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