"Newsies" Cast Recording Stream - WNYC →
Nerd alert. This may or may not have been my work soundtrack all morning.
Nerd alert. This may or may not have been my work soundtrack all morning.
“I’m more concerned about the suggestion that you have to cheat to come up with remarkable journalism.”
Nice piece on the ever-evolving Mike Daisey the-truth-was-too-boring-so-I-fixed-it scandal from David Carr.
This is a shame. I always had a lot of respect for Mike Daisey, and it makes me sad that he’s hiding behind the “this is theater” thing as an excuse for fudging the facts on something this major. That’s some James Frey shit right there, only worse, because Daisey’s story affects so many people.
Also, kind of a huge fact-checking gaff on This American Life’s part! But props to them for owning up to their mistake in a huge way.
This is fucked.
Speaking as someone who sees roughly 800 one-person autobiographical plays per year, this is pretty spot-on.
It’s an amazing thing to read something that actually strikes you as true. When not just the content, but the actual manner in which it’s written, the feeling of it, the poetry of it, actually sounds like words coming from your own lonely head. There’s a god in that.
— from Three Pianos by Rick Burkhardt, Alec Duffy and Dave Malloy (currently onstage at the American Repertory Theater)
