Stranger Things The First Shadow

Does the Stranger Things-verse translate to Broadway? My review of The First Shadow is up at the NY Times.

Jeremy Jordan

I've long been a fan of Jeremy Jordan and finally got to talk to him — about Floyd Collins and other things. My feature for the NY Times is here.

Jinkx Monsoon interview

It's hard to think of a more engaging interviewee than Jinkx Monsoon. I hope I did her justice in this interview.

The Shrouds

The first David Cronenberg movie I ever saw was Videodrome, right when it came out. I didn't know what hit me! Here we are, decades later, and I reviewed his latest for the NY Times. Click here for my take on The Shrouds.

A French mother-daughter duo does Gypsy

Natalie Dessay and her daughter, Neïma Naouri, just sang Rose and Louise in Paris! I wish I'd been there. Second best was talking to them about it for the Times. Click here for the story.

Paddling the Delaware

Last year I joined the first three days of the Delaware River Sojourn: about 9-12 miles of kayaking daily and camping at night. That last part is what was making me nervous beforehand as I'd never slept under a tent before that trip. Read on to see what happened — oh, and by the way, by sheer coincidence, the green tent in the foreground in that misty photo is mine!

Five sci-fi movies for April

I've started mulling over the May column and so I probably link to the current one — I'm so behind in those posts, which are pretty much a running tally of what I publish! Here you go: 5 under-the-radar sci-fi movies to stream this month!

Revisiting the college years with the cast of All Nighter

Natalie Margolin has a real playwright's voice and I'm there for it. I talked to the cast members of her new comedy, All Nighter, about what they were up to in the mid-2010s, when the play takes place. Click here for our chat (and their playlist).

The Cherry Orchard

Only one week left to see the Benedict Andrews production of The Cherry Orchard at St. Ann's Warehouse: go, go, go! Here's my enthusiastic review for the NY Times. I cannot recommend this show enough. Chupa Chups forever!

Love Life

The Encores! series revived Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner's obscure musical Love Life, and I had mixed feelings about it: appealingly bizarre narrative and songs, but the staging that overcompensated with sentimentality. My review is here.