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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 13/03/2026

Great article in Playbill by @itsmargarethall.bsky.social on SINNERS, what makes it a brilliant musical, and the form of diegetic musicals (my favorite kind of musical).

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Is Sinners a Musical? Yes, And

It's a diegetic movie musical that's also expanding the boundaries of genre.

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Diep Tran @diepthought.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Answering the important questions at Playbill, by musical theater and vampire expert @itsmargarethall.bsky.social playbill.com/article/is-s...

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Is Sinners a Musical? Yes, And

It's a diegetic movie musical that's also expanding the boundaries of genre.

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Shrike 🐦‍⬛ @shrikebait.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Blood, Sweat & Queers ed. @itsmargarethall.bsky.social and @jamieisreading.bsky.social Vampirism is inherently queer. Blood, Sweat & Queers opens with a killer foreword by Hall and carries this theme through to the end. #bookreview 🌈📚💙

ARC paperback of Blood, Sweat & Queers edited by Margaret Hall and Jamie Ryu propped against big vampire teeth and faux lilies with a matching bookmark peeking between the pages.

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Margaret Hall @itsmargarethall.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Rest in Peace Brian Wilson. An artistic genius whose public struggles kickstarted convos about mental health that continue to save lives. I know countless artists who have gotten help specifically because of Brian. Go listen to Pet Sounds, and check in with people you love who may be struggling.

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Margaret Hall @itsmargarethall.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Another Tony Awards ceremony in the books. As always, the hardest yet most rewarding day of the season. Head on over to Playbill to see our continuing coverage, and buy your favorite theatre journalists a drink if you see them in the wild this month. Let the next season begin!

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Margaret Hall @itsmargarethall.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Five Reminders as we head into Tony Sunday 1. You're allowed to care about things; you're also allowed not to care. Apathy is not a virtue, but cognizance is 2. Broadway is, first and foremost, a commercial industry. It isn't an art form. A lot of things will make sense the moment you accept that

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Margaret Hall @itsmargarethall.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Ducked into the first show of the next season as I mentally prepare for the Tonys gauntlet tomorrow

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Margaret Hall @itsmargarethall.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I’m thrilled to bits to be a fellow for this year’s National Critics Institute at the O'Neill. Joining this prestigious program is an honor. I love the art of analysis, and I am eager to sharpen my pen with this illustrious group of writers. Now, where is my George Jean Nathan baseball cap?

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John Bonazzo @johnbonazzo.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Julia Knitel's beautiful work in Dead Outlaw resulted in one of my favorite Tony nominations this year. Gorgeous video orchestrated by @itsmargarethall.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpdV...

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Julia Knitel Performs "A Stranger" From "Dead Outlaw"

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Margaret Hall @itsmargarethall.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

✨Divorced (Bobby Darin, Just In Time) ✨Murdered (Elmer McCurdy, Dead Outlaw) ✨Died (Floyd Collins, Floyd Collins) ✨Divorced (Louis Armstrong, A Wonderful World) ✨Murdered (Joe Gillis, Sunset Blvd) ✨Survived (Oliver, Maybe Happy Ending)

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Margaret Hall @itsmargarethall.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Spent the better part of this morning lamenting how much I miss my favorite rose garden in Edinburgh. Lo and behold, look at what was waiting on my block when I came home, just waiting to be stooped. It’s a real oil painting in a custom frame. Now to find the wall space…

A beautiful, very large oil painting of garden roses in a vase. The roses are various shades of pastel pink and peach, with the vase rendered in blue tones. The frame is gold. The entire painting is balanced on a large black chair, against a desk and bookshelves that are filled to the brim with colorful items, ranging from books and magazines to family photos and bronze busts.

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Margaret Hall @itsmargarethall.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Man About Town [my eternal love to the fan across the street who yelled “IS THAT TONY NOMINEE ANDREW DURAND?!]

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Margaret Hall @itsmargarethall.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Hannah Moscovitch is one of the most fascinating playwrights working today, and it was a pleasure to get deep in the weeds with her on her play Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, what it means to have Hugh Jackman as her champion, and her television work over on Interview with the Vampire AMC.

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Hannah Moscovitch Tackles Tough Questions About Consent in Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, With the Help of Hugh Jackman

The razor-sharp drama about personal relationships and power imbalance is currently running Off-Broadway.

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Margaret Hall @itsmargarethall.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Tired of playing a broken game of telephone with your health insurance, doctor, and pharmacy? Turns out calling everyone and merging them into a call where their doublespeak and fabrications are immediately obvious suddenly clears up issues within 10 minutes.

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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 27/05/2025

That’s a lede @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The warlords who sacked rome did not intend to doom Western Europe to centuries of ignorance. It was not a foreseeable consequence of their actions. The same cannot be said of the sweeping attack on human knowledge and progress that the Trump administration is now undertaking—a deliberate destruction of education, science, and history, conducted with a fanaticism that recalls the Dark Ages that followed Rome’s fall.

