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Editor and theatre critic, Lighting&Sound America. Film fanatic in my spare time. Also fond of cocktails and wisecracks.

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A nation laid bare.

11.02.2026 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It was the channel of his mind...

10.02.2026 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Get out your shorts!

10.02.2026 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Amazon Powers Up Record Q4 Sales, Forecasts $200 Billion in 2026 Capex Amazon raked in a record $213.4 billion in revenue for Q4 2025 but shares fell after the company forecast $200 billion in capital spending for 2026.

But no CapEx for the WashPost.

variety.com/2026/digital...

05.02.2026 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Job openings plummet in warning sign for Trump's economy Layoffs rise and hiring levels off, even as U.S. GDP growth surges.

But Melania's grosses:

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

05.02.2026 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

LOL...True. Bet he'll be handy with a pitchfork!

05.02.2026 19:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump at the prayer breakfast today. "Religion is back now, hotter than ever before." Like it's TikTok or something.

05.02.2026 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Ben Platt and Rachel Zegler Bringing The Last Five Years to New York, Los Angeles - TheaterMania.com Their production debuts in March in London.

Radio City and The Hollywood Bowl: The perfect settings for this intimate musical two-hander:

www.theatermania.com/news/ben-pla...

04.02.2026 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Theatre in Review: Data (Lucille Lortel Theatre) - Lighting&Sound America Online News "Data is the language of our time. And like all languages, its narratives will be written by the victors." This statement, meant to reassure, is one of the most chilling in this new thriller, and ...

Off Broadway: A tense thriller about the ones and zeroes that are eating us alive:

www.lightingandsoundamerica.com/news/story.a...

03.02.2026 02:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

She has nerves of steel.

01.02.2026 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Theatre in Review: Watch Me Walk (Soho Rep/Peter Jay Sharp Theatre) - Lighting&Sound America Online News Anne Gridley is one angry woman. To be sure, she has plenty to be mad about; at times during this autobiographical piece, part of the Under the Radar Festival, I felt that a better title for Watch Me ...

Off Broadway: Steel yourself for Anne Gridley's scalding look at disability, our lousy healthcare system, and her astonishingly dysfunctional family. Trauma is transmuted into theatrical excitement:

www.lightingandsoundamerica.com/news/story.a...

31.01.2026 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Amazon Blocks Mainstream Press From Watching β€˜Melania’ Documentary at Kennedy Center After a red carpet attended by Donald and Melania Trump, mainstream media were banned from attending a screening of Amazon MGM's Melania documentary.

If only Pauline Kael were alive today:

variety.com/2026/film/ne...

30.01.2026 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

More four-dimensional chess:

29.01.2026 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We had eradicated this disease.

And now because of targeted disinformation, children, immunocompromised people, elderly folks, and so many others become victims in this proxy war and we have a new avoidable pandemic.

28.01.2026 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1992    πŸ” 802    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 30

Social media, twice.

26.01.2026 05:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe his pacemaker shorted.

21.01.2026 03:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You're right. Querelle would be a better choice.

20.01.2026 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I want them to do Persona next.

20.01.2026 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Theatre in Review: Bellow (Irish Arts Center/Under the Radar) - Lighting&Sound America Online News Bellow is a tricky one, all right. Ostensibly a celebration of Irish folk music, as played on the accordion by the musician Danny O'Mahony, it is, apparently, exactly the kind of show one expects ...

Off Broadway: A stunning little piece dedicated to the proposition that Irish music is good for the soul, but making it sometimes isn't:

www.lightingandsoundamerica.com/news/story.a...

19.01.2026 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

She hasn't heard about the Mommy Dearest tell-all that Elizabeth has secretly been composing for years.

18.01.2026 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey -- a demon swapped places with her daughter!

16.01.2026 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Theatre in Review: The Disappear (Audible Theater at Minetta Lane Theatre) - Lighting&Sound America Online News Erica Schmidt, writer and director of The Disappear, includes a Cassandra-like warning in the script's explanatory notes; too bad that nobody has heeded it. It's about her protagonist, Benjamin ...

Off Broadway: The problems of filmmakers, novelists, and producers aren't worth a hill of beans in this frail comedy with Hamish Linklater, Miriam Silverman, and Madeline Brewer:

www.lightingandsoundamerica.com/news/story.a...

16.01.2026 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Theatre in Review: Bug (Manhattan Theatre Club/Samuel J. Friedman Theatre) - Lighting&Sound America Online News When I first saw Bug about twenty years ago, I found it a creepily effective but distasteful exploitation thriller, the stage equivalent of a Blumhouse horror film -- the kind released in early ...

Broadway: Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood are caught up the paranoid fever dream of Bug:

www.lightingandsoundamerica.com/news/story.a...

14.01.2026 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He's going to end each broadcast with, "I love Bosco. That's the drink for me."

13.01.2026 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜CBS Evening News’ Viewership Slips in First Week Under Tony Dokoupil CBS Evening News' Viewership Slips in First Week Under Tony Dokoupil

Apparently, not too many are tuning in to watch him tear up:

variety.com/2026/tv/news...

13.01.2026 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Especially since it is usually an illusion.

13.01.2026 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Love that his name is β€œPutsch.” Better than β€œReichstag Fire,” I guess.

27.12.2025 03:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Assassins.

25.12.2025 20:27 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't know. It sounds pretty terrible on the face of it.

24.12.2025 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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