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'Fat Ham' by James Ijames kicks off The Wilma Theater’s bold new season
Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Fat Ham” by James Ijames kicks off The Wilma Theater’s bold new season, including two world premieres and a reimagined classic. The Center City theater, conveniently located at Broad and Locust Streets, is on the Avenue of the Arts and is easy accessible from all directions! Single tickets to The Wilma’s 2023-24 season productions start at $29 and are available now.
Luminary: A Magical Guide to Self-Care
Kate Scelsa. Simon & Schuster, $18.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-66590-234-2 In a welcoming volume on self-care approached via practical and magical means—including tarot, astrology, witchcraft, and mindfulness practices—Scelsa (Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches) lends guidance for bettering one’s mental health by sharing her own experiences and interviewing experts in their respective fields.
Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches
Gr 8 Up–Seventeen-year-old Eleanor is the biggest skeptic in Salem, MA. She hates Halloween. A calamitous, tumultuous year has left her isolated and anxious, self-medicating with marijuana and with a complete lack of a social life. So when a mysterious, handmade Tarot guide arrives at the kitschy tourist store where she works to help support herself and her ailing mother, Eleanor finds something new to pour herself into.
IMPROBABLE MAGIC FOR CYNICAL WITCHES
by Kate Scelsa ‧ The “least witchy person in Salem” finds herself in the unlikely position of joining a coven and pursuing a new romance. Nearly a year ago, Eleanor lost Chloe, the girl she loved, and became a pariah. Now, she spends her time working at the Salem Gift Emporium and numbing her emotions by smoking pot. The day Eleanor meets a cute girl called Pixie, a unique package arrives at the shop with a handmade tarot guide.
Let’s Talk About Menstruation
In Go With the Flow (First Second, Jan. 14), a new middle-grade graphic novel by Lily Williams and Karen Schneeman, with illustrations by Williams, menstruation is presented as an integral part of a story about high school, friendship, and standing up for what you believe in. New girl Sasha meets sophomores Abby, Brit, and Christine when she gets her first period at school and finds herself without a pad or tampon.
5 Great Writers Who Explore Feminism & Gender Theory
Talented People Who Write About Gender & Feminism Writer Notable Works Leni Zumas Red Clocks The Listeners Kate Scelsa Everyone's Fine With Virginia Woolf Fans of the Impossible Life Sezin Koehler Crime Rave American Monsters August McLaughlin Girl Boner In Her Shadow Barbara J.
EVERYONE'S FINE WITH VIRGINIA WOOLF
ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE is a New York City-based company that creates original works for live theater with an ongoing ensemble. Since its founding in 1991 by John Collins and a group of actors, ERS has built a body of work that has earned it a loyal following and made it one of New York's most highly-acclaimed experimental theater companies.
6 Books That Explore the Power of Chance Encounters
The three characters in Gayle Forman’s new young adult novel I Have Lost My Way have all these excuses, plus several more, for not getting to know each other. But when aspiring pop star Freya falls off a bridge, landing on runaway Nathaniel, and Harun is the closest witness, the three strangers can’t help but become acquainted.
Elevator Repair Service: Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf by Kate Scelsa | Abrons Arts Center
World Premiere of a new play by KATE SCELSA, longtime ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE company member, directed by JOHN COLLINS. A sharp-witted parody of a celebrated American drama, EVERYONE’S FINE WITH VIRGINIA WOOLF is, in turns, loving homage and fierce feminist take-down. In her incisive and hilarious reinvention of Edward Albee’s classic WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, Kate Scelsa slyly subverts the power dynamics of the original play’s not-so-happy couple.
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
From the author ofcomes this sparkling new novel that covers a year in the life of high school freshman Scott Hudson, who is sideswiped by the unexpected news that his mother is about to have another baby. In a hilarious and touching journal addressed to the unborn intruder, Scott bares his soul as he copes with the trials and tribulations of a life that is changing faster than he wants it to.
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