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.

Today I keep thinking about this lovely and troubling couplet from the musical Suffs: Your ancestors are all the proof that you need That progress is possible, not guaranteed March for the generations to come, but also for the generations before us who fought good fights. Why this quote? >

Corporate media was a mistake.

Wanna learn about Broadway labor contracts? Have I written an explainer for you

"The advice that I've gotten from other theatre artists that have gotten this award was, 'Don't spend it on your art unless you absolutely have to. Spend it on your time.'" I talk to composer Heather Christian (who I've always considered a genius) on winning the MacArthur Genius Grant

I talked to Kristin Chenoweth before the internet kerfuffle. In our interview, she talked about being left-leaning yet wanting to create space for people with opposing ideas to come together: "We have to find a way to meet. Or it will be the end." I think that's noble, and we shouldn't eat our own

The Studio is what I wish the TV show Smash could've been, a painfully accurate but hilarious look and love letter to art making—and why people do it even when it won't make lots of money, and you have to deal with the hell that is other people. It's low stakes but so entertaining

Good journalism is not free. It takes time and effort to pursue a story, talk to sources, and make sure what you're telling is truthful and accurate. The alternative is what you're seeing on TikTok, unverified misinformation and propaganda. If we want journalism, we need to support it

"Our lot in life is not to be on the front lines of a protest. This is our contribution to all that. We’re hoping out of the 300 people that are seeing it every night, somebody is a little bit changed by what they heard." I talked to the creators/performers of Mexodus, the fantastic new musical

The Disney boycott was a great pre-show. I'm ready for the general strike.

I talk to the supremely talented Eisa Davis about her newest show, where she dunks herself in a water tank while asking "Can you be Black and not perform?" playbill.com/article/foll...

-From Reddit- Yep this is the way. I also work in advertising… in fact, for a company that sold software to Sinclair You can also call the Local TV stations ad sales reps and tell them the list of advertisers you’re calling…. Nothing freaks out a Sales Rep more than a pissed off advertiser.

Today's a good day to cancel Amazon Prime, Disney+, and Hulu. And support your local libraries, PBS, NPR, and independent media. You can get subscriptions to legacy newspapers via your library, stream shows on PBS, and get all kinds of free-speech-supporting goodies.

“I was the last remaining Black full-time opinion columnist at the Post …What happened to me is part of a broader purge of Black voices from academia, business, government, and media.” Reminder that it costs nothing to cancel your Amazon Prime accounts

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

When I was young, I didn't understand the myth of Cassandra because to my young brain, if someone was telling you that disaster was coming, the adults would want to change it. I miss being that naive. And of course no one listened to Cassandra, she's a woman.

Well….time to rewatch HACKS. Again

I should’ve known when the new Spike Lee film HIGHEST 2 LOWEST opened with Norm Lewis singing the entirety of “Oh What a Beautiful Mornin’,” it would be a low key campy time. LaChanze plays a detective, Anthony Ramos cameos as himself, and it ends with Denzel and A$AP Rocky in a music video. Chaotic

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

My partner was unintentionally close to the truth. David Bowie and Mick Jagger wanted to play Frank-N-Furter but director Jim Sharman wanted Tim Curry, because he originated the role onstage. Source: the documentary Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror

Being a woman in a relationship with a straight man means having to sometimes say things like “No Freddy Mercury was not in ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.” Would’ve been a great stunt cast though, RIP

Morgan Spector does a Zohran Mamdani ad while channeling his GILDED AGE character, further adding to his “Railroad Daddy” persona. Chef’s kiss, other Democrats should be trolling on the level of the Mamdani campaign youtu.be/x__Cu2MLxEU?...

"It feels like we're fighting fascism." I write about how an anti-DEI law in Oklahoma is causing one of its universities to cancel a theater production, how students are fighting back, and how arts censorship is growing in the U.S. Times like these, small acts of resistance becomes more important

Really disturbing to see all the gleeful reactions to Billy Porter departing Cabaret (due to being hospitalized for sepsis). Social media has been encouraging critiques and pile ons of his performance, many from those who hadn't even seen him. Abhorrent, racist behavior from so-called theater fans

There’s a PHANTOM OF THE OPERA immersive experience, a PHANTOM roller coaster, a PHANTOM anime. But all I want is a PHANTOM foggy boat ride while a tenor belts in my face, is that too much to ask for?

No adaptation has ever truly understood WUTHERING HEIGHTS and I am fine with it. It’s not a love story, it’s about race, class, intergenerational trauma and how to break free of it. In other words, things that are too complex for the typical Hollywood narrative

I’m ready to celebrate like I’m a munchkin in the first 4 minutes of WICKED.

Its very populist but I would not mind it if New York City Center did Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney version), if only so I can hear that score performed by a large choir the way Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz wanted

Too many people I know are sharing AI slop and misinformation without realizing it's AI. The other week, a friend shared a fake story about Paul McCartney visiting Phil Collins in hospice. Collins is not in hospice and the images were AI generated. We need a media literary course for AI

We have now entered the degenerate art phase of the Facist takeover www.npr.org/2025/08/24/n...