Joey Sims

Noah Galvin and Chip Zien, Two Jews in a Room Kibbitzing About The Reservoir - TheaterMania.com Jake Brasch’s new dark comedy has its off-Broadway premiere at the Atlantic.

Read on, if only to find out why I have Chip Zien on the record saying "So what, ya know? He looks at the dicks!"

is encores listening

Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie is beautiful, I wish Toronto was real

i need to see GAZILLION BUBBLE SHOW don’t i

i know it’s something to do with GAZILLION BUBBLE SHOW to be clear but i still don’t know what’s going on

in the netherworld of New World Stages the bartender might yell “WE GOT DOUBLE BUBBLE!!” for no apparent reason

What’s Left Standing of Kennedy Center Education and TYA? The Center’s roles as an incubator of new work for young audiences, and as a generous host for the American College Theater Festival, will be hard to fill.

The Kennedy Center’s roles as an incubator of new work for young audiences, and as a generous host for the American College Theater Festival, will be hard to fill, writes Daniella Ignacio.

forks found in kitchen!!

HiGH SPIRITS at Encores! opening with a surprise (to me) Campbell Scott…truly the best kind of surprise

new Wallace Shawn play is 3 hours long w. 2 intermissions

Veteran Theatre Journalist Harry Haun Has Died At 85 Veteran journalist Harry Haun, who covered theater for more than 50 years, passed away on February 2. He had been admitted to the ICU last week with congestive heart failure. He was 85 and is survived...

a legend, tho i only knew of him as a crotchety fellow myself. Nice remembrance from Cara Joy David www.broadwayworld.com/article/Vete...

the Obies dropping a GOATed as hell list on a random Saturday night …literally no-one doing it like them www.obieawards.com/events/2020s...

A quiet that roars: Lesley Manville and Robert Icke took me through the creation of a monologue in Icke's "Oedipus" that elicits the most thrilling sound to be heard in a theater: that of an electrified silence.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/t...

A January Festival Roundup — Review Theatrely Senior Critic Joey Sims is keeping busy with festival season here in New York City and reports on his latest shows

My roundup of January festival fun - featuring musical dreamscapes, suicide-themed chatrooms, elaborate Rube Goldberg machines & massive inflatable sharks www.theatrely.com/post/a-janua...

Lot of OPEN anger from Bway actors today about shows going on. Fascinating to observe. Complaining out loud was inconceivable pre-Covid.

Pete Simpson Is Everyone Everywhere All at Once — The Hat At the Exponential Festival, the ubiquitous actor is doing more of what he loves: experimental theater, back-to-back plays, and throwing himself “over the cliff.”

Chatted with off-off mainstay Pete Simpson about a weird & packed 2025—his first not structured around a Blue Man day job since 1996 www.readthehat.com/articles/pet...

Sadly yes

not great

get me to God’s country

Protesters in winter coats lined up in front of agents in heavy tactical uniforms that say POLICE. The agents wear helmets and face coverings. A headline reads: "The People of Minneapolis vs. ICE". Photo by Todd Heisler/The New York Times

Enraged by the killing of Renee Good and the increased presence of federal agents in Minneapolis, local protesters are going face-to-face with heavily armed agents in a high stakes environment. trib.al/vekqQ69

Why on Earth Have I Seen the Same Broadway Show 13 Times? An Investigation.

Excellent piece, whatever you think of MINCEMEAT (I’m not a fan) - strikes at core of obsessive theater fandom as a comfort, yes, but also something very sad, almost pathetic in its way www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/m...

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Can AI Reinforce Our Humanity? A wave of new plays explore how artificial intelligence impacts us in ways scary and surprising

"Artists find the glitches." My TDF Stages piece on theater critiquing AI - and, in some cases, utilizing the tech to pick it apart. Is that unwise? www.tdf.org/on-stage/tdf...

new RAGTIME recording is a bummer. Mix is bad; orchestra is underpowered; passion these performers bring on stage is somehow absent.

BIG: this morning, Mayor Mamdani and Under the Radar announced a new initiative to give out 1,500 free festival tickets!
To have someone at City Hall who supports not just theater but non-commercial, often experimental performance blows my mind.

Conspiracies Abound In BUG — Review Theatrely's Broadway review of Bug by Tracy Letts and starring Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood in New York City at Manhattan Theatre Club.

Namir Smallwood is the standout in BUG, a gentler take on early Letts - it's affecting, if tonally messy www.theatrely.com/post/conspir...

i texted @davidlsims.bsky.social, "In many ways, GREENLAND 2: MIGRATION is the movie of the moment" and he immediately silenced notifications

A law enforcement agent used a chemical spray on a protester at the scene of the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman by an ICE officer. A photographer had his eyes flushed after being hit with chemical irritants.

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i do love Robert Icke’s basic ass. “What if a huge clock was counting down to the moment Oedipus figures it out?” You know what hell yeah