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When I was 3 years old, I was so excited to see Sesame Street Live that I slipped while dancing in glee on a balance beam and had to get stitches. Tonight, I'm going to Medieval Times with @wrestleacademic.bsky.social and @totalhell.bsky.social and y'all are LUCKY there is no balance beam nearby.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 1h

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 4h

Quick, someone buy me both the time and a ticket to see TFANA produce Anne Carson’s translation of Elektra, I deserve this actually.

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 6h

In my shower this morning, I got very cross that the narrator of Joseph and the Amazing Etc. CLAIMS she doesn’t say who is wrong, who is right. Girl. You are fooling NO ONE, we know where you stand, what is this fair and balanced nonsense.

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 15h

Well, I got cross at a stranger and immediately paid the karmic price by coming home and losing a brand new monthly contact the moment I took it off my eye, so I guess that’s ME taught a lesson.

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 16h

There is a special circle of hell for people who keep snorting that little bit of snot back into their noses every fifteen seconds for the ENTIRE LAST HALF HOUR OF THE PLAY, I wish the woman next to me a SPEEDY ride there, I will pay her fare.

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 19h

I have seen an embarrassingly small number of August Wilson’s century plays, so thank goodness I finally had a chance to up the tally tonight with Ma Rainey.

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh man, I have SUCH an urge to rewatch 20 Feet from Stardom, I mentioned it to my boss and now it's all I want to do.

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Local theatre sent an email with the subject "Meet the Designers of BETRAYAL!" And hey, props for the enthusiasm, but I can't stop picturing what would happen if you tried to turn Pinter into musical theatre (since that's what the exclamation point does to the title in my brain).

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I miss when Blogger had more detailed analytics available, as my M4M review bumped up over 100 hits since yesterday morning and I haven't seen it being shared publicly, which normally is where the boosts come from. Is it bots? I don't understand bots, I hope they like Shakespeare.

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today I am grateful for acorns underfoot, the third movement of the Chichester Psalms, and the comfort in Dolly’s voice when she sings “everything’s gonna be alright, it’s gonna be okay” in Light of a Clear Blue Morning.

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oops, have made the mistake of watching the trailer for Elsinore and GOD, I’m having a lot of feelings about the National Theatre which is not their primary intention but I DO think the filmmakers would understand the reaction.

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fun fact, when I called the board of elections to ask about this, the recruiter IMMEDIATELY told me it was fine, they needed me to work the actual election more than anything else. Which means! Folks, check with your local BoE, they need people desperately and it's also genuinely rewarding.

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every season, I try to have some sort of reminder within sight of where I imagine Frances’ poor head to be. She’s doing absolutely fine, y’all, nothing to see here.

Photo of a small notepad, decorated like a prop for the movie The Grand Budapest Hotel. On it, is written in increasingly illegible handwriting, lines from Christina Rossetti’s poem “Goblin Market”:

We must not look at goblin men,
We must not buy their fruits:
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry thirsty roots?

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am so curious if the current season of Taskmaster took inspiration from the Game Changer episode Alex did VO for, or if it’s pure coincidence and earpiece tasks are just where the zeitgeist is at right now.

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My first reaction to the Folger Measure for Measure is WHY they fell ONE DIGIT SHORT of making Pompey’s prison number 42069? More thoughts to come but, PLEASE.

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have been an election worker for ten years and I STILL forget to check for conflicts the night before the election, when you are required to set up the polling place. Guess who realized ten minutes into today’s 4 hour training that All Soul’s is that night this year.

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Turns out, the wedding is at 1:30, not 1pm, which means the clock is ticking on whether I can make it to my election judge training at 3pm. I think I can be up to 29 minutes late, but if you hit 30, you can’t get credit. And this is also the last scheduled training on the calendar. HOO BOY.

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I am singing for a wedding this morning and the groom is named John Dunn. I have two hours to finish workshopping my best Donne jokes for the occasion.

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Everyone knows the best time to post is 5pm on a Friday!

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My boss and I are fried from grantwriting and now are just reading through the wikipedia page for Elijah and man, that guy was BUSY.

