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Lovely is not loveFriendly is not friendship. But through the ache: I learned.

#LoveList -- PODCASTS

     It may seem hard to believe, but podcasts are only a little over a decade old. In that relatively short time, the podcast has become a significant part of how the human race consumes all kinds of meaningful information—sociological, economic, political, artistic, journalistic and psychological, to name but a few. When it comes to podcasts, we’re 10+ years into a vivid, crucial artistic medium.

     Podcasts do tick a sort of neo-vintage bo...

Audible Presents: After Anatevka

Hear this:

Dear hardworking dreamers everywhere, keep going.

Create one word, sentence, paragraph at a time.

Anything is possible.

"After Anatevka, an Audible Production at the Minetta Lane Theatre, will celebrate Alexandra Silber's novel about the characters in the musical Fiddler on the Roof.

Audible Inc., the world's largest producer and provider of downloadable audiobooks and other spoken-word entertainment is pleased to announce its production of After Anatevka, a literary and musical evening...

Health-i-versary

One year. Healthy.
Today is my one year health-anniversary. Today I have, joyfully, gratefully, been in remission and completely symptom free for an entire 365 days.

Infinite love and gratitude is owed to my closest friends, my medical team (especially "Dr F"), and of course #MamaSilbs.

This has been a significant year of
growth,
discovery,
setting and maintaining boundaries,
the facing and conquering of fears,
major actualization,
extraordinary discipline, 
patience, 
weathering disappoi...

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If you’re going torebound—don’t do it with your High school scene partner.

'Liberty' from "The Glass Essay" by Anne Carson

LIBERTY
Liberty means different things to different people.I have never liked lying in bed in the morning.Law did.My mother does.
But as soon as the morning light hits my eyes I want to be out in it—moving along the moorinto the first blue currents and cold navigation of everything awake.
I hear my mother in the next room turn and sigh and sink deeper.I peel the stale cage of sheets off my legsand I am free.
Out on the moor all is brilliant and hard after a night of frost.The light plunges straig...

Ready to tell you stories...

After Anatevka and White Hot Grief Parade are here.
They are ready to tell you stories.

Dreams happen.
Don’t wait for permission.
Dream.
Make.
Do.

Ask Al: FAQs! - Part 5

Lucky me. :)
1. Who is your favorite leading man you have ever worked with? 

How could I ever choose among this crew of men? I’m the luckiest lady on earth.


2. You’ve performed so many classic Broadway musical roles, from “Fiddler on the Roof” to “My Fair Lady,” “She Loves Me,” and West Side Story.”  Is there one song you never get tired of singing?  Is there a classic Broadway role you would most love to get a chance to perform?

As long as I live I will never tire o...

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Touches that open.Talks of true significance. “Leave your toothbrush here…”

Ask Al: Creative Un-Blocking!

Dear Al,

Do you ever get creatively blocked? What do you do to find fresh inspiration?

Sincerely,

Blocked

* * *

Hello Blocked!

Whoa, boy have I absolutely been there. You claw at your eyes. You rumple up pages because you've seen someone do that in a movie once. You put on The Bathrobe of Shame. You throw a typewriter.

No, but seriously, practically I do a few things:

1. I return to some of my original sources of inspiration.
     For After Anatevka specifically, I drew from seve...