Good evening and welcome to politicsnation. Tonights lead, a nation divided, struggling to stand. Today marks one month since an angry insurrectionist mob stormed the u. S. Capitol. The broken glass and busted doors is been repaired. The political fractures remain. A few republicans voted to revogs the Committee Assignments of georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene, a freshman lawmaker who has traffics in the same Conspiracy Theories and racist tropes that drove the january 6th rioters. Greene has shown support for executing Speaker Nancy Pelosi and has behaved so towards her coworkers that one asked to have her office moved away from greene. When given the chance to deal with greene privately ended up giving her a standing ovation. Neck Week Senate Republicans will get their own chance to show they learned something from the events of january 6th when they begin the second Impeachment Trial for former president donald trump. Ill keep my expectations low. President joe biden to h
Playbill won't countenance is Twitter under the chaotic rule of Elon Musk. On every show the curtain closes. Who would know better than Playbill when the drama isn't playing anymore?
Jordan E. Cooper in off-Broadway s
Ain t No Mo
(Photo: Joan Marcus)
Three talented scribes have earned the 2021 Whiting Award for Drama. Jordan E. Cooper, Donnetta Lavinia Grays and Sylvia Khoury will each receive a $50,000 prize.
Jordan E. Cooper (Photo: Emilio Madrid for Broadway.com)
Cooper wrote and starred in
Ain t No Mo , which had a twice-extended run at the Public Theater in 2019. He created a pandemic centered-short film called
Mama Got a Cough, starring Danielle Brooks and Da Vine Joy Randolph. He will also be featured as Tyrone in the forthcoming final season of FX s
Pose and is currently filming
The Ms. Pat Show, an R-rated old school sitcom he created for BET+, which will debut later this year.