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Alexis Soloski

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NYT culture reporter, accidental magician's assistant, English and Comp Lit PhD. Bestselling (!) author of debut novel, "Here in the Dark," out now!

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Joined July 2012

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Alexis Soloski

7 months

And here is a link to pre-order "Here in the Dark," a work of psychological suspense about a theater critic who makes very bad choices. The ideal gift for any practitioner:

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Here in the Dark

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A dark and stylish novel of psychological suspense about a young theater critic drawn into a dangerous game that blurs the lines betw...

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Alexis Soloski

3 years

The superb Renée Elise Goldsberry, who also told me: "I would 100% be lying to you that I was 35 years old right now if the fucking internet did not tell every motherfucker my age."

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As I seem to be on a @realsarahpolley kick, here's a prescient sentence from an op-ed early in the #MeToo movement: "I hope that when this moment of noisy sisterhood dissipates, it doesn’t end with a woman in a courtroom, being made to look crazy, as these stories so often do."

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How much do we think that Tennessee Williams would have loved the Real Housewives?

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1 year

Some professional news that is also if you know me and my complete lack of work/ life balance deeply personal news: I'm joining @nytimesarts as a staff reporter. Absolutely overwhelmed.

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2 years

The feminine urge to sell your debut novel:

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3 years

I have, as they say, news. Extremely nice news.

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Alexis Soloski

5 months

I asked Matt Bomer what it feels like to be this handsome: “We were raised in my home to always be very humble and to not be worldly in that regard,” he said. “Having said that, I make sure to moisturize.”

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Matt Bomer Takes the Lead

Once told he would never be a leading man if he came out, Bomer defied such predictions and, in projects like “Fellow Travelers” and “Maestro,” is getting some of the richest roles of his career.

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Alexis Soloski

6 years

I have a Friday night request, for theater educators and people who love them. We've been working on Crash Course Theater for about a year now. And we're proud of it! Please retweet and most of all share it with your students. We think you'll dig it:

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Crash Course Theater and Drama

In 50 videos, Mike Rugnetta teaches you theater and drama! This course is based on an introductory college level course in Theater and explores the history, ...

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Alexis Soloski

4 years

Very, very sad about the supremely talented Nick Cordero. Here he is talking about playing the heavy, beautifully, in "Bullets Over Broadway": "The producer kept telling me, ‘Get tough. Get mean. Get angry,’ ” he said. “But I’m a nice guy. I’m Canadian.”

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2 years

Broadway performers! I'm working on a piece about ritual, routine and superstition. Is there anything you always do before a show or after a show? Anything you always have in your dressing room or an item you always wear? Any superstitions you follow?

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2 years

Hey, I've wanted to write this story forever as I've long been dazzled by understudies and swings. Didn't expect it to be quite so topical:

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On Broadway, Newly Vital Understudies Step Into the Spotlight (Published 2021)

As Omicron spreads, shows are relying on replacement actors more than ever. And productions without enough of them have had to cancel performances.

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4 years

Bittersweet feelings about the thoroughly responsible cancellation of Shakespeare in the Park. It's a seasonal gift and whenever I went I had the feeling that the life in New York I'd imagined for myself and the life I was actually living had fully overlapped.

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Please cast Carrie Coon in everything. Thanks!

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Carrie Coon Likes to ‘Play the Baddie’ in ‘The Gilded Age’

Playing a new-money upstart in “The Gilded Age,” the actor isn’t afraid to go big. “You can’t take it too seriously,” she said. “You can’t take yourself too seriously.”

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2 years

Into the Woods on PBS was my absolute gateway musical

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4 years

How do we dim lights when there are no lights anymore?

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6 years

It's been a while since a press release hit me (and it felt like a kiss) out of nowhere: NATHAN LANE & ANDREA MARTIN TO STAR IN “GARY: A SEQUEL TO TITUS ANDRONICUS” A NEW COMEDY BY TAYLOR MAC ON BROADWAY

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4 years

You guys, the semiotics of theater are beautiful. One projection of stained glass on a side wall and everyone's all, yup, that's a church.

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4 years

@MJSchulman This made me very psyched not to be in my 20s any more.

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2 years

Thinking about Devil Wears Prada and Pretty Woman and to a lesser extent Mean Girls and Waitress and wishing we could occasionally have a musical about a woman who knows what she wants and actively pursues it

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2 years

Thinking a lot lately about the ethics of live performance right now and really at a loss to come up with coherent principles, even for myself. Do feel that actors and backstage and FOH should be receiving some kind of hazard pay

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Alexis Soloski

1 year

Sometimes you do meet you're heroes and it's actually very nice:

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The Examined Life of Melanie Lynskey (Published 2023)

In series like “Yellowjackets,” the actor specializes in revealing the turbulent emotions of women who seem innocuous and mild on the surface.

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Alexis Soloski

6 years

Pro tip: If you would like your mentions to overflow with joy, highly recommend writing headband-related content on @georgesalazar

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Alexis Soloski

3 years

But seriously, every once in a while I try to take in the almost total obliteration of a huge industry and a crazy ancient form that has consumed two decades of my life and attention and my brain is like, Nah. Cannot compute.

