Cathleen Healy
@cathleenhealy.bsky.social
Broadway buff, communications connoisseur, education expert, equestrian enthusiast, and marketing maven with an affection for alliteration... Keep Marching!
Co-producer of White Rose: The Musical and Figaro: An Original Musical
https://cmhconsult.com
Co-producer of White Rose: The Musical and Figaro: An Original Musical
https://cmhconsult.com
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Cathleen Healy
@cathleenhealy.bsky.social
· Jan 16
Joe Biden's tragic presidency
He accomplished a lot — except the most important thing.
www.publicnotice.co
"As Glinda reminds us in Wicked, popularity is 'everything that really counts.' Political success is less about aptitude than the way you’re viewed..."
A. Must. Read.
www.publicnotice.co/p/joe-biden-...
A. Must. Read.
www.publicnotice.co/p/joe-biden-...
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Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did?
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
July 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did?
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
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“This is very much connected to the rise of authoritarianism that we’ve seen across the country,” said the executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. “They can’t win fairly, so they’re trying to rewrite the rules to get their way.”
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
Red State Voters Approved Progressive Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Undermine Them.
In the wake of ballot measures that increased abortion access and improved sick leave for workers, a coordinated effort is unfolding across the country to restrict direct democracy — and shift power…
www.propublica.org
June 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
“This is very much connected to the rise of authoritarianism that we’ve seen across the country,” said the executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. “They can’t win fairly, so they’re trying to rewrite the rules to get their way.”
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
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On Juneteenth, we celebrate freedom and recommit ourselves to the work that remains undone. We remember that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope for tomorrow’s light.
June 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
On Juneteenth, we celebrate freedom and recommit ourselves to the work that remains undone. We remember that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope for tomorrow’s light.
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Today they have crossed a deep red line.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
June 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Today they have crossed a deep red line.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
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Broadway has had a stuffed season with seemingly something for everyone and now it's time to recognize the best with the Tony Awards Sunday night.
Tony Awards offer many intriguing matchups in a star-studded season
NEW YORK (AP) — A pair of singing androids. Two Pulitzer Prize-winning plays. A drunken Mary Todd Lincoln. A musical with a corpse as its hero. Romeo, Juliet and teddy bears with rave music. Not to mention George Clooney. Broadway has had a stuffed season with seemingly something for everyone and now it's time to recognize the best with the Tony Awards, hosted by Cynthia Erivo, …
wausaupilotandreview.com
June 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Broadway has had a stuffed season with seemingly something for everyone and now it's time to recognize the best with the Tony Awards Sunday night.
Note to Hassett: Ask Senator Rick Scott for a briefing. He was CEO of Columbia/HCA when they committed massive Medicare & Medicaid fraud & fined $1.7 billion...
BRENNAN: You're taking Medicare off the table?
HASSETT: No. I've not been briefed on Medicare waste, fraud, and abuse, but if they find something, then of course we would look at it
BRENNAN: You would look at it?
HASSETT: Of course
HASSETT: No. I've not been briefed on Medicare waste, fraud, and abuse, but if they find something, then of course we would look at it
BRENNAN: You would look at it?
HASSETT: Of course
June 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Note to Hassett: Ask Senator Rick Scott for a briefing. He was CEO of Columbia/HCA when they committed massive Medicare & Medicaid fraud & fined $1.7 billion...
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The pope was a strong advocate for the poor and the environment and a towering figure on the world stage, addressing not just Catholics but the men and women of our time.
Pope Francis, who reached out to the margins of society, has died at 88
The pope was a strong advocate for the poor and the environment and a towering figure on the world stage, addressing not just Catholics but the men and women of our time.
www.npr.org
April 21, 2025 at 10:11 AM
The pope was a strong advocate for the poor and the environment and a towering figure on the world stage, addressing not just Catholics but the men and women of our time.
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An underrated factor in how we got ourselves into this mess is that Americans are increasingly relying on computers and the internet instead of their own critical thinking faculties (AI is making this even worse), and as a result are uninformed and easy to manipulate.
April 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
An underrated factor in how we got ourselves into this mess is that Americans are increasingly relying on computers and the internet instead of their own critical thinking faculties (AI is making this even worse), and as a result are uninformed and easy to manipulate.
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You have to see this.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
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March 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
You have to see this.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
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The best Q&A in the history of sports journalism
March 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The best Q&A in the history of sports journalism
"When people stand up, it becomes clear that the masses have power" @oliverdarcy.bsky.social
New in PN: @oliverdarcy.bsky.social on a cowed mainstream press
"Whether it’s Meta or Amazon or Bezos, it’s clear that Trump runs the show. That’s incredibly worrying. The whole job of the Fourth Estate is to hold the powerful accountable — not to bend the knee."
"Whether it’s Meta or Amazon or Bezos, it’s clear that Trump runs the show. That’s incredibly worrying. The whole job of the Fourth Estate is to hold the powerful accountable — not to bend the knee."
Oliver Darcy on a cowed mainstream press
"It’s highly alarming how news institutions and Big Tech are behaving in response to an autocratic wannabe."
www.publicnotice.co
March 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
"When people stand up, it becomes clear that the masses have power" @oliverdarcy.bsky.social
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Anger. Righteous anger. We need more of it in this country.
February 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Anger. Righteous anger. We need more of it in this country.
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In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.
February 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.
Today’s political chaos can be overwhelming. Theatre is an escape and a device that connects audiences...
