StinkyLulu Says

Profe Herrera (aka StinkyLulu) considers the paradox of "reopening" colleges and theatres during a period of continued uncertainty, and offers some reflections on some recent experiences in remote theatre-going, including Just Give Me One Half Hour with My Mother by Deb Margolin (a benefit for Dixon Place, NYC) and remotely "attending" the 2020 Outfest film festival.  With a tribute to the life, work and legacy of Chadwick Boseman (1976-2020). Transcripts for Season3 of StinkyLulu Says will be available within 24-48 hours of each episode's release. Links to those transcripts will be available at this link.

Profe Herrera (aka StinkyLulu) reintroduces the podcast and its new cycle of episodes, provides some context for the relaunched #TheatreClique Newsletter, and offers some reflections on some recent experiences in remote theatre-going, including The Package Play by Katie Farmin (Tricklock Company, Albuquerque NM) and Before America Was America by DeLanna Studi (Theatre For One: Here We Are, NYC, in partnership with Octopus Theatricals and Brookfield Place's #BFPLatHomeProgramming).

Professor  Brian Herrera (aka StinkyLulu) considers some questions about the short- and long-term impacts of the shutdown-necessitated "digital turn" in theatrical production, presentation and participation. With brief comment on WHEN THE PARTY'S OVER by Edwin Rosales and some thoughts about what's next for this podcast pedagogy experiment.

Professor Brian Herrera (aka StinkyLulu) ponders why the postponement of the film version of IN THE HEIGHTS threw him for a loop; distills some common threads among  the many contingency plans informing disparate  conversations on what it will take for theatres (and colleges) to reopen; and contemplates the particular current resonances of the world built by Georgina Escobar in AND THEN THEY FORGOT ABOUT THE REST. 

Professor Brian Herrera (aka StinkyLulu) contemplates the complicated uncertainties surrounding the question of when theatres might reopen; notes some questions of form and practice raised by recent experiments in livestreamed performance; and contemplates the relevance of "open drama" as both strategy and style in Caridad Svich's short play, BETTER MAYBE.

Professor Brian Herrera (aka StinkyLulu) considers the buzz of opinion around the question of whether (and how) theatre-makers should make theatre during the shutdown and offers a remembrance of Diane Rodriguez (1951-2020). Plus a quick shoutout to Tony Meneses's THE WOMEN OF PADILLA.

Professor Brian Herrera (aka StinkyLulu) considers the paradoxical status of playwrights in the American theatre and offers some thoughts on A SHERO'S JOURNEY OR WHAT ANACOANA AND YEMAYÁ TAUGHT ME by Guadalís Del Carmen.

Professor Brian Herrera (aka StinkyLulu) introduces the premise of this cycle of episodes as he offers his reflections, first, on the impact of the COVID-19 shutdown on the contemporary US theatre and, then, on the way she spoke, an audioplay by Isaac Gomez.