Hodge and Adrian Lukis.

Recorded on April 25, 2020, the audio version by the Wireless Theatre Company stars Faye Honeyset, Mariele Runacre-Temple, and Reuben Anderson.

How do you stay happy?

She's lived with herself for 26 years and wakes up bored. She puts on her make up at work - that being data entry - unable to imagine how good her job could be.

She proclaims that she gets paid for clock watching, or at least that is how it feels to her.

She uses her imagination so she can tolerate everyday life.

The girl who sits across from her is getting married just so she can give up work.

She used to dream of being rich and famous. Now she does drugs because it helps her to dream.

She ponders whether she should spend more time being kind.

She and her casual friends sniff cocaine. They need the dreams which cocaine provides.

Having sex - lots of sex - without getting attached to people. Indiscriminate sex where using up the other person is termed as enjoyable. Then you just go on to the next one.

A man watches a lesbian couple. He views them as conspiratorial - a relationship where men are laughed at.

She and her casual friends are in love with their perception of the world of others - unable to come to terms with their own lives.

A tableau on loneliness.

Presented by the Wireless Theatre. Edited by Lester Barry, Recording directed by Jenny Runacre.

Extremely offensive language and adult themes.

Excellent sound design, especially in the cocaine sniffing scenes. Effective incidental music.

Interesting author fact: Simon Farquhar's father was Detective Chief Superintendent (DCS) Charles Farquhar who, despite the lack of forensic evidence or leads, defied orders from his superiors and kept the murder case of Alison Day open. She was 19 when she was raped and murdered in 1985. DCS Farquhar made the breakthrough linking that murder to the murder of 15-year-old Maartje Tmboezer in 1986. The killers were John Duffy and David Mulcahy who were both convicted.

CDS Farquhar's story was turned into a documentary The Railway Killers in reference to how both girls were ambushed by train tracks. His son Simon authored a book A Dangerous Place (The History Press) about his father's career.

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ART AND ABOUT

THE NATIONAL POO MUSEUM is located on the Isle of Wight in southern England. The museum is dedicated to the collection, conservation and display of feces. From the Romans to today, the museum exists to safely explore the "amazing world" of poo. The collection "contain pooey artifacts from across the world and the history of life on Earth.

"We use quirkiness and family-friendly humor to break through the poo taboo so we can engage, entertain and inform our visitors. We want you to explore the world's stinkiest subject with us. Our aim is to change how you think about this most astonishing substance. Get hands on with our subject of choice in a way that's safe and fascinating. You can even polish a turd!

There are things to sniff, handles to turn, pipes to talk through, buttons to press and of course a huge collection of preserved poos to get up close to.

The Poo Museum hopes to receive celebrity "donations."

A world of waste awaits!

They also want you to know that they are a dog friendly museum.

RESHAING THE COLLECTIBLE: LEARNING THROUGH CHANGE Tate in England will host an online conference, Reshaping the Collectible: Learning Through Change, on September 14-16, 2022. This international conference will bring together different voices from within and outside the museum, including artists, collection managers, conservators and curators and from different fields within academia. The conference provides an opportunity to share research and reflect on an ongoing dialogue, exploring new questions and perspectives.

In January 2018 Tate was awarded a major grant from the Mellon Foundation for a program of research named Reshaping the Collectible: When Artworks Live in the Museum. This initiative was an invitation to think anew about practice in response to the conservation and management of recent and contemporary works of art, in particular time-based media, performative, live and digital art. The research focused on works that unfold over time, that question the boundaries between the artwork, archive and record, and that have complex social or technological dependencies. The conference this September is the culmination of this project, designed to explore and consider the shifting landscape of museum practice in a rapidly changing world.

The research is organized around six in-depth studies; three monographic, focused on the work of Tony Conrad, Richard Bell and Ima Abasi Okon, and three thematic, focused on ‘Remaking, Remastering and Reproducing’, ‘When Archives and Records Live in the Museum’ and the ‘Lives of Net Art’. The works span different places, communities and historical moments, from the 1970s to now, as they evolve. Over the course of the project, they have shaped understanding of change, persistence, memory, visibility, agency in the present and visions of the future.

The research team has worked in collaboration with a range of practitioners and senior academics who have brought different fields of critical thought to the project. The conference will explore:

artworks that generate archives,
the relationship between memory and the future,
'radical hospitality' and love,
replication and the carbon impact of exhibition copies,
changing museum practice,
what is at stake in making conservation and collection management practices more visible,
what it means to ‘learn an artwork’.

The conference, free and open to all, will be delivered online over three afternoons on September 14, 15 and 16, 2022.

