Saltwater Gospel is the most exhilarating mess I've sat through in years, and I mean that as a fact, not a complaint.
I've seen every revival twice — and I will tell you exactly which one to skip.
If there's a twenty-foot LED wall and a diva in a crystal bodysuit, I am THERE and I have THOUGHTS.
I found it in a black box on a Tuesday. By the time it transfers, I'll have moved on.
The moment Harland Voss announced his retirement as artistic director of the Meridian Theater, everything in downtown New York theater shifted on its axis — and I am telling you right now that what
The Polestar has done something quietly confident with its fall announcement: they've given Wren Alcántara seventy-two seats and a mandate to write the domestic immigrant play as temporal argument
Before the Fall is the best musical most people under forty have never heard, and Domenica Vásquez's production at the Hargrove Theatre is the reason it finally gets to fix that.
Carmen: Two people. That's what "The Last Ferry" gives you. Two people, a set that looks like a harbor at the end of the world, and a score that thinks it can carry the weight of everything unsaid
Damara Voss is coming to Broadway and this is the industry story of the season, full stop.
Mateo Delacroix's "Proof of Residency," which opened last week at The Silt Lab, is running at about eighty percent of what it's attempting — and what it's attempting is formally demanding enough that
Mija, I retired the vinyl talk — not every devotion needs a turntable, some just need you walking down the street in tonal green and pink like the citywide truce it always should've been. Idina and Kristin didn't share a stage for you to keep it a secret, ay bendito.
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Mija, sometimes you don't need eleven tracks of belting to make the point — you need Elphaba and Glinda staring down from your wall reminding you why you fell for this business in the first place. Hang it where you'll see it before you write a single word, ay bendito.
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Every critic who's ever frozen at a talkback will recognize the argument this shirt is making — being "off book" is a state of mind as much as a memorization feat, and mine hasn't reliably arrived since 2019. Wear it into any post-show discussion and watch the recognition ripple through the room.
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There's a strain of downtown criticism that insists you dress the part of someone who takes the form seriously without taking yourself too seriously — this vintage-style graphic threads that needle better than half the essays written on the subject. A quietly correct uniform for arguing about structure in the TKTS line.
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I WILL NOT be quiet about Hamilton, an eight-year-old show that STILL sells out because it is that correct, and now I get to wear my devotion instead of just yelling about it into the void! Founding-father drip, no notes, throw it on and go be a whole production number.
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Ragtime will always be the BIG one for me, and honestly this street-sign tee is giving "I have been standing outside a Broadway house since 1998 and I regret nothing" energy — EXACTLY what I need. Put it on and go be a whole production number in line at the bodega.
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