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Alexis Soloski

2 years

New Yorkers: Hedwig, one of the great modern musical to movie adaptations, is playing at the Angelika on the 27th. This is a good one to see on a big screen.

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Alexis Soloski

5 years

Anyone who finds the musical theater convention of I'm talking I'm talking and now I'm singing absurd doesn't hang with five - year-olds.

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Alexis Soloski

2 years

For anyone who is awake and would like to see my house plants, I'm on Morning Joe in 5

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Alexis Soloski

3 years

Hey, theater and arts Twitter: Do you know anyone who has left a career in the arts and retrained as something else during the pandemic? Are you that person? Would that person want to talk about it? DM and I'll put you in touch with my lovely journalist friend.

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Alexis Soloski

3 years

Ladies and gentlemen, the Jeanaissance:

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The Re-Re-Rebirth of Jean Smart (Published 2021)

With “Mare of Easttown” and now “Hacks,” an actor who Hollywood undervalued for years continues her career resurgence.

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3 years

Late to the Dana H. party, but everyone who loves theater should see this. Superlative acting offered with absolute grace, a harrowing, difficult story and an interrogation of story telling itself

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2 years

Just popping on to say that almost 30 years on I still don't get Emma Thompson rejecting Denzel in Much Ado

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Alexis Soloski

3 years

Understand if you are Allen v Farrowed out, but some thoughts on the stories women tell abd the stories we believe.

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Woody Allen, Mia Farrow and What Popular Culture Wants to Believe (Published 2021)

The new HBO documentary revisits a 1990s scandal. What viewers take away from it may depend on the stories they trust about women and why.

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3 years

This lady in the steamed up glasses just got her first vaccine shot.

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6 years

If I see a play in which one couple invites another couple over for dinner and everything goes well, it's going to mess me up for years.

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3 years

Just finished a new draft of my novel! And only two and a half years after I told my agent I was just about to finish a new draft of my novel!

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4 years

Wishing I had more time to work on my novels is feeling very monkey's paw

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4 years

Is taking your husband to Medea too on the nose?

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4 years

Superb theater and a supreme act of clear - eyed empathy. See it.

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Thrilled to announce that the film of my play, Twilight: Los Angeles will be rebroadcast on PBS this Monday (6/8) at 10pm. Beginning next week, the film will also be available to stream, for free, online. Keep the conversation going. #TwilightLosAngeles

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4 years

@MJSchulman @RachelShukert Bats! Now and forever.

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1 year

WE CAN HAVE NICE THINGS. Somebody Somewhere is renewed for S3.

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5 months

My book is out today. Which is so nice. I would be delighted if you read it or listened to Laura Benanti read the hell out of the audiobook.

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Here in the Dark

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A dark and stylish novel of psychological suspense about a young theater critic drawn into a dangerous game that blurs the lines betw...

us.macmillan.com

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Alexis Soloski

3 years

Asking for a friend: Who wants this? Because American Buffalo is a fun play--zippy language, taut structure--as Mamet plays go and these are great actors. But it also feels wildly out of touch with the moment.

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Michael Paulson

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3 years

Broadway news: The pandemic-delayed revival of David Mamet's "American Buffalo" starring Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell and @DarrenCriss is now scheduled to open on April 14, 2022, two years later than initially planned.

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4 years

Hey, we have a new package and I'm really proud of it, a call for how theater can return in more equitable, dynamic and accessible ways:

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How to Birth a New American Theater (Published 2020)

Six months dark. Thousands of artists out of work. Could this disaster have a surprise ending? Five critics on what must change, onstage and off.

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Alexis Soloski

3 years

Book group? Meet drama club.

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Put Down Your Book. It’s Time to Act Out. (Published 2021)

With playhouses closed, theater fans have taken drama into their own hands and mouths, forming play reading groups online and off.

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Alexis Soloski

4 years

On West Side Highway. Everyone honking for joy. Pedestrians clapping. I love this stupid city.

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Alexis Soloski

3 years

Not crazy about "felled" (or "tarnished") further down. Maybe it was his sexual assaulting that did the tarnishing? Not the accusations?

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His plays gave opportunities to a number of young actors who went on to become household names. But he was later felled by accusations of sexual misconduct. The playwright Israel Horovitz has died at 81.

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7 months

Reviews aren't out yet, but if I were a savvy theatergoer and the kind of person who puts on Rumours just so she can cry a little, I would perhaps buy tickets to Stereophonic now

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5 years

I feel like 😂 would have been Chekhov's favorite emoji.

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4 years

I guess theater nightmares are still the closest I'm getting to theater these days.

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5 years

Sometimes the world is so kind, via TFANA's new season: a new production of María Irene Fornés’ Fefu and Her Friends, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz

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3 years

Hi. I wrote about television and popular romance and why we can't get a happily ever after.

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5 years

For those who don't believe that theater is relevant and can speak to our lives, today I am wearing the overalls I bought because of "Yerma."

