Read on, if only to find out why I have Chip Zien on the record saying "So what, ya know? He looks at the dicks!"
Read on, if only to find out why I have Chip Zien on the record saying "So what, ya know? He looks at the dicks!"
is encores listening
Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie is beautiful, I wish Toronto was real
i need to see GAZILLION BUBBLE SHOW donβt i
i know itβs something to do with GAZILLION BUBBLE SHOW to be clear but i still donβt know whatβs going on
in the netherworld of New World Stages the bartender might yell βWE GOT DOUBLE BUBBLE!!β for no apparent reason
The Kennedy Centerβs roles as an incubator of new work for young audiences, and as a generous host for the American College Theater Festival, will be hard to fill, writes Daniella Ignacio.
forks found in kitchen!!
HiGH SPIRITS at Encores! opening with a surprise (to me) Campbell Scottβ¦truly the best kind of surprise
new Wallace Shawn play is 3 hours long w. 2 intermissions
a legend, tho i only knew of him as a crotchety fellow myself. Nice remembrance from Cara Joy David www.broadwayworld.com/article/Vete...
the Obies dropping a GOATed as hell list on a random Saturday night β¦literally no-one doing it like them www.obieawards.com/events/2020s...
A quiet that roars: Lesley Manville and Robert Icke took me through the creation of a monologue in Icke's "Oedipus" that elicits the most thrilling sound to be heard in a theater: that of an electrified silence.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/t...
My roundup of January festival fun - featuring musical dreamscapes, suicide-themed chatrooms, elaborate Rube Goldberg machines & massive inflatable sharks www.theatrely.com/post/a-janua...
Lot of OPEN anger from Bway actors today about shows going on. Fascinating to observe. Complaining out loud was inconceivable pre-Covid.
Chatted with off-off mainstay Pete Simpson about a weird & packed 2025βhis first not structured around a Blue Man day job since 1996 www.readthehat.com/articles/pet...
Sadly yes
not great
get me to Godβs country
Protesters in winter coats lined up in front of agents in heavy tactical uniforms that say POLICE. The agents wear helmets and face coverings. A headline reads: "The People of Minneapolis vs. ICE". Photo by Todd Heisler/The New York Times
Enraged by the killing of Renee Good and the increased presence of federal agents in Minneapolis, local protesters are going face-to-face with heavily armed agents in a high stakes environment. trib.al/vekqQ69
Excellent piece, whatever you think of MINCEMEAT (Iβm not a fan) - strikes at core of obsessive theater fandom as a comfort, yes, but also something very sad, almost pathetic in its way www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/m...
Check out utrfest.org/under-the-ra... for details on how to claim one today!
"Artists find the glitches." My TDF Stages piece on theater critiquing AI - and, in some cases, utilizing the tech to pick it apart. Is that unwise? www.tdf.org/on-stage/tdf...
new RAGTIME recording is a bummer. Mix is bad; orchestra is underpowered; passion these performers bring on stage is somehow absent.
BIG: this morning, Mayor Mamdani and Under the Radar announced a new initiative to give out 1,500 free festival tickets!
To have someone at City Hall who supports not just theater but non-commercial, often experimental performance blows my mind.
Namir Smallwood is the standout in BUG, a gentler take on early Letts - it's affecting, if tonally messy www.theatrely.com/post/conspir...
i texted @davidlsims.bsky.social, "In many ways, GREENLAND 2: MIGRATION is the movie of the moment" and he immediately silenced notifications
A law enforcement agent used a chemical spray on a protester at the scene of the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman by an ICE officer. A photographer had his eyes flushed after being hit with chemical irritants.
Follow our live coverage: https://wapo.st/4qIfV5S
the fagtasticks
i do love Robert Ickeβs basic ass. βWhat if a huge clock was counting down to the moment Oedipus figures it out?β You know what hell yeah