The project and conference are led by Pip Laurenson, Professor of Conservation, Director MSc Conservation of Contemporary Art and Media, UCL and Project Lead Reshaping the Collectible: When Artworks Live in the Museum, Tate.

TIMES SQUARE IN NEW YORK CITY in the midnight hour, we come bearing art. Each night from 11:57pm to 12am, Times Square is transformed by a monumental artist takeover across more than 90 digital billboards through our Midnight Moment program. This fall, new works by Carolina Caycedo, Kilo Kish, and Zoë Buckman take over the screens.

Through September it's Carolina Caycedo: Patrón Mono’: Ríos Libres, Pueblos Vivos. Flowing water and glittering gold move in mesmerizing, abstracted reconfigurations in Patrón Mono: The latest addition to Colombian artist Carolina Caycedo’s ‘Water Portraits’ series, the video work portrays the lower canyon of Colombia's Cauca River in Antioquia, Colombia, a region where armed and environmental conflict overlap. The muleteers, fishermen, and artisanal miners of the region refer to the Cauca Riveras ‘Patrón Mono’ (Blonde Boss) because of its yellow color and the gold found in its waters and sands.

Co-presented with Instituto de Visión and The Armory Show, which takes place September 9–11 at the Javits Center, Patrón Mono: Ríos Libres, Pueblos Vivos will be included as part of The Armory Show’s Off Site outdoor art program.

THE MUSEUM OF BAD ART stages the grand opening of their new home gallery in the Tap Room of Dorchester Brewing Company! Dorchester is a section of Boston.

On Tuesday, September 6,2022 there will be mad art and good beer.

Many of the pieces in this opening exhibition have not been publicly displayed before, but long-time fans will see some old favorites.

Forty paintings from the MOBA Permanent Collection are currently on display at DBco. Each piece is accompanied by a n official MOBAinterpretation to help visitors better understand and appreciate what they are seeing.

Meet the MOBA's Curator-in-Chief, Permanent Acting Interim Executive Director, maybe some Trustees, amazing MOBA volunteers, and some of the DBco folks who made this happen. The MOBA will also unveil "a very exciting acquisition."

As always, there is no admission charge to MOBA. There willl be snacks and non-alcoholic beverages. You can buy beer, cider, wine, and BBQ.

In related news MOBA is in Quebec for the second summer as part of Passages Insolites (Unusual Passages), a public arts festival with 16 installations of engaging, playful art, opening up unusual spaces for encounters and reflections. MOBA's major exhibition is in Quebec City until October 10. Seventy MOBA works are exhibited in a restored building on Place Royale in the center of Old Quebec City. Admission is free.

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SWEET CHARITY

THE NEW YORK POPS UNDERGROUND AT 54 BELOW their annual fundraiser in support of PopsEd programs, which provide:
music education
arts access
and performance opportunities

Broadway star Betsy Wolfe will take the stage for an intimate cabaret performance, including selections from Waitress, The Last Five Years, and her new Broadway show & Juliet.

Music Director and Conductor Steven Reineke will serve as host and introduce special guest speakers from PopsEd. The evening will kick off with a champagne reception with music by The PopsEd Alumni Ensemble, featuring students from The New York Pops’ PopsEd music education programs.

September 19 at 54 Below in New York City.

SETH RUDETSKY'S BROADWAY hosted and music directed by Sirius/XM Radio star Seth Rudetsky at The Town Hall in New York City. On Monday, September 12, Seth welcomes Tony winner and television star Jane Krakowski.

The format of each concert is a seamless mix of intimate behind-the-scenes stories prompted by Rudetsky’s funny, insightful and revealing questions – and the music from the star’s stellar Broadway career.

This series is raising funds for Sandy Hook Promise.

SPREADING THE WORD

FIFTY KEY STAGE MUSICALS a book by Robert W. Schneider and Shannon Agnew, which rounds-up fifty musicals whose creations were seminal in altering the landscape of musical theater, is now being given a one night only concert with the artists who helped create these monumental musicals at 54 Below, Broadway’s Supper Club in New York City.

Join us on September 11th, for an evening of songs and stories, performed by the legends themselves who had a front row to history. Scheduled to appear in the concert are Tony Award winners André De Shields and Rupert Holmes, Heather MacRae, Natalie Mosco, Arbender J. Robinson, Amy Jo Jackson Mary Callanan, Ed Dixon, Penny Fuller, Anita Gillette, Richard Holmes, Lee Roy Reams and Michael McElroy appearing via video. The concert will be music directed by Michael Lavine.

