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An Actorly Spring Awakening at Towson

Posted on May 4, 2013, 8:04 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theater Reviews and Commentary.

During the Broadway run and the professional tours, Spring Awakening tended to be too expensive for young audiences. I wondered how this show about and for youth would affect young audiences. I finally found out.

Tags: abortion, Anne Hathaway, Billy McHattie, Blue Wind, Bridget Linsenmeyer, Buddy Holly, Duncan Sheik, Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Frank Wedekind, Franz Wedekind, homosexuality, Ilse, Ines Nassara, Jenna K. Rossman, Joseph Ritsch, La Boheme, Leos Janacek, Martha, masturbation, Melchior, Mimi, Moliere, Montel Butler, Mortiz, Nick Fruit, Plautus, rape, relevance, Rent, rock music, Sexual Revolution, Shannon Graham, Spring Awakening, Spring's Awakening, Steven Sater, teen pregnancy, The Dark I Know Well, The Song of Purple Summer, Tony award, Totally Fucked, Towson University, tweets, Wendla, West Side Story
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Wash Your Mouth Out! Bite Your Tongue! The Uses of Political Correctness

Posted on October 4, 2010, 11:39 am, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

Political Correctness is an antibody that attaches itself to your diseased discourse and protects the American immune system.

Tags: Andrew Goodman, April, Barack Obama, Birmingham church bombing, Birth of a Nation, Civil War, Civil War in Virginia Month, Confederacy, Confederate History Month, Confederates, D.W. Griffiths, Douglas Wilder, Emmett Till, First Amendment, George Allen, Governor Douglas Wilder, Governor Robert McDonnell, James Byrd, James Chaney, lynching, Medgar Evers, Michael Schwerner, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, political correctness, politicalcorrectness.com, politically incorrect, Polly Toynbee, President Obama, President Woodrow Wilson, racial epithets, rape, Robert McDonnell, Sarah Palin, Second American Revolution, slavery, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Viola Liuzzo, Virginia, Woodrow Wilson
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The Big Picture and the Closeup

Posts Tagged ‘rape’

An Actorly Spring Awakening at Towson

Wash Your Mouth Out! Bite Your Tongue! The Uses of Political Correctness

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