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SF Playhouse Announces 2021-22 Season, Readies In-Person Summer Shows The always scrappy and impressive SF Playhouse near Union Square is reemerging with live performances sooner than some of its larger counterparts around the Bay Area, and today they announced their upcoming full season. The 2021-22 season will be capped off by the big musical production that had been planned for the end of the companys 2019-2020 season, Stephen Sondheims Follies. The show depicts a reunion taking place in 19...

Sweeping social transformations occur during times of crisis.  We are in such a predicament now, and transformative change may be coming to America whether we want it or not.  It could define who we are as a nation for the remainder of the 21st Century.  Whether America reaffirms itself as a beacon for freedom for the world or whether we become just another plot of ground in the new world order remains to be seen.  The consequences for all Americans could be enormous, and especially so for ...

The Fourth Turning Crisis has arrived By May 18, 2021 Sweeping political and cultural transformations occur during times of crisis. Our nation is in such a time now, and significant change may soon be coming whether we want it or not. Whether America reaffirms itself as a land of Constitutional freedom or whether it becomes just another plot of ground in a new socialist world order remains to be seen. This is a time for choosing. How we address this crisis in the next few years will define...

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Never mind The Great Reset. Here comes The Great Reject. It occurred to me that I never did finish the final instalment of last summer’s Jackpot Chronicles, wherein I posited four possible post-Covid scenarios. For a quick refresher,  The Jackpot is concept I cribbed from William Gibson. It’s a term he uses across a few of his near-future cyberpunk novels that describes a series of rolling global catastrophes that set in sometime around 2016 (his stories span multiverses, and timelines, ...

Biden Family Justice If you want to grok the awesome failure of authority these  Fourth Turning crack-up years in America, start with the lawlessness at the Department of Justice and its sociopathic step-child, the FBI, along with a demonic host of intel agencies seeded throughout the national government: the CIA, the NSA, the DIA, the DHS, and even the lowly crypto-public US Postal Service, lately enlisted to spy on US citizens’ social media posts. Who is supposed to rein-in these freewhee...

Antoinette Chinonye Nwandus PASS OVER Will Open on Broadway at the August Wilson Theatre The Lincoln Center Theater productions exact dates will be announced shortly.by BWW News Desk The Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3 production of Antoinette Chinonye Nwandus acclaimed, award-winning play PASS OVER, directed by Obie Award winner Danya Taymor ("Daddy", Heroes of the Fourth Turning) will reopen Broadways August Wilson Theatre (245 W 52nd Street, New York, NY) for a limited engagement, with exact da...

Also below is a brief essay originally published on 3/11/19 by Neil discussing the typical progression of each “Turning”. It remains more relevant than ever amidst our current zeitgeist. Neil’s work has influenced politicians from Newt Gingrich to Al Gore and all of it culminates in a grand theory advanced in  The Fourth Turning which he elaborates on in the video and text below. NH: We live in a tumultuous time in American history. The 2008 financial crisis and all its hardships, was ...

‘Fat Ham’ Review: A Queer, Black ‘Hamlet’? Ay, There’s the Spice Rub. Set at a Southern barbecue, James Ijames’s hilarious update on Shakespeare sees a recipe for liberation in the story of family disaster. Brennen S. Malone, right, as the Hamlet figure, here named Juicy, with (from left) Jennifer Kidwell and Kimberly S. Fairbanks in “Fat Ham.”Credit...via The Wilma Theater NYT Critics Pick Perhaps the real tragedy of “Hamlet” is that it doesnâ...

Playwrights Horizons (Adam Greenfield, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced a new lineup of Master Classes featuring writers and artists behind celebrated productions at Playwrights and beyond.