I’ll say one thing about Chalamets comments, they’re reminding people of how important it is to support live arts. If you hate AI, support the people who create live experiences: buy tickets, take out a subscription, make a tax deductible donation.
"I crave that kind of authenticity in everything that I want to do." I talk to Daniel Radcliffe and the team at Every Brilliant Thing about enjoying audience participation, and how the play actually starts half an hour before showtime. playbill.com/article/dani...
"The world is such a scary place. And instead of crying alone, I get to just do it on stage, and that feels healthier." I talk to millennial saints Clare Barron and Alia Shawkat about YOU GOT OLDER, the play for us millennials who are shocked to realize we're the adults now
Very good analysis on how “I Lied to You” and “Rocky Road to Dublin” in Sinners work as pieces of musical theatre. I also agree @musicalhell.bsky.social that I would watch the hell out of a Ryan Coogler version of Ragtime. The man knows musicals and intersectionality
Mikhail Shaidorov also skated to Dune in his short program dressed like Timothee Chalamet. And his was just one out of FOUR Dune programs. I appreciate this crop of figure skaters showing off how nerdy they are to the world.
I interviewed all 5(!) departing cast members of Operation Mincemeat. It was chaotic, hilarious and brilliant, like the show. My favorite part: them revealing the key to lasting collaboration is to never fancy each other playbill.com/article/the-...
I need to know Alysa Liu’s mental health practice because at just 20, she’s realized that no job is worth killing yourself and your body for. And the only things worth doing is what brings you joy. There are people who never reach that kind of mental clarity. I would buy her self help book
agree with this (hah) but also think a particular mistake the left made for a long time online, and still makes to an extent, is failing to understand that the person whose mind you may actually change is the one reading the argument you're having, not the one you're arguing with
Daniel Grassl starting off dressed like a cardinal and then ending his Conclave program dressed like the pope, Adam Siao Him Fa revealing the Creation of Adam midway through his skate, Madison Chock's ever-changing red skirt. I like that ice skaters understand that camp is just as important as jumps
A reminder that unlike in other countries, U.S. Olympians do not get paid by the govt to compete. They pay their own way through private donations and sponsorships. So they’ve earned their right to not medal or to have a political opinion. It’s a miracle they are there www.wcnc.com/article/spor...
Knowing this background makes Cizeron getting the gold for his subpar Ice Dance performance all the more enraging. The judges weren't even trying to hide their desire to silence Papadakis.
“We have artists who are dealing with their families disappearing.” I spoke to theatre artists in Minneapolis, who tell me about having to cancel shows, doing events underground to avoid ICE, and performing at protests. Inspiring stuff here
Imagine being so bigoted that you don’t know that the beautiful island of Puerto Rico with its colorful Old San Juan, bioluminescent bay, piña colada is actually part of America. We have all this wonder and beauty and they willingly ignore it because they’re hateful. If you haven’t been, go
Really in-depth explanation from Reddit about the Bad Bunny Halftime Show. My only question: how did they get those sugar fields and house into the stadium so fast? www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQu...
With all of the darkness, it's great to be reminded of the light. Here, it's the fact that 4 female Asian American playwrights are getting produced in New York this winter/spring. Thank you @eileenrivera1.bsky.social
"There is a long history of the public rushing to vilify women without curiosity or compassion for their point of view, not to mention the truth." Update to my reporting from yesterday.
the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades
So sad about this. Naveen deserves better. So do the artists of D.C. and all of us readers. Billionaires are a mistake
So many brands this year releasing Lunar New Year collections, as immigrants (many of them Asian) are being rounded up. Before you buy because “representation,” ask which immigrant charities they support? Have they condemned ICE? Otherwise they’re taking your money while stabbing you in the back
Political persecution. Dad was a South Vietnamese lieutenant during the war, got thrown into a POW camp for 6 years, government would not allow his kids to go to college. So we came in 1990. I was 2. He’s heartbroken by what this country has become
"It comes to the point where I have to use a wheelchair, then I'll just change the title to Watch Me Roll." I talk to the always compelling Anne Gridley about her disability, her Soho Rep show Watch Me Walk, and accepting loss with grace and humor.
Hopefully it stays Korean.
Didn’t know that was going on! I hope someone captures footage.
So psyched that horror musical Sinners got 16 Oscar nominations that it made me want to tell you all about me watching Sinners on a plane where they kept all the blood, Michael B Jordan’s sex scene, lynching references, but removed all the cunnilingus moments. Really sums up the culture
If every Democrat voted NO on funding ICE, it would not have passed the House. But, 7 House Democrats voted to fund Trump's lawless, masked goons, so it passed.
Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his members to vote against ICE funding. Genuinely unforgivable.
Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week.
ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.
the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?
Abolish Ice should be a centrist position
Time to call your reps, especially if they're Democrats, to join the call to Abolish ICE and Defund DHS
Rewatching, while knowing that Don will never change, means the viewers can't do the easy thing and blame the women for not being "good enough" to change him. We need to be reminded that a man's behavior is not a woman's responsibility. And that excessive smoking and drinking ages you
