Joey Sims

A September Off-Broadway Critic Roundup Theatrely's Off-Broadway roundup of House of McQueen, Bull, The Matriarchs, Holes in the Shape of My Father, and The Brother's Size.

& my Sept round-up includes The Shed, The Tank, Theaterlab, JACK and..sigh..."The Mansion at Hudson Yards" www.theatrely.com/post/a-septe...

In SATURDAY CHURCH, We Are All Looking For Community — Review Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of Saturday Church a new musical featuring the music of Sia and Honey Dijon at New York Theatre Workshop.

SATURDAY CHURCH is a mess, and might not be telling the right story. But what a cast! www.theatrely.com/post/in-satu...

I think it’s a really embarrassing bit of nationwide theater to pretend that a racist podcaster means anything to the world. he lived for nothing and died for nothing. the world is laughing at us and we deserve it because all this shit is fucking stupid!

loved this show, glad it is returning mcctheater.org/cold-war-cho...

Sam Tutty showing me his LEGO - preview feature on TWO STRANGERS, also for Theatrely www.theatrely.com/post/sam-tut...

Jack Wolfe comparing himself to a small kitten - my profile, part of Theatrely’s fall preview: www.theatrely.com/post/jack-wo...

A few fave quotes from new pieces of mine. First, on NYU Skirball (so hot right now) for TDF Stages: www.tdf.org/on-stage/tdf...

Disney has Tron: Ares, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Rental Family, Zootopia 2, Ella McCay, Avatar: Fire and Ash, and Is This Thing On? opening this year. I hope the talent involved in these movies curtails all planned publicity until the company reverses its decision about Kimmel.

Taika Waititi and Rita Ora Producing Musical About Fyre Festival - TheaterMania.com In a statement, Waititi said, “I can’t wait to get started and snatch me some of that sweet American theater money.”

alright let's pack it up www.theatermania.com/news/taika-w...

Tony Torn Confronts His Family Legacy in The Whole of Time | The Brooklyn Rail Tony Torn was only ten years old when he witnessed his father, the inimitable Rip Torn, perform the role of Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie on Broadway. Torn, at sixty years old, is now an essent...

My latest for The Brooklyn Rail: talkin’ Tennessee Williams, THE WHOLE OF TIME and weighty legacies with Tony Torn brooklynrail.org/2025/09/thea...

Featured in the "Finding Beauty" series, Robert writes about the loss experienced when trees — young & old, small & large — are felled in a prison yard. The work reminds us of the meaning each of us can make, & the harm any of us can do, as we choose to honor or ignore what is precious around us.

Opinion | In Prison, Trees Are a Symbol of Freedom (Gift Article) These trees were the only living beings that I could touch without fear.

Today, the New York Times published this exceptional opinion piece by Robert Lee Williams.

Incarcerated at Eastern NY Correctional Facility, Robert — in addition to his work as an essayist — is a full-time Bard student enrolled through BPI.

Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital A hospital strike in southern Gaza has killed at least eight people, including four journalists. The attack happened on Monday.

Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war.

She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.
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My @nytimes.com piece on ARBORLOGUES at the cell theater is looking cute in print today. Read it here! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/t...

In This Intimate Play, You Perform for a Tree

hell yeah @joeysims.bsky.social in the new york times www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/t...

Aurora Theatre moves to lay off staff, vacate downtown Berkeley venue If it ceases to exist, Aurora will join a list of recently closed or hibernating companies and venues that, in of themselves, could sustain a theater scene in a midsize city.

Just gutted. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

you should

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