Fifty Key Stage Musicals will play Feinstein’s/54 Below on Sunday, September 11, 2022, in a concert directed and produced by Robert W. Schneider.

YO-YO MA AND PAQUITO D'RUVERA backed by the National Symphony Orchestra José Luis Gomez, conductor perform Thursday, September 8, 2022 at Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia.

BAT OUT OF HELL the Meat Loaf musical is coming to the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas on September 27, 2022.

The Musical is a "Rocky-Horror, Romeo-and-Juliet" celebration of star-crossed lovers from opposite sides of the tracks caught in a city teetering on the brink of disaster. The show features the greatest hits of Meat Loaf and producer Jim Steinman.

DUBAI OPERA in Dubai, UAE stages La Traviata which means literally The Fallen Woman. Verdi's masterpiece quickly became one of the most popular operas immediately after its premiere, reaching Vienna by 1855; London, Paris and New York by 1856. It was first performed at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, on March 6, 1853. Notable interpreters of La Traviata have included; Maria Callas, Anna Moffo, Renata Scotto, Beverly Sills, amongst many others. It is based on La Dame aux Camélias (1852), a play by Alexandre Dumas Fils. You can enjoy the production September 13 and 14th at Dubai Opera.

THE ROLEX ARTS WEEKEND takes place September 9th and 10th at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in Brooklyn, NY.

This is a multidisciplinary arts festival with Spike Lee, Phyllida Lloyd, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Carrie Mae Weems, and their protégés Kyle Bell, Whitney White, Agustina San Martín, and Camila Rodri´guez Triana. The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative and BAM co-present the Rolex Arts Weekend, featuring two days of public conversations and world premiere events, including performances, a film screening, and a multi-media art exhibition.

A panel discussion From Generation to Generation takes place Saturday, September 10 with Spike Lee, Phyllida Lloyd, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Carrie Mae Weems discussing mentorship.

Other events include: Ticket proceeds from the Rolex Arts Weekend will support BAM’s Brooklyn Interns for Arts & Culture program.

Childhood echoes which is a hybrid of film and magical apparition, Agustina San Martín’s new work reflects on music: Kyle Bell presents short films reflecting upon experiences in the Native American community: The Case of the Stranger is Whitney White’s staged concert combining Shakespeare with her original text and music: Patrimonio Mestizo, Camila Rodríguez Triana’s mixed-media work reconstructing ancestral Andean cosmology.

THE JANE AUSTEN FESTIVAL an immersive Regency experience begins January 9 in Bath, England.

The 21st annual Jane Austen Festival lasts through 18, 2022. "Ten wonderful days of celebrating all things Austen."

COVID TAKES DOWN STATE FAIR The REV Theatre Company in Auburn, New York had been staging a marvelous production of State Fair when Covid (whatever variant) decided to become a critic which could close the show - and did. Brett Smock Producing Artistic Director wrote that he had "cancelled the remainder of the run of our current production, State Fair. Tough moment for the theatre. Our cast was hit hard with this new Covid surge. And while we deployed all of our well-prepared backup plans, for all of last week, contagion continued . . . the health of our employees became our sole focus. As such, I made the simple and clear decision to cancel the remaining shows to protect and preserve them . . . Trust me — this was very much a last option. Theatre is only possible with people — healthy people. We must prioritize them first — and the show second. "Our wonderful and caring Box Office Team will be in touch to work with each of you re: your unused tickets. Please be patient with us as we work through thousands of patrons. If you are a subscriber, thank you for your loyalty — we appreciate you so very much. Nothing changes for Ain’t Misbehavin’. This hilarious song and dance celebration opens September 21st and plays through October 11th."

LEONARD BERNSTEIN'S A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers closes out The Kennedy Center's 50th Anniversary celebration with performances September 15th, 17th, and 18th at the Concert Hall in Washington, DC.

Opening the Center in 1971, this theatrical masterpiece returns in a dynamic new staging with the National Symphony Orchestra, Will Liverman as Celebrant, and a vibrant company of dancers, musicians, and singers.

Originally commissioned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Mass served, according to Bernstein, as a "reaffirmation of faith."

DAVID BECKHAM has been hired to promote the country of Qatar's tourism industry. The 'bend 'em like Beckham' athlete participates in a campaign which features him touring the country with several local personalities, exploring spice markets, local street art and other destinations across the Gulf nation.

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THE RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA (RIAA) will recognize artists, label executives and policymakers who impact American music, culture and society. Alongside co-hosts National Museum of African American Music and Stupid Fly, this year’s celebration, dubbed RIAA Honors: Pioneers of Hip-Hop, will acknowledge the immense contributions from Grandmaster Flash, MC Lyte, Jeff Harleston and Chairman Hakeem Jeffries to the most popular genre of music in the US on streaming services.

