it’s fun that of the public intellectual types, naomi klein is both the best naomi AND the best klein. love that for her

there are 12 years between the setting of Grease (1959) and the year it opened (1971). do with that what you will (i wish i still had access to a friend from my ma's work on Grease as a reactionary response to the civil rights movement, because it was BRILLIANT)

You cannot have a functioning classroom under these conditions. As I've said before, classroom surveillance has been a much bigger and more damaging change to campus than wokeness.

listen. i know i do this bit a lot with all manner of boring sports. but this is, and i mean this completely literally this time, the plot of CHESS (1988)

The assholes are outnumbered. Every day is a testament to this truth. I see it all of the time. Most people are decent.

They tell us to leave, but where do we go when every place is a target? Families move in circles, running from death that follows everywhere. My family has lost everything but faith that someone will care enough to help us. please donate to save us💔🙏🏻 tinyurl.com/anas-need-yo...

more importantly, it also lead to stephen sondheim's boppiest song

i'm so sorry

can i get rw grifter money because i teach andrew lloyd webber??? is that an option???

why would my great home nation do this to me on the day of my show

I'm being so real right now, learn how to engage in media as art and not a reflection of your own real life morals. consume things that make you uncomfortable and understand why it makes you uncomfortable. Don't just base yours and others morals standings on the media you consume.

i’ve been working on the dissertation for years and he just…skeets it out

this happening in a glee cast member's replies is truly mind-meltingly nutso

Also our own McCarthyism. I published this piece on modern McCarthyism yesterday concerning assaults on Hollywood and academia. My new book (pinned) also explores the history of Hollywood bowing to the pressures of the post-WWII, McCarthy era Cold War and the cultural ramifications of bending to it.

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

PERFORMANCE IS HOW THINGS BECOME REAL IN THE WORLD. YOUR INTERIORITY IS SPECIAL AND LOVELY BUT NO ONE ELSE HAS ACCESS TO IT EXCEPT BY HOW YOU CHOOSE TO PERFORM IT (i am not yelling at any of these lovely posters, i am yelling at the void because i have to post this like twice a week)

If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.

Mamdani will go down in history, but not only for the reason that he's likely to win in November. It's his refusal to engage with the fascist mirrorworld's warped reality as his colleagues & other media do. His insistence on *staying here*, in the lived reality of his people, is the real triumph.

thinking a lot about what a mistake it was on the part of media theory lit to conflate "access to a given digital electronics consumer product" and "democratizing"

losing my mind now that everyone else finally noticed that ezra klein is stupid

It's no wonder that criticism is getting gutted at outlets right now, because understanding how to process art on more than a surface level is antithetical to the monolithic "my way is the right way" edict of our current fascist regime. There's no room for interpretation or nuance. And that sucks.

teaching absurdism Last Wednesday and the cultural revolution today (the next class) sure is. something.

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

apropro of nothing, i made this a month ago and *anne hathaway voice* it came true

anecdotal report from years in *ets Territory: -women ALWAYS go birds me back -men NEVER go birds me back this cuts across all non-gendered demographics. men, what gives?? do you hate our great home nation of philadelphia???

I wrote this four years ago, and I still feel it today: www.actioncookbook.com/they-dont-re...

anyway, thrilled to share that my emotional support british aristocracy threequel was actually good at being a movie

We are proud co-sponsors of the "New Yorkers Against ICE" rally on Thursday, 9/25 at 6pm in Foley Square.

the monkeys paw keeps curling around my very niche lifelong obsession-turned-career, it's so rude of mr. broadway

I'm harnessing the unprecedented power of AI to forget how to read and develop a severe mental illness that makes me unrecognizable to those who once knew me.

crazy how teaching to standardized tests basically decimated all actual reading/literacy instruction, combined with ill-fated reduction in teaching phonics, and now that near-adults can't read the conventionally wise explanation is "it's because schools closed for a couple months 5 years ago"

Missed this. There is only one compliment left to give her work - she’s 87. She has maybe the greatest formal mastery in modern theatre, but she retains the playful daring of an 18 year old. It’s what every single one of us wants. And Christ what a lovely person.

this is the whole throughline of the Adam Schlesinger Cinematic Universe (Josie and the Pussycats, Music & Lyrics, and of course That Thing You Do)

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

i will rage against the western canon with the best of them, but some canonical plays really are That Girl (this skeet is about a streetcar named desire)

You know that right wing meme when they look at a baroque church and are like “no one knows how they did this. We’ve forgotten how.” That’s how I feel about this 36 seconds of 30 rock

Philly sports, ladies and gentlemen

jeweltone academia (musical theatre bfa senior showcase)

me omw to mold the young minds of new york city (go birds say it back)

this is of course also why i harp that "performative" =/= false. it's through our words that we *do things,* and sometimes the things we do are "commit ourselves to diversity, equity, and inclusion" that can then be followed up on, evaluated, and demanded more of.

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

sondheim catching strays truly brings this to 11/10 lmfao

My old, semi-popular tweet about getting booed at the DSA meeting for liking Hamilton, now in essay form!

barking like a dog omg

the funniest possible use case for expertise in megamusicals just dropped

no good landlords etc etc but that’s been basically my experience. in my old building, we would make communal requests and send them from the person with the most masculine™️ name because they would straight up ignore women 🙃

i genuinely love austrian commercial musical theatre so much. like a country that only recently abandoned the divine right of kings also has a musical about one prince’s suicide pact with his teenage mistress. broadway could NEVER

can someone more actively in major giving atm than i am explain why *three different arts orgs,* all of which i support at very low levels, have sent me a mass mailing/e-blast about planned giving????