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Douglas Corzine @douglascorzine.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
And what’s more, Emily Wilson is a fan… (if you’re willing to tolerate an older feature).
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Show and Telemachus: Joseph Medeiros’s Journey Through ‘The Odyssey’
How a versatile actor picked up ancient Greek in his spare time, and soon became the unlikely bearer of an intimate and ancient tale---in its original language.
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Douglas Corzine @douglascorzine.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
“Recently,” says the director Anne Kauffman, “I’m like, you know what I want to do to make money? I want to revive shows that were very popular Off-Broadway and take them into the commercial realm.” Her latest? An A24-backed Off-Broadway revival of Clare Barron’s coming-of-age play YOU GOT OLDER.
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Anne Kauffman Meets Her Past Self in "You Got Older" — The Hat
The director has made a habit of restaging her Off-Broadway work (see: Mary Jane, Marjorie Prime). Now, with Clare Barron’s play at Cherry Lane Theatre, she’s revisiting past choices on a very differe...
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Douglas Corzine @douglascorzine.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Jesse Tyler Ferguson is playing Truman Capote in an intimate revival of the play TRU. For @vanityfair.com, I took him to breakfast at Tiffany’s:
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Truman Capote Finally Has Breakfast at Tiffany’s—via Jesse Tyler Ferguson
The Emmy nominee stars as Capote in the Off Broadway play ‘Tru,’ and was more than happy to talk shop over scrambled eggs with caviar.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/03/2026
Timothée Chalamet Under Fire For Dismissive Comments About Traditional Japanese Puppet Theater Form ‘Bunraku’ theonion.com/timothee-chalamet-unde…
Timothée Chalamet Under Fire For Dismissive Comments About Traditional Japanese Puppet Theater Form ‘Bunraku’
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I am going to turn this into a daily inspiration calendar.
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Douglas Corzine @douglascorzine.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
For the New York Times, I trekked across town in a squall and asked Christiani Pitts to compare her Broadway costars—Sam Tutty and King King.
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They Carry a Cake Onstage, and Share Dumplings Off
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Kevin Daly @kevinddaly.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
I've decided that "The Best of Times" from La Cage Aux Folles is the perfect New Year’s Eve song because it makes you focus not on the past or future but the present (and if it builds correctly, everybody claps along)
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
For World AIDS Day, which is Dec. 1 and which is being ignored by the Trump administration because they dislike the World Health Organization, other countries, science, and queer people, I'm reposting a piece I wrote earlier this year. (They also hate history.) www.vulture.com/article/hiv-...
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The List Keepers
The AIDS crisis shattered Broadway, and the scope of the loss has never been fully accounted for. Some kept their own records.
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Laura Collins-Hughes @collinshughes.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
GUIL: No, no, no … you’ve got it all wrong … you can’t act death. The fact of it is nothing to do with seeing it happen—it’s not gasps and blood and falling about—that isn’t what makes it death. It’s just a man failing to reappear, that’s all—now you see him, now you don’t, that’s the only thing that’s real: here one minute and gone the next and never coming back—an exit, unobtrusive and unannounced, a disappearance gathering weight as it goes on, until, finally, it is heavy with death.
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Emma Sarappo @emmasarappo.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
This holiday season I think you should purchase binoculars for a friend or family member. Someone in my OWN family will be getting binoculars, though I will not reveal who. And I wrote about why in here: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
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The 2025 Atlantic Gift Guide
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Douglas Corzine @douglascorzine.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I wrote about Else Went’s high school epic “Initiative,” now running at the Public Theater—and why the theater’s director of new work development calls it “the definitive play of a generation.”
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In This Show, Four Years of High School Unfold Over Five Hours
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Douglas Corzine @douglascorzine.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The new play Prince Faggot officially reopened Off-Broadway last night. I recently wrote about how the play fits into a broader trend of speculative royal narratives for Town and Country: www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts...
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Why Are Real Royals Inspiring So Much Fiction?
From streaming hits to a buzzy new Off-Broadway play, non-fictional members of royal families are increasingly the main characters of imagined plot lines.
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Douglas Corzine @douglascorzine.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Woolly Mammoth continues to program ambitious new plays with “The Great Privation,” a bold, funny show that uses magical realism to explore the echoes of generational trauma. Read my review: washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7717...
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The Great Privation Honors the Dead—and the Living Left Behind
An ambitious play from Nia Akilah Robinson explores the echoes of ancestral trauma through a dual narrative with a touch of magical realism.
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Natalie Escobar @natalieescobar.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
! @emmasarappo.bsky.social talked to @tricialockwood.bsky.social about WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU tonight and it absolutely ruled !
