What’s your top Stoppard? Mine: 1. Arcadia 2. Travesties 3. Shakespeare in Love 4. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead 5. Rough Crossing (h/t OSF 1997)

Is “cloaked in Gucci and in scandal” Taylor’s first zeugma?

Loved talking to the brilliant Sondheim Hub!

📅 Tues. 9/20 @ 6PM: We join the Cambridge Public Library in welcoming Daniel Pollack-Pelzner for a discussion of his highly anticipated biography "Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist". He will be joined in convo by Dani Snyder-Young. Learn more and RSVP for free here: buff.ly/dFtjete

The most thoughtful and perceptive review of my book I’ve seen so far. Thanks @npr.org

Happy pub day to my great friend @pollackpelzner.bsky.social and his extraordinary biography of Lin-Manuel Miranda. This book is a delight. It tells Lin's story through the lens of how he became such an incredible artist. It's fast-paced, funny, and humane. I loved it and believe you will too!

Book excerpt in the New York Times! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/t...

Thanks for reading and reviewing, Martin. I’m so glad you took comfort, as I’d hoped, in finding that the creative process poses challenges for everyone.

Book 129: Lin-Manuel Miranda - The Education of an Artist by @pollackpelzner.bsky.social

Glad to write about the resonance of #Hamilton on its 10th anniversary for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...

The play I identify most strongly with is A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. It’s the tragedy of what happens when your in-law comes to stay with you and you only have one bathroom.

Friends, I'm thrilled to share that my biography of Lin-Manuel Miranda is available to pre-order before its Sep 9 release. I talked with LMM and 150 of his inspirations about how he learned to become an artist. Hope the story inspires you! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lin-Ma...

Is there a more thrilling sequence of songs than You Don’t Know / I Am the One / Superboy and the Invisible Girl / I’m Alive? #NextToNormalPBS

Am I wrong to hear Remmick’s lusty “Sammie!” as an echo of Al Jolson’s “Mammy!”—minstrelsy as a kind of vampirism? #Sinners

I was so sorry to learn of Misha Berson's passing. I loved reading her Seattle theater dispatches; I relished her book on the making of West Side Story; and after I had the pleasure of serving with her on a Chekhov panel, I was delighted that she'd keep in touch. www.orartswatch.org/a-farewell-t...

Black history is every month all the time, of course, but I’ll play this game. Almost a decade ago, Dan Kois and I put together the Black Film Canon, then we updated it in 2023, and it’s a great (but def not exhaustive!) primer for black film history: slate.com/culture/2023...

ME: Who’s the most popular singer with your high school friends? SON: Probably Billie Eilish. ME: Honestly—and this is my shortcoming—I don’t really get her. She always sounds half-asleep. SON: Have you met any high schoolers?

Hope so. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/a...

My favorite intersection.

I’m sure this is all over Disney’s internal memos, so let’s just say it outright: Mufasa is the Henry VI Part 3 to The Lion King’s Richard III.

MACBETH: I don’t know what the poor cat does in the adage, okay? Every time you bring it up, I just nod. 😂😂😂 @katepitt.bsky.social www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

Love this! deadline.com/2024/12/keta...

‘Tis the season… medium.com/@rachelaxler...

No better way to encourage students to write plays than a Paula Vogel bake-off!

10 musicals to get to know me: Hamilton Hamilton Hamilton Hamilton Hamilton Hamilton Hamilton Hamilton Hamilton In the Heights

My favorite new musical this month: Serial hired Pasek & Paul to write a sea chanty for a killer whale. Is it almost a parody of my liberal fantasies? Yes. Is it also haunting, clever, and searching, befitting human attempts to describe the orca himself? Yes. 🐳🎶🌊 open.spotify.com/episode/7Jbo...

I recommend setting aside some time to read this thoughtful essay. I found it to be very clarifying and grounded in actual detail rather than pundit-y projections.

In response to the election, a lot of people have been talking about the importance of organizing. Here are some Native groups doing THE WORK to consider donating to or volunteering with:

Best rhyme in #Wicked? 1) absurd degree/verdigris 2) analysis/dialysis/a pal, a sis 3) were…well, are/pop-u-lur…lar

ME: Not really feeling Moana 2. MY DAUGHTER: Et tu, Brute?