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leupagus @leupagus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reminder for Americans to double-check your voter registration — if you've moved since the last time you voted, update your info with your Board of Elections! And as always, if you are in any way able to work for the BoE on election day, PLEASE SIGN UP OH MY GOD WE NEED YOU

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Talked with my boss for half an hour about this play, even though I haven't been able to write about it yet. Truly, I have to work in how interesting this one is to dissect for its failures, which is CERTAINLY not always the case for plays that fall short!

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Wes Franks @carrion-comfort.com · 25/09/2026

If you're a #Gamemaster who runs campaigns for pay or you've always been interested in doing so, but are wary. Can you sound off in the replies or my DMs? I want to get a group of folks together, any size, to talk about the economy around Professional GMing and what Pro GMs need, support-wise.

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oo it’s very disorienting to have thought you were up all night and unable to sleep bc your brain was making you play an overly complicated logic puzzle before it would let you sleep and then whoops, turns out that was a dream.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 25/09/2026

Me to Emily: “It’s surprisingly hard to do the 18th century and not fall of the horse either on the Nothing But Vibes side or the Shove Every Idea In side” (Emily was more elegant in her “everyone tries to be Stoppard”)

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Did I watch this whole video just to see the glimpses of the Letters scene again? A sequence which has never left my brain since the first tour came to STC? youtu.be/6j_DqmTXHP8?...

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Black Watch (The National Theatre of Scotland)

YouTube video by Luminato2008

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sometimes you walk out of a play and say HUH, that didn’t really work, did it.

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s very sobering to remember yourself as having been very into the Animorph books as a kid, and then eventually realize you never even made it to book EIGHT.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We have ALREADY started rehearsing the Fauré Requiem for All Souls’, which is in November, this is a terrible reminder of the swiftness of passing time.

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oops I slipped and fell onto my computer and bought a ticket to go see Merrily We Roll Along again on closing night.

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

On the one hand, conductor stopped me to ask if I had filled out a form related to singing in a select ensemble- flattering! On the other, there is MUCH AGITAS surrounding this particular opportunity in the choir bc of extra burdens placed on selected singers- worrying!

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is my new favorite thing.

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Why must I go to rehearsal on THIS, the first chilly night of fall? By rights I should be sipping tea under a blanket, not singing Mendelssohn until late.

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Dear lord, someone please explain why a flight to the regional airport in my hometown for Thanksgiving is almost $900 vs the regional airport an hour east for half the price???

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's been 24 hours, and I am indeed still laughing to myself about the NRB Communopoly game I watched yesterday.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 21/09/2026

I’m looking around for examples of Actual Play used by nonprofits (heritage orgs, academia, etc) I’m also trying to get a temp check on how it’s seen vs for-profit. From my comments (& general observation) it seems UK is leading the anglophone world in this one, but feel free to prove me wrong!

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wait, my mother tells me the love bugs have been ABSURD this year and no one has told me?? Truly, I am cut off from my heritage.

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Rebecca J. Ritzel @rjritzel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

MSNow asked for my analysis of Kennedy Center developments. News changed by the hour, but here are some thoughts on The Koch Theatre, Trump Plaza Hotels and Trump's gross misunderstanding of corporate branding.

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Opinion | Trump’s Kennedy Center problem may be more than he bargained for

The ongoing Kennedy Center saga shows Trump does not appear to understand how corporate branding differs from nonprofit norms.

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I hope that @moryan.bsky.social’s BSG book reveals who committed crimes against Gaeta’s hair in season one, it just makes me so SAD.

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The problem is that sometimes, I just want to watch the movie Stage Beauty.

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh what's that? It's that time? THAT time? It's time to crank up Peter and the Wolf? HELL YEAH BROTHER.

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There's a very cool talk happening at the Folger tonight that I've been signed up to attend for ages, but also, that means I have to do something that is not "collapse onto my couch for the end of the week," and well, jury is still out, y'all. (I'll probably go, but I WILL whine about it)

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My landlord receives all my mail and delivers it to me, but he holds onto packages in particular until I am home, then shoots me a “package” text. I am utterly, 100% dedicated to a pattern of return texts that alternate perfectly between “thanks!” and “thank you!” and I have no idea why.

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Emily @sadcypress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

American musical theatre today writes songs that need to be mic’d and that is a Problem in a way that bothers me deeply!! More songs for broads! Broads don’t need mics!

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