Happy New Year!

But wait - 2025, we're not quite done with you yet! Let's look back once more on all the fun The Confused Greenies of Players' Patchwork Theatre Company had this most recent trip around the sun!

Though we did not stage as many performances or travel to as many places as the prior year, what we did was majestic including our first commedia dell'arte pastorale historic fantasy style plays and our first fully staged reading, a sudden and unexpected giant whale, and then wrapping up with writing dozens of new three-act scenarios for future productions!

This year was tough in many ways and stressful. But it's always been our goal to make the world better one laugh, one smile at at a time!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #SCA #MySCA #ClevelandConCoction #CleCon #Parody #Fantasy #NewYear #NewYearsEve #NYE #InReview #YearInReview

2025. It was a good year for The Confused Greenies of Players' Patchwork Theatre Company. Though we did not stage as many performances or travel to as many places as the prior year, what we did was majestic including our first commedia dell'arte pastorale historic fantasy style plays and our first fully staged reading, a sudden and unexpected giant whale, and then wrapping up with writing dozens of new three-act scenarios for future productions!

This year was tough in many ways and stressful. But it's always been our goal to make the world better one laugh, one smile at at a time!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #SCA #MySCA #ClevelandConCoction #CleCon #Parody #Fantasy #NewYear #NewYearsEve #NYE #InReview #YearInReview

Oh the places we brought laughter in 2025! From Zipcon to Cleveland ConCoction, from Pennsic to One World Day, and a first time appearance at Barrington Elementary School!

Where will 2026 take us?

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #ClevelandConCoction #CleCon #Zipcon #2025 #YearEnd #InReview

‘Anaconda’ Is a Better Than ‘Vertigo’: Why Hollywood Should Leave the Classics Alone and Focus on Remaking Bad Movies Instead of Good Ones
#IndieWire #Commentary #Features #Film #Inreview #Remakes #TheRunningMan

https://www.indiewire.com/features/commentary/hollywood-should-remake-bad-movies-1235160530/

One Baby After Another: Why So Many of 2025’s Best Movies Are About the Agony and Ecstasy (but Mostly Agony) of Having Kids
#IndieWire #Commentary #Features #Film #IfIHadLegsI039dKickYou #Inreview #OneBattleAfterAnother

https://www.indiewire.com/features/commentary/best-movies-2025-about-having-kids-being-parents-1235155195/

The Movies Are Meeting the Moment, but Distributors Are Still Scared of Palestine (and Three Other Lessons We Learned from the Fall Fests)
#IndieWire #Features #General #Festivals #Film #Inreview #Telluride #TIFF #Venice

https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/in-review-five-lessons-from-telluride-venice-tiff-2025-1235150685/

Announcing IndieWire’s ’70s Week!
#IndieWire #BestOf #Features #70sWeek #Film #Inreview

https://www.indiewire.com/features/best-of/announcing-indiewire-70s-week-1235145529/

In Review: It’s Not Too Late for the Movies to Reject AI
#IndieWire #Criticism #Movies #AI #Film #Inreview #Reviews

https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/movies-should-reject-ai-wizard-of-oz-sphere-1235142276/

July 2025 in Review

23 works reviewed. 12 by women (52%), 10 by men (43%),1 by non-binary authors (4%), 0 by authors whose gender is unknown (0%), and 11 by POC (48%).

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/post/july-2025-in-review
#InReview

‘Sinners,’ ‘Starfighter,’ and the Night That Drove a Stake Through Hollywood’s Love Affair with Mediocrity
#IndieWire #Commentary #Features #Inreview #RyanCoogler #Sinners #StarWarsStarfighter

https://www.indiewire.com/features/commentary/in-review-sinners-starfighter-death-of-hollywood-mediocrity-1235118343/