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Peter Marks

@petermarksdrama.bsky.social

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Recovering journalist, 21 years as WaPo's theater critic, 9 years before that at NYT as reporter and critic. Now host of theater podcast, Marks & Vincentelli marksvincentelli.substack.com

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Peter Marks @petermarksdrama.bsky.social · 4d

Attended Randy Rainbow’s show at Town Hall tonight. I needed that.

Peter Marks @petermarksdrama.bsky.social · Jul 27

What’s Bred in the Bone. Fab.

Peter Marks @petermarksdrama.bsky.social · Jul 4

The Pointless Triumph of a Hapless President www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/o...

“If Barry Goldwater was the book and Ronald Reagan the movie, Mr. Trump is the glitzy jukebox musical.”

This is the kind of dumb, lazy analogy that “intellectuals” use to disparage theater.

Opinion | The Pointless Triumph of a Hapless President

www.nytimes.com

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Peter Marks @petermarksdrama.bsky.social · Jun 26

Kathleen has always had an interesting theater brain.

Peter Marks @petermarksdrama.bsky.social · Jun 26

Thanks Dan!

Peter Marks @petermarksdrama.bsky.social · Jun 25

So, once and for all, is Hamlet a head case? Director/author Jeremy McCarter has decided to get inside Hamlet's head -- and get him inside yours, too -- to probe the question in a delicious new audio version of the play. Let us three tell you about it!

marksvincentelli.substack.com/p/is-hamlet-...

Is Hamlet a total head case? We talk to the director who has set a new audio version of the play in the Prince's mind.

Jeremy McCarter's Make-Believe Association asks you to put on headphones to fully experience "Hamlet."

marksvincentelli.substack.com

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · Jun 23

It's worth doing if only to force a reaction from Vichy homosexual Ric Grenell.

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · Jun 23

So...okay, good. I'm kind of losing patience with the standard smug Bluesky "Oh, how cringe" or "Democrats amirite?" reaction. People are going to try a lot of things, from big policy actions to small performative gestures. If your reaction is "It won't fix things," yeah, no shit.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jun 23

Five Democratic senators have rented a small theater at the Kennedy Center and invited the producer of “Hamilton” to stage a gay pride concert there as a form of protest against President Trump’s takeover of the institution.

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Peter Marks @petermarksdrama.bsky.social · Jun 21

Early voting, Saturday 6/21. Lower Manhattan.

Peter Marks @petermarksdrama.bsky.social · Jun 15

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Peter Marks @petermarksdrama.bsky.social · Jun 15

Staying at a house in Maine. Conservative Republican family next door.
They’ve put up a Dump Trump sign.

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Peter Marks @petermarksdrama.bsky.social · Jun 14

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Peter Marks @petermarksdrama.bsky.social · Jun 14

Rockland, Maine!
#NoKings

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Peter Marks @petermarksdrama.bsky.social · Jun 10

We talk Tonys - the proceedings were the best in memory. And ratings were up. (My first time in the audience. Elisabeth followed avidly from afar.) A discourse for our paying subscribers!

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