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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

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One’s rage at the slowness of the A is in inverse proportion to the excellence of the play one just saw.

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New #Wordle sentence. Almost Famous Edition! “The indie rocker was a crook, yet suave; he sucked on a roach as he madly followed the sonic trail of a new hit ditty—nicked from another band.” 2/20: ROACH 2/19: MADLY 2/18: INDIE 2/17: TRAIL 2/16: SUAVE 2/15: CROOK 2/14: DITTY

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A thousand years in the future alien historians are like, “Ah, interesting. The most disgusting and useless earthlings were banished to a zone called The Internet.”

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Old enough to remember when pop stars weren’t theater kids

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Career status:

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My roommate is late on rent

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Whenever a director and actor figure out how to adequately portray Prince Hal in Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 I will personally finance a parade down the Canyon of Heroes. (Hint: I'm the director)

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TIL that Katie Mitchell has an official lewk for her Royal Court promo vids.

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Allegory alert!

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did they get of reader comments on nyt theater reviews? they were the best part....

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This week's #Wordle sentence: Competitive Ballroom Edition! “My rapid rumba on steep heels cut a swath through the crowd and earned us a bonus score: Goody!” 2/13: RUMBA 2/12: RAPID 2/11: SCORE 2/10: GOODY 2/9: BONUS 2/8: STEEP 2/7: SWATH

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Idina Menzel: still defying gravity. The show around her? So wooden. observer.com/2025/02/revi...

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Who’s excited about the future? Billionaires.

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In 20 years the only culture snobs left living will be robots

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One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

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Clowns and puppets and myth-twisters and “theater” makers to Washington: WE’D LIKE OUR SHIT BACK K THX

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Not that it’s going to change anything, but I’d really like playwrights, filmmakers, everyone to start making work that depicts these fuckers as the disgusting crooks they are. Pure grotesque absurdist slanderous satire and bleakest fantasias. Roast the bastards in explicit art

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When you don’t know whether to save for posterity or delete for sanity

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February is the August of winter. They stuck Valentine's Day in the middle of it so we don't all jump lovelorn off the Brooklyn Bridge. Even if we are lovelorn as hell.

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This reads like the opening paragraph of a novel so bleakly dystopian you'd put it down after five pages

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I'm old enough to remember when the paper of record reviewed new theater openings in a timely manner

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Things you should not tell your writer friend: “Yes I got the invitation to your operas, but couldn’t come because they sounded dark and I need to keep light in my life.” “Congratulations on the opera! Here’s a course on writing taught by a friend you’ve never heard of - $795!”

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Made it through this without punning on "flush" or "take the piss," but still committed egregious wordplay offenses. If we used puns in caption, I'd nominate BLADDER TO SUCCESS; observer.com/2025/02/revi...

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Bertolt Brecht, Playwright, Theatre Director, Poet, #BornOnThisDay in 1898, in Augsburg, German Empire

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How super is that dang bowl? Is it oven safe?!

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I make opera. This is the second production this week in NYC. Meltdown. At National Sawdust. That’s all

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Friends! Anyone coming to Meltdown at National Sawdust, note: the L is not running at 8th or 6th Ave’s—get it at Union Square. I found out the hard way.

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I think Mango Jesus won’t be happy until we chop off his head on the steps of Congress. He’s that thirsty for History

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New #Wordle sentence: School Days Edition “This toast is chore and hard as a rivet on my bad tooth,” thought the pupil, who wished he could jump on his bike and pedal to the saucy revue in the next town. 2/6: PUPIL 2/5: PEDAL 2/4: TOOTH 2/3: REVUE 2/2: CHORE 2/1: RIVET 1/31: TOAST

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I'll just say this about opera critics vs. theater critics. In terms of enthusiasm, accuracy, involvement, and judgment, the former make the latter look like goddamn culture heroes.

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"A museum tour/reenactment by bodiless entities surveying half a millennium of human invention, this imaginative yet inert treatise moves, regrettably, like a glitchy CD player stuttering over the same track." New Observer review observer.com/2025/02/revi...

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Watching The Substance finally. It’s like, what if the Room 237 sexy ghost/rotting crone in The Shining got her own movie. Kubrick quotes awkward af

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I mean I would understand if the Dem game plan is literally, nah we’re just gonna wait and see how much he fucks this up and makes you miserable because 51% of you dumb bastards voted for him and now you get to enjoy it

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I’m from New Hampshire, my parents are second gen Québécois, and I’m fairly humble. Don’t hurt me, #Canada

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Okay now it's real Feb 3 & 4 at Rose Theater www.mastervoices.org/events/blind...

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I went to karaoke tonight and a man sang “Rainbow Connection” and did all the muppet voices and it definitely added a few days to the tail end of my life.

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if a Dem were POTUS when this crash happened there'd already be a half dozen conspiracy theories that R's would platform and fundraise on for the next 3 years

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New #Wordle sentence: Animal Husbandry Edition! “Too sunny and cow’s got fever—just shunt her udder with your hand and prove me false; her milk’s too crisp to make a crepe.” 1/30: FALSE 1/29: UDDER 1/28: FEVER 1/27: SHUNT 1/26: SUNNY 1/25: CRISP 1/24: CREPE

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