Whit MacLaughlin
@whitmaclaughlin.bsky.social
Experimental theatre artist, experience designer, director of performance for multigenerational audiences, husband, father, fake philosopher, and founder of New Paradise Laboratories.
(And they know the album cuts.) They tune into the SB knowing to expect something, well, racist. It's evidenced and encoded into every second of the NFL. They enjoy it all anyway. We might want to emulate that thinking and behavior. 4/4
February 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
(And they know the album cuts.) They tune into the SB knowing to expect something, well, racist. It's evidenced and encoded into every second of the NFL. They enjoy it all anyway. We might want to emulate that thinking and behavior. 4/4
His presence galvanizes meaning. It's not the meaning he maybe wants. Villains will villain.
I'm saying this to my white friends and allies. if I may be so bold, Black people don’t scratch their heads over what Kendrick was doing, either with his politics or with his personal/artistic beefs.
I'm saying this to my white friends and allies. if I may be so bold, Black people don’t scratch their heads over what Kendrick was doing, either with his politics or with his personal/artistic beefs.
February 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
His presence galvanizes meaning. It's not the meaning he maybe wants. Villains will villain.
I'm saying this to my white friends and allies. if I may be so bold, Black people don’t scratch their heads over what Kendrick was doing, either with his politics or with his personal/artistic beefs.
I'm saying this to my white friends and allies. if I may be so bold, Black people don’t scratch their heads over what Kendrick was doing, either with his politics or with his personal/artistic beefs.
What else do we expect from him? (When has a SB halftime performed by a Black artist NOT been controversial? It's always too meaningful, too kneel-during-the-anthem, too challenging, or too...Black.) I felt it during the lead up New Orleans entertainment, but mostly because I knew 47 was there. 2/4
February 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
What else do we expect from him? (When has a SB halftime performed by a Black artist NOT been controversial? It's always too meaningful, too kneel-during-the-anthem, too challenging, or too...Black.) I felt it during the lead up New Orleans entertainment, but mostly because I knew 47 was there. 2/4
Yes people are going to criticize Kendrick.
C'mon, you don't have to "know" hiphop to read the effing room.
His work was way more meaningful - more "coded", more sophisticated - than people expect at a Super Bowl halftime, which is probably why it is now controversial. 1/4
C'mon, you don't have to "know" hiphop to read the effing room.
His work was way more meaningful - more "coded", more sophisticated - than people expect at a Super Bowl halftime, which is probably why it is now controversial. 1/4
February 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Yes people are going to criticize Kendrick.
C'mon, you don't have to "know" hiphop to read the effing room.
His work was way more meaningful - more "coded", more sophisticated - than people expect at a Super Bowl halftime, which is probably why it is now controversial. 1/4
C'mon, you don't have to "know" hiphop to read the effing room.
His work was way more meaningful - more "coded", more sophisticated - than people expect at a Super Bowl halftime, which is probably why it is now controversial. 1/4
Jane Wendy MacLaughlin, named for grandmother Wendy MacLaughlin, who was named for Wendy in Peter Pan - Jane went on, beautifully, as Wendy in Peter Pan at the Arden Theatre Co, the theatre she grew up with. I directed. Full circle X 10. I swell with admiration for Jane. Her grandmother smiled.
January 15, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Jane Wendy MacLaughlin, named for grandmother Wendy MacLaughlin, who was named for Wendy in Peter Pan - Jane went on, beautifully, as Wendy in Peter Pan at the Arden Theatre Co, the theatre she grew up with. I directed. Full circle X 10. I swell with admiration for Jane. Her grandmother smiled.
I am beginning work in Turkey very soon. There is an ancient City of Batman in SE Turkey along the Batman River, named long before the comic book character hit the scene. Now Kurdish. Learned this in Blue Sky. The migration from FB is already worth it.
January 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I am beginning work in Turkey very soon. There is an ancient City of Batman in SE Turkey along the Batman River, named long before the comic book character hit the scene. Now Kurdish. Learned this in Blue Sky. The migration from FB is already worth it.
About to head out to Turkey to direct Sam Shepard’s final play, A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations) for the National Theatre of Turkey (Devlet Tiyatroları.)
January 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
About to head out to Turkey to direct Sam Shepard’s final play, A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations) for the National Theatre of Turkey (Devlet Tiyatroları.)
No other person taught me so much about the pleasures and value of non-comprehension. Rest in ”this is gonna hurt”, Richard.
January 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
No other person taught me so much about the pleasures and value of non-comprehension. Rest in ”this is gonna hurt”, Richard.
Richard Foreman has passed. I wish I could have been on the other side, waiting with the angels, to see his first glimpse of the world beyond. Was he vindicated, having imagined the moment in every one of his pieces? Or was it more than even he could imagine, master as he was of life’s stagecraft?
January 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Richard Foreman has passed. I wish I could have been on the other side, waiting with the angels, to see his first glimpse of the world beyond. Was he vindicated, having imagined the moment in every one of his pieces? Or was it more than even he could imagine, master as he was of life’s stagecraft?