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Helen Shaw

@helen_e_shaw

Writing about theater for the New Yorker.
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Gavin Creel, a 48-year-old musical theater performer who won a Tony Award for his work in “Hello, Dolly!”, died this morning from an aggressive form of cancer. nytimes.com/2024/09/30/the… via @NYTimes

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David Henry Hwang’s “interweaving of fact and invention feels audacious and fresh: he draws from the record while also sneaking in plenty of fictional mayhem.” Read Helen Shaw’s review of the playwright’s postmodern comedy. nyer.cm/qNQf17I

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"Vile Isle" by Justin Halle at The Tank is superb. Actors are 🤯 (see Sam Gonzalez before superstardom finds him); Spencer Whale's prod. is scrappy & stunning. Goofy but also deeply moral: the horny queer apocalypse-slash-reflection on Rosh Hashanah you didn't know you needed

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David Henry Hwang’s “interweaving of fact and invention feels audacious and fresh: he draws from the record while also sneaking in plenty of fictional mayhem.” Read Helen Shaw’s review of the playwright’s postmodern comedy. nyer.cm/6pejrZd

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Oh god. This is disastrous. That isn’t an overstatement. So sad. Will we feel it directly in NYC? No. But is that the point? No.

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I (or rather helenshaw) is off to bluer climates; please come talk about theater there! Here's a long-ago video of a cat to remind us of when the internet seemed to give us more good things: youtu.be/KIePsbJSS04?fe…