Everyone in this uptown A is seething because they just saw a Broadway show
(that wasn’t Stereophonic, Mary Jane, or Enemy of the People)

Watching Outsiders I wanna see a really kickass revival of Spring Awakening. And a filthy musical adaptation of Bottoms

Ok preshow of Outsiders and some punk is sitting on a tire scribbling in a notebook. Does he think this is The Notebook? Or Illinoise?!

Not what I expected this afternoon: Nathan Lee Graham channeling Dame Edith Evans. Orlando Signature Theatre is a candy box of sweet and sour delights, some historical, some linguistic, some purely cerebral, others below the belt

From our perspective as the magazine primarily for and about the nation's nonprofit theatres, yesterday's Tony nominations were notable for how prominently the nonprofit sector was represented. Not only did all the Best Musical nominees run first at nonprofits, but 1/4

After fourteen and a half hours, emerged from Cabaret thinking that England’s main contribution to musical theater is not knowing how a fucking musical works.

'Don’t misunderstand me: The Great Gatsby is not a smart, tasteful musical that can’t compete with tackier ones. It simply fails to be tacky enough.' It seems I arrived at the end of the party. observer.com/2024/04/review…

bummed that Jay O Sanders didn't get a nom for Purlie; he and Maryann could have worn matching glitter rompers to the ceremony

zero nominations for best rain? smdh

Playwrights Horizons continues to feed my soul with one beguiling play after another. New Observer review observer.com/2024/04/review…

Anatomy of a Fall is if they killed Jack Torrance in the first 10 minutes

Teeth and Dead Outlaw: Off Broadway musicals I saw recently that felt like Fringe Fest transfers w/ enhanced budgets. Both for niche audiences, somewhat transgressive, with plusses and minuses that went w/ unconventional structure & tone. Meaning, both refreshing and retro.

this spring Broadway is all about the plays: Mary Jane, Enemy of the People, Stereophonic and Appropriate (thru 6/23). They're keeping me sane

Three tickets to Challengers, please

I can’t explain

Intermission at a Broadway musical is always a good time to reflect grimly on one’s life decisions

Heading out to the Broadway Theatre soon… Great White Way’s most cursed venue?

New #Wordle sentence:

For its intro, the Jolly Rover fired a laser cannon, and the overt provocation did raise our fighting spirit; suddenly lucid, we took to arms.

4/25: INTRO
4/24: OVERT
4/23: ROVER
4/22: LASER
4/21: JOLLY
4/20: LUCID
4/19: RAISE

Hey world, stop giving me reasons to be giddy I never spawned

in which I (somewhat annoyingly) wish that Heidi Schreck had made it Aunt Vanya. New Observer review observer.com/2024/04/review…