The advent of hip-hop not only shared the compelling stories of its rappers and musicians, it paved the way for countless artists who together have created a uniquely American art form, like blues, jazz and rock & roll before them. The first-ever RIAA Honors was held on Capitol Hill in 2019. This year the event on September 14, 2022, moves to its permanent home at RIAA’s state of the art headquarters in Washington, DC featuring a concert-quality live performance stage and a cutting-edge recording studio designed by Interscope Records.



MY ONLINESS

Daniel Irizarry in My Onliness.Photo by: Suzanne Fiore Photography

from One-Eighth Theater, New Ohio Theatre & IRT Theater,with text and lyrics from Witkacy by Robert Lyons, original music by Kamala Sankaram.

Directed by Daniel Irizarry.

Artistic sign language direction by Alexandria Wailes and Kailyn Aaron-Lozano.

"Presented in American Sign Language and English, is a fable/cabaret/circus entertainment about a mad king’s desperate attempt to impress a mysterious petitioner. Laced with songs of torture, truth, and tenderness - and with fully integrated American Sign Language - this is sexy, visceral, dark buffoonery reimagined as The New Absurd. A homage to Stanislaw Witkacy and his theories of 'pure theatre.'"

The cast includes Daniel Irizarry, Cynthia LaCruz, Rhys Tivey, Dickie Hearts, Malik Paris and musicians Joanie Brittingham and Drew Fleming.

The production team includes Alexandria Wailes and Kailyn Aaron-Lozano (Co-Directors of Artistic Sign Language), Kamala Sankaram (Composer), Kori Ruston (Creative Producer), Jungah Han (Set Design), Christina Tang (Lighting Design), Brittani Beresford (Costume Design), Lawrence Schober (Sound Engineer), Zilvinas Jonusas (Technical Director), and Hannah Staffer and Emily Hart (Production Stage Managers). Additional support is provided by the Seoul Institute of the Arts.

The show is currently in previews, officially opening on September 7 with performances through September 24 at at New Ohio Theatre in NYC.

The September 16th evening performance will include a live-stream educational collaboration between La MaMa’s Culture Hub and the Seoul Institute of the Arts.

HANDBAGGED a new revival of the Olivier-Award winning play by Moira Buffini.

Directed by Kiln Artistic Director Indhu Rubasingham.

The monarch.

Her most powerful subject.

Born six months apart, each had a destiny that would change the world. But when the stiff upper lip softened and the gloves came off, which one had the upper hand?

Marion Bailey and Kate Fahy star as Older Queen Elizabeth II and Older Margaret Thatcher.

The Creative Team includes: Richard Keny Designer - Oliver Fenwick Lighting Designer - Carolyn Downing Sound Designer - Briony Barnett CGD Casting Director - Nicki Brown Associate Lighting Designer.

September 9 - October 29, 2022 at the Kiln Theatre in London.

Captioned Performance September 29, 2022. Post Show Q&A October 18, 2022.

Audio Described Performance October 20, 2022.

EUREKA DAY by Jonathan Spector.

Directed by Katy Rudd.

Starring Helen Hunt.

'If consensus was easy, everyone would do it'

Every child is welcomed at the progressive Eureka Day school in Berkeley, California – it's a point of pride for the parents on the Executive Committee. But when a public health scare erupts, it turns out tolerance and togetherness are no match for mumps.

"In Jonathan Spector's timely and hysterical comedy, polite debate descends into ideological warfare, as a democratic utopia tears itself apart."

September 6 - October 21, 2022 at The Old Vic in London.

THE SNAIL HOUSE written and directed by Richard Eyre.

"I saved lives and I got rewarded and I’m bloody well not going to apologize for it."

Sir Neil Marriot, familiar from TV as a government medical advisor, is hosting his own lavish birthday party. But, amidst the oak paneling and the champagne his family are at one another’s throats - and there’s something deeply unsettling about one of the caterers .

A Hamstead Theatre in London World Premiere. September 7 - October 15, 2022.

WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ANNE FRANK A world premiere by Pulitzer Prize finalist Nathan Englander.

Directed by Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein.

"What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank is Englander’s adaptation of his award-winning short story about two women, inseparable in high school, whose adult lives have taken them to opposite ends of the earth, and to wildly different experiences of culture, religion, and family. When they reunite, their bond is tested by the distance that has grown between them… and also by their husbands, who don’t exactly see eye to eye. Englander’s distinctive voice—hilarious, outrageous, and emotional—gives us a uniquely funny and smart exploration of how we see ourselves and how our friends see us."

