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Theater critic. Attorney. She/her. Bylines: NYTimes, The Stage, American Theatre, Village Voice, Variety, Exeunt NYC. #Kdrama fan. 70s liner. 💜 #BTS OT7. #StrayKids. #Ateez. TXT. Biases: Yoongi, Lee Know. 한국어를 배우고 있어요. https://nicoles.journoportfolio.com
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We literally do not need this in any way.

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DO NOT RANK ANDREW CUOMO DO NOT RANK ERIC ADAMS COME ON NYC #uspoli

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what I’m actually, and more materially, going to do is spend a day next week canvassing for a genuinely good candidate to become nyc’s mayor and defeat Cuomo, and what if you came and joined me in doing that www.zohranfornyc.com/volunteer/ev...

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My friend Billy McEntee doing some really great work here for Brooklyn Rail

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If you work at an arts org grappling with the new NEA guidelines, at an entertainment company that’s rolling back diversity initiatives, or have anything else to share on how Trump’s takeover of the arts is affecting you, please reach out: [email protected], or securely on Signal: marinafang.72

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When I saw Liberation someone responded to the whole play with finger snaps. And while contextually, for the subject matter, that was not wholly out of left field. The persistence of it in the face of otherwise silence was...actually distracting. Like Mx Finger Snaps became a character in the room

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I profiled Bill Burr heading into Glengarry Glen Ross. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/t...

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I am already feeling better about the new crop of 2025 #K-dramas. My January wrap-up is not positive but I'd like to think I was just wrapping up the Great Drama Drought of 2024. Look forward to my positivity next month (really liked Study Group). mildlybitter.blogspot.com/2025/02/janu...

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One of the best things about the internet is that when you are reading something on a mobile site it just refreshes over and over again. I love it. I love to scroll back down to find my place and then have it refresh and crash

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I’m standing in the Yondr pouch phone use area at this theater using my phone like a smoker at an airport where they only let you smoke in tiny pods of misery.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Small hazard of wearing masks on mask chains. If you have taken off the mask chain for your hair appointment you will in fact drop the mask on the ground when you get outside the salon and not even realize for blocks. 😷

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Did not enjoy. Though it reminded me how much I loved that play written about how plants are trying to communicate. exeuntnyc.com/reviews/revi...

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These are limited utility alarm clocks which go off once a day at one time and one time only. 5pm. Their perceived dinner time.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

My brain did not have enough caffeine this morning to process this email subject line. It's All Too Much: Comedy about Email.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

The ticket scanner at this theater is sending everyone to the opposite door that they need to go to. And it is a very specific kind of chaos.

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The opening of Taemin’s concert is like watching Hamlet be danced. It’s a real performance mountain that just keeps escalating. And it’s packed full of all sorts of emotions and he makes it look easy.

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It is happening tonight. Taemin. Live. In front of my face.

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Has anyone written a good play about the Japanese American activist battles of the 1940s? This was not it. But it made me long for that other play. exeuntnyc.com/reviews/revi...

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Do I know anyone who needs 1 ticket to Stray Kids LA? I am going to sell mine (100 level at SoFi) because my friend had an extra.

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You must be registered as a Dem to vote in the Dem primary. If you want a say in who our next mayor will be ya gotta vote in the Dem primary! So if you’re registered with WFP or Indie, switch it up by Friday! (Gross, I know! But thems the breaks!)

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When U.S. customs officials denied that Wong Kim Ark was a citizen in 1895, he took his case to the Supreme Court and won. Today, that decision is the focus of debate over who can be an American.

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The NEA's new arts grants guidelines prioritize art celebrating next year's U.S. semiquincentennial, though not to the exclusion of other applicants. The bigger issue: All applicants must comply with President Trump's anti-DEI and anti-trans executive orders. www.americantheatre.org/2025/02/10/n...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

After more than 10 years of reviewing theater I just showed up to review a show at 7:30pm thinking the show started at 7:30pm. Had 7:30 in my calendar the whole time. Show started at 7pm. Killing myself. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Love to be stuck on a 7 train that has stopped mid-route because of subway surfers.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Donated. Help out if you can.

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Actors acting as actors learning about acting. The permutations are dizzying. exeuntnyc.com/reviews/revi...

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Does anyone know if Paul Williams ( #Taskmaster AoNZ) is doing any shows while he is apparently here in NYC…

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A little gentle something to break up the scroll-of-psychotic-cruelty . . .

submitted 34 days ago • 25 comments

holding onto this extremely good news rn. use bookshop.org to buy your ebooks AND support your local indie!

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

Hi all, since many abusers and their supporters have made their way ti bluesky i am reupping this. Dm me if you have additions! Pls share! bsky.app/profile/did:...

submitted 34 days ago • 14 comments

In honor of Taemin coming to NY next month.

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Made a very short list of translators who are on here, hope more join although I realise it’s difficult to cross post especially for live translations bsky.app/profile/did:...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

It was not easy and took a village to get 1 of the 2 Brooklyn shows. So now the resale games begin for the other day.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

The great Jules Feiffer, cartoonist, playwright, social observer, and screenwriter of Carnal Knowledge, has passed away at 95. He died three days before the start of Trump II, with the same impeccable sense of the moment that characterized his work for decades. RIP.

submitted 41 days ago • 20 comments

I didn’t know Helen Park was working on an adaption of Itaewon Class as a musical to premiere this summer in Tokyo! K-drama and musical fans take note!

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David Lynch was key to my understanding that artist-viewer dynamic where you don’t necessarily know what you’re looking at, but you feel confident the person who made it really does which makes you feel safe to just go with it. Led me onto a comfort with Beckett and whole strange worlds besides. RIP

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Dancing in the streets* *my apartment

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