League of Professional Theatre Women Archives • First Online with Fran

July 7, 2025

SEVENTEEN: Making Music Meaningful

I was pleasantly surprised and incredibly fulfilling when we brought kids who I interviewed down to Florida and thank you to the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra -- they gave us…

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March 20, 2025

Kay Smith-Blum: TANGLES triumph

Our nuclear security has been compromised and that really is a dangerous situation because all of our nuclear sites are nuclear power plants, or they are a theoretically defunct…

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June 9, 2023

Jeffrey Sweet: Striking Back

Here's the thing about AI. It doesn't have a soul, and it doesn't understand psychology, and it doesn't understand the quirks of human behavior. All it can do is strip-mine…

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June 9, 2023

Jeffrey Sweet: Striking Back

Here's the thing about AI. It doesn't have a soul, and it doesn't understand psychology, and it doesn't understand the quirks of human behavior. All it can do is strip-mine…