Reposted by Rob Weinert-KendtAmerican Theatre @americantheatre.org · 01/10/2026Declining full season subscriptions look like a shift in what patrons want. Look closer, and it’s usually a shift in what we’ve been selling them, says Nave Strategies principal J.L. Nave. f.mtr.coolIf Subscriptions Are Dying, Are We the Ones Killing Them?Declining full season subscriptions look like a shift in what patrons want. Look closer, and it’s usually a shift in what we’ve been selling them. 031
Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This captures my feelings about the last 2 seasons of SLOW HORSES exactly. I still love the atmosphere and the characters, but spy dramas also need good plotting. That element was very wobbly last season and this season it's glaringly underpowered.theguardian.comSlow Horses season six review – it gets harder to enjoy Gary Oldman’s spy thriller every yearThe show’s creator has gone, it’s been retooled as a conventional thriller and it feels like it’s starting to run out of ideas – even if it’s as slick and confident as ever 110
Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026An extraordinary story, definitely worth your time www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/o...nytimes.comOpinion | He Was The Times’s Moscow Chief. My Grandmother Was His Censor. (Gift Article)Somehow the story got through. 022
Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Another invaluable Off-Broadway roundup from Times critics www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/t...nytimes.com5 Must-See Off Broadway Shows, New and Remounted (Gift Article)Our critics recommend Molière in the Park’s “Don Juan,” “Beyond the Stardust,” “The Hope Theory,” “Pre-Existing Condition” and more. 020
Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Excited for Soraya, just subscribedsoraya.pressAllow Me To Reintroduce MyselfLook at me. I’m the publisher now. 010
Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026There’s something about third albums; they are often a test of where and how far an artist can go. That’s how I felt about Olivia Rodrigo’s latest, which landed harder with me than anything she’d done yet, and I feel even moreso about Phoebe Bridgers’s great, possibly bottomless new record. 020
Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026New issue out, really happy with this one (and what a cover, if I may say so myself) 161
Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Just catching up with this Lau Noah disc from 2024. Holy moly, is it good. If you like your finger-picking folk with a strong dose of classical counterpoint, a dash of flamenco, and exquisite vocal harmonies, this one's for you. launoah.bandcamp.com/album/a-dos 000
Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026One of the more beautifully specific memorial tributes I've had the honor of commissioning 020
Reposted by Rob Weinert-KendtColson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 21/09/2026Got an interview request from a Lithuanian journalist…you never know what you’re walking into when it comes to Eastern Europe…kinda racist sometimes...but maybe I’m being too harsh! I should check out the newspaper at least…hit the front page and — www.15min.lt/naujiena/akt...15min.ltLietuvos žmogaus teisių centras apie „juodaodes“ Šilutės šventėje: „Nėra priimtina“Rugsėjo 5-ąją Šilutėje garavo žuvienės puodai, o aplink vieną iš jų šoko virėjų komanda, apsitaisiusi juodais kostiumais ir vaizduojanti juodaodes moteris. Šis pasirodymas... 20985
Reposted by Rob Weinert-KendtSteve and Dave's @steveanddaves1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Dog Day Afternoon – directed by Sidney Lumet (1924-2011) – premiered today in 1975. The story of a bank robbery & hostage situation gone off the rails is fueled by fine performances by Al Pacino & the magnificently understated John Cazale (1935-1978). Their nuanced back-and-forth is one for the ages 172
Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026David Byrne at Forest Hills Stadium last night was one of the most vivid and exhilarating shows I’ve ever seen. He and his songs seem ageless. Heaven is a place where this kind of music happens. 070
Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It’s also the second time I’ve seen Greer crush a role with serious Daddy issues—are folks writing these parts with her in mind or what? Either way, I’m here for it. 010
Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Ryan Drake’s BIG FEELINGS is a neat parlor trick, lowering our emotional guard by casting us as 1st graders in a class run by a too-chipper teacher, all the better to devastate us with Julia Greer’s tour-de-force meltdown of a performance. 120
Reposted by Rob Weinert-KendtAmerican Theatre @americantheatre.org · 18/09/2026We're devastated by the news of Duncan Sheik's death at age 56. We spoke to the SPRING AWAKENING composer back in 2006 about his work www.americantheatre.org/2006/05/01/t..., and we put the show on our April 2007 cover. 052
Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I had a blast at PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, and I'm not throwing shade on the quality of the show or its expert realization when I say that the best thing about the experience was the audience. I explain in my review for America magazine. www.americamagazine.org/theater/2026...americamagazine.orgOf God and ghosts: ‘Paranormal Activity’ on Broadway is a spiritual eventThe best reason to attend ‘Paranormal Activity‘ is the audience. 040
Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Devastated to hear of Duncan Sheik's death. Here's the piece I wrote about him and the writing of "Spring Awakening" for the LA Times when the show was opening at the Ahmanson back in 2008. www.latimes.com/archives/la-... 081
Reposted by Rob Weinert-KendtJustin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Pierce Brothers Westwood, near Billy Wilder (‘I’m a writer, but nobody’s perfect’), Merv Griffin (‘I will not be right back after these messages’), Rodney Dangerfield (‘There’s goes the neighborhood!’) etc. 2282
Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Tomorrow a new season of SLOW HORSES begins. To mark the occasion I thought I'd reshare my review of the show, which I quite like (though I didn't love last season tbh), from 2 years ago.americamagazine.org‘Slow Horses’: a ragtag spy thriller with le Carré style and retro charmApple TV+’s ’Slow Horses‘ plays a bit like John le Carré with more firepower. And efficiency. 030
Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026One of the first regional productions of LIBERATION (Berkeley Rep) is following the protocols the show followed in its Off-Broadway and Broadway runs (this is from a press release I just received). This seems to be becoming a (welcome) new standard re: stage nudity. 190
Reposted by Rob Weinert-KendtMoby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling 214636
Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026As a huge MST3K fan, I'm used to savoring it on small screens, so it was a blast to take in a brand new installment, skewering a deliciously awful '60s horror schlockfest, STING OF DEATH, at the Regal UA Kaufman Astoria as a Fathom event yesterday. I could watch this stuff all day (and often have) 040
Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Finished the twisty Japanese sci-fi crime drama THE HUMAN VAPOR a few weeks ago. It goes to some wild places and I’m not sure it all adds up by the end, but it’s much more intense and moving than you might expect. On Netflix 000
Reposted by Rob Weinert-KendtAdam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026posting a gift link to this excellent essay by Dan O'Brien about watching his world burn, twice: Once in NYC on 9/11 and once in the Palisades Fire in LA. Both O'Brien and his wife developed cancer from toxic air—which seems timely given the revelations of this week www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comOpinion | What 9/11, Cancer and the Palisades Fire Taught Me (Published 2025)We’ll never know with certainty that carcinogens in the smoke, dust and ash from the World Trade Center caused my wife’s cancer and my own. 22610
Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Just finished all 3 seasons of the great Irish procedural thriller THE FALL, which is above all a masterpiece of tonal control. Its cool, patient approach made its shocking turns all the more bracing, and made the familiar contours of the cat-and-mouse serial killer plot seem freshly unsettling. 030
Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Brian Cox as J.S. Bach is not the most obvious casting choice, but amazingly it's actually his second time playing Bach. And if you know his career beyond Logan Roy (particularly his role as Max, the Marxist don in Stoppard's ROCK 'N' ROLL), it makes a certain sense 010
Reposted by Rob Weinert-KendtMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026As if the headline isn't enough incentive, do read this short news story to the last paragraph because MAN does it escalate! playbill.com/article/man-...playbill.comMan Sentenced to 2-Year Jail Sentence After Strangling Fellow Theatregoer for Singing Along During We Will Rock YouThe dust-up happened at a 2023 press performance in London's West End. 1171074330
Reposted by Rob Weinert-KendtAmerican Theatre @americantheatre.org · 10/09/2026Where better to end a Cold War than in Iceland? In REYKJAVIK86 (running Sept. 11-27 at Dallas Theater Center), the story of President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s fateful peace talks to scale down nuclear weapons harkens back to a moment of diplomacy we can learn from today.americantheatre.orgWhen Misha Met Ronnie: Dallas Theater Center’s ‘Reykjavik86’Opening Dallas Theater Center's season of all new work is a play about President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev’s fateful peace talk to scale down nuclear weapons. 021
Reposted by Rob Weinert-KendtElle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign 24550411565
