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Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Is there experience too small for the world?

owen-mcmanus.bsky.social @owen-mcmanus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Binging FLEABAG this week. Phoebe Waller-Bridge is sickeningly talented as a writer/actor (and stunningly attractive) and Andrew Scott is incredible in everything hes in

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owen-mcmanus.bsky.social @owen-mcmanus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Went in to Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma with high hopes tonight and it did not disappoint

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owen-mcmanus.bsky.social @owen-mcmanus.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

On my walk today a cat came around the corner of the alley, walked right up to me and demanded to be pet. I offered a lick of my ice cream cone which she politely accepted, then she asked me to move along so the couple behind me could pet her

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owen-mcmanus.bsky.social @owen-mcmanus.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

If i could pick how my career goes the Robert Pattinson/Elijah Wood/Daniel Radcliffe path of "star in big franchise that makes ludicrous amounts of money and then do weird indie movies where I play a freaky and/or goofy white boy" is the platonic ideal

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owen-mcmanus.bsky.social @owen-mcmanus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Used books/used CDs are about the only thing i can spend money on without feeling an immediate pang of regret

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Real actors - the ones I like to watch & work with anyway - are like this. They want a good part & to make some money, sure. But even if you get to hold up the scenery in something truly great once or twice in a lifetime, you rest easier.

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Seinfeldism @seinfeldism.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Do you ever yearn? / S03E23 The Keys

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I find it moving that Lynch's legacy in the queer community is now forever tied to the phrase "fix your hearts or die". It has become a rallying cry. It is bigger than him. It is bigger than Twin Peaks. It is beautiful.

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Wuthering Heights is better than Dragon Quest.

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The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

For American Theatre I spoke to a whole mess of people in the new play world about what has and hasn't changed over the last two decades since the study Outrageous Fortune sought to comprehensively document the problems in the New Play sector (1/???): www.americantheatre.org/2026/05/11/s...

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State of Play

Why the theatre industry’s new-play push hasn’t improved the playwrights’ lot.

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owen-mcmanus.bsky.social @owen-mcmanus.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Saw the indigo girls in concert with the Alabama symphony orchestra tonight. Absolutely incredible show i love them so much

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owen-mcmanus.bsky.social @owen-mcmanus.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Theatre companies using AI for their posters is so insulting. Your whole deal is creating art and you can't even be bothered to hire an artist for your posters???

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

World Theatre Day. First, George Devine - 'You choose your theatre like you choose your religion.' 'Policy is who you work with.' 'The play is more important than the actors, the director, the designer.' Plays should be 'uncompromising, hard-hitting, about the problems & possibilities of our time.'

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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/03/2026

Timothée Chalamet Under Fire For Dismissive Comments About Traditional Japanese Puppet Theater Form ‘Bunraku’ theonion.com/timothee-chalamet-unde…

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Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Helen Shaw, with a dose of hope www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/i...

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owen-mcmanus.bsky.social @owen-mcmanus.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

The Invention of the Human is the most disappointing piece of criticism I've ever read

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DEF-G @scriban.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

"We Discuss The Loosemeat Sandwiches of Iowa" is easily the worst track from Sufjan Stevens' 50 state project.

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Julie Felise Dubiner @jfdubiner.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I ask all of our current theater leaders to consider: instead of or in addition to that building project, create real paths into the profession for people getting started and coming up. Double dog dare you to find ways in your season to give starting artists real responsibility and authority.

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Comic by Simon Hanselmann

Werewolf Jones (in bow rie) is drinking a beer on the sofa. A woman sirs with him. Opposite are a young man and Owl. Owl wears what looks like a band shirt.

WJ says, ‘I was just fucking listening to some Steely Dan and the next thing I know I’m walkng up in a ditch. It fucking “Malkoviched” me, man. I fucking WAS the song.’

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owen-mcmanus.bsky.social @owen-mcmanus.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Bitterness is the most deadly poison there is. Jealousy can at least be skewed into motivation but bitterness will destroy you from the inside out

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

They will try to tip the scales however they can. But there will be elections, and in many places, most, they'll be run fairly. So you work towards that, among whatever else. It's fine to bleed a while. But get up. Get up. Always get up. There is only ever a new phase of the battle.

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owen-mcmanus.bsky.social @owen-mcmanus.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Timothee Chalamet's performance in MARTY SUPREME is outstanding, one of the best he's ever done

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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

the person who coined the expression « content creator » to describe art and entertainment deserves to be in a specific circle of hell

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owen-mcmanus.bsky.social @owen-mcmanus.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I have a bad habit of buying more books before I finish reading the last set of books I bought i cant help myself I just love used bookstores

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owen-mcmanus.bsky.social @owen-mcmanus.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by a field mouse Not shaking the grass.

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

There's a Robert Hughes line about WWI's impact, "where's the Picasso of England? The Joyce of France? Dead in a trench" and it's akin to what happened to that generation of artists. The Sondheim or George Balanchine of the 90s-00s: we likely lost them.

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owen-mcmanus.bsky.social @owen-mcmanus.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Devastating news. One of the best playwrights of our time

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Setting a compass to earth: The Ancient of Days, 1794, by William Blake. Today was his day.

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 19/11/2025

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

To expand on this, in my view the central, core tragedy of the Antigone (the play, not the [removed for brevity]) is that Antigone is right, but that Creon, while wrong(ish) *also* has a point: civic authority and unity are necessary in the aftermath of civil chaos and war.

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owen-mcmanus.bsky.social @owen-mcmanus.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Opening night for Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone (playing Gordon, the dead man). What a playwright she is; not a single wasted word and an endless amount of ideas to explore. I almost think I like it better than Eurydice (but to be fair both productions I've seen of eurydice were not the best)

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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owen-mcmanus.bsky.social @owen-mcmanus.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

He's supposed to be serving cunt as a guest judge on drag race goddammit, not leading us into fascism!

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 23/09/2025

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

For every €1 of public money invested in the pilot, society received €1.39 in return
The net cost of the BIA pilot went from €105m to under €72m due to tax generated and savings on social welfare payments

It also finds that recipients’ arts-related income increased by over €500 per month on average, while their income from non-arts work decreased by around €280. Dependence on social protection declined, with recipients receiving €100 less per month on average, and 38 percentage points less likely to receive Jobseeker’s payments.

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Jason Zinoman @jasonzinoman.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

The numbers in this story stun me. And i have seen a lot of theater is dying moments. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/t...

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The Broadway Musical Is in Trouble

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Me (not him) on Kirk - www.patreon.com/posts/bandit...

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Bandits | @dick_nixon

Get more from @dick_nixon on Patreon

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

And this should go without saying, but I guess it doesn't: You can and should deplore political violence, which is both unacceptable on its own AND because it makes us all less safe, but it does not mean that you airbrush a legacy of malice and darkness as a "spirited disagreement." Tell the truth.

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Hawklorddragon @cimerians.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

1983 classic red dragon cover Larry Elmore #dndart

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owen-mcmanus.bsky.social @owen-mcmanus.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

There's some comfort in majoring in a theatre, an industry which has always been dying and where unemployment is assumed, rather then going into a field that is newly dying

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 01/08/2025

It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

But the idea that the key to reading (or in general experiencing a piece of art or a person or idea) is *being receptive* is one of the more valuable concepts I know of that can almost be expressed in a pithy aphorism. Be receptive.

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

We all love plays in which a chair becomes a throne, a car, a horse, and the Rock of Gibraltar. But lots of plays need more than chairs, and you don’t automatically improve them by ‘stripping them down.’

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