The first time I saw a Chekhov play staged, so I guess I lucked out. [Not shown: Meryl Streep.]

I missed the whole steam machine thing yesterday. OK if I skip it and wait for the next big thing?

If your 80-year-old grandpa was insisting that the reason the backyard pool has algae in it is because terrorists are trying to make him look bad and demanding the police arrest somebody, you'd put him in a senior care facility before the end of the day.

If The Washington Post had a shitty podcast and no one listened, would it make a sound?

today in Fatuous Gurgling

"Everything I know about Bob Fosse I learned from Robin Williams in The Birdcage." Oh. What a sad thing to admit in public.

today's not really random theater photo: Miss Le G, birthday girl Irene Worth, and Douglas Campbell in Mary Stuart

Happy Bob Fosse's birthday!

It’s an adjective, to be sure, but it’s popularly a verb too. ovate

alchemical alchemic lichi lichee halachic

Burt Shevelove to Stephen Sondheim:

[no-judgment zone] I'm maybe bemused that people are bemused that today's Wordle is a word...?

today's musical theater pop quiz parlor game: stage musical songs that mention Shirley Temple by name hint of sorts: we haven't in fact played this one before, but go

There *are* actually stupid questions.

There Are a Lot of Things I Don’t Understand, and People Who Always Type in Title Case Is One of Those Things.

antifa with a knife in the reflecting pool

It’s Dennis’s birthday tomorrow.

truly a pro Algy

This is the president. Of, like, the whole country!

Okay, now I’m actually offended.

*races into the room, breathless, wheezing, five days late* You might say that he has Giorgia on his mi *dies*

🔥

… … … I’m out.

Though not as pathetic as this.

Even for him this is pathetic.

Jesus Christ, what

oh for the love of

Nice day out here in paradise. If you don't need to be able to see or breathe.

This is amazing:

"The nature of Trump’s personalist presidency, in which the entire govt is organized around turning his whims into reality and the barest hint of dissent is swiftly punished, makes the question of his age *even more important* than it was with Biden, who was surrounded by competent people."

oh, this is gonna end well

I would've guessed that "usher" was a verb before it was a noun, but I would've guessed wrong. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[nathan fillion gif goes here]

"us millennials," good going, mr. yale

It's nearly tea-time & we've got steak & vegetable pie, new potatoes, peas & cherry bakewells for pud.

perfectly good ten-letter pangram rejected, I mean, WTF 🐝

🎶 By the way, it's spelled E triple-C H eccchsclamation point! 🎶

It remains hilarious that Republicans keep insisting Trump is a master dealmaker when he's never really had any success at all at making deals as president. Not just Iran, either. He's sitting on majorities in both Houses of Congress but hasn't accomplished anything there. He's an utter failure.

Yesterday's utterly underappreciated stroke of genius.

Keir delayed, gone t Nah.

today's not random theater photo: birthday girl Meryl Streep and Christopher Lloyd in Happy End (1975) (📸: Martha Swope)

Can't ask for much better birthday energy than this.

every now and then lately I have a moment of oh my god the pope's an american that's so intense

Neither Scrabble nor Crossplay will accept DAST, and I have a problem with this.

one of the great undersung films of all time

I took one look at this photo and said "Oh god." IYK, as they say, YK.

Daddy will explain about these stones.

game over

“We will fix it?”

happy father’s day