The Bad Boy of Musical Theatre
Random musings from a bad-ass culture warrior
October 9, 2024
Heart Like a Hand Grenade
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New Line has been in transition the last few years. The Great Plague of 2020 didn't really cause this transition, but it sped it up. I ...
September 22, 2024
Everybody's a Critic. Literally.
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What responsibility do theatre reviewers have these days? What role do they play in our culture? And maybe more to the point, what value doe...
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September 17, 2024
The Heart's Apocalypse
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A big part of the punk mindset is nihilism -- everything sucks, everyone is stupid and corrupt and selfish, everyone lies, the world is a pi...
September 8, 2024
Something Unpredictable
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I had programmed an entirely different 2024-2025 season for New Line. In retrospect, I see now that my mistake was in thinking about seasons...
August 28, 2024
It Was Worth All the While
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So here's the deal. Theatres across America are still struggling with the lingering effects of the Great Plague . Dozens of great theat...
August 19, 2024
AMERICAN IDIOT Redux
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One of my side hobbies lately is finding old novels and plays that are the sources for famous musicals, and if these sources are out of prin...
April 14, 2024
DRACULA
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I've always loved horror, and Dracula in particular. In 1995, I wrote my own gay vampire musical, In the Blood , and as I wrote, I read ...
March 10, 2024
It’s Dilemma! It’s de Limit! It’s Deluxe! It’s De-Lovely!
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This is the introduction for my newest book, Anything, Anything, Anything Goes: A Deep Dive : My freshman year in high school, Anything Goes...
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