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It's OK, they're coming back.
Angels in America has receded into the distance, and it's safe for both gay and straight playwrights to inhabit the same landscape?
I believe so. We need more women playwrights and women directors, but that will come. It's hard for women playwrights and women directors. There are just not many of them. There are more women playwrights than women directors. That's a real small club.
Well, going out on tour is clearly something you didn't have to do, but is part of your motivation getting out to the next generation and empowering them? Do you spend part of your time with younger aspiring theater people?
Yes, yes. Every chance I get, I go and talk to students. Oh, and I love it. Because like anything else, when you give a little bit of yourself to others, you're always the main beneficiary. I come back to work that night, having been forced to listen to what I'm telling them, and then to put it into practice with my own work.
Just simple things, like making sure that at all times, you are completely listening. You know, when you've done something a million times, there are moments when you can be doing it ñ you can plug in and find that your mind has wandered for a moment. You're doomed to hell when that happens.
That's one example. But I do find when I go and talk to the students, that it's so helpful to all of us in the room. Because I take their enthusiasm and their innocence with it all, and starting off and not knowing where their careers will be and if they will have careers in the theater. I feel very tender towards them.
I hope you'll enjoy Charlotte when you come here and that people will appreciate all that you bring.
Well, I hope we can get them out to see it and make them understand it's not just a scary play about a pedophile!
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Sally's Night @ The Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium
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Juneteenth: Queen City Comedy Jam @ Blush CLT
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Improv Comedy Show featuring Sunday Supper @ CATCh
- Sat., June 21, 7:30-8:30 p.m.
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ANNIE LEIBOVITZ / WORK @ Mint Museum Uptown at Levine Center for the Arts
- Tuesdays-Sundays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Continues through Aug. 31
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Ain't Got No Men @ NarroWay Productions
- Saturdays, 5-8:30 p.m., Saturdays, 12-3:45 p.m. and Fridays, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Continues through July 18
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