"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

As an alum and former part-time faculty member, it is heartbreaking to see this happen. Not mentioned here is that the institution has upwards of 80% part-time faculty, which is depressing enough--and a sign that the university has been in bad fiscal health for decades.

And btw Whipple burns every bridge when he walks away unlike access journalists in DC who can never tell the whole story. He then has to start all over again for his next story

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Happy 100th Birthday Dick Van Dyke, and thank you for the joy!

Saddest thing is that Neeson’s late wife Natasha Richardson was a AIDS advocate and AmFAR spokesperson and now he’s palling around w anti-vaxxers and AIDS denialists.

Fantastic piece about one of the all-time great dances

Anyone have favorite or iconic backstage photographs from 1960s/1970s Broadway musicals? Maybe a snapshot from the wings or a dressing room

Streisand's voice is her instrument; Midler's audience is her instrument. She plays on us and we bring her to life, or at least she makes us feel that we do. (1980)

Before the 1919 formation of Chorus Equity Association, "chorus girls" normally rehearsed weeks on end without pay. The union aimed to reduce this to 4 weeks without pay.

Giving the world Dinesh D'Souza and Laura Ingraham is no longer the worst thing Dartmouth has ever done.

The final callbacks for EVITA are chock full of intriguing What Ifs?

The best news!

Came across this gem today. Must've been so frustrating to lose so many parts to Lansbury. And to not get out of your own way...

Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.

Who said this and when?

Dance Magazine October 1971

TRUMP they still have that Phantom of the Opera musical on Broadway MAMDANI it's an immersive theatrical experience now. it's called Masquerade TRUMP that Phantom's a jerk, isn't he

I can’t believe how stupid everything is

Did Roger Sterling write this? It's like a parody of MAD MEN

Not every idea is worth airing. Not every point of view is worth hearing. Not everything that "a lot of people believe" should be credentialed by homepage space. Would the NYT editorial board run "Did Homosexuals Ruin Culture?" or "Did Black People Get Too Big for Their Britches?" I guess we'll see.

someone must revive "August: Osage County" for Laurie Metcalf

Did you know Kander & Ebb wrote their own (unproduced) Eva Peron musical called SANTA TERESA?

brb gagging over the tea Barbara Cook spilled in her memoir

ANYWAY

Plus ça change...."ALTHOUGH aged and infirm, and said to be suffering from a sort of flabby senility, the theatre still can come up, now and again, with a toast of the town." NYT (1957)

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

Song, Stage and Screen 2026 is now accepting proposals!

Ezra Klein’s use of the word “we” sure is, uh, interesting

Angela as Liza Elliott!!! There was seemingly nothing she couldn't do...

Sheer perfection.

Materials "for educators who might find themselves inventing wheels alone while their administrators, trustees, and bosses unrelentingly hype AI and nakedly enthuse the negative consequences for educator labor." 🤖🤖🤖🤖 against-a-i.com #highereducation #pedagogy

“This week, Mellon Leadership Fellow and Nero scholar Lauren Donovan Ginsberg busts the myth of the useless humanist; a falsehood often used to justify cuts to humanities departments and programs today.”

Say it again for those in the back: HUMANITIES USUALLY SUBSIDIZE STEM at most R1s. Yes we have receipts.

for the record, nobody on earth is meaner about artists at work in a given medium than other artists in that same medium. critics *love* going to the theater or reading mystery novels or whatever it is they write about, otherwise they'd do something else

Seems like you have to be a couple IRL to play one on Broadway or the West End these days....

I have yet to hear a single vision for the cool, AI-powered future being promoted that sounds interesting or desirable. The fact that I'm told it's inevitable makes me bonkers. It's like I'm being force-fed a shit sandwich.

I see they’ve chosen UCLA to be their whale. www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/p...?

Thieves get rich and saints get shot.

In a memo to her staff, the New York Times’ culture editor, Sia Michel, reassigned four critics to new roles to “expand” the Times’ cultural coverage “beyond the traditional review.” This is a disservice to readers and art itself, @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social writes.

Glad my graduate alma mater cut 60 degree programs in subjects that require people to think so that they could offer this. Looking forward to living in a world full of Prompt Engineers.

Fuck CBS cowardly cretins

Does anyone still wear a hat?

I’m sad that Dead Outlaw will be closing next weekend. It’s GREAT. Go see it while you can. www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...

“In sadness” Sotomayor

Anyone else noticing that service fees on Broadway tickets are no longer flat? The higher price of your seat, the higher the service fee. Disgusting.

I wish “Real Women Have Curves” had been able to find a Broadway audience. It has such a delicate balance to strike: joy and resilience on one side, fear and trauma on the other. And at a time when onstage stories of immigration and Americanness land so, so viscerally.