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David Reiffel
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Creator of words, music, and sound for theater. Also, as of the last few years, teacher of same. Listen at soundcloud.com/davidreiffel
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Carmilla (J Sheridan LeFanu)
Carmilla, a vampire, kneels on a bed, trashing for her sleeping prey.
October 31, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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“Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
The Addams family: Gomez, Fester, Lurch, Grandmama, Wednesday, Morticia, and Pugsley.
October 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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TEAR DOWN THAT EAST WING OR I’LL FLY MY POOPBOMBER OVER YOUR MOTHER’S BURTHDAY BARBECUE! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
An image of the Mad King Supreme: an orange-faced lunatic in a golden cape, blue suit, red tie, high orange wig filled with horrifying fake human mouths, and a huge sequined codpiece. He holds a golden golf club and his mouth is wide open, as always.
October 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Linus van Pelt with his blanket
October 19, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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With Mad King Supreme at Boston No Kings!
A closeup of Mad King Supreme. We can see the many human mouths in his wig (or are they the voices in his head?) Mad King Supreme with an admirer holding a poster of a frog in the style of the famous Obama Hope poster; the caption reads HOP.
October 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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A sliver of the crowd today at Boston’s Labor Day Parade.
Panoramic photo of a small portion of the crowd at the Boston Labor Day parade.
September 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Final preview of As You Like It on the Boston Common, before tomorrow’s press opening. It’s free, most evenings at 8 pm through August 11.
The stage of Commonwealth Shakespeare’s production of As You Like It: multiple levels, oppressive banners, and a large cargo container splattered with graffiti. A fairly large crowd waits on the Boston Common for the play to begin.
July 29, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Happy Lottery Day to those who celebrate! (h/t to Benjamin Dreyer) images.freeimages.com/images/large...
June 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Choose 20 plays/musicals that have stayed with you or influenced you. One show per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just a cover or poster.

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Cover image: Vocal Selections from Jacques Brel is alive & well & living in Paris. Brightly-colored, scrawly hand-lettered type in pink, purple, blue, yellow, and white on a black background.
March 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Choose 20 plays/musicals that have stayed with you or influenced you. One show per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just a cover or poster.

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Book cover: The Norman Conquests by Alan Ayckbourn. Samuel French edition.
March 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Choose 20 plays/musicals that have stayed with you or influenced you. One show per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just a cover or poster.

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Cover of the hardback edition of "The Dog Beneath the Skin" by WH Auden and Christopher Isherwood, published by Faber & Faber. The cover is primarily yellow and navy blue, with the authors in red.
March 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Choose 20 plays/musicals that have stayed with you or influenced you. One show per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just a cover or poster.

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Abstract image of a bridge, showing a railing and metal girders, above type: "three sisters from west virginia." The image is from Cornerstone Theater Company's 1989 production of an adaptation of the Chekhov play. The adaptation reset the play in an industrial neighborhood of a large Ohio city. The three sisters of the title yearned to return to, instead of Moscow, their original home in the hills of West Virginia, from which they had been driven by economic necessity. The adaptation was performed by actors cast from the community of Montgomery, WV, and its surroundings.
March 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Choose 20 plays/musicals that have stayed with you or influenced you. One show per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just a cover or poster.

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Book cover: Endgame a play by Samuel Beckett $1.25 Evergreen (an imprint of Grove Press). The cover shows Hamm in his wheelchair, face covered by a bloodstained handkerchief.
March 20, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Choose 20 plays/musicals that have stayed with you or influenced you. One show per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just a cover or poster.

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Poster for the original Broadway production of "Pacific Overtures," starring Mako, with Soon-Teck Oh, Yuki Shimoda, Sab Shimono, Isao Sato / Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim / Book by John Weidman / Additional material by Hugh Wheeler / Scenic production designed by Boris Aronson / Costumes designed by Florence Klotz / Lighting designed by Tharon Musser / Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick / Musical direction by Paul Gemignani / Dance music by Daniel Troob / Kabuki consultant Haruki Fujimoto / Makeup & wigs designed by Richard Allen / Masks & dolls by E.J. Taylor / Original cast album and tapes RCA Records / Music publisher Tommy Valando / Choreography by Patricia Birch / Production directed by Harold Prince / Winter Garden Theatre / Broadway at 50th Street
March 18, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Choose 20 plays/musicals that have stayed with you or influenced you. One show per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just a cover or poster.

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Playbill: The Drowsy Chaperone at the Marquis Theatre.
March 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Photo of book cover: Much Ado About Nothing / The Folger Library General Reader's Shakespeare / Edited by Louis B. Wright and Virginia A. LaMar / illustrated with material in the Folger Library Collections. The cover shows a bust-length image of a mustachioed man semi-profile from behind, featuring his elaborate blue doublet ornamented with gold-piped slits lined with deep pink, and his large blue hat sporting a huge pair of pink feathers.
March 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Choose 20 plays/musicals that have stayed with you or influenced you. One show per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just a cover or poster.

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Photo of a book cover: Machinal, Sophie Treadwell.
March 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Choose 20 plays/musicals that have stayed with you or influenced you. One show per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just a cover or poster.

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Book cover: Far Away by Caryl Churchill
March 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Choose 20 plays/musicals that have stayed with you or influenced you. One show per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just a cover or poster.

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Poster from the 1971 Off-Broadway production of Godspell, the musical conceived and directed by John-Michael Tebelak with music by Steven Schwartz. The production was at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York. The image shows a stylized head of Jesus, mostly in black and white, with a red dot on the right cheek, suggesting clown makeup. The poster is topped by the show's title in art-nouveau inspired lettering, white outlined letters against the poster's overall red background.
March 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Choose 20 plays/musicals that have stayed with you or influenced you. One show per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just a cover or poster.

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Cover of the German paperback Suhrkamp Verlag edition of "The Good Person of Setzuan." It reads: "Bertolt Brecht / Der gute Mensch von Sezuan / edition suhrkamp / SV." The cover is a uniform bright yellow.
March 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Cover of the paperback edition script of "Hair, the American Tribal Love-Rock Musical," book and lyrics: Gerome Ragni and James Rado. Cover price: 95¢.
March 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Cover of the vocal score for Leonard Bernstein's "Mass, a theatre piece for singers, players and dancers." The image shows Alan Titus as the celebrant, robed and appearing to be holding a monstrance and a chalice as the cast dances around him.
March 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Cover of the vocal score for Kurt Weill's "Aufsteig und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny," text by Bertolt Brecht. Two men with bowler hats in hand ask "Wo ist Mahagony [Where is Mahagonny]?" A third man, hanged by the neck from a lamppost, points to lettering reading: "Hier ist Mahagony [Mahagonny is here]."
March 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Cover of the original version of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" vocal selections, words and music by Clark Gesner.
March 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Photograph showing the cover of the paperback edition of "All Over," a play by Edward Albee. A blurb states: "author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "Edward Albee's most important play yet . . . Lovely, poignant and deeply felt.--Clive Barnes, The New York Times." The price for the book is shown as $1.25, which was about my weekly allowance at the time.
March 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM