As Book of Mormon turns 15, it’s pretty fitting that the South Park crew are leading the resistance www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

Not surprising the people who have demonized "diversity, equity, and inclusion" hate theater kids. They hate people who are earnest about their beliefs, who are passionate about self expression, and who don't back down when people call their dreams silly. Under fascism, theater kids are dangerous

The Vanity Fair Susie Wiles piece and photos is the gold standard of what journalists should be doing in the Trump/disinformation era. You can report on terrible people without sane-washing or normalizing their behavior and rhetoric. The old rules around editorializing needs to be thrown away

In the latest Knives Out, we discover Benoit Blanc listens to Cats in the car and can play the opening bars of Phantom of the Opera. First Follies, now Cats, the man really does contain multitudes

First Kumail Nanjiani and now Simu Liu. It’ll be pretty funny if every Marvel superhero eventually does OH MARY! Fighting a drunk Mary Todd is arguably more challenging than Thanos

I'm so happy that Ejae, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami are pulling an Idina Menzel circa 2014 and performing "Golden" everywhere. I will watch all of them and I hope no one mispronounces their name at the Oscars

Bring back John Proctor is the Villain

I talk to Lear deBessonet and Maria Goyanes, the first (!) women to run Lincoln Center Theater about the tough business of producing theatre in this economy.

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Did I overanalyze every frame of the new Merrily We Roll Along pro-shot? Yes, yes I did.

Guillermo Del Toros design for Frankenstein’s monster looks eerily like Ridley Scott’s architects in Prometheus. There’s an opportunity for a crazy, nonsensical crossover here. I would watch.

Struck by how, prior to working on KPOP DEMON HUNTERS, Korean American artists Arden Cho and EJAE had either retired or were working mostly in Korea. American entertainment is continuing to fail its Asian American artists by not giving them enough opportunities www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IGi...

Wild how this year, the Best Musical category at the Tony Awards will be slimmer and less of a nail biter than the Best Play category.

Someone compared Elphaba’s sex cardigan to Grizabella’s outfit in CATS and now I can’t stop laughing.

Whatever your thoughts about Queen of Versailles, it did accomplish a Broadway first: a show tune about a dead lizard.

Pedro Pascal announcing the finalist of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize is even more delightful when you realized he did the Materialists, written by playwright Celine Song. We love an ally playbill.com/article/pedr...

There's a dystopian and unexplored aspect to Wicked where the entire reason the citizens of Oz started subjugating intelligent animals is because they wanted to eat them. Very Soylant green

I wonder what Chess would be like if a female playwright tried her hand at writing the book and made it about Florence, and her discovering her own brilliance after hiding behind two dysfunctional men. And maybe working with the CIA to help free her father

I think the least surprising thing about WICKED: FOR GOOD is it has the flaws and strength of the second act of Wicked. The most surprising thing: Wonderful is now a good number that actually furthers the plot. I break the film down here playbill.com/article/all-...

Life observation: if you think of exercise and eating well as something you’ll need to do your whole life, and not just a short term thing until you hit your goals—you’ll have long term results and you forgive yourself when your skip a workout or overeat. I tell myself as I skip running today

Speaks of how beloved Zohran is by New York that we're proud he made it through, and happy he didn't get arrested by ICE.

“If we are getting dumber, there’s a good chance we made each other that way.” Really interesting article about how social media has exposed us to more noise than ever before, which has crippled our brains. There’s even data!

AI is going to use up all of our power and water, and all because tech bros are upset that no matter how much money they have, they will never have artistic talent. Why couldn’t they just invest in a Broadway show like normal rich people

I asked Tappan Wilder, Thornton Wilder's nephew, what he thought of SEAT OF OUR PANTS, the SKIN OF OUR TEETH musical. Surprisingly, he loved it, which is notable because there's been two previous failed attempts.

At today's matinee of This World of Tomorrow, Tom Hanks' sci-fi romance play, a loveseat got stuck, instead of disappearing via lift. But instead of stopping the show, Tom Hanks just pushed the loveseat off the lift, gestured to stage management, and then continued with the seat. The real deal

Between CHESS, MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, THE BAKER’S WIFE, the past few years have shown that with time and smart revisions, what was once a flop can become a hit. Really a good reminder that nothing is set in stone, especially not art

What I appreciate about Celine Song was her commitment in Past Lives and Materialists to having one of her main characters work in the New York theater scene, and showing how it’s a creative, humble life style. It also made me wish I’d seen her play Endlings, which gets reference in Past Lives

The starry Twelfth Night from Shakespeare in the Park airs tonight on PBS. I talked to Great Performances producer David Horn about his goal to create a library of American Shakespeare performances, Suffs coming to PBS next May, and surviving despite the Trump administration. Anyway, donate to PBS

"Now bear with me here. Okay, this is the kind of stuff I talk about at dinner. So I'm going to drive you nuts." One of the most surreal conversations I've ever had, with Tom Hanks, where he told me about how the Atlantic Ocean was discovered and how he feels being a playwright

Had the most surreal time at QUEEN OF VERSAILLES Saturday night. The real Jackie Siegel was in the room, along with her kids and friends, all dressed in pink. Jeanine Pirro was there too. And Jackie had her Pomeranian on her lap the whole time

At the airport and I am very impressed with professionalism of the TSA agents. Because if I was being forced to work even though I am not getting paid, especially at the crack of dawn, I would hate everybody

Let this sink in. The President of the United States is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

I'm covering all the good plays this week about women. First: Liberation, where playwright Bess Wohl was told it would never see the light of day because there were too many women in it and it was too long. What a fool, the person who said that

Yesterday Dick Cheney died, I saw WICKED: FOR GOOD. Zohran won. All is as it should be. New York, there’s no place like home

Astoria, Queens is really proving why it’s the best neighborhood in NYC. We put out AOC and Zohran, plus Chip Cookies, Brooklyn Bagel, and King of Falafel. Feel free to sample our food and politics, then spread the message to your own neighborhoods

So proud of my fellow New Yorkers who rejected fascism, and reaffirmed our values as a city where we take care of each other and embrace joy instead of hate and division. Cheers to my fellow comrades!

If news outlets going to bother to inform and educate our next generation, they’re going to capitulate themselves out of usefulness and existence.

You can tell we're in a recession. Bath and Body Works 3-wick candles are on sale for $10.95. As a frequent user of of candles, that's the cheapest they've been in YEARS

I’m truly a theater kid because Lily Allen singing about how her ex didn’t support her getting a lead role in a West End play made me go “throw the whole man away.”

I wish more rich people were like Daniel Radcliffe, who only makes headlines when he’s doing weird, esoteric projects and bringing attention to the arts. The rest of the time, he enjoys his life and makes if clear he doesn’t support transphobia.

On a positive note, as someone who also lives in Astoria, I can confirm that Mamdani’s restaurant picks for the neighborhood are legitimately delicious and not basic. I support non Queens folks coming in for food, though please leave so the working class folks in the area don’t get priced out

Disappointed by the amount of Islamophobia and sexual harassment excusing I’m seeing on my feeds from fellow self-professed progressives. Just shows you that the left is not immune from fear mongering, disinformation, and tribalism.

Those who loved JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN or EUREKA DAY should buy a ticket to LIBERATION. If you love great playwriting that is cathartic, speaks deeply to the present moment and our collective unease, but also doesn’t pretend to have answers….support LIBERATION and great storytelling

I’ve been doing a Crazy Ex Girlfriend rewatch. It really was a perfect TV show. Such a miracle it got four seasons. “You Stupid Bitch” is such a classic anthem of self-loathing

I break down the tentative new Actors Equity contract with the Broadway League. The most eye opening parts to me were the stipulations that didn’t make it in playbill.com/article/broa...

Lots of silence from people who complained about the taking down of Confederate statues. Almost like it’s never about “history,” it’s only ever about power and letting the marginalized know who has it, and then panicking when they start to rise up

The craziest thing about the Louvre heist is this isn’t the first time something’s been stolen from the museum. Someone stole the Mona Lisa one time by putting it under his coat abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Ragtime reminds me there’s not enough shows written for baritone voices. There’s an overemphasis on high notes in contemporary musicals; people have forgotten how comforting and powerful low notes can be

Went to No Kings then to the RAGTIME Broadway revival. It sucks to realize that people, then and now, are terrible. But there are good ones too, and we must stand together. For this revival, the last word “dream” is sung quietly instead of full out. A poignant choice; a dream still to be realized.