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after every game wemby drinks a twee, little corked glass bottle and turns tiny again

no, this is not accurate. you can only be a real New Yorker if you run away from home with your younger brother and hide in the Metropolitan Museum of Art until a wealthy eccentric invites you to look through her files to investigate the origin of an artwork she donated

This would be a fantastic innovation with national impact on theater, and all it would take to make it happen is some institutional will and planning, and probably one deep-pocketed donor who loves the art form. playbill.com/article/alde...

I really enjoy EB White's take on New York and New Yorkers.

Employers use H-1b visas to bring in highly skilled workers from overseas. Applications for the visas generally costed $2,000-5,000 Then Trump raised the price to $100,000. Of course, that increase would be passed on to consumers But the judge nullified it-finding the new fee constitutes a tax

the "taylor swift" wikipedia article turns 20 years old today! here's how it looked when it was first created

So now that “The Lost Boys” broke the vampire-musical curse, we’re going to get a “Sinners” musical in like 10 or 15 years, right?

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

Congratulations to “Schmigadoon,” in its honor I made Corn Puddin’ (well, polenta) for the first time in a while

rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead to their conservative families but running a lovely antique shop in vermont

I was just looking at Joshua Henry's Wikipedia page, and evidently his younger sons, Leo & Max, are twins. Is… is he a really big fan of "The Producers"??

André de Shields bio in the Jellicle Ball playbill is everything.

a song where Mormons sing about Jesus is too close to today's Bluesky Discourse for me, I'm getting a glass of wine and more snacks

at first I wondered why 'The Lost Boys' had to make up a fictitious California beach-boardwalk town called Santa Carla instead of just setting it in Santa Cruz, and then I realized that vampires obviously can't live in a town named after *the holy cross*

Tom Stoppard getting the final place of honor in the In Memoriam tribute, as he should

Lesley Manville: "would someone like to write a play for 5 women?" Me, shouting at the TV: "Get Bess Wohl to do it!!"

Ali Louis Bourzgui’s acceptance speech… an all-timer.

BESS WOHL FIRST WOMAN TO WIN FOR BEST PLAY SINCE 2009!!!

About 10 years ago I had the thought "CATS is a weirder show than anyone gives it credit for, someone is going to do a reimagined high-concept revival of it someday & win all the awards" I didn't know what form the reinvention would take but I'm so happy it's "The Jellicle Ball"! 🏳️‍🌈😽👯

June 7, 1926: Graduates of Vassar College in New York form a daisy chain, a commencement tradition at the all-female school.

So many people winning their third Tony tonight (Lithgow, Metcalf, Mantello) — kind of wish we could spread the wealth & crown some fresh faces, you know?

the opening of "Ragtime" is SO thrilling and I'm still mad that in 1999 I arrived late to the theater & had to watch it on a screen in the lobby (I was in NYC as part of a children's choir, we took too long at dinner, and no one listened to 11-year-old me freaking out about being late to the show)

Let Cole Escola host the Tonys.

Okay here is my one piece of shade re Lithgow. I don’t understand how you can play Roald Dahl in a play about how a beloved children’s author’s soul was poisoned by hatred of an oppressed minority and then turn around and cash checks playing fucking Dumbledore.

HAHAHAHA SHE DID IT RAMAN GOES TO THE RUN OFF AGAINST BASS

this happened on my recent business trip and I thought it might make a good comedy sketch: riding in an Uber w/ opposite-gender co-workers, where the driver is playing an R&B song with really raunchy lyrics it would be awkward & prudish to call attention to it but it's also awkward to sit & listen!

OK Apple TV, can we get Schmigadoon season 3 now?

The answer to both questions is Oh Brother Where Art Thou came out in 2001

Also the vote counts are not a race. The race is over. People are just counting now. Whoever won has *already* won. It’s like when a distant star explodes but the light hasn’t gotten to Earth yet.

The Secret History

there should be a thing where you can nominate someone deserving to knock one of the letters off

Exposé: Platner kept talking about how rape is about power Me: It’s weird he kept talking about it but he’s not necessarily wrong I guess Exposé: He also fantasized about raping burglars Me: …ah Exposé: But definitely not in a gay way. He was very clear on that. Me: yeah…he would be wouldn’t he

anyway that’s enough of Maine, here’s some good news: Tom Steyer hit his benchmarks to pass Hilton in the latest California drop

SFUSD: we are adding five extra days after graduation, for which all teachers are required to provide meaningful instruction The meaningful instruction:

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

- Have all the planks of your ship been replaced? - Did you replace the planks with the same material(s) as before? - Do any of the original planks remain? - Did you or anyone else build a ship out of the old planks?

tfw your experience of public transit in Raleigh (FREE, clean, spacious bus operated by the university, every 15 minutes between the hotel & the office park) is better than your median experience of public transit in San Francisco

My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.

Summing up my liberal/leftie friends' reactions to the Pattie Gonia vs. Patagonia thing People without law experience: 🤬🤬🤬 People with law experience: 😬😬😬

The first batch of results in #CA11, Pelosi's district, shows a very large lead for Scott Wiener over Connie Chan, 43% to 28%, and then Saikat Chakrabarti at 14%. (Remember this is a Top 2 primary, not a regular Dem primary, so the top 2 are moving to November.)

Waiting for California election results in a hotel lounge in North Carolina. The last time I was on the East Coast for an election was the ‘06 midterms!

posts calibrated to make me, specifically, snort-laugh

Album cover for a scary seeming band your older sibling listens to and then you finally play the album one day and it’s just ska

Writers and readers and even editors have so many misunderstandings about how book prizes work. I’m not going to give anyone a stroke by revealing secrets of the judging room, BUT I want to tell you a whole lot of stuff that you probably don’t know 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/rebeccam...

Jun 2nd - Tracy Turnblad has a chance at winning The Corny Collins Show "Miss Teenage Hairspray" competition. 📽️📅 Hairspray (2007)

One of the smaller antiquities in the #BrooklynMuseum is this ancient #Egyptian soft-shelled turtle amulet, made of amethyst. The spots are inlaid semi-precious stones: turquoise, red jasper, and lapis lazuli. Buried with the dead as a protective charm, it also represented rebirth. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

“I will always have a special place in my heart for Monroe, after a disastrous audition, swanning out of the ladies, shall we say, lounge and murmuring, when George Sanders asks how she feels, ‘Like I just swam the English Channel.’“ Some thoughts on Marilyn at 100: open.substack.com/pub/selfstyl...

No Strait This Month, Happy Pride