In the grand scheme of awfulness this is a tiny loss, but in a way also seismic, for the gap it leaves behind. I never participated but observed the many Cal State Northridge theater students who benefitted—& in some cases were profoundly changed—by the experience of this festival.

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Agreed— Szadkowski’s performance in “are the Bennett girls ok?” was so satisfying— unhinged but controlled, so detailed, funny, heartbreaking. Between that & Seagulls at La Mama, she gets my Crushing the Stage 2025 prize! 🏆 🙌

bodes well. a plea to the NYTimes: start covering theater w/ the energy you bring to restaurants; the theater landscape is as varied! no need for fluff &/or celeb profiles & gimmick chasing, the human interest is built in. assume audiences have wide flavor palates.

“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.”

If I didn’t see life as fundamentally absurd this would definitely tip me over the edge

This is freaking incredible

Article title: The NYT wrote more about Harvard last year than all community colleges combined I posted three main figure from the article below www.vox.com/2014/7/23/59...

For #WorldAIDSDay here’s my essay about the 72 Hours episode of The Golden Girls that I wrote for @nursingclio.bsky.social Still one of the most important sitcom episodes ever (not to mention one of my favorite things I’ve written). nursingclio.org/2018/12/04/d...

Arise: The 2025 Fall Dance Concert 12/4-7, 7PM Goldstein Theatre Tix $15/$10 (QC ID and Seniors): www.qc.cuny.edu/academics/dtd/ Arise is a celebration of the resiliency and joy of dancing. Join us as QC students perform original choreography by Marshall Davis Jr.

#CADHE Concerns over Title VI Training: Academic Freedom and Freedom of Expression #CUNY #MADC @aaup.org @standhighered.bsky.social @veenadubal.bsky.social @sunyufspresident.bsky.social

CUNY admins tell us they support academic freedom, but then they make us take this dystopian Title VI training designed to make us fearful in our classrooms that actually implies the exact opposite. Read the @cadhe.bsky.social statement about this two-faced position.

Night of the laureates: reading and talk by US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, who'll also be in conversation with NY State Poet Laureate Kimiko Hahn.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has been “very consistent & vocal in support of @cuny.edu students & the CUNY system...[he] ran & won on an affordability agenda,” & the city’s public higher ed system “can be both affordable & high-quality” with the right resources. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Virtual Open House: Queens College MFA Program

The @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social map will compare 2025 w/2021 mayoral results by election district & citywide. It gives you the ability to filter results by 20 categories of demographics & electoral patterns. The map has overlays to show City Council districts, subways, and NYCHA properties. 2/n

Maybe the thing that gives me a pulse-pounding throbbing headache is when I think of how techbros sold ChatGPT to universities as ‘revolutionizing’ higher education and our institutions just forked over money without even asking for actual evidence

We're excited that American Theatre has published an excerpt of our new book "An Actor's Tale" by Amy E. Hughes! Read about why she chose to write about the life of 19th century actor Harry Watkins at www.americantheatre.org/2025/10/28/t...

#3: In this one, "manually rewording" stands in for writing: "Don't spend the next three hours manually rewording everything" and "original" is a synonym for "undetectable"

Step by step guide to higher ed crisis for Dem candidates giving stump speeches. This isn’t hard: 1) States cut taxes to serve the rich 2) with less revenue, they cut public higher ed budgets 3) with lower budgets, schools raise tuition and throw money at investments, athletics, and development

Just provided some ”rider feedback” to curb for making NYC yellow cab TVs the domain of MAGA propaganda. If you use their app, consider deleting your account & letting them know. We want tacky tourist videos & local weather, not Newsmax hellgatenyc.com/taxi-tv-news...

