Celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth with a woman who refused to be erased. 🎨
At the height of the Italian Renaissance, Artemisia Gentileschi dreamed of immortality — of changing humanity's very image. She wanted to become one of the truly great painters, a maestro. And she was willing to fight to get there.
THE LIGHT AND THE DARK by Kate Hamill tells the extraordinary true story of the most successful female artist of her era — a bold, deep-thinking examination of art's ability to transcend trauma, the power of the feminist gaze, and the transformative power of female rage in reshaping societal paradigms.
✨ "We are instantly as one with Hamill and the world of Artemisia Gentileschi... Exemplary. Strong words. Strong performance. Strong play." — NY Stage
Bring this "feminist primal scream" to your stage. Learn more and license at our link in bio. 🔗
📸 @primarystages / @59e59 production, Photo by James Leynse
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2025. Just a smattering, in no particular order. I am grateful for this strange and wonderful little life and all of the beings within it. I am very, very lucky, every single day. ❤️
Happy 250th Birthday to Jane Austen! 🎂✨
From Kate Hamill’s EMMA to Syrie James’ JANE AUSTEN IN 89 MINUTES, these plays prove her stories are as vibrant as ever.
We’re celebrating by featuring two Austen adapted and inspired plays licensed by TRW:
💐 EMMA by Kate Hamill
⏰ JANE AUSTEN IN 89 MINUTES by Syrie James
Captured for #TRWOnLocation in Bath, England, where Austen herself once lived and wrote, these plays bring her world brilliantly and hilariously to life for today’s audiences.
#TRWShows #JaneAusten #JaneAusten250
THE LIGHT AND THE DARK (the life and times of Artemisia Gentileschi) is now published & available to license through @trwshows ! This piece burned a hole in my heart from the moment I saw Artemisia’s feminist rage masterpiece Judith Beheading Holofernes at the Uffizi Gallery & knew I had to write the play. As usual, there’s a whole fantastic, talented, dedicated village that helps birth a play - my deep thanks to all at @chqtheaterco & @primarystages for its launch into the world, as well as the @oneill_center for a key development workshop & all at TRW! There is painting in this play, and anger in this play, and cursing in this play (both literal and existential), and hope in this play, and I hope that you find something in it to keep fighting for. ✊🖌️🎨 find play at /show/the-light-and-the-dark/
There is still no satisfying explanation.
Someone needs to be transparent with these students and their teachers. You want to know why young people don’t trust people in authority or power? This is why. Because they can’t communicate. They can’t have hard discussions. They make decisions unilaterally, without considering their impact. They fail to see the point — or hear the points of view — of those they’re meant to serve.
We remain deeply disappointed — and we commend the students for speaking up. Their courage and clarity are exactly why ENOUGH! exists.
Thank you to @howardsherman for shining a light on this story.
🔗 Read his reporting: broadwayworld.com/article/When-Enough-Is-Too-Much-Silencing-Plays-to-End-Gun-Violence-in-Baton-Rouge-20251007
#ENOUGHPlays #GunViolencePrevention #YouthVoices #FreeExpression #ArtsEducation #Censorship
Our voices should never be silenced by those in power — if it happens to one of us, it happens to all of us.
Join me, along with more than 400 of my fellow artists and @aclu_nationwide in the fight to defend and preserve our free speech rights.
Add your name now. /defend-free-speech-letter-kimmel
Heyhey it sure is nice to join so many friends & colleagues & genuine art heroes on @americantheatremag 25/26 most-produced list. I’m very grateful. GO SEE NEW WORKS & SUPPORT THE ARTISTS WHO MAKE THEM & THE INSTITUTIONS THAT PRODUCE THE GOOD WORK, PLEASE! It’s hard out there & if we do not foster the arts in our communities, they will disappear. ❤️
“I thought this was a very brave, unflinching play. Your sense of outrage on behalf of the many who die in school shootings is well-justified, and it absolutely poured through the page.” – Kate Hamill
Written by Ian Hodges of FL, Nobody Cares About Death imagines the literal embodiment of Death taking the stage as the only one showing empathy for victims of school shootings. With biting satire and surrealism, Ian channels teen anger at a culture of apathy — in a nation where gun violence has been the leading cause of death for children since 2020, killing more than car accidents, drownings, or cancer. 📅 Experience Nobody Cares About Death alongside five other bold new works at the ENOUGH! Nationwide Reading on October 6. Find an event near you: enoughplays.com/reading #EnoughPlays
