In our latest episode, @petermarksdrama.bsky.social and I discussed his recent trip to a theater festival in Krakow, Tom Stoppard and some of our favorite shows of the year. marksvincentelli.substack.com/p/with-stopp...

Attended Randy Rainbow’s show at Town Hall tonight. I needed that.

The Pointless Triumph of a Hapless President www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/o... “If Barry Goldwater was the book and Ronald Reagan the movie, Mr. Trump is the glitzy jukebox musical.” This is the kind of dumb, lazy analogy that “intellectuals” use to disparage theater.

So, once and for all, is Hamlet a head case? Director/author Jeremy McCarter has decided to get inside Hamlet's head -- and get him inside yours, too -- to probe the question in a delicious new audio version of the play. Let us three tell you about it! marksvincentelli.substack.com/p/is-hamlet-...

It's worth doing if only to force a reaction from Vichy homosexual Ric Grenell.

Early voting, Saturday 6/21. Lower Manhattan.

Staying at a house in Maine. Conservative Republican family next door. They’ve put up a Dump Trump sign.

Rockland, Maine! #NoKings

We talk Tonys - the proceedings were the best in memory. And ratings were up. (My first time in the audience. Elisabeth followed avidly from afar.) A discourse for our paying subscribers! open.substack.com/pub/marksvin...

I was there. Best Tony Awards show in ages.

How it looks in the hall!

What it looks like in the hall!

How it looks in the hall!

How it looks in the hall!

How it looks in the hall!

How it looks in the hall!

What do we see during commercial breaks? Set changes!

How the Buena Vista Social Club number looks in the hall.

Great opening number. In the room, goosebumps.

Could you feel Harvey Fierstein’s emotion at home? In the room it was electric.

Maybe Happy Ending score note: Darren Criss showed me the cramped little room adjacent to the Belasco Theatre stage, where the several string players sit. Several stories above them is located the conductor, whom they see on closed circuit TV.

First standing O of the night goes to Edwin Robinson, the teacher teacher at Boys and Girls HS in Brooklyn. The voice!

In Radio City Music Hall, it feels like a Maybe Happy Ending night.

I met Terry Moran when he was a reporter for Court TV. I was on the metro desk at the New York Times, and we were both covering the Woody-Mia custody trial in Manhattan in 1993. There is not a finer, more conscientious journalist.

Make your day more joyful! Spend some time with us and Jonathan Groff, as we talk to the Tony-winning actor about life and Broadway and dancing as a kid in heels to the voice of Bobby Darin. AND SUBSCRIBE! marksvincentelli.substack.com/p/jonathan-g...

As the critic and the Uber driver said to each other simultaneously: Would I steer you wrong? This is big. Our next guest on Marks & Vincentelli had a Broadway awakening. Audiences said: You'll be back. It all rolled along, merrily. So you won't want to miss this one, splish splashing down soon!

For anyone curious about how we do what we do, this episode--deconstructing a canny review by Elisabeth, about a Lincoln Center Theater play, Five Models in Ruins, 1981--is for you. How does one write considerately about a show that doesn't quite work? marksvincentelli.substack.com/p/special-gu...

Carol Channing in Show Girl, the first Broadway show to be telecast live on April 2, 1961.

Marks & Vincentelli podcast is on a roll. Recent guests: Darren Criss and Helen J Shen, stars of Maybe Happy Ending, and then Jeffrey Seller, producer of Hamilton and Rent. NEXT UP: Kimberly Belflower, author of John Proctor is the Villain, the play that has garnered the most Tony nods. Drops soon!

I applaud the Les Miz cast members who won’t sing for that schmuck. www.cnn.com/2025/05/07/p...

The "Maybe Happy Ending" stars, Darren Criss and Helen J Shen, joined us on Marks & Vincentelli just before the musical scored 10 Tony nominations. Listen as they talk about the journey in creating this boy bot meets girl bot love story. marksvincentelli.substack.com/p/listen-as-...

Ich bin ein Kanadisch!

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Yup, says it all.

Next up on the Marks & Vincentelli podcast: the extraordinary Kate Valk of the Wooster Group, the revered mainstay of experimental theater. Episode drops soon and in the meantime, read this splendid piece about the Woosters by Ben Brantley: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/t...

Where were you when the lights went out … on your savings?

Cory Booker has been speaking for 2 1/2 Mahabharatas.

NYC

Sometimes, you do leave a theater humming the scenery -- and maybe because the set was designed by David Rockwell. Here the Tony winner (for his stunning jewelbox set for a revival of "She Loves Me") talks about his work for Broadway and beyond. marksvincentelli.substack.com/p/ready-set-...

Lincoln had a Team of Rivals. What we have now is a Confederacy of Dunces.

Brilliant article by Jason Zinoman. A gift version here: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/a...

It’s Conan O’Brien’s big night — at Donald Trump’s Kennedy Center wapo.st/4iHOwgv

My hobbies? I enjoy reading, skiing and watching the price of Tesla stock drop.

This subway door on this downtown 1 train opened while train was approaching 14th Street. Woman almost fell out.

A Democrat being thanked by trump is the definition of the kiss of death.

“On Thursday night, the Kennedy Center concert hall was awash in nearly a minute of howling, passionate booing…The cause of the … audible outrage was the emergence onto the box tier of Vice President JD Vance…” www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Adam Lambert is playing the Emcee in "Cabaret" on Broadway, and how the audience responds is a kind of rorschach test for attitudes today about tolerance and antisemitism. Listen to this fascinating discussion of his career and his performance. marksvincentelli.substack.com/p/from-idol-...