Reposted by Rob Weinert-KendtJoshua Rothkopf @joshuarothkopf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026What happened inside Telluride's secret screening? A meta new Elizabeth Holmes documentary, a fun Q&A moderated by Emma Stone and, for the departing audience, another secret to keep. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...latimes.comWhat happened inside Telluride’s secret screening of Nathan Fielder’s new Elizabeth Holmes documentary“You Can See Everything,” co-directed by Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, offers extraordinary access to the convicted Theranos founder before taking a reality-bending turn. 02412
Reposted by Rob Weinert-KendtDean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This is the future of journalism and reporting more generally, for people who care about such things mattdpearce.substack.com/p/california...mattdpearce.substack.comCalifornia is about to do something really cool for local journalismAB 2222, the Community NEWS Act, is going to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. 13916
Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Given its pitch-black subject matter, it's probably wrong to call it a relief that Liz Meriwether's twisty, terrific FURIOUS stuck the landing. But it did, bringing its unique combination of wit and anguish, cringe and cheer to a suitably barbed end. 000
Reposted by Rob Weinert-KendtMark Armstrong @markarmstrong4.bsky.social · 01/09/2026There is only one living person qualified to find out and report back on why Michael Stipe collects Roy Cohn memorabilia: @isaacbutler.bsky.social, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you. 021
Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026New work on U.S. stages? In this economy? Our complete list for September. www.americantheatre.org/2026/09/01/w...americantheatre.orgWhat Else Is New: From ‘Gilgamesh’ to ‘Basquiat’The cup overfloweth in this nationwide roundup of new stage works. 033
Reposted by Rob Weinert-KendtAmerican Theatre @americantheatre.org · 25/08/2026Playwright Francisco Mendoza set out to investigate the new-play black boxes at major theatres across the country that made playwrights successful in the early 2000s…and what’s become of them, and a playwright’s lot, now. In the process, he found a paradigm shift on the way forward.americantheatre.orgPlays Are Meant to Be Seen, Not HeardIn the early 2000s, some major U.S. theatres dedicated spaces in their buildings to producing new work by new playwrights. Where are those programs—and those writers—now? 011
Reposted by Rob Weinert-KendtAmerican Theatre @americantheatre.org · 26/08/2026In our summer 2026 production notebook, Sheila Regan covered Katie Ka Vang’s HMONG FUTURES at Theater Mu this past spring—where envisioning the future for the HMong community took on new meaning amidst the Minneapolis ICE occupation. www.americantheatre.org/2026/08/26/w...americantheatre.orgWhat’s in ‘HMong Futures’?Katie Ka Vang’s play about a historic Twin Cities immigrant community became more timely than anticipated when their state was violently occupied. 041
Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I'm sure you've already seen this piece, but in any case thank you for the perfect cue to reshare it www.americantheatre.org/2024/03/20/t...americantheatre.orgThe Unpredictable Experiment: 25 Years of Sloan Science PlaysFrom 'Proof' to 'Behind the Sheet,' the Sloan Foundation has supported hundreds of plays about science and scientists. What can we learn from this still growing body of work? 1133
Reposted by Rob Weinert-KendtJean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Of course, as soon as a thing has happened it isn’t fantastic any longer, it’s inevitable. The inevitable is what you’re doing or have done. The fantastic is simply what you didn’t do. 0185
Reposted by Rob Weinert-KendtNick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Laurence Olivier in The Entertainer. Drawn from his seat in the Royal Court stalls on the first night in 1957 by the brilliant Quentin Blake for a Punch review. How on earth did he do it: in the dark, not knowing what was coming next…? At Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration 0187
Reposted by Rob Weinert-KendtCarl Wilson @carlzoilus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I wrote about loving the messy, melodramatic, trashy trickster, come-on artist Dolly more than the Saint Dolly of recent imaginings - and made a playlist to match. slate.com/culture/2026...slate.comWhat We Miss When We Reduce Dolly Parton to a SaintThe queen of country was a much weirder—and more wonderful—figure than the recent flattening of her suggests. 235298
Reposted by Rob Weinert-KendtAngus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Read it to the end. 15433134
Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Like his deep dive into the end of The Lark, this piece by Francisco Mendoza about the rise and fall of new-play programs at major U.S. theatres over the past two decades is long, granular, and revealing reading. A must read imho 051
Rob Weinert-Kendt @robkendt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I wish the old El Chavo in Silverlake were still open so I could go there to raise a toast to the immortal Dolly Parton, for whom they used to have a shrine by the bar. 031