Blood, Sweat & Queers ed. @itsmargarethall.bsky.social and @jamieisreading.bsky.social Vampirism is inherently queer. Blood, Sweat & Queers opens with a killer foreword by Hall and carries this theme through to the end. #bookreview 🌈📚💙

How did Dead Outlaw pull off one of my favorite Tony performances? Elmer McCurdy stan @itsmargarethall.bsky.social got the deets playbill.com/article/anat...

Rest in Peace Brian Wilson. An artistic genius whose public struggles kickstarted convos about mental health that continue to save lives. I know countless artists who have gotten help specifically because of Brian. Go listen to Pet Sounds, and check in with people you love who may be struggling.

Another Tony Awards ceremony in the books. As always, the hardest yet most rewarding day of the season. Head on over to Playbill to see our continuing coverage, and buy your favorite theatre journalists a drink if you see them in the wild this month. Let the next season begin!

Five Reminders as we head into Tony Sunday 1. You're allowed to care about things; you're also allowed not to care. Apathy is not a virtue, but cognizance is 2. Broadway is, first and foremost, a commercial industry. It isn't an art form. A lot of things will make sense the moment you accept that

Five Reminders as we head into Tony Sunday 1. You're allowed to care about things; you're also allowed not to care. Apathy is not a virtue, but cognizance is 2. Broadway is, first and foremost, a commercial industry. It isn't an art form. A lot of things will make sense the moment you accept that

Ducked into the first show of the next season as I mentally prepare for the Tonys gauntlet tomorrow

I’m thrilled to bits to be a fellow for this year’s National Critics Institute at the O'Neill. Joining this prestigious program is an honor. I love the art of analysis, and I am eager to sharpen my pen with this illustrious group of writers. Now, where is my George Jean Nathan baseball cap?

Julia Knitel's beautiful work in Dead Outlaw resulted in one of my favorite Tony nominations this year. Gorgeous video orchestrated by @itsmargarethall.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpdV...

✨Divorced (Bobby Darin, Just In Time) ✨Murdered (Elmer McCurdy, Dead Outlaw) ✨Died (Floyd Collins, Floyd Collins) ✨Divorced (Louis Armstrong, A Wonderful World) ✨Murdered (Joe Gillis, Sunset Blvd) ✨Survived (Oliver, Maybe Happy Ending)

Today’s matinee

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Spent the better part of this morning lamenting how much I miss my favorite rose garden in Edinburgh. Lo and behold, look at what was waiting on my block when I came home, just waiting to be stooped. It’s a real oil painting in a custom frame. Now to find the wall space…

Man About Town [my eternal love to the fan across the street who yelled “IS THAT TONY NOMINEE ANDREW DURAND?!]

Hannah Moscovitch is one of the most fascinating playwrights working today, and it was a pleasure to get deep in the weeds with her on her play Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, what it means to have Hugh Jackman as her champion, and her television work over on Interview with the Vampire AMC.

Tired of playing a broken game of telephone with your health insurance, doctor, and pharmacy? Turns out calling everyone and merging them into a call where their doublespeak and fabrications are immediately obvious suddenly clears up issues within 10 minutes.

That’s a lede @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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All I have wanted, all day, is a pretzel bun burger w/ cheddar. A simple request. And yet. I can't order out, because the Emmy Burger has a waitlist. I can't make it at home, because every bakery in the city is suddenly out of pretzel buns. At this point, I'm going to have to bake the bun myself.

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I can't believe we have a Pope from Illinois. People from Chicago usually hate the Cardinals.

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Donna Murphy truly was incredible in Wonderful Town.

Sara Holdren and Vinson Cunningham BOTH Pulitzer finalists for Criticism iktr!!!!!!! we celebrate excellent theater critique in this house!!!!!!!

How lucky we are to live at the same time as Audra McDonald.

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Tonight’s bill, a necessary return

I love Dead Outlaw. I love theatre driven by true passion, rather than theatre-for-profit. I love artists who collaborate, rather than compete. I love seeing artists like Andrew Durand revel in their uniqueness, and beloved talents like Thom Sesma get their flowers. I loved this chat. Read more ↓

“Dead Outlaw” is glorious storytelling: odd, funny and tenderhearted, with a beautiful, hard-driving country score. A blissful and total escape from the outside world. They have made the weird art. Go have some fun.

Tonight’s bill, featuring some of the most intense audience lighting I’ve ever experienced on Broadway

Today’s matinee

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If you have older loved ones in your life, please film them. Please. I know it's awkward. I know they prefer to be on the other side of the camera. My GG was the most joyful person I've ever known, and I will never hear his laugh again. That will haunt me for the rest of my life. Please film them.

Thinking about my dear Irish professor, who would draw the blinds so we could listen to Kneecap's earliest releases whenever we finished our lesson early. The image of the gentle and at times doddering Gaeilgeoir rapping along will never leave me. I wish he could've seen how powerful they'd become.

Tonight I went to a 20th anniversary screening of Pride and Prejudice 2005, and wow, what a wonder. Everyone in the packed theatre knew every word. Someone brought their own boiled potatoes. Strangers were clutching each other in their arms. Girlhood is so precious. Just listen to these reactions!

Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

I love Dead Outlaw. I love theatre driven by true passion, rather than theatre-for-profit. I love artists who collaborate, rather than compete. I love seeing artists like Andrew Durand revel in their uniqueness, and beloved talents like Thom Sesma get their flowers. I loved this chat. Read more ↓

I sat down with Emmy winner Sarah Snook and single-minded supernova Kip Williams to discuss their adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, smartphone culture, dysmorphia inducing apps like Facetune and YouCam, and how technology makes live theatre all the more valuable. Give it a read

We have entered one of my favorite New York seasons: Suspicious Spring, where the cold is finally over, but none of us trust that, so everyone’s still wearing layers unzipped. Glimpsing someone’s funky tee under their zip up and jacket thrills me like a repressed Victorian seeing their 1st ankle.

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Glooooooock lobster

It was an honor to speak with Sarah Hyland about her performance as Daisy in The Great Gatsby, and how her work as an advocate for domestic violence victims made her performances as both Daisy and Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors feel like a "calling" to transform her trauma.

It was an honor to speak with Sarah Hyland about her performance as Daisy in The Great Gatsby, and how her work as an advocate for domestic violence victims made her performances as both Daisy and Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors feel like a "calling" to transform her trauma.

Tonight’s bill: first preview!

Tonight’s bill (with the ring securely stashed in my zipped purse)