Diane Keaton (1946-2025) with her cat Buster. Photo by Jill Krementz. 💔

Join authors Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani and Prithi Kanakamedala on Oct. 15th at the New York Public Library for a conversation about what it means to build freedom and belonging in place. Link for details and registry: www.nypl.org/events/progr... @prithik.bsky.social @gabriellebv.bsky.social

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Come celebrate the incredible contributions of our immigrant community right here on campus! Attend "I Stand with Immigrants Day of Action" on the Quad (Flagpole/ WWII Memorial) on Wednesday, October 15 at 12:15PM. ➡️Learn more: www.qc.cuny.edu/immi

Prep tables for the Yom Kippur All-Faith Atonement Vigil Rally for Justice & Peace at 26 Federal Plaza with Lab/Shul, @bradlander.bsky.social, @jumaane.bsky.social Williams, Rev. Derrick McQueen, Rev. Chloe Breyer, & many more…signs: “Jews Say No To ICE” “Love the Stranger…” 📣 📣

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

“Annabelle Winograd spent her life dedicated to theater– understanding it, teaching it, and shaping the future of it.” 💔

CUNY @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social is hiring two tenured associate professors in Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies! Review of applications begins October 1. See link for more info. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

CUNY friends (and allies!), please follow the new CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education account. Our mission statement and a link to get involved is here: cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu

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advisory to academic workers from @aaup.org @uam-umd.bsky.social www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

the *tiniest* sliver of the money Meta spent to get a 🤖 to read this man a stir-fry recipe could have funded my university for a year & we would have OVER-performed

“No one can deny the power and size of the AI coalition, an ensemble of Silicon Valley investors, lobbyists, and bought-off politicians; hucksters, carnival barkers, and gravy train chasers; and bosses gleeful at the opportunity to downsize and deskill.” —IT‘S OK TO BE A LUDDITE

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxXh... this is the right moment for this doc

For example, if you are #CUNY or #SUNY affiliated (or anyone interested in defending higher ed in NYC/NYS) #CADHE #MADC @cadhe.bsky.social cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu

the #BenShahn retrospective at the Jewish Museum is fantastic & so is this critique of it. hyperallergic.com/1028907/ben-...

CUNY friends, we're getting organized! The CUNY Alliance for Defending Higher Education is organizing faculty & staff to stand up to attacks and advocate for a CUNY-wide defense compact Follow us @cadhe.bsky.social and sign up on our website to support and stay informed! cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu

Agreed: Morgan Bassichis’s Can I Be Frank? is a smart, compassionate love letter to queer performance histories. Sure, it has some of the flaws of a self-referential one-person show but I promise you’ll be talking about it afterwards…& googling Frank Maya! www.sohoplayhouse.com/see-a-show/m...

Academic collections aren't usually bittersweet, but this one from @uofmpress.bsky.social on age & aging in the #theater is: incomparable scholar Elinor Fuchs (1933-2024) was among its instigators. My interview with the remarkable critic, Bonnie Marranca, is within... press.umich.edu/Books/L/Late...

I was JUST singing the praises of the Segal Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social & now I see they've rolled out a beta version #NYC #theater listings! HOW MANY convos have you had w/friends about the lack of theater listings in this culture capital!? They heard you! www.theaterlistingsnyc.com

Frank Hentschker: can’t stop won’t stop! The Segal Center’s programming is so smart and so good. It’s programming for the kind of theater town I want to live in…

From Arthur Miller's "Are We Interested in Stopping the Killing?" in the NYTimes, 6/8/1969.

I met Ozzie Rodriguez in the La Mama archive when I was a nervous grad student w/ no confidence in my research. He was a kind & generous presence among the filing cabinets: a radical archivist & passionate historian of an institution he helped to build & to preserve.💔 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/t...

Materials "for educators who might find themselves inventing wheels alone while their administrators, trustees, and bosses unrelentingly hype AI and nakedly enthuse the negative consequences for educator labor." 🤖🤖🤖🤖 against-a-i.com #highereducation #pedagogy

Recommend: the heartbreaking & haunting "New Yiddish Songs of Grief, Fury, and Love" - all proceeds go to the musical & therapeutic project, Gaza Birds Singing. lidermitpalestine.bandcamp.com/album/lider-...

The Graduate Center is pleased to announce a new Advanced Certificate in Public Scholarship, which will prepare our students to conduct community-engaged and public-facing scholarship www.gc.cuny.edu/news/new-cer... @cunygcps2.bsky.social @humanitiescuny.bsky.social @prithik.bsky.social

Deal of the day #booksky

Anyone listen to higher ed (policy, news, opinion) podcasts that they'd recommend? #highereducation #universities #podcasts