It’s a hard time to celebrate art, even if we all understand its importance & value. Perhaps that’s why this year’s Fall Arts Guide theme, How To Make a Scene, struck a chord. This is about coming together, it’s about making our feelings known, it’s about taking a stand for what’s important.

It was great to talk to the textile artist (and Tennessean) Tabitha Arnold for Interview. Read our conversation for an overview of her work and her first New York exhibition! www.interviewmagazine.com/art/tabitha-...

The wonderful, whimsical Julio Torres’ first theater project opens tonight. I interviewed him about the project for the Brooklyn Rail. brooklynrail.org/2025/09/thea...

The analysis that’s missing from most (practically all) podcast aggregation.

NYC Is Having a Clownaissance A new generation of clowns wants you to embrace the liberatory possibilities of acting very stupid. hellgatenyc.com/everyone-is-...

sat shotgun on Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang's winding roadtrip to tonight's Culture Awards. Readers, Kayteighs, Publicists, I promise you are in for a treat even though Miss Piggy had to cancel www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

The tiny, intrepid Bushwick Starr announcing Keanu Reeves as their gala honoree this fall, in an e-blast that notes he’s a longtime board member of theirs, is going to get people scanning board lists for who else they might’ve missed.

A thoughtful piece about casting and representation — with a delicate note about how casting has set precedents in other musicals.

What the end of WTF means www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/a...

The more I research the history of the NEA and how it survived many attempts to drastically reduce (or totally eliminate) its funding, the more convinced I become that the Obama admin’s (public) vision of political compromise was totally naive and ahistorical.

Today is the 50th anniversary of the Broadway opening of A Chorus Line. To celebrate, about 173 of us who danced in that show gathered outside in the Lincoln Center Library of Performing Arts plaza, performed The Opening Away From the Mirror, One, and What I Did For Love. 💙

A Chorus Line opened on Broadway 50 years ago today. The show is often celebrated as a love letter to dancers—a tribute to the unsung heroes of musical theater. But the full story is messier. 🧵

On Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s production of Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s musical “The Gospel at Colonus,” in the Amph on Little Island. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...

My first story for the New York Times previews a revival of “The Gospel at Colonus” that features a surprising voice—the gospel singer and pastor Kim Burrell, who came under fire nine years ago after a sermon surfaced online in which she condemned homosexuality.

You’re eligible to be shocked that Mamdani rapped under the handle “Mr. Cardamom” and had a (pretty solid) track on the QUEEN OF KATWE soundtrack indefinitely, however

With the Lynne Meadow news today, reupping this fascinating conversation with her and Barry Grove from a few years back. I had no idea how small and scrappy MTC was when it started

Ro Reddick’s Cold War Choir Practice started performances last night! It’s your last chance to see a Summerworks show this year, but whether or not you make it out, you can read this:

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

Wonder why so there’s so much solo theater these days? I wrote about star-driven one-person shows for Town and Country: www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts...

The CNN broadcast of GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK did playoff sports numbers: 7.34 million viewers

Colored pencil artists want you to take them seriously. Check out a juried exhibition of their work this summer: washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7657...

“Julie Harris has a Tony for playing Mary Todd Lincoln!”

HAPPY PRIDE! I'm not sure I'll ever love anything as much as I love theater, the last safe place for earnestness and idealism

Why did they put Brian Stokes Mitchell in a booth he should be on stage

It's a big year for Pride in DC & WorldPride is here but so is the Trump administration. Rather than talking about DC's queer history I wanted to hear from the people MAKING that history right here, right now. 2025 has sucked, but these 6 queers remind us how strong & beautiful our community is 🖤

Great, great piece about Strouse writing an abandoned STAR WARS musical www.americantheatre.org/2025/05/22/c...

My review of the playful, energetic new play A(U)NTS!, at the Brick through May 24: www.theatrely.com/post/worker-...

🚨it’s summer reading guide o’clock!!🚨one of my favorite times of the year! www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

“There is some hero worship in there, David. I don’t know how you’re going to say this stuff on stage.” I interviewed David Greenspan and Mona Pirnot for the Brooklyn Rail. brooklynrail.org/2025/04/thea...

‘There is only one thing in life worse than being Tony eligible, and that is not being Tony eligible.’ – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

This was a painful but rewarding story to work on. For New York Magazine, I wrote about the devastating effect of AIDS on the city's theater community, and what has become a decades-long effort to create a full list of those we lost. www.vulture.com/article/hiv-....

if you liked watching the three blonde women in The White Lotus may I suggest watching David Greenspan do that but he's all three women and they're all struggling New York playwrights in I'm Assuming You Know David Greenspan

I love WL, but there have been TONS of rude comic shows that mess around with identity in nasty-funny ways & feature queer fuckery, from OITNB & Transparent to Difficult People & Search Party. It’s way easier to paint WL as The One And Only when you pretend the rest of TV is Sesame Street

The Tony-winning actor and producer LaChanze is launching a directing career with Wine in the Wilderness at Classic Stage Company. We talked about her connection to Alice Childress and the importance of Black history. www.tdf.org/on-stage/tdf...

With ‘Human Resources’ — onstage March 27-April 6 — Nashville Story Garden, Nate Eppler and OZ Arts join forces and push boundaries.

On Emily St. James's Woodworking, a really lovely novel about three trans women balancing the costs of being seen with those of remaining hidden www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

In Washington, a new play by Priyanka Shetty examines the wreckage of the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally: washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7608...

"I’m always thinking we need more movies like 'Crimes of the Heart' or 'August: Osage County.' Plays turned into movies, stories by playwrights. I know they’re out there." -- Parker Posey, in The New Yorker

Make no mistake: Hamilton canceling its next Kennedy Center engagement represents a huge blow for trump’s takeover. Hamilton has been one of the center’s biggest earners and an irreplaceable resource for attracting new subscribers.

Just depressing in too many ways.

I talked to the recent Obie winner Jack Serio about directing intimate theater and the pitfalls of certainty, for @tdfnyc.bsky.social: www.tdf.org/on-stage/tdf...

The next Oscar scandal? The music shop that supplied the guitar played by Monica Barbaro in “A Complete Unknown” is angry at Edward Norton.

Some (lovely) “sentimental musings on [the] rigid, unsentimental work” of the Wooster Group - by @bittersavored.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/tomofbed...

The Garbologists tells the story of two NYC sanitation workers who become unlikely friends bonding over the struggles of parenthood. The story never quite transcends the script, but Theater Alliance’s production remains a delight.

There are 88 episodes of ‘The Cleveland Show.’ David Lynch is in 22 of them. You probably have a lot of questions.

For Interview Magazine, I spoke to the team behind “Show/Boat” at NYU Skirball about the public domain, the show’s history of blackface, the controversial number “In Dahomey,” and how they kept the show’s identity while adding new music. www.interviewmagazine.com/theater/insi...

New York Review of BORGs

The versatile actor Joseph Medeiros began learning THE ODYSSEY in his spare time, as you do, then spent years enrapturing audiences with intimate tellings of various chapters. Now he's doing a 6-hour ODYSSEY tour at NYC's Theaterlab—all in the original Greek. www.americantheatre.org/2025/01/07/s...

For American Theatre, I profiled an amazing artist who is performing Homer’s Odyssey in the original Greek. www.americantheatre.org/2025/01/07/s...