Two Strangers Carry a Cake Across New York Two Strangers Eat Pizza at a Deli in Brooklyn Two Strangers See Little Bear Ridge Road then Slam Shots and Contemplate What It All Means Anyway Two Strangers, Tres Amigos Stranger Things: Cake

Look, the business takes the time it takes. But to say your teen version of Hamilton won’t be ready for over 2 years when you have a clear and long-standing relationship with LMM? 👀

I am desperate for Laurie Metcalf to wander through drinking a Big Gulp.

So I have heard of ideas being in the zeitgeist, but this is a little crazy. The left is Little Bear Ridge Road. The right is Two Strangers Eat Cake While Walking in New York(-ish).

At the Longacre to see Two Strangers…Cake…New York, and stumbled onto an elevator. I was so shocked to see one in a Broadway house I had to take it. It was just a normal elevator, but somehow I felt like I had stolen fire.

Peacemaker choreographer Charissa Barton and I talk about her work on the show’s opening credits and the disturbing hidden layers in the moves revealed last week!

The first preview of Joe Locke’s debut on the West End was filled with weight and light.

The new theater season begins at NYTW with lush melodies and the story of a queer kid with a wide-open heart.

Hey has anyone else been hearing about confusion over rooming at Shiz?

Everything about this piece from @rachelhandler.bsky.social is true and silly and beautiful.

Thrilled to have my history of Jesus Christ Superstar end up @sojo.net’s cover story!

A beautiful set of tributes.

In which theater legend Jules Fisher humors my obsession with the lighting of Gypsy’s overture

Celebrating great work about summer theater from @robkendt.bsky.social, @diepthought.bsky.social, Jennifer Heimlich, @evincentelli.bsky.social, A.A. Cristi, Ruthie Fienberg, and others.

Some great initial thoughts about the NYT move to bring in a new theater critic from Chris Peterson over at @onstageblog.bsky.social.

Award-winning gay playwright Duncan Pflaster talks playfulness as resistance, writing in verse, the importance of male nudity, and queer theater today.

“When we started off, we didn’t have a producer, we didn’t have a director, we didn’t have a theater, we didn’t have a commission. We just wrote it for our own enjoyment…That was what we wanted to do with our lives.” Robert L. Freedman talks A Gentleman’s Guide, and his memoir about writing it.

Wow wow wow on both counts!

#BroadwayCon hosted a great panel with the social media managers of @lajollaplayhouse.bsky.social, @roundaboutnyc.bsky.social, @papermillplayhouse.bsky.social, TUTS in Houston, The Alley in Houston, and Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, filled with useful ideas and thoughts about their work. My report:

This is such a great list. Thank you, @feldmanadam.bsky.social!

I love this term.

I had the great pleasure of listening to Doug Wright and other playwrights talk about their work at #BroadwayCon. Wright’s comments on adapting Little Mermaid and Grey Gardens were hilarious and wonderful.

Broadway News’ Ruthie Fierberg had a fantastic conversation with the Oh, Mary creative team at #BroadwayCon. theaterwow.substack.com/p/being-rigo...

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Stop what you're doing and watch this interview with @imcarolburnett and Sutton Foster on @CBSSunday. It's exceptional.