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Jennifer Simard Opens Up About ‘Life-Saving Surgery’ She Underwent After Years of Suffering in Silence (PEOPLE Mag)

Oct 12, 2026 — 1:37:56 PM

This is far less about salary or health insurance. This is about the intense pressure to perform at the highest possible level at all costs. This is instilled in us as performers from the second we decide to get on a stage. How much did it cost to put up DBH? $30M? Insane. And the stars are made the public face of a $30M investment. Add to that, this show had moments of virality including for Simard and her 'That was rude...' Virality is a double-edged sword. It gets people talking and excite...

Re: Reimagined THE FANTASTICKS will open on Broadway this fall

Oct 9, 2026 — 1:18:30 PM

Speaking as an actor who has been a part of press preview events like this (not at the scale of Broadway, but off-Broadway and regionally), these things are the worst of the worst. Adding too much in-show context can lead to bizarre overperformance...especially when you're singing at Sid Gold's or wherever this is filmed. And going too cabaret in your interpretation can distort your performance in a different direction. The best one can hope for is to look pretty, sing pretty and then get bac...

Re: JUST IN TIME 5.0 - Nicholas Christopher

Oct 7, 2026 — 1:44:56 PM

Ah, BroadwayWorld! The short bus of the internet. Never change.

Re: “OH MARY!” film to play on HBO Max in 2027

Sep 10, 2026 — 6:01:04 PM

You should come watch with us. We'll be serving ice cream.You know where.

Re: Tim Curry has passed away at age 80

Aug 26, 2026 — 5:11:41 PM

Long before I ever saw Rocky Horror Picture Show, Tim Curry broke my gay little brain in the one-two punch of CLUE and his role as The Grand Wizard (shoulda changed that but ya know...) in The Worst Witch. The man sharpened my love of camp to a fine point. Tim Curry - Anything Can Happen on Halloween

Re: CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Reviews

Aug 21, 2026 — 1:13:26 PM

Kad said: "Seeing the film opening weekend remains one of the best moviegoing experiences of my life. Everyone was there to see a movie so ill-conceived and so baffling and so unhinged and it absolutely delivered. Swift was not nearly the worst in it; she wasn’t even bad at all considering she was a glorified cameo."Oh, the joy of that weekend! It's what I call a deathbed memory. When I go out, I plan to think of all the most hilarious things I got to experience on this rock hurtling through ...

Re: Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/16/26

Aug 18, 2026 — 4:04:40 PM

MemorableUserName said: "GiantsInTheSky2 said: "Friendly reminder that this production won Best Musical Revival, and barely any of the thoughts that come to your head are true. You specifically."Friendly reminder that awards are not always indications of quality and plenty of undeserving parties win awards, Tonys or otherwise, every year.And winning Best Revival from the same voters that deemed Sh*ttydoon Best Musical is hardly something to crow about."I mean...sure. In general. But in this s...

THE FANTASTICKS revival, reimagined as a gay love story, aiming for Broadwa

Aug 13, 2026 — 3:23:18 PM

TotallyEffed said: "Sutton Ross said: "Remember how Beaches was supposed to run through September? Barely anyone remembers that show even happened.My statement still stands."It doesn’t. Beacheswas a commercial production, unlike The Fantasticks. It won’t be closing early."Right?? For a second I thought I was having a stroke and i had made it up that this was going to be Hayes through 2nd Stage. That doesn't mean it can't close early but I'm willing to bet it won't.

'1776': Historically accurate or are too many liberties taken?

Jul 9, 2026 — 4:00:34 PM

Oh gosh! I shall endeavor to unpack my obnoxious theater-maker speak! And honestly, this is more of my argument rather than hard facts. Miranda is not just a brilliant composer/lyricist/bookwriter, he is also a true-blue theater-nerd. His knowledge is deep and broad. What I mean by 'in conversation' is that that when he was writing In the Heights, he had a strong knowledge of that other landmark musical that (in part) explored the Latine experience - West Side Story. For decades, that was the...

'1776': Historically accurate or are too many liberties taken?

Jul 9, 2026 — 2:12:15 PM

I was specific in my wording. I didn't say the show wasn't considered 'quaint'...particularly as compared to Hair. I said the racial politics could be considered quaint now but would not have been seen as quaint then. And frankly, Molasses to Rum to Slaves is still an absolute gut-punch of a moment. It still feels dangerous in a way that Colored Spade from HAIR may not feel today, thought 3-5-0-0 may still shock some, especially if it's the entire cast singing it. 1776 was the most convention...