Emma Sarappo sits to the left of Patricia Lockwood in front of a Politics and Prose sign
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Sarah Marloff @sarahmarloff.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
It’s a hard time to celebrate art, even if we all understand its importance & value. Perhaps that’s why this year’s Fall Arts Guide theme, How To Make a Scene, struck a chord. This is about coming together, it’s about making our feelings known, it’s about taking a stand for what’s important.
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How To Make a Scene: Welcome to City Paper’s 2025 Fall Arts Guide
This year’s guide is an ode to local creatives and the ways art not only survives but thrives in the worst of times.
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Douglas Corzine @douglascorzine.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
It was great to talk to the textile artist (and Tennessean) Tabitha Arnold for Interview. Read our conversation for an overview of her work and her first New York exhibition! www.interviewmagazine.com/art/tabitha-...
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Tabitha Arnold’s Punch Needle Tapestries Are Not For Scabs
To mark the opening of her new show at Field Projects, "Gospel of the Working Class," the artist and textile maker joined us to talk scabs, automation, and the plight of the American labor movement.
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Douglas Corzine @douglascorzine.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The wonderful, whimsical Julio Torres’ first theater project opens tonight. I interviewed him about the project for the Brooklyn Rail. brooklynrail.org/2025/09/thea...
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JULIO TORRES with Douglas Corzine | The Brooklyn Rail
Writing for Saturday Night Live, Julio Torres brought an off-kilter, surprisingly tender sense of humor to sketches like “Papyrus,” “Wells for Boys,” and “The Actress.” Since leaving the show six year...
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Douglas Corzine @douglascorzine.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
The analysis that’s missing from most (practically all) podcast aggregation.
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Emma Sarappo @emmasarappo.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
#REAL
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 07/08/2025
NYC Is Having a Clownaissance A new generation of clowns wants you to embrace the liberatory possibilities of acting very stupid. hellgatenyc.com/everyone-is-...
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NYC Is Having a Clownaissance
A new generation of clowns wants you to embrace the liberatory possibilities of acting very stupid.
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christress @christress.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
sat shotgun on Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang's winding roadtrip to tonight's Culture Awards. Readers, Kayteighs, Publicists, I promise you are in for a treat even though Miss Piggy had to cancel www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
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“It’s Actually 500 Jokes”: Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang’s Road to the Culture Awards
The pair brings us along for the ride as they stage their podcast’s parody awards show on Bravo for the first time ever. But is primetime ready for the comedic stylings of 'Las Culturistas?'
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Laura Collins-Hughes @collinshughes.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
The tiny, intrepid Bushwick Starr announcing Keanu Reeves as their gala honoree this fall, in an e-blast that notes he’s a longtime board member of theirs, is going to get people scanning board lists for who else they might’ve missed.
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Douglas Corzine @douglascorzine.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
A thoughtful piece about casting and representation — with a delicate note about how casting has set precedents in other musicals.
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Jason Zinoman @jasonzinoman.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
What the end of WTF means www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/a...
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Marc Maron’s Podcast Made Him a Better Comic, Just One Part of a Rich Legacy
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The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The more I research the history of the NEA and how it survived many attempts to drastically reduce (or totally eliminate) its funding, the more convinced I become that the Obama admin’s (public) vision of political compromise was totally naive and ahistorical.
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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Today is the 50th anniversary of the Broadway opening of A Chorus Line. To celebrate, about 173 of us who danced in that show gathered outside in the Lincoln Center Library of Performing Arts plaza, performed The Opening Away From the Mirror, One, and What I Did For Love. 💙
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Douglas Corzine @douglascorzine.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
A Chorus Line opened on Broadway 50 years ago today. The show is often celebrated as a love letter to dancers—a tribute to the unsung heroes of musical theater. But the full story is messier. 🧵
Playbill for the original production of A Chorus Line, featuring the iconic “line” of dancers and the show’s title five times.
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Laura Collins-Hughes @collinshughes.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
On Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s production of Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s musical “The Gospel at Colonus,” in the Amph on Little Island. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...
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‘The Gospel at Colonus’ Review: Singing Hallelujah on the Hudson
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Douglas Corzine @douglascorzine.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
My first story for the New York Times previews a revival of “The Gospel at Colonus” that features a surprising voice—the gospel singer and pastor Kim Burrell, who came under fire nine years ago after a sermon surfaced online in which she condemned homosexuality.
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The Surprising Presence in ‘The Gospel at Colonus’
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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 27/06/2025
You’re eligible to be shocked that Mamdani rapped under the handle “Mr. Cardamom” and had a (pretty solid) track on the QUEEN OF KATWE soundtrack indefinitely, however
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Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
With the Lynne Meadow news today, reupping this fascinating conversation with her and Barry Grove from a few years back. I had no idea how small and scrappy MTC was when it started
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Douglas Corzine @douglascorzine.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Ro Reddick’s Cold War Choir Practice started performances last night! It’s your last chance to see a Summerworks show this year, but whether or not you make it out, you can read this:
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/06/2025
the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states
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Douglas Corzine @douglascorzine.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Wonder why so there’s so much solo theater these days? I wrote about star-driven one-person shows for Town and Country: www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts...
