The Bad Boy of Musical Theatre

Random musings from a bad-ass culture warrior

October 12, 2025

Christian Charity

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This is the third time I'm directing Bat Boy . A couple nights before we opened, our intern Aiden asked me if I've learned anything ...
October 8, 2025

A Filthy Freak Who's Just Like You

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Bat Boy is a weirdly wonderful mashup of extreme silliness and deadly seriousness. Part of the glorious stunt of this musical is how adroit...
September 15, 2025

He Has Suffered and Now It's Your Turn

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It all started with the satirical supermarket tabloid, Weekly World News . This brilliantly funny newspaper boasted outrageous headlines ove...
September 10, 2025

BAT BOY No. 3

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I first saw Bat Boy off Broadway in March 2001 and I fell madly in love. And trust me, "madly" is the right word. May the theatre...
August 22, 2025

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to This Season

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When we were planning for  New Line's 2025-26 season , which is never an easy job to begin with, there was one overriding consideration ...
May 8, 2025

There's Only Us

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Art explores and explains life. That’s the whole point of art. Can art explain Donald Trump and this Moment of MAGA, this angry, dark, cultu...
April 19, 2025

Food of Love: The RENT Glossary

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Have you ever wondered about all those references in "La Vie Bohème"? Me too! Here's what I found. "Dies irae" -- ...
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