Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude is a rare literary adaptation that understands reverence is not enough. It needs shape, silence, heat, grief, and patience. The series gives the Buendía family a world that feels alive, then lets that world collapse under the weight of everything it refused to remember.

I have been a Broadway kid—now a Broadway geezer—for most of my lifetime and have stacks and stacks of Playbills to prove it.

I enjoyed Putting It Together as an insightful behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Sunday in the Park with George. James Lapine offers an engaging mix of personal recollection, interviews, and theatrical history that gives a real sense of how such an ambitious musical gradually came together—and how collaborative, complicated, and sometimes uncertain that process could be.

What did I think of "All the Beauty in the World"? Having recently visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the first time (I'm kinda shocked about that myself!) and as a longtime fan of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler—I was looking forward to Patrick Bringley’s All the Beauty in the World . I wanted a glimpse behind the scenes of this extraordinary museum, and the book did not disappoint. Bringley writes with intelligence, warmth, and a wonderfully hum

From left to right: brother Paul, dad, brother Jack, Pappy, and me. Circa 1966? The Stevens family is a threadbare and quirky quilt. It is beloved, lovely and warm, but perhaps not always the finest needlework and maybe a tad stained. This is probably true of every family except, perhaps, the Norman Rockwell clan. Idealized families seldom exist as wholesomely as Mr. Rockwell painted them. Except for Pappy. "Pappy" was my paternal grandfather and his real name was James Ogle

Perfect theatre is a gift. Shows like "Hadestown" hit on all cylinders and grow on you as you peel the onion down to the heartbreaking but inspirational core.

Maybe questioning faith is not the abandonment of faith at all. Maybe it is how we rescue the baby from the bathwater.

Published in October 2025 by Grand Central Publishing, Vagabond: A Memoir is a delightful surprise and an unexpectedly charming read.

This Immersive version of the Phantom of the Opera doesn’t replace it. It haunts it, reshapes it, and lets you step inside it. It’s less a revival than a séance.

Choose happiness (ChatGPT enhanced image) I used to hate roller coasters. They scared the hell out of me and every time that I would convince myself that they "might be fun" or would get on one to placate my friends and try to get value from the super expensive park entrance fee, I would be cranking up that first big hill but eying the service steps along the uphill and think: "it's not too late! I could just get out and walk down." And then one day, I got on one of those old

Check out my thoughts about the Michael Jackson biopic. In a nutshell: fun but don't ask questions.

Schmigadoon! is a delight romp that sends up classic Broadway while also paying reverence. A bit like saying "Bless your heart" while delivering a backhanded compliment. Totally lovely.

Cole Escola accepts the award for lead actor in a play for “Oh, Mary!” at the 78th annual Tony Awards. He is the first non-binary winner. Michele Crowe/CBS I should have known that I was gay long before my first time with a guy. Sure, I loved to wrestle other little boys. I pulled down the pants on G.I. Joe to see what was inside. I loved getting the Sears Roebuck catalog so that I could peruse the men's underwear section. But they were symptoms too subtle. It should have bee

Robert is in the center (in green), Also Kendall, Jo, Wanda and others who have fallen out of my memory. The photo was from Breckenridge, Colorado. My iPhone time stamp says June 2011 but that it almost certainly wrong. I would guess about 2003? I think it may have been Martin Luther King Day weekend or there about. Sometimes I amuse myself by choosing what day in my life I would want to live over and over in "Groundhog Day" style. A day that was so alive and sparkling that

Titanique is slight but campy and clever. Check out my review of this Celine Dion jukebox Broadway send up of Titanic...

What can you learn from the Garden of Eden story in the book of Genesis when Darwin and science pretty convincingly debunk it? Find out...

Cats: the Jellicle Ball at the Broadhurst Theater proves that cats might really have nine lives. Here is my review from the 2026 Broadway revival/reinvention