As I was saying…

Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."

Anybody else looking at the clock thinking “i still have enough time to get outta here and call it the rapture”

Jimmy Kimmel, thanks dude.

Oh you said rupture I thought you said rapture

Ok I’m pro rapture

bUt WhAT aBoUt tHe RaTIngS?!?

In that case this is really great information for other media orgs to know. It was empty, just like the suit that said it.

Wildly untrue. Be real.

I learned an important lesson today about wearing white pants as a man nearing 40.

I just realized I can’t tell Nate Bargatze and Shane Gillis apart from one another and it literally doesn’t matter. #emmys

We are just so spoiled with talent this year.

Chappell Roan somewhere wearing a red hat and rage-eating green body paint with her fingers out of the jar. #VMAs

Jessica Simpson walks out and I remember all my friends’ kids start kindergarten this week. #VMAs

Giving a shoutout to whoever thought “the paper should be black too” for Gaga’s speech. That was the biggest win tonight. #VMAs

If you can’t think of a Frankie Grande in your family then you are the Frankie Grande in your family. #VMAs

Chappell Roan somewhere wearing a red hat and pulling out a barbie’s hair. #VMAs

Alex Warren bringing me back to that one time in 8th grade when I went to a mega-church with my friend that lived two houses away, and then we kinda just stopped being friends after that. #VMAs

More like Tate McR-AI, amirite?

Freakier Friday is such a gift to millennials.

Me (horrified): “You went onstage with eight broken toes?!” Joey: “I had to! It was Bye Bye Birdie!”

LDK Productions has announced the LDK Writers’ Residency at CAM Studios for Playwrights and Composers, a new initiative that will develop original plays and musicals with 3 annual residencies. 

Maybe “did it happen yet” was the friends we made along the way?

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

What’s the over/under that he’s so mad at Putin tonight that he send troops into Brighton Beach?

His base is just cool with this? Just a bizarro day, woulda been unimaginable when I was a teenager.

An occasional byproduct of this administration’s offense playbook in both terms has been giving a national spotlight to a new cohort of leaders on the left who they can’t break, and oho, oh boy, I think the country is really hungry to meet someone like Tish James.

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What’s the name of that thing where you avoid the early singles after the full album comes out? Like I’m binge-listening to the album, but for sure skipping the pre-release singles every time.

Thought you’d never ask

For someone who reacts so ferociously and outrageously to any critique, whether real or implied, you’d think there’d be some attempt to address the whole orange thing. It’s just Fragile McFuckface about weight, IQ, polls, crowd size… but never says a word about looking like a traffic cone?

Conspiracies surfacing left and right!! As the truth comes to light, I have a question: Why on earth does the TODAY show give this much airtime to Sharks? I’ve noticed this for YEARS… in fact, every single thing I know about Sharks, I learned from the TODAY show. Who is behind the Shark Lobby???

These files might be the thing that does it.

Theme of the week: Forced Errors

When they start doing this, I wonder what it would take for him to admit he helped steal the election just so he could say it’s illegitimate.

The front half of the new Lorde album is really something.

I wrote to Senator Gillibrand today demanding an apology to New Yorkers for unnecessarily stoking fear and division. This is a failure of leadership for her party and her state. You should too — sounds like her staff is drowning in these and rightly so. www.gillibrand.senate.gov/contact/

I dunno, I just kinda thought that having so many a-grade liars at the peak of this admin would mean at least one would be like… menacingly compelling, or cool under pressure, or scarily quiet and hard to read, or just a good liar. Instead, these people just can’t stop telling on themselves.

My start-of-summer #1 replay.

This one hurts bad. I loved her deeply. Truly.

I lost my funding so this guy could have a party nobody came to.

Ugh, tough year for pop music. Yawn.

me: bro, we gotta turn around bro: forget something at home? me: yeah, I forgot to tell my dog I love him with all my heart & soul

if we want to save Bluesky, we're all gonna have to come together and PUT ON A MUSICAL

Devastating dr appt this morning. Tests all came back positive for Jonas Brother Facial Blindness.

Fave pastime lately is watching my dog kinda lose it over the crunchy-but-soft experience of a waffle fry.

It’s a half-hour sitcom and it’s a mid-30s nonprofit director in the big city that runs a submission program but it’s the Vatican and it’s the Papacy and it’s the first year they got more than 500 submissions and we’re gonna call it “Smoke & Mirrors”

Emily from Ars Nova shared how a NAMT grant helped cover childcare for The Lucky Ones’ creators. 🎭👶 Artists are whole people — and supporting new musicals means supporting their full lives, too.

NAMT Spring Conference just kicked off in Birmingham! Great convos already brewing with NAMT members, sponsors and partners — all here to explore how we tell our stories smarter, louder and with heart. Big thanks to Red Mountain Theatre for the big welcome. More updates coming soon — stay tuned!

My parents had this for the DVD/Playstation prequel called the Philips CD-i and the opening sequence of this game scared the bejesus out of me. A couple years ago I tried to watch a YouTube playthrough and couldn’t do it.