Trey Graham

The Critic Is Dead Long live the critic (Just, y'know, elsewhere and in a different mode)

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Exactly. I was dubious about the concept beforehand, but was asking myself right up until the end whether Victor was going to turn out to be a legit fabulist or just a feckless egomaniac. And the Creature reveal! <chef’s kiss>

Review | An astonishing new approach to ‘Frankenstein’ This Shakespeare Theatre Company world premiere brings freshness to the Mary Shelley story.

This right here, we need to talk about:

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Survived a full-length staging of “L’Incoronazione Di Poppea” tonight and not gonna lie I wasn’t sure that was possible at my age.

On Live Conversations, Butterfly-Watching, Floppy-Haired Men and Such Plus the tale of a hungry, hungry possum

The good people at Politics & Prose were kind enough to record my conversation with Drew Lichtenberg and Deborah Payne a couple of weeks ago, so now I get to invite all y’all to come listen. It’s about the history of the Shakespeare Theatre Company here in Washington DC. Come check it out!

Likewise! Here’s to more and better adventures.

This is a hell of a thing.

Free tomorrow afternoon? I’m not — I’ll be at Politics & Prose talking with these two interesting people about the history of the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Join us!

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Review | Three short adventures on the D.C. area’s smaller stages Reviews of Theater Alliance’s “The Garbologists,” NextStop’s “Native Gardens” and Scena Theatre’s “Ajax.”

Three short adventures on the D.C. area’s smaller stages

Mortified to admit this, but the whole Cartier/Cardi B. thing just registered for me.

congress should ban linkedin. those are the user reactions i want

DoJ releases its Tulsa race massacre report over 100 years after initial review DoJ report acknowledges attack ‘was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence’

"In 1921, white Tulsans murdered hundreds of residents of Greenwood, burned their homes and churches, looted their belongings, and locked the survivors in internment camps."

🚨🚨🚨 There is a live camel in the middle of Columbia Heights. This is not a drill. 🚨🚨🚨

Nooooooooooo!

Wait how do we know you’re not Fake Linda?

More Than Half of US Adults Get Their News from a Squeaky, Malevolent Voice Inside Their Heads that Only They Can Hear, says recent poll from Pew

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:

1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;

2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;

3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

A line I cannot forget that I’m pretty sure was his: “… boots so intricately laced as to suggest perversion.” Twentysomething me read that with quite the frisson.

O Love Is Teasing (Arr. D'Angelo & Helstroffer for Voice and Guitar) by Emily D'Angelo & Bruno Helstroffer on Apple Music Song · 2024 · Duration 3:23

If you want to think about something that’s not a holiday or politics or a gunman, here’s one of the most exquisite things I’ve come across this year:

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Review | Shakespeare showed us that villains are more complex than they seem Patrick Page tracks the evolution of the antagonist in his solo show “All the Devils Are Here.”

I’ve seen a crap-ton of Shakespeare, and I’ve seen this show twice, and I couldn’t have reviewed it more intelligently than my friend Chris did here:

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I rarely stop to think about this, but opposable thumbs really are fairly badass.

How two of D.C.’s best performers can turn a play into something magical Holly Twyford and Kate Eastwood Norris have performed together many times through the decades, but their latest collaboration is something special.

Some thoughts (not all mine!) on two of DC’s very finest.

I’d have followed anyway just because, but you get extra points for the trash panda.

‎His Dark Materials Omnibus ‎Kids · 2007

“That’s the duty of the old,” said the Librarian, “to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.”

Something sticky, I hope.

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

Also: If you don't have money to buy my (or anyone's) books, and you live in the anglosphere, before you pirate them, try to get them from your local library instead. They have it or can get it, they pay for the books, and in many places writers get paid for their books being lent. Everyone wins!

The Rupert Everett of horses.

The New Deal actually offers a model here. Its architects saw democracy and prosperity as intricately intertwined and, moreover, knew they had to *promote* the idea that they were connected.