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"Director Phoebe Kemp said in a statement: “Twelfth Night already toys with gender and performance – it feels like Shakespeare wrote it for us. This reading is about joy, solidarity and showing what’s possible when trans and nonbinary artists are at the centre of the story.”"

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Ncuti Gatwa & Hugh Skinner - The Importance of Being Earnest (National Theatre London)

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Never let go

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Her father says her name harsh and angry and firm, divided into four syllables, O. PHE. LI. A, never shouting, and that is somehow worse. 

Her brother says her name quick, like it’s a slur, o phe lia, the syllables blending and blurring together, like he cannot wait to stop. 

The boy who once defined her whole world told her that Ophelia sounds like Ō filia, which means Oh, Daughter in Latin. 

Latin is a dead language, and she is no one’s daughter, now.

Okay, whoever wrote this, I wish I wrote it. Bravo, my friend <3

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Wicked Bootleg With Original Cast

enjoy, my fellow Wicked fans :3

(not mine, credits to who recorded an uploaded this)

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what do you mean lin manuel miranda dropped a hamilton nightcore album today i dont see anyone talking about this. Are you guys aware

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The Australian Ballet is doing Alice in Wonderland again and on one hand I’ve seen it before, and on the other, their Queen of Hearts has my favourite costume in anything every

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Brazilian Wicked is now one of my favorite versions cause SUITPHABA?!? BADDY GLINDA?!?!?

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Danna's Wicked Witch of the West transformation makes me insane. Who has done it like her

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the most insane double casting i’ve heard of is ophelia and horatio being played by the same actress. the implications of that drive me crazy

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pov that enemy of the state you could’ve sworn died 10+ years ago is sitting in your bosses lap during a meeting and she will not let you acknowledge her

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some Wicked studies💗💚✨

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I made a jokey post some time ago about how in the Wicked musical Glinda is lying through her teeth every time she hits her highest notes in No One Mourns the Wicked and Thank Goodness, but in a less jokey way it really got me thinking about the flip side. I think the moments where she hits her lowest notes are also the moments where she is being the most vulnerable/showing her truest feelings towards the audience. And when I first thought of her lowest note I thought it would be in For Good, where of course she sings the low part and Elphaba sings the high part, showing how they have been changed through their relationship with each other (deviating from both their earlier discordant respective high/low parts in What Is This Feeling? and their singing in unison in One Short Day, which show the evolution of their relationship through how they harmonize). But actually after thinking more about it I think her lowest note in the whole musical is in I'm Not That Girl (Reprise). Which like, I know is nominally about Fiyero. But also is a song where she is longing for and thinking about Elphaba and how she's not like her and yes it's sort of about Fiyero but also it's not in the key of Dancing Through Life or the first I'm Not That Girl, it's in the key of POPULAR-- her song to Elphaba! Do you see where I'm going with this! All of Glinda's moments of true heartfelt honesty in the musical are her dwelling on her relationship with Elphaba and how it changed her and her complex feelings for her and !!!!! Glinda is so in love with her it's not even funny.

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Elphaba being an idealist while Glinda is a realist always gets to me. Like you would expect the girl who’s been ostracized all her life for being green to be cynical and think that the world can’t change. But no, Elphie is all starry eyed and hopeful that she can change the world. That she can fix its wrongs and create a better future, not just for her but for every citizen of Oz.

Meanwhile Glinda, the girl who’s had everything, admiration, money, etc, knows how the world is. She knows that the world is led by those who are popular despite their talent or lack thereof. She knows how to play the game, knows the rules of the game, and knows that not playing by those rules will make you an outsider. She’s already resigned to the world as it is.

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Myra Ruiz and Fabi Bang perform What Is This Feeling in the Brazillian production of Wicked

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Myra Ruiz as Elphaba Thropp in the Brazillian production of Wicked

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have seen multiple people ask for a hadestown movie adaption post wicked and we truly have such different world views because i would never want that like to me some musicals are for stage only and hadestown is one of them