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And today, this news:

"Jury finds Live Nation and Ticketmaster operated as a monopoly and overcharged fans."

I really don't understand the logistics of this but it seems like this is definitely a battle between the states and the Justice Department. It's exciting. 

They smell a winner as political anti corruption theatre especially if they get to subpoena the former head of the Kennedy Center that LiveNation installed on its Board to get Trump to drop the case against them.

Not a fan. She’s beautiful, she’s elegant, she’s a solid actor but I find her lacking in humor and wit and, yes, a captivating personal style.

quizking101 said:
It appears that, other than me and a scattered few, the audience is primarily between 60 and 6 Feet Under"

Not at the Sunday matinee that I went to, I would say half of the audience were in their 40’s - 50’s and probably Rose Byrne fans. I’m one too now after seeing her comic stage chops.

 

“I Hate Men” from Kiss Me Kate.

”Stepsister’s Lament” from Cinderella

I'm not that surprised at the reviews but I do find it significant that a few reviewers used the NY Times Michael Paulson article, published less than a week before the show opened, about backstage conflict as a support for their negative opinion. 

No matter what you think of the play, I wonder if Paulson and the New York Times will repeat this kind of Sweaty Oracle crap before the opening of other Broadway shows.

What I liked best about the production is that it’s mostly about watching actors give detailed, largely comic performances which is getting to be rare on Broadway where the plays are often portentous revivals that stars want to do and the performances are aiming at Award winning “riveting”. This was less freighted with importance and consistently enjoyable.

I think it’s a fun show, not great but fun and surprisingly goofy, like Neil Simon in some parts. Jessica Hecht is adorable. ATG is selling a lot of booze in single use heavy plastic containers. I don’t think it will get great reviews but I also don’t think it will be panned. It’s light adult entertainment and far less pretentious than the film it’s based on. The audience seemed to be having a good time.

Everyone involved should work for one month at Joe Allens and there might be a chance that the new iteration of the restaurant will actually touch down in New York City, the actual city, sometime in the near future. If it’s just tourists they’re after then proceed as normal.

I read through the entire article and it never answered the question it was teasing throughout in any substantial way. Maybe its main purpose is a prompt for user comments.

FLarnhill said: "Joyce 9 said: "Settled out of court. PH apologized but no admission of wrongdoing. They won’t tie discounts to race again. We don’t know if there was any payout to Kevin Lynch.


https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/theater/playwrights-horizons-lawsuit-race-discounts.html"

This is ridiculous. They should have never caved in.

I'm never paying a ticket to see anything from PH ever again.

I don't agree. Playwrights Horizons needs our support more than ever. No one deserves to be in the shooting target of these creeps. 

Joyce 9 said: "Settled out of court. PH apologized but no admission of wrongdoing. They won’t tie discounts to race again. We don’t know if there was any payout to Kevin Lynch.


https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/theater/playwrights-horizons-lawsuit-race-discounts.html"

Nauseating. White nationalists with deep pockets using the legal system to bully an arts non-profit into bowing to their racism.

I posted recently (sinister teashop) and it showed my post as belonging to “Claudia Draper” which was the character Bab’s played in “Nuts”. Kind of fabulous but also odd.

I would love to see a transfer of the London production directed by Blanche McIntyre and starring Jennifer Westfeldt of Richard Greenberg’s 2013 “The Assembled Parties”.