There are some weights I’ve carried silently across years, my skin and bone growing right around them tangled complicated. The heaviness buried. Still, I grew into my frame. I softened, curved found my way. I’ve made beautiful things. I can be both/and. But then, on a day still close, words spilled inky and echoed across […]
Lights, Camera, Surrender
by July 23, 2018 6 Comments
on By Haley Aguero | Twitter: @aguero_haleyy Thirty-seven shows. That was the number that kept running through my head. I had just gotten a call from a theatre in Massachusetts offering me the role of Marian Paroo in The Music Man. I had worked at the theatre the year before and was thrilled when they announced auditions […]
As the Father of Daughters
by June 14, 2018 3 Comments
on by John Blase | @johnblase Some play this phrase like a card in the wake of injustices to blur their sin of not honoring all women. But this was never to be a game. For some of us those words—the father of daughters—were branded on our hearts the instant you were delivered to us slick […]