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it is insanely tone-deaf

 

two plays by David "The left is killing America and god bless Trump" Mamet and Neil "No theater will touch his work" LaBute 

 

yikes

^She's busy hating on Twitter from her couch.

She has been for several months and has two more coming up, really not hard to do a google search 

http://paulavogelplaywright.com/bardatthegate

Updated On: 10/7/20 at 09:48 PM

Because Mamet is a bigot and a misogynist who literally today rambled some insane nonsense about how the left is afraid of Trump and how they are destroying the country...why are we still giving such promenant space to someone whose last relevant play was 20 years ago especially after we just spent 6 months yelling about representation in the theater? 

Also what basis do you have for what personal and professional interactions they have had? are you a mind reader? 

Updated On: 10/7/20 at 10:05 PM

Because she is actually per her mission statement trying to curate under produced plays and under represented writers. For one of the most powerful producers on Broadway to in 10 pieces not select one by a single women is a red flag and for only one to be by a non-white writer is wildly tone deaf considering the conversations being had in the last 7 months

 

and it wasn't a gotcha it was showing how rude you are being by assuming she has been lazy and ridiculous when she HAS been doing exactly what you accuse her of not, shes not doing this on an ego trip like Jeffrey Richards is. That line up is some of the hackiest and boring and milqtoast play choices (outside of Barbecue which in terms of Roberts plays is by far his weakest) and its is incredibly disconcerting that this is one of the guys who is going to "save Broadway" save it for who? I don't want Broadway saved if this is the same boring noise we are going to come back to

Its only ridiculous to you because you are clearly not impacted by being under-represented and your ignorence is very disappointing dude 

 

 

You really think he doesn't have the rights for some of these titles ready for a Broadway revival? or as the original producer of them he doesn't benefit in some way by featuring them....

also while it is "only zoom readings of plays" think of how high profile readings like this affect script sales, potential licensing for other Zoom readings, potential other oppritunities for the writers being presented 

you have boiled all this down to a very simple level without really considering what sort of message it sends when again one of the biggest producers on Broadway programs like this...it comes across as ignoring what people have been saying for months about under-representation on Broadway, this guy can producer or get pretty much anyone to do his plays and this is the material? No Anne Washburn, no Brandon Jacobs Jenkins, no Martyna Majok, Bess Wohl?

I mean really RACE? and its a big flag when it is missing Kerry Washington and James Spader....