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Going Solo: What's Behind the Meteoric Rise of One-Person Plays?
Stars like Jean Smart, Sarah Snook, and Andrew Scott are going it alone on stage, and audiences can't get enough.
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Douglas Corzine @douglascorzine.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The CNN broadcast of GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK did playoff sports numbers: 7.34 million viewers
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Douglas Corzine @douglascorzine.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Colored pencil artists want you to take them seriously. Check out a juried exhibition of their work this summer: washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7657...
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Pencil Pushers Take Bethesda
The Colored Pencil Society of America’s 33rd Annual International Exhibition makes the case for the colored pencil as fine art.
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Douglas Corzine @douglascorzine.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
“Julie Harris has a Tony for playing Mary Todd Lincoln!”
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 09/06/2025
HAPPY PRIDE! I'm not sure I'll ever love anything as much as I love theater, the last safe place for earnestness and idealism
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Zach Schiffman @zachschiffman.me · 09/06/2025
Why did they put Brian Stokes Mitchell in a booth he should be on stage
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Sarah Marloff @sarahmarloff.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
It's a big year for Pride in DC & WorldPride is here but so is the Trump administration. Rather than talking about DC's queer history I wanted to hear from the people MAKING that history right here, right now. 2025 has sucked, but these 6 queers remind us how strong & beautiful our community is 🖤
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Stronger Together: On Pride, Resilience, and Working Toward a Better Future
Six members of the queer and trans community remind us of the power of Pride as the federal government continues to attack LGBTQIA rights.
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Joey Sims @joeysims.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Great, great piece about Strouse writing an abandoned STAR WARS musical www.americantheatre.org/2025/05/22/c...
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Charles Strouse, Jedi Master
One of the late composer's musical theatre successors pays tribute to his elder's craft, creativity, and unflappable professionalism.
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Douglas Corzine @douglascorzine.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
My review of the playful, energetic new play A(U)NTS!, at the Brick through May 24: www.theatrely.com/post/worker-...
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Worker Ants Build a Colony in A(U)NTS! — Review
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of A(U)NTS! by Zoë Geltman at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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Natalie Escobar @natalieescobar.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
🚨it’s summer reading guide o’clock!!🚨one of my favorite times of the year! www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
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The 2025 Summer Reading Guide
The Atlantic’s writers and editors have chosen fiction and nonfiction to match all sorts of moods.
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Douglas Corzine @douglascorzine.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
“There is some hero worship in there, David. I don’t know how you’re going to say this stuff on stage.” I interviewed David Greenspan and Mona Pirnot for the Brooklyn Rail. brooklynrail.org/2025/04/thea...
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DAVID GREENSPAN & MONA PIRNOT with Douglas Corzine | The Brooklyn Rail
Pirnot made waves as the writer/performer of last year’s I Love You So Much I Could Die. Now, she’s teamed up with the six-time Obie winner Greenspan for a comedy about a group of millennial playwrigh...
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Howard Sherman @hesherman.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
‘There is only one thing in life worse than being Tony eligible, and that is not being Tony eligible.’ – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This was a painful but rewarding story to work on. For New York Magazine, I wrote about the devastating effect of AIDS on the city's theater community, and what has become a decades-long effort to create a full list of those we lost. www.vulture.com/article/hiv-....
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The List Keepers
The AIDS crisis shattered Broadway, and the scope of the loss has never been fully accounted for. Some kept their own records.
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Jackson McHenry @jdmchenry.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
if you liked watching the three blonde women in The White Lotus may I suggest watching David Greenspan do that but he's all three women and they're all struggling New York playwrights in I'm Assuming You Know David Greenspan
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I love WL, but there have been TONS of rude comic shows that mess around with identity in nasty-funny ways & feature queer fuckery, from OITNB & Transparent to Difficult People & Search Party. It’s way easier to paint WL as The One And Only when you pretend the rest of TV is Sesame Street
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Douglas Corzine @douglascorzine.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The Tony-winning actor and producer LaChanze is launching a directing career with Wine in the Wilderness at Classic Stage Company. We talked about her connection to Alice Childress and the importance of Black history. www.tdf.org/on-stage/tdf...
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How LaChanze Became a Quintuple Threat
Four decades ago she started her career as an actor, singer and dancer. A few years back, she started producing. Now she's adding director to her résumé.
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Nashville Scene @nashvillescene.com · 25/03/2025
With ‘Human Resources’ — onstage March 27-April 6 — Nashville Story Garden, Nate Eppler and OZ Arts join forces and push boundaries.
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‘Human Resources’ Embeds Us in a Surreal Corporate Landscape
‘Human Resources’ embeds its audience in a surreal corporate landscape.
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