NYT: Trading the E.R. or the Kitchen for a Broadway Stage

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Posted: 5/2/26 at 8:50pm

After being heckled at a performance of “Just in Time,” Isa Briones, an actress from “The Pitt,” posted on Instagram: “Don’t talk to me onstage and don’t call me Dr. Santos.”

“It’s a new problem,” said her “Pitt” co-star Patrick Ball, who is appearing in “Becky Shaw” on Broadway. “There’s a real luxury in anonymity.” But there are upsides to fame, too. Some of the dozens of fans who greet him at the stage door might not have bought tickets to a Broadway play otherwise.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/theater/patrick-ball-pitt-bear-hacks-gilded-age-broadway.html?unlocked_article_code=1.flA.V5TK.vPh1Q8L--QIC&smid=nytcore-android-share