*JOB KLAXON* The V&A is currently recruiting for a Curator of Theatre to join the Theatre & Performance Curatorial Team. Deadline: 3 Nov 2024. Full details: vam.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/36…

If you're confused as to why so many disabled people are upset, hurt, and frustrated with the recent Chronicle piece on accommodations for disabled college students- here's some data to consider this National Disability Employment Awareness Month (#NDEAM) 1/8

Not an entire class of students blindfolded and guiding each other in disability simulations outside of Old Main at 9 AM.

Please sign and circulate. Drop the charges against Prof. Willoughby-Herard, arrested for protecting students from armed riot police as students gathered to draw public attention to the horrors of ongoing human rights violations and genocide in Palestine. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Just finished “Death’s Hand in Mine” in #AgathaAllAlong. I think it’s the best episode of the series so far in terms of performance and execution (no small thanks to Patti LuPone); it’s also one of the smartest sections of storytelling I’ve seen in any MCU property. A must-see.

want to share this very moving sentiment from Sarah Mantell’s playwright statement

If you’re looking for a different way into thinking about American elections this week, try my new article on musical theatre, #Broadway satire, and presidential politics: doi.org/10.1386/smt_00…. DM if you need access to a copy! #Vote  #ElectionDay  #musicals #dramaturgy

Come Saturday’s matinee… it’s going the be the Bad Reason.

We know that many of you, like us, are trying to wrap your heads around what the next few years will hold. These are a few titles that have helped us think through what we are up against and the resistance we need. Please read them, share them, use them. akpress.org/featured-produ…

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

It's THAT time of year! Here's my annual 2025 #AuditionList of first choice songs presented by auditionees for entry onto a BA or MA Musical Theatre degree at a London conservatoire this year. PDF is available on my website for free download. ingadavisrutter.com

Signal boosting— (I wish more departments had this kind of program. It seems like a particularly good model for performance artists wanting to collaborate on a shared project.)

there is a point to be made here about the lengths a creative team can choose to go to accommodate a disability

crucible cast party.

To be clear, this is basically all of my work. These executive order restrictions on freedom of thought are dangerous and damaging—to say nothing of the fact that the logic that “equity ideology” is discriminatory is laughably bad.