As I've always been disappointed that Schubert's Unfinished Symphony doesn't break off mid-measure with the entire orchestra moaning "Augggghhhhh," I'm nearly as disappointed that The Mystery of Edwin Drood doesn't end mid-sentence.

These are the longest em dashes I’ve seen since Charles Dickens died. I’m impressed!

"Well, to be fair to President Tr You're joking, right?

Hey hi, Los Angeles (and Los Angeles–adjacent): This is going to be a super fun evening, and it would be great to see you there. Thrills and chills guaranteed!

Storm at sea whale: eagerly awaiting scraps this ship may soon become. Fantastic rendering by Joos de Momper, 1610. It's his day today.

great day for the legal theory of "not guilty if it's funny enough"

Alonzo, every telephone call isn't for you.

Let a thousand sandwiches be airborne.

"...whether they like it or not."

The New York Times is going through some things, although not, regrettably, a woodchipper.

Farewell to charming Pauline Collins. ❤️

"You promise everything to everyone, and you can't deliver, and if you were able to deliver it would be to the great detriment of the people you lured in to vote for you." —Mike Johnson

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

today's random theater photo: John Emery, looking rather alarmingly like Jack Barrymore, and Katharine Cornell, looking a bit like latter-day Claudette Colbert, in Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife (1951).

Happy birthday to wonderful Sally Field!

If you don’t understand a post, sure, you can respond with “Huh? What?,” or you can simply hold your tongue and let it go and move on with the absolute certainty that there’ll be, within seconds, another post that you also don’t understand.

"Jews in Nazi Germany weren't sufficiently frightened of Hitler and look what happened to them, so you shouldn't make fun of me for being afraid of Zohran Mamdani." Well, that's certainly one way of looking at it.

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‪Après Lui, le Déluge Donald quarante-sept thought the East Wing would be his Versailles, but after voters stormed the polls last night, it could be le fin for his Grand Siècle. Is JD short enough to play Napoleon? One thing's for sure: he won't go to war with Russia. by Maureen Dowd

The world at large may not be thrilled at an Antonia Pemberton sighting in the first of tonight's Poirots, but I certainly am.

My adventures in John van Druten Land have led me to 1945's The Mermaids Singing, which is a fascinating (for me) collection of a few really expert scenes and smartly drawn characters and a desperately stultifying third act. And it's pointless. I'm so glad I read it!

only one way to find out tbh

Bye, Felonicia.

Just withdrew from another one.

Schrödinger's Hero

Jonathan Greenblatt is the Bill Donohue of People Who Should STFU.

Hey, @support.bsky.team, any advice here...?

Oh dear, someone here I've liked very much seems to have had a lengthy and indefensible public rage-out and then subsequently deleted their account. That makes me sad.

love all the regions of new york with funny names like "noho" which means north of houston street and "tenderloin" which means 23rd to 42nd street and "new jersey" which means fuck you

A ‘Mamdani Monitor’?? Zohran RESPONDS to the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt for vowing to “track” his admin for antisemitism. “I have some doubts in Jonathan's ability to do so honestly, given that he previously said I had not visited any synagogues only to have to correct himself.” zeteo.com/subscribe

my fantasy today is that even his followers are about to get good and fed up with his deranged public ramblings

It was a rejection of the entire administration and Dems should see this as a signal to become an actual opposition party. On everything. You don't stop the shutdown. You don't approve another appointee. You do nothing at all. The voters saved you, not the other way around. LEARN TO LEAD.

at least from where I'm sitting, Bluesky seems to be refusing to delete posts these last couple of days (you delete them, they're still there when you scroll)

This was my best work yesterday, and I'd be sad if you missed it.

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I have no idea if this quote from Vivien is anything other than apocryphal, but it absolutely rocks.

I don't really understand the compulsion to trash-talk something/someone that other people are celebrating/reveling in, but I do know that I'll block you for it.

There are, like, a dozen more great birthdays today, but I'm going to wrap it up with that of the lovely singer-songwriter Jimmie Spheeris, whose stuff you should (if you're so inclined, of course) explore.

Speaking of musicals that even Encores! wouldn't attempt to revive unless they wanted to see City Center burned to the ground, here's birthday boy Herb Edelman with Herschel Bernardi in Bajour.

And here's birthday boy the great John McGiver as Dr. Gibbs in a late-1960s production of Our Town.

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com

Happy Joel McCrea's birthday too!

today's semi-random theater photo: Fred Clark and birthday girl Natalie Schafer in Peter Ustinov's Romanoff and Juliet (1957)

Happy Vivien Leigh's birthday!

gotta say i was expecting a bit more from the mamdani administration by now

"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.” Fucking SAVAGE for him to invoke Mario Cuomo.

Indeed, winning the election you were running in no doubt qualifies as “capping ascent.” 🙄

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I fled New York before it was craven bullshit.