Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude is a rare literary adaptation that understands reverence is not enough. It needs shape, silence, heat, grief, and patience. The series gives the Buendía family a world that feels alive, then lets that world collapse under the weight of everything it refused to remember.

I have been a Broadway kid—now a Broadway geezer—for most of my lifetime and have stacks and stacks of Playbills to prove it.

I enjoyed Putting It Together as an insightful behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Sunday in the Park with George. James Lapine offers an engaging mix of personal recollection, interviews, and theatrical history that gives a real sense of how such an ambitious musical gradually came together—and how collaborative, complicated, and sometimes uncertain that process could be.

What did I think of "All the Beauty in the World"? Having recently visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the first time (I'm kinda shocked about that myself!) and as a longtime fan of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler—I was looking forward to Patrick Bringley’s All the Beauty in the World . I wanted a glimpse behind the scenes of this extraordinary museum, and the book did not disappoint. Bringley writes with intelligence, warmth, and a wonderfully hum

From left to right: brother Paul, dad, brother Jack, Pappy, and me. Circa 1966? The Stevens family is a threadbare and quirky quilt. It is beloved, lovely and warm, but perhaps not always the finest needlework and maybe a tad stained. This is probably true of every family except, perhaps, the Norman Rockwell clan. Idealized families seldom exist as wholesomely as Mr. Rockwell painted them. Except for Pappy. "Pappy" was my paternal grandfather and his real name was James Ogle

That time that I fired a genius (Note: Duh! AI generated image.) As Fray and I hunker down on our new business (Pacheco Insurance Services), we haven't had much choice but to lean into AI. It is kind of miraculous but using artificial intelligence is like hiring the most talented employee you've ever met—and discovering almost immediately that they're unmanageable and insubordinate. They're brilliant, unbelievably fast, work 24/7 and can accomplish three hours of work in 30 s

ChatGPT's perfect image for my post about my letter from Harold Prince. Sweeney Todd was among my earliest theatre obsessions. The original two-record cast album was released in 1979, when I was twenty years old and an English literature major at Towson University. I remember locking myself in my bedroom, listening from beginning to end while following along with the lyrics and devouring the liner notes (remember those?!). When it was over, I just sat there in shock. The oper

Perfect theatre is a gift. Shows like "Hadestown" hit on all cylinders and grow on you as you peel the onion down to the heartbreaking but inspirational core.