Featuring Rebecca Creskoff as Debbie, Greg Hildreth as Mark, Joshua Malina as Phil, Nathan Salstone as Trevor, and Sophie von Haselberg as Lauren.

The creative team includes scenic design by Paul Tate dePoo, costume design by Katherine Roth, lighting design by Russell H. Champa, original music and sound design by Lindsay Jones, casting by Caparelliotis Casting, and production stage management by Alyssa Escalante.

Performances begin September 11 and play through October 23, 2022, with the opening on Sunday, September 18 in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Globe’s Conrad Prebys Theatre Center in San Diego’s Balboa Park.

Something to gossip about - Sophie von Haselberg is a highly educated woman who attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York City. She then studied sociology and East Asian studies at Yale University, worked at an ad agency in China and returned to Yale to study acting at the drama school in 2011. She is best known for her role in the Woody Allen film Irrational Man. On June 6, 2020, she married Harry J. N. Guinness in Millbrook, New York, at the home of her parents. Her parents are Bette Midler and performance artist Martin von Haselberg. In 1984, Bette Midler and Martin von Haselberg spontaneously eloped to Las Vegas and wed at the Starlight Chapel. They were married by an Elvis impersonator.

I'M REVOLTING World Premiere Play written By Gracie Gardner.

Directed by Knud Adams.

At a skin cancer clinic in NYC (not the famous one), patients wait to find out how much of themselves they’re about to lose.

Featuring Gabby Beans, Bartley Booz, Laura Esterman, Glenn Fitzgerald, Peter Gerety, Emily Cass McDonnell, Alicia Pilgrim, Portia, and Patrick Vaill.

Atlantic Theater presents performances at the Linda Gross Theater, in New York City September 8- October 16, 2022.

WALKING WITH GHOSTS Tony nominated Gabriel Bryne's autobiographical one-man show.

Directed by three-time Emmy Award-winning director Lonny Price.

The creative team includes Sinéad McKenna set and lighting designer, Joan O'Clery costume designer and Sinéad Diskin composer and sound designer.

Byrne will perform Walking with Ghosts at the Apollo in London's West End from September 6 to 17, 2022.

Byrne will then return to Broadway launching the US premiere of Walking with Ghosts with an 11-week run at the Music Box Theatre on beginning October 18 with the official opening night on October 27, 2022.

The show, which is based on Byrne's memoir of the same name, received its world premiere at Dublin's Gaiety Theatre earlier this year and has since been staged at the National Opera House, Wexford and the Edinburgh International Festival.

Byrne's previous Broadway credits include Tony Award-nominated performances in A Moon for the Misbegotten and Long Day's Journey into Night.

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In the pages of How To Earn A Living As A Freelance Writer (the first to be lied to and the last to be paid) you'll find sex, celebrities, violence, threats, unethical editors, scummy managers and lawyers, treacherous press agents, sex discrimination; as well as a how-to for earning money by writing down words.

FINAL OVATION

ROBERT LuPONE a Tony and Emmy Award nominee and co-founder of MCC Theater, died August 27, 2022 after a three year battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 76.

LuPone graduated from Julliard with a BFA in Dance in 1968. He made his professional debut in 1966 in a regional production of The Pajama Game opposite newcomer Liza Minnelli. His Broadway debut took place in 1968 in Noel Coward's Sweet Potato. He earned a Tony nomination in 1976 for his role as Zach in A Chorus Line.

He also received a Daytime Emmy nomination for his performance in All My Children.

For nearly 40 years he served as actor and artistic director of the respected MCC Theater which he co-founded with Bernie Tesley.

He also gained fame appearing as Tony Soprano's doctor, Dr. Bruce "Cooze" Cusamano in the The Sopranos. He is survived by his wife Virginia, son Orlando, sister Patti LuPone and their brother William.

BENTLEY one of the former lions that were part of the lion exhibit at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas died from cancer at The Lion Habitat Ranch in Henderson, Nevada. He was 15.

Bentley was the first lion visitors saw when they entered the exhibit in which they could get up close and have their picture taken with the lions.

The impressive glass-lined indoor Lion Habitat attraction reigned from 1999 until its closure in early 2012.

Bentley was reportedly a descendant of Leo, who was the most recent lion used by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios as their logo during the opening credits.

MAVERICK a bottlenose dolphin at the Mirage's Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat in Las Vegas has died, MGM Resorts announced Friday, September 2, 2022. Maverick, died Thursday following treatment for a lung infection. He was 19-years-old and is the second dolphin to die at the Mirage in the last five months.

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