Like Shakespeare’s plays, White Rose: The Musical is a mirror showing us an important story—one that must never be forgotten.
bit.ly/WRcmh211
Like Shakespeare’s plays, White Rose: The Musical is a mirror showing us an important story—one that must never be forgotten.
bit.ly/WRcmh211
February 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Today’s political chaos can be overwhelming. Theatre is an escape and a device that connects audiences...
Like Shakespeare’s plays, White Rose: The Musical is a mirror showing us an important story—one that must never be forgotten.
bit.ly/WRcmh211
Like Shakespeare’s plays, White Rose: The Musical is a mirror showing us an important story—one that must never be forgotten.
bit.ly/WRcmh211
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Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."
January 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."
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A grim but essential memory: 80 years ago today Auschwitz was liberated. That there was an Auschwitz to liberate is unspeakably tragic. . .
www.history.com/this-day-in-...
www.history.com/this-day-in-...
Auschwitz is liberated | January 27, 1945 | HISTORY
The Soviet Red Army enters Auschwitz, Poland, and liberates the survivors of the network of concentration camps—and finally reveals to the world the depth of the horrors perpetrated there.
www.history.com
January 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
A grim but essential memory: 80 years ago today Auschwitz was liberated. That there was an Auschwitz to liberate is unspeakably tragic. . .
www.history.com/this-day-in-...
www.history.com/this-day-in-...
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“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King
- Dr. Martin Luther King
January 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King
- Dr. Martin Luther King
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The internet had the potential to make humans so much smarter and interconnected. Instead, it's dumbing us down and siloing us off. A real tragedy.
January 20, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The internet had the potential to make humans so much smarter and interconnected. Instead, it's dumbing us down and siloing us off. A real tragedy.
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President Biden today declared the Equal Rights Amendment (the 28th Amendment) "the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex."
www.npr.org/2025/01/17/n...
www.npr.org/2025/01/17/n...
Biden says the Equal Rights Amendment is law. What happens next is unclear
To come into effect, the constitutional amendment would need to be formally published or certified by the National Archivist who has declined to do so in the past. What happens now is unclear.
www.npr.org
January 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
President Biden today declared the Equal Rights Amendment (the 28th Amendment) "the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex."
www.npr.org/2025/01/17/n...
www.npr.org/2025/01/17/n...
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"As Glinda reminds us in Wicked, popularity is 'everything that really counts.' Political success is less about aptitude than the way you’re viewed..."
A. Must. Read.
www.publicnotice.co/p/joe-biden-...
A. Must. Read.
www.publicnotice.co/p/joe-biden-...
Joe Biden's tragic presidency
He accomplished a lot — except the most important thing.
www.publicnotice.co
January 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"As Glinda reminds us in Wicked, popularity is 'everything that really counts.' Political success is less about aptitude than the way you’re viewed..."
A. Must. Read.
www.publicnotice.co/p/joe-biden-...
A. Must. Read.
www.publicnotice.co/p/joe-biden-...
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New in PN: Joe Biden's tragic presidency
"Had you been told in January 2021 that Biden would wind down the pandemic, preside over great jobs & stock markets, guide the economy into a 'soft landing,' & sign an array of bold bills into law, you would’ve thought he cruised to a second term. And yet."
"Had you been told in January 2021 that Biden would wind down the pandemic, preside over great jobs & stock markets, guide the economy into a 'soft landing,' & sign an array of bold bills into law, you would’ve thought he cruised to a second term. And yet."
Joe Biden's tragic presidency
He accomplished a lot — except the most important thing.
www.publicnotice.co
January 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
New in PN: Joe Biden's tragic presidency
"Had you been told in January 2021 that Biden would wind down the pandemic, preside over great jobs & stock markets, guide the economy into a 'soft landing,' & sign an array of bold bills into law, you would’ve thought he cruised to a second term. And yet."
"Had you been told in January 2021 that Biden would wind down the pandemic, preside over great jobs & stock markets, guide the economy into a 'soft landing,' & sign an array of bold bills into law, you would’ve thought he cruised to a second term. And yet."
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In celebration of “Wicked Director Jon M. Chu’s Golden Globe win last night, I’m re-upping my fantastic conversation with him from a few weeks ago:
www.msnbc.com/katie-phang/...
www.msnbc.com/katie-phang/...
Wicked Director Jon M. Chu: ‘I Hope That We, Like Elphaba, Can Dream Bigger’
Jon M. Chu, the director behind the record-breaking blockbuster "Wicked," joins Katie Phang to talk about bringing the beloved Broadway musical to the big screen
www.msnbc.com
January 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
In celebration of “Wicked Director Jon M. Chu’s Golden Globe win last night, I’m re-upping my fantastic conversation with him from a few weeks ago:
www.msnbc.com/katie-phang/...
www.msnbc.com/katie-phang/...
Happy Chrismukkah! 🥰
December 26, 2024 at 12:02 AM
Happy Chrismukkah! 🥰
Coronation Street star Daniel Brocklebank will be featured in Figaro: An Original Musical at the iconic London Palladium on February 3 & 4, 2025.
www.dailymail.co.uk/tv/article-1...
www.dailymail.co.uk/tv/article-1...
Coronation Street star 'steps away from soap' for new West End role
Breaking the news to their Instagram followers, they said in a video clip on Wednesday: 'I have some very exciting news. I am going to be stepping away from the Cobbles of Coronation Street.'
www.dailymail.co.uk
December 6, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Coronation Street star Daniel Brocklebank will be featured in Figaro: An Original Musical at the iconic London Palladium on February 3 & 4, 2025.
www.dailymail.co.uk/tv/article-1...
www.dailymail.co.uk/tv/article-1...
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What Banksy says…
December 4, 2024 at 8:59 PM
What Banksy says…