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Margaret Hall @itsmargarethall.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

All I have wanted, all day, is a pretzel bun burger w/ cheddar. A simple request. And yet. I can't order out, because the Emmy Burger has a waitlist. I can't make it at home, because every bakery in the city is suddenly out of pretzel buns. At this point, I'm going to have to bake the bun myself.

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a man in a chef 's coat is talking to a child and says `` why is it so difficult ? ''

ALT: a man in a chef 's coat is talking to a child and says `` why is it so difficult ? ''

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I can't believe we have a Pope from Illinois. People from Chicago usually hate the Cardinals.

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Margaret Hall @itsmargarethall.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Donna Murphy truly was incredible in Wonderful Town.

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james holod kennedy @jamesholod.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Sara Holdren and Vinson Cunningham BOTH Pulitzer finalists for Criticism iktr!!!!!!! we celebrate excellent theater critique in this house!!!!!!!

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Margaret Hall @itsmargarethall.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Tonight’s bill, a necessary return

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Margaret Hall @itsmargarethall.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I love Dead Outlaw. I love theatre driven by true passion, rather than theatre-for-profit. I love artists who collaborate, rather than compete. I love seeing artists like Andrew Durand revel in their uniqueness, and beloved talents like Thom Sesma get their flowers. I loved this chat. Read more ↓

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To Andrew Durand and Thom Sesma, Dead Outlaw Is an 'Original Little Show With an Oversized Heart'

The new musical, based on a true story about a famous corpse, shows that weirdness is still welcomed on Broadway.

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Laura Collins-Hughes @collinshughes.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

“Dead Outlaw” is glorious storytelling: odd, funny and tenderhearted, with a beautiful, hard-driving country score. A blissful and total escape from the outside world. They have made the weird art. Go have some fun.

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Margaret Hall @itsmargarethall.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Tonight’s bill, featuring some of the most intense audience lighting I’ve ever experienced on Broadway

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Margaret Hall @itsmargarethall.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

If you have older loved ones in your life, please film them. Please. I know it's awkward. I know they prefer to be on the other side of the camera. My GG was the most joyful person I've ever known, and I will never hear his laugh again. That will haunt me for the rest of my life. Please film them.

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Margaret Hall @itsmargarethall.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Thinking about my dear Irish professor, who would draw the blinds so we could listen to Kneecap's earliest releases whenever we finished our lesson early. The image of the gentle and at times doddering Gaeilgeoir rapping along will never leave me. I wish he could've seen how powerful they'd become.

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Margaret Hall @itsmargarethall.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Tonight I went to a 20th anniversary screening of Pride and Prejudice 2005, and wow, what a wonder. Everyone in the packed theatre knew every word. Someone brought their own boiled potatoes. Strangers were clutching each other in their arms. Girlhood is so precious. Just listen to these reactions!

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

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Margaret Hall @itsmargarethall.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

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To Andrew Durand and Thom Sesma, Dead Outlaw Is an 'Original Little Show With an Oversized Heart'

The new musical, based on a true story about a famous corpse, shows that weirdness is still welcomed on Broadway.

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Margaret Hall @itsmargarethall.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I sat down with Emmy winner Sarah Snook and single-minded supernova Kip Williams to discuss their adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, smartphone culture, dysmorphia inducing apps like Facetune and YouCam, and how technology makes live theatre all the more valuable. Give it a read

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Sarah Snook and Kip Williams Have Created a Picture of Dorian Gray for the Smartphone Age

In the Broadway show, Oscar Wilde has been brought to the modern day.

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Margaret Hall @itsmargarethall.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

We have entered one of my favorite New York seasons: Suspicious Spring, where the cold is finally over, but none of us trust that, so everyone’s still wearing layers unzipped. Glimpsing someone’s funky tee under their zip up and jacket thrills me like a repressed Victorian seeing their 1st ankle.

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Margaret Hall @itsmargarethall.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

There are 34 hours left in the fundraising period for Blood, Sweat, & Queers, and we are only $90 from our goal! Support indie publishing, queer storytelling, and The Trevor Project in one fell swoop. You can gift your perks!

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Blood, Sweat & Queers: Queer Vampire Love Stories

Uplift queer stories with this forthcoming vampire anthology from Contrarian Publishing. | Check out 'Blood, Sweat & Queers: Queer Vampire Love Stories' on Indiegogo.

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Glooooooock lobster

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Margaret Hall @itsmargarethall.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

It was an honor to speak with Sarah Hyland about her performance as Daisy in The Great Gatsby, and how her work as an advocate for domestic violence victims made her performances as both Daisy and Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors feel like a "calling" to transform her trauma.

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To Sarah Hyland, The Great Gatsby's Daisy Buchanan Is a Survivor

The actor read and re-read the Fitzgerald novel while she was on Modern Family . Now she is a bringing a compassionate lens to its flawed heroine.

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Margaret Hall @itsmargarethall.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

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To Sarah Hyland, The Great Gatsby's Daisy Buchanan Is a Survivor

The actor read and re-read the Fitzgerald novel while she was on Modern Family . Now she is a bringing a compassionate lens to its flawed heroine.

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