‘They come right past the house’: learning to live with rhinos as numbers soar in Nepal The country is seeing an increase in human-wildlife conflict as the number of megafauna, including rhinos and tigers, grows. But there are efforts to tackle the problem around Chitwan national park th...

ya know, Ionesco predicted all of this www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Drama League will nominate anything. unless ur name is Sam Tutty/June Squibb in which case eat DIRT

Theater We Saw: No Singing in The Navy & The Adding Machine Podcast Episode · House Closed: Theater We Saw · April 18 · 55m

Episode 3 of my new theater podcast is live! We talked NO SINGING IN THE NAVY at Playwrights Horizons, and THE ADDING MACHINE at The New Group. Guest is the lovely Joe Weinberg podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The Broadway theaters that have staff out front shouting orders at the arriving audience members, though most of them have done nothing wrong — do they not know that people really, really don’t like being yelled at and/or treated like cattle? There is a better way.

theater was stifling hot for Wallace Shawn doin THE FEVER…possibly a prank to see if we immediately complain about not being comfy

shot: Zoe Winters in the new Jonathan Spector about a Birthright group reunion

chaser:

Hugo is so lovely. I'm so pleased Pony Cam has achieved this kind of success after years of creating stuff on Melbourne's indie scene.

Hugo Williams Wants BURNOUT PARADISE To Run — But with its Edge Intact Over a 65-minute running time, four tireless performers fulfill a series of escalating tasks while continuously running on treadmills — including Hugo Williams.

and lastly - really loved my conversation with Hugo Williams, of BURNOUT PARADISE, about retaining the show's edge as it settles in for a commerical run www.theatrely.com/post/hugo-wi...

Review: Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros Is Too Capitulating at Yale Rep - TheaterMania.com Liz Diamond directs Reg Rogers and Philip Taratula in this timely absurdist farce.

a couple reviews for TheaterMania: FANNY, A FANTASY IN G, about the life & work of Felix Mendelssohn's forgotten older sister: www.theatermania.com/news/review-...

and RHINOCEROS, at Yale Rep, led by Reg Rogers: www.theatermania.com/news/review-...

Falling Out of Love With the Bengsons Plus: Cooking a Steak at The Brick; and, My New Podcast!

Substack thoughts on falling out of love with married singer-songwriter duo The Bengsons: joeysims.substack.com/p/falling-ou...

How Audience Participation Takes Center Stage in New York's Most Interactive Shows I entered my mini-tour of New York’s interactive theater offerings intending, fully planning, to join in as much as possible. On that front, I was about one-third successful.

some other recent writing by me: a tour of NYC theater's interactive offerings, for Broadway World: www.broadwayworld.com/article/Get-...

KENREX Unfolds Like a True Crime Podcast Onstage, and Jack Holden is At the Center Theatrely sat down with Holden, who also co-wrote the show alongside director Ed Stambollouian, to discuss vigilante justice, portraying 35 characters and putting a true crime podcast on stage.

Jack Holden just beat out Cranston, Hiddleston & Sean Hayes for the Best Actor Olivier - wild. His show KENREX starts this week off-Bway, and I spoke to him for Theatrely www.theatrely.com/post/kenrex-...

Okay fair. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are that mean tho

girl it will receive zero nominations

"Sometimes a cat has a MetroCard" - Helen Shaw, speaking the facts tonight

It’s true! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Took a class with Verlyn in college. The best. Made me question/interrogate every single word.

Lin-Manuel Miranda To Direct Film Adaptation Of Musical 'Octet' Lin-Manuel Miranda will direct a film adaptation of playwright-composer Dave Malloy's Octet, a critically acclaimed musical that debuted Off Broadway in 2019.

hell yeah deadline.com/2026/04/lin-...

i'll be first in line for the HAPPY FEET musical. i'm not gonna lie

Noah Galvin and Chip Zien, Two Jews in a Room Kibbitzing About The Reservoir - TheaterMania.com Jake Brasch’s new dark comedy has its off-Broadway premiere at the Atlantic.

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 don’t i

i know it’s something to do with GAZILLION BUBBLE SHOW to be clear but i still don’t know what’s going on

in the netherworld of New World Stages the bartender might yell “WE GOT DOUBLE BUBBLE!!” for no apparent reason

What’s Left Standing of Kennedy Center Education and TYA? The Center’s 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.

The Kennedy Center’s 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 Scott…truly the best kind of surprise

new Wallace Shawn play is 3 hours long w. 2 intermissions

Veteran Theatre Journalist Harry Haun Has Died At 85 Veteran journalist Harry Haun, who covered theater for more than 50 years, passed away on February 2. He had been admitted to the ICU last week with congestive heart failure. He was 85 and is survived...

a legend, tho i only knew of him as a crotchety fellow myself. Nice remembrance from Cara Joy David www.broadwayworld.com/article/Vete...