'1776': Historically accurate or are too many liberties taken?

Jul 9, 2026 — 10:52:06 AM

1776 is my favorite musical and I got to host a concert version of it for a number of years at 54 Below. The show has the trappings of a conservative musical comedy, but it was only 4 years after both the Selma to Montgomery marches and the passage of the Voting Rights act. We may view the racial politics of the show as quaint now, but that wouldn't have been the case in 1969. In addition, Nixon (who was president when the show opened and when the film was made) pressured Jack Warner to cut C...

Lincoln Center Theater 2026-2027 Season

Jun 24, 2026 — 11:12:25 AM

First...thanks for the heads up on the membership opening, y'all! I bought one for me and one for my husband at the Tier 3 level which gets you access to both the Broadway and Off-Broadway shows.

Lincoln Center Theater 2026-2027 Season

Jun 23, 2026 — 2:32:13 PM

People can like or not like whatever they want. Go for it. But what is surprising in this thread is the actual erasing of her professional life in order to fit the narrative that deBessonet is a dilettante who had one fluke success four years ago. You have to go out of your way to ignore the years of work she put into the NY theater scene to suggest that everything flows from the 2022 Into the Woods. Her Public Works program was an incredibly influential project that married theater and commu...

Lincoln Center Theater 2026-2027 Season

Jun 23, 2026 — 1:05:31 PM

We all have our personal tastes, but it's real weird to argue with success. Her WOODS was the best version of that show I've seen since the original production and her RAGTIME was my favorite version of that musical because of the simplicity of the staging, clarity of the storytelling and the fact that all the actors were rowing in the same direction without seeming to compete with each other. I'm just shocked that they buried the Matthew Rhys as Burton lead so far down in the release! I'm ex...

Broadway's Best Kept Secrets - Passion + Paddington

Jun 11, 2026 — 5:54:57 PM

Jarethan said: "Kad said: "And yet Groff starred in Merrily We Roll Along, one of the floppiest flops to ever flop.I'm not a fan of Passion but if it's being revived with stars like Erivo and Groff, it will do well."Merrily was not exactly Passion. In the intervening years since it originally flopped, a number of songs became well known, there had been a successful production in London that had been successful in Boston as well, the same director was mounting it again, it had humor. Franklin ...

Pride, BWW, and Harry Potter

Jun 5, 2026 — 9:19:53 AM

I would never tell anyone to stop fighting the fight. Keep on keeping on, Jay. I know a bunch of queer and trans artists that have been involved in Cursed Child and, knowing how awful this business is, I'd never judge them for doing what is necessary to make it in this world.But Joanne makes it really f*cking hard to separate the art from the artists when she is so brazenly using her massive wealth that as come from this franchise to fund efforts to make trans people's lives more difficult. S...

Must-Own Physical Cast Recording

May 16, 2026 — 10:05:43 AM

Two physical CDs I still have in my possession cause f*ck our tech overlords are essential to me:1998 Papermill Playhouse recording of Follies1995 National Theatre recording of A Little Night Music with Judi DenchI imagine both are hard to come by at this point, but they are my precious(es).

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/12/26

Apr 15, 2026 — 1:49:05 PM

Kad said: "EDSOSLO858 said: "Kad - we may very well be heading back to the mid-'90s in terms of lighter Broadway seasons. The only question ishowlight the coming seasons will be."Yes, we may well be- but my point is Broadway has had these periods and rebounded. It is far too early to fret about Broadway's viability."This. I can't help but wonder if the 2024/2025 tsunami of new musicals was broken up a bit with, say, Boop, Dead Outlaw, Real Women Have Curves and Operation Mincemeat opened this...

Gillian Anderson & Billy Crudup to star in West End VIRGINIA WOOLF, dir. Marianne Elliott

Mar 18, 2026 — 2:09:16 PM

I've never been so happy for a December business trip in all my life (though not 100% true, cause I saw The Bridge's Into the Woods last December). Got my ticket!

GIANT Previews

Mar 18, 2026 — 11:06:22 AM

ScottK said: "CORRECT--NOT EVER--it is calamitous, horrible, catastrophic etc--but it is NOT genocide"And you have now made your bias absolutely clear. So you're even.

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