Author: Lee Folpe
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Ultimately, I’m Only Writing For Myself: A Conversation with Playwright Kallan Dana
Kallan Dana is a playwright, producer, theatermaker, and aspiring novelist from Portland, Oregon. Her work has been developed or presented with Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, The Hearth, The Tank, Bramble Theatre Company, Dixon Place, Northwestern University, and Lee Strasberg Theater & Film Institute. She is a New Georges affiliated artist and 2025 Audrey Resident. She…
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In REVOLUTION, Brett Neveu presents a radical vision of celebrations and the friends who make them possible
“Celebrations are rare these days.” That’s what Jame says to her best friend, Puff, the recently promoted and highly anxious manager at Revolution Cuts, a chain hair salon nestled in the middle of a strip mall somewhere in America. They’re trying to decide what to do to commemorate Puff’s 26th birthday, but so far, all…
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The Hearth’s “RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR” : Where Words Sooth, Erode, and Attempt to Remedy
Windows down. Music blasting. The wind in your hair. Exit signs, strange billboards, a succession of identical-looking sleepy little Midwestern towns. A clutch of empty 40s and tequila bottles clinking against one another in the passenger seat. The stench of old vomit. A pounding headache. The sinking feeling that your life is not working out…