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James BeamanI'm a theatre artist and a writer. A Gen X gay man of the old school. Favorite privilege? Free speech. I encourage people. I call bullshit. I push back. The Arts are in trouble. They're worth saving. Let's talk about it.
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I'm Sorry You Feel That Way
The show business community recently celebrated what would have been the 96th birthday of musical theatre titan Stephen Sondheim. In addition to being a musical genius, master lyricist and one of the great innovators of the art form, Sondhe...
Loners Unite
This is the 100th post at The Cornfield! This month marks three years since I launched my Substack. Thank you to my subscribers and supporters!
Groucho Marx famously quipped, “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.” His...
William Shakespeare: Strong Black Woman?
There’s nothing new about the Shakespeare authorship question. It’s been an obsession for centuries. The Victorians were especially fascinated with a variety of competing theories about who—other than the man from Stratford-Upon-Avon—could...
Facts Are Stubborn Things
To begin with, a disclaimer: I am not an historian. I am not a journalist. Nor am I a lawyer or legal expert. This piece doesn’t propose a precise parallel between events in 1770 and events in 2026. In this piece, I’m making an observation....
We Have No Secret
My friend Zander Keig invited me back on his Third Space Podcast just before Christmas, and we had one of our typical long, sprawling conversations touching on many aspects of life in our world today. Of course I shot my mouth off about cer...
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