Wordle today is a real fricking streakbreaker

REVIEW: The Monsters fights a good fight www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...

The shade

Raskin: Based on what you know today, were Renee Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists? Noem: What happened was an absolute tragedy. Raskin: Were they domestic terrorists? Noem: My condolences to their families Raskin: You lied about them.

In strict accord with the traditions that govern the Jewish holiday of Purim, tonight we celebrate the time I went to grade school as Queen Esther

Stephen Miller in 2024:

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

EXCLUSIVE: A first look at Petite Rouge, Company XIV’s latest haut-burlesque fairy tale extravaganza! This one’s a riff on Little Red Riding Hood and there’s plenty in the basket. www.timeout.com/newyork/news...

I’ve always said that Megan Thee Stallion was the Danny Burstein of rap

REVIEW: Writer-director Aya Ogawa delivers a grotesque exploration of maternity in Meat Suit, or the shitshow of motherhood www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...

RIP Sondra Lee, 95, tiny dynamo who originated the roles of Minnie Fay in Hello, Dolly! and Tiger Lily in Peter Pan

Always a kick to do the season preview episodes of Patrick R Pacheco’s Theater: All the Moving Parts. This time I’m flanked by Playbill’s Diep Tran and the NYT’s Jesse Green. youtu.be/ICqY8N3qVVs?...

NEW: Five stars (!) for Alia Shawkat and Peter Friedman in Clare Barton’s extraordinary You Got Older (★★★★★) www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...

REVIEW: Ethan Slater as Marcel Marceau in Marcel on the Train. Mime is money! www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...

Snow day! A perfect time to catch the latest edition of Sitting Ovations, in which composer Laurence O’Keefe and I have a great time unpacking the writing and rewriting of his hit musical Heathers. Lick it up, baby! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy9w...

Powerful, powerful speech by Trump today in response to the Supreme Court

The New York Theatre Sale is on! A good chance to stock up for the weeks ahead www.timeout.com/newyork/news...

Okay there’s a chance I may have a problem with cheese

In Trump America, Kennedys kill you

This evening will be Mourning Noonan Night :(

Randy Fine is an embarrassment to Jews everywhere, to Americans everywhere, to human beings everywhere and, honestly, to dogs everywhere, who are probably like, Jeez, don't drag us into this crap

REVIEW: Kathleen Chalfant and Elizabeth Marvel lead a first-rate cast in Jacob Perkins's look at alcoholism and healing, The Dinosaurs (★★★★) www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...

NEW REVIEW: Sean Hayes goes solo in The Unknown www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...

Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu

REVIEW: Emma D'Arcy is an updated Antigone in The Other Place (★★★) www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...

The Schmigadoon! cast announced today is pretty sweet. Ana Gasteyer! Brad Oscar! McKenzie Kurtz! ANN frickin’ HARADA! www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...

Casting Tonya Pinkins in the Eartha Kitt part in the Encores! revival of The Wild Party is so perfect I want to scream

NEW: Star director Alex Timbers talks about the genesis and realization of Just in Time, his hit Broadway biomusical of Bobby Darin, in the latest episode of my YouTube theater podcast Sitting Ovations. (Listen! Like! Comment! Share! Hype!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZSm...

Vice President JD Vance gets roundly booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics. "Those are a lot of boos for him, whistling jeering," says the presenter. US athletes receive a warm welcome from fans, though.

Moulin Rouge! will close on July 26 after nearly 2,300 performances on Broadway. A very solid run! this show may be costume jewelry, but its shine is dazzling. www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...

This 2,500-word essay is a remarkable exercise in circumlocution that barely mentions the OBVIOUS MAIN FACTOR in younger people's rejection of Harry Potter: what the author dismisses as J.K. Rowling’s "controversial comments on transgender rights," i.e. her ugly and obsessive antitrans crusade

Sad to learn of the death of Harry Haun at 85: an old-school shoe-leather theater reporter whose long tenure at Playbill was an invaluable resource. I worked with him for years on committees and functions, and he was a lovely man. My thoughts are with his husband, Charles Nelson.

Connor Storrie hosting SNL on February 28 gives me a little more faith in the world

Pam Bondi may be a truly awful Attorney General, but in fairness she’s only there because Trump don’t get his first choice, Matt Gaetz

RIP Catherine O’Hara, 71, brilliant and beloved comedic treasure

NEW: A guide to the Off Broadway offerings this spring. A Bigfoot musical! Dueling Antigones! Wallace Shawn! Sean Hayes! Ethan Slater as Marcel Marceau! Buy ahead. www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...

Stop saying that the Jan 13 video of Alex Pretti is AI. It isn’t AI; his family has confirmed as much. Insisting the opposite is counterproductive. But more importantly, it doesn’t matter one way or the other: Kicking a headlight doesn’t justify being murdered ten days later.

The just-announced full cast for the Broadway revival of Rocky Horror is insane and I mean that in a very good way www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...

It is very lucky but very dangerous to live near a fabulous little bakery like L’Appartement 4F in the West Village

It was delightful to spend snow-day Sunday afternoon on a theater critics panel at BroadwayCon! With Helen Shaw, Charles Isherwood and Mo Rocca, who are always good company.

“Never again” is not an observation but a commitment. The lesson of the Holocaust is not that it will never happen again; it’s that we must not allow it to happen again.

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

It’s a frickin’ snowstorm, New Yorkers. You don’t need to raid the meat shelves. You’ll be fine.

Literally 10 days ago, this hypocritical jackass introduced a bill to make concealed carry easier across the nation to help "law-abiding citizens to more freely exercise their Second Amendment rights." www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-re...

To realize now what Trump really is—what he’s really been all along—is embarrassing for many of his past supporters; it makes them feel foolish, because the truth has been so obvious, and guilty, because they’ve unleashed awful things. Those are hard psychic barriers to overcome… (1/2)

DOJ lies. DHS lies. ICE lies. That has been established. Do not repeat their claims as fact. Their claims are arguments or, often, misleading propaganda — when not outright lies. They are seeking to make a case for their lawlessness (and to please Trump), not seeking to inform.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

I will say again what I’ve said before: Allies, such as the Empty Netters guys, are not the enemy. Playing gotcha with them is not a good use of our focus.

NEW: Director Diane Paulus spills secrets of Masquerade, her *incredibly* complex immersive adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera, on the latest episode of my YouTube theater podcast Sitting Ovations www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjRo...

• Scott Bessent and Richard Grenell do not represent me as a gay man • Stephen Miller and Laura Loomer do not represent me as a Jew • JD Vance and Kristi Noem do not represent me as a human being • Donald Trump does not represent me as a sentient living creature of any kind