Joey Sims

Common themes in my summer theater: Max Friedlich's THE HOLES (Powerhouse) and Jeremy O. Harris' SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE (Williamstown) both muse on driving out rich gentrifiers through blood-soaked violence.

Column | The ‘Maybe Happy Ending’ recasting is a major misstep The production’s decision to recast Tony winner Darren Criss with a White actor has drawn justifiable backlash.

Good @naveenkumarnyc.bsky.social column on the "Maybe Happy Ending" recasting www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

MAYBE HAPPY ENDING now pivoting a problem entirely of their own making to, “So important we have this conversation”…you are not serious people

Conrad Ricamora Launches Scholarship Fund for Asian Actors Following Maybe Happy Ending Casting Controversy The announcement of Andrew Barth Feldman as the musical's new lead has led to outcry from Broadway's Asian American actors.

"When there was a role that was originated by somebody in our community...that's a big win for us, because of the scarcity that we live in." I report on the AAPI Broadway community's disappointment in the recent Maybe Happy Ending casting decision

The Circus Comes to Williamstown, With Celebrities and Beefcake

Green not going out quietly....the contempt for Jeremy O. Harris here feels outsized (have Meadow, Haimes etc ever felt such wrath?) but perhaps correct on the results. Or a reaction to sensing a gentler criticism moving in? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/t...

*Jesse Green in vertical frame pointing at a tiny picture of MERRILY* “look, Sondheim was lowkey goated and we need to talk about it”

What Superman’s Pet Owes to a Badly Behaved Rescue Dog

It's my birthday so of course I wrote a story about a dog. Specifically about Krypto in Superman, a bad boy who is also a good boy, who was inspired by @jamesgunn.bsky.social's Ozu. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/m...

As Chris Jones’ reporting affirms, Rudin’s comeback is only possible because big names—in this case, Metcalf & Mantello—lamely insist on his involvement.

When Garth Drabinsky returned and promised to “be good this time,” things went predictably. I expect the same result here. People don’t change.

For 53 Years, She Led a New York Theater. Now She’s Stepping Down.

never thought i'd see the day www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/t...

first of many failed promises…smh

Between this and Zohran winning, it’s a great and horny night

Went back to SUNSET tonight. Tom Francis did the walk in a tank top, nips out. 100 degree weather. I was levitating out of my seat

Immersive Phantom is “bring your own mask?” yeah we’re in a recession

Power, Privilege, and Royal Parlor Games In PRINCE FAGGOT — Review Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of Prince Faggot by Jordan Tannahill at Playwrights Horizon in a co-production with Soho Rep. in New York City.

Thoughts on PRINCE FAGGOT, a mostly frustrating work www.theatrely.com/post/power-p...

A better show than MHE, but so very (wonderfully) dark, and never found the same awards narrative. Blows

need to see Little Shop again to catch Graham Phillips (hot) and Reg Rogers as Mr. Mushnik (HOT!!!)

I wish “Real Women Have Curves” had been able to find a Broadway audience. It has such a delicate balance to strike: joy and resilience on one side, fear and trauma on the other. And at a time when onstage stories of immigration and Americanness land so, so viscerally.

Celine Song presenting her own play TOM & ELIZA, a good play that I saw, as laughably bad in MATERIALISTS…way too much to unpack

Watched four cops take a young couple off an F train & write them a ticket for…holding a can of Mike’s Hard. Never felt safer

really good season www.classicstage.org/our-2025-26-...

jaw-droppingly awful second act; needed months of work/multiple characters excised. Brooks Ashmanskas innocent tho

Conrad Ricamora’s Tony campaigning has been spent 95% nipples-out, and I respect it.

The cowardly Tonys refuse to acknowledge that one could, in fact, see Boop

Speaking as a Drama Desk voter, I simply couldn’t condone Tom’s “Sodascout” antics and voted accordingly

Adams signed off on this. Cuomo would too. We have a primary in a few weeks, NYC. Let’s show up.

but like there is a very real chance of the Tonys going (to see) Boop!

BOWL EP Is The Explosive New Work We Have Been Waiting For — Review Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of Bowl EP by Nazareth Hassan at the Vineyard Theatre (co-producing with National Black Theater, in association with The New Group) in New York City.

Thoughts on Nazareth Hassan’s BOWL EP, an explosive jolt of life that only loses its way towards the end www.theatrely.com/post/bowl-ep...

#greenscreen love you all!! TikTok video by Sean McManus

the awful Patti lip-sync TikToker has thrown in the towel...oh it's OVER over www.tiktok.com/@seany_mac_o...

Charles Strouse, Jedi Master One of the late composer's musical theatre successors pays tribute to his elder's craft, creativity, and unflappable professionalism.

Great, great piece about Strouse writing an abandoned STAR WARS musical www.americantheatre.org/2025/05/22/c...