"Simon's Stone ORESTEIA in London with Mary-Louise Parker is running 4 hours & 40 minutes long"

realizing a full-grown teenager in this WALK ON THE MOON musical was one of the lil kids in FUN HOME has f’ed me up

HELL YEAH RELEASE THE BUFFALO stannswarehouse.org/show/return-...

Coughing child replaces hydrogen bomb-ass switch up

A strong season, but FEW GOOD MEN over a new play speaks to depressing Broadway realities. New plays are just not filling those houses, and ADs are scared to program them. www.lct.org/shows/26-27-...

The Bushwick Starr is doing Toshiki Okada’s “The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise” next spring, and that’s good news for all of us.

Todd Almond’s I’M ALMOST THERE, a show BAM is doing their best to keep secret, is just excellent. Bizarre, moving and so wondrous. Runs thru next Sunday!

love a surprise Sharon Washington popping up in LA CAGE at Encores! (and outclassing her shoddy surroundings)

ya couldn’t give today’s Bway audiences the production value of Mantello’s LAST SHIP. 4Loko for a Victorian child type shit

*me every evening until october* it’s a beautiful night to carry a cake across New York

Andre Bishop booking the spring 2014 show at the Beaumont

poor Two Strangers…score was their only shot (a faint one I’ll grant). Deserved a sympathy win

hearing the Tonys will open w. Pink flying SALESMAN car over Radio City like a magic carpet, Nathan Lane at the wheel

The show in New York right now that I’m recommending the most is not on Broadway; it’s actually Morgan Bassichis’s “Can I Be Frank?”… I tried to think about how it works www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/t...

Spent the last few months in the basement of Adult Film, a teeming DIY laboratory (or just a Wild West) of productions, acting investigation and new work. For The Brooklyn Rail: brooklynrail.org/2026/06/thea...

a great interview www.vulture.com/article/gina...

news to me: Jenny Koons is directing WARRIORS! As a big fan of hers/a Kail hater, very excited to hear open.substack.com/pub/broadway...

Lea snub the right call - she’s the weakest up there, Pitts and Hsu giving actual performances

The ‘Weapons’ actor is giving the stage performance of the season in the blistering comedy ‘Becky Shaw.’

SCOTUS is telling us that there's no choice left but to pack the court. Congress can pass whatever laws they want to, but the Gang of Six will veto them if they think it'll help Republicans cling to power.

we're so back. we've never been more back

My profile of Laurie Metcalf is in this week's New Yorker. We talked about Steppenwolf, "Roseanne," and her tremendous performance in "Death of a Salesman"—as well as her partnership with the once-cancelled producer Scott Rudin and her role in his Broadway comeback. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

no more skipping the bows - you could miss Willy Loman's ghost telling dead PROOF dad he's "putting together a team"

Spoke to the team behind LOST BOYS about the allure of vampire life—in this high-flying rock musical, eternal youth has never looked so good www.tdf.org/on-stage/tdf...

my niece just asked me why i “always bring iced coffee to her house”

spring glut is in full swing but this is an immense piece of theater criticism www.vulture.com/article/thea...

ya know, Ionesco predicted all of this www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Drama League will nominate anything. unless ur name is Sam Tutty/June Squibb in which case eat DIRT

Episode 3 of my new theater podcast is live! We talked NO SINGING IN THE NAVY at Playwrights Horizons, and THE ADDING MACHINE at The New Group. Guest is the lovely Joe Weinberg podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The Broadway theaters that have staff out front shouting orders at the arriving audience members, though most of them have done nothing wrong — do they not know that people really, really don’t like being yelled at and/or treated like cattle? There is a better way.

theater was stifling hot for Wallace Shawn doin THE FEVER…possibly a prank to see if we immediately complain about not being comfy

shot: Zoe Winters in the new Jonathan Spector about a Birthright group reunion chaser:

Hugo is so lovely. I'm so pleased Pony Cam has achieved this kind of success after years of creating stuff on Melbourne's indie scene.

Jack Holden just beat out Cranston, Hiddleston & Sean Hayes for the Best Actor Olivier - wild. His show KENREX starts this week off-Bway, and I spoke to him for Theatrely www.theatrely.com/post/kenrex-...

"Sometimes a cat has a MetroCard" - Helen Shaw, speaking the facts tonight

It’s true! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

hell yeah deadline.com/2026/04/lin-...

i'll be first in line for the HAPPY FEET musical. i'm not gonna lie

Read on, if only to find out why I have Chip Zien on the record saying "So what, ya know? He looks at the dicks!"

is encores listening

Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie is beautiful, I wish Toronto was real

in the netherworld of New World Stages the bartender might yell “WE GOT DOUBLE BUBBLE!!” for no apparent reason

The Kennedy Center’s roles as an incubator of new work for young audiences, and as a generous host for the American College Theater Festival, will be hard to fill, writes Daniella Ignacio.

forks found in kitchen!!

HiGH SPIRITS at Encores! opening with a surprise (to me) Campbell Scott…truly the best kind of surprise

new Wallace Shawn play is 3 hours long w. 2 intermissions

a legend, tho i only knew of him as a crotchety fellow myself. Nice remembrance from Cara Joy David www.broadwayworld.com/article/Vete...

the Obies dropping a GOATed as hell list on a random Saturday night …literally no-one doing it like them www.obieawards.com/events/2020s...

A quiet that roars: Lesley Manville and Robert Icke took me through the creation of a monologue in Icke's "Oedipus" that elicits the most thrilling sound to be heard in a theater: that of an electrified silence. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/t...

My roundup of January festival fun - featuring musical dreamscapes, suicide-themed chatrooms, elaborate Rube Goldberg machines & massive inflatable sharks www.theatrely.com/post/a-janua...