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Alexis Soloski

8 months

As someone who forms absolutely demented parasocial relationships with artists I love, I regret to inform you that after interviewing a favorite writer-performer, we kept chatting and then went grocery shopping. I AM LEARNING ALL THE WRONG LESSONS.

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Alexis Soloski

3 years

Uncomfortable vaccine side effect: I may have to think about dating again.

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Alexis Soloski

3 years

Today's controversy: "The Prom" is good. Better than on Broadway. I did not expect this.

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Alexis Soloski

7 years

WalKing down the street with Michael Friedman's songs running through my head. Smart sly and just goddamn splendid.

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1 year

A thing I wish more people understood about (most) critics is the profound relief of liking something

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3 years

Funny to think we could have an impeachment before we have a Tonys.

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5 months

Oh my God, according to USA Today, my favorite paper to read while stying at assorted Holiday Inns, "Here in the Dark has made the bestseller list!

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4 years

Just received a release about an uncut Hamlet and at this point in quarantine that's not really the uncut I'm looking for.

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5 months

In the wild!

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5 months

I hate this so much.

@AmericanTheatre

American Theatre

@AmericanTheatre

5 months

Peter Marks, longtime theatre critic for @washingtonpost , has taken a buyout. His last day at the paper will be Dec. 31, and no replacement has been named, leaving one of the most significant U.S. theatre cities without a full-time drama critic.

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Alexis Soloski

5 years

You guys? I was literally just diagnosed with malaise. Fighting something viral and since one kid has strep thought I'd get tested. Test was negative. Diagnosis was malaise. Feel so 19th century. Gonna go rest on the recamier.

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Alexis Soloski

4 years

Been thinking a lot about rom coms lately and the trope of the uptight fiancee whom the hero abandons for the free-spirit heroine. I'm now 100% team fiancee.

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Alexis Soloski

2 years

This book slaps so hard. For added excitement, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is showrunner

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Deadline Hollywood

2 years

‘Kindred’ Pilot Based On Octavia E. Butler Novel Picked Up To Series By FX

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Alexis Soloski

3 years

Just explained "previews" to the children, in re their toy theater shows. It's a lot to take on, so I'll wait a while before I tell them how they can still charge full ticket prices.

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Alexis Soloski

6 years

Netflix just announced a LaBute series. Now would be a nice time to know about the MCC split.

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Alexis Soloski

3 years

My 4-year-old overheard me talking to a friend about some recycled IP and said, "If it was terrible the first time, why are they making it again?" And I want you to know that he has mostly stopped napping and is available for development jobs.

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Alexis Soloski

3 years

A funny paradox about watching theater online: I like being visible, because it holds me accountable and helps with focus. (My focus is...not great.) But performing one's (my) response is weirdly exhausting.

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Alexis Soloski

5 years

Has anyone ever written a one-act where the players in "Hamlet" sit around post-show and process? Because I think I would enjoy that.

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Alexis Soloski

4 years

Nope. Nope. Nope. This piece misrepresents peaceful protest and endangers Black lives and those standing in solidarity. "Opinions" like these need rigorous analysis and debunking, not a platform

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Alexis Soloski

2 years

Didi O'Connell, the greatest:

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She Won a Tony. But Deirdre O’Connell ‘Can’t Think About That.’ (Published 2022)

We spoke to the veteran actress as she returned to work, preparing for the opening of her new Off Broadway show “Corsicana.”

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Alexis Soloski

3 years

Love to wake up in the middle of the night to scribble down an amazing idea and then find out in the morning that the note just reads, "NUT GRAPH!!!"

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Alexis Soloski

2 years

Have been thinking lately about "Barry" and how it shows abuse being perpetrated against a woman that many people find annoying. That's the thing about victims of abuse, they're not always likable. it doesn't obviate the abuse.

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Alexis Soloski

3 years

After some fairly frustrating clicking and refreshing and clicking and refreshing and clicking and refreshing, called the 877 hotline number and got an appointment in 10 minutes. Moderna, here I come!

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Alexis Soloski

3 years

Remarkable oral history of "Moulin Rouge" post shutdown from @MichaelPaulson and a microcosm of the varied and terrible ways that the pandemic has devastated theater workers.

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‘Moulin Rouge!’ Was Their Ticket. Then 2020 Happened. (Published 2021)

It was a Broadway smash with big plans until 25 company members took ill and a shutdown put everybody out of work. Inside a tumultuous year, in the words of those who lived it.

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Alexis Soloski

3 years

At Marie's Crisis tonight. Really worked through some stuff through the medium of Suddenly Seymour.

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Alexis Soloski

5 years

Marvel is sponsoring plays now and I guess I am okay with this? But buried in this press release, comics-head Christian Borle has written a Thor and Loki play:

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Alexis Soloski

2 years

Well this was a ride. When I began reporting out this piece, all systems were go. Two days later, not so much.

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Coronavirus Is Surging. Avant-Garde Arts Festivals Are Closing. (Published 2022)

Under the Radar, Prototype and the Exponential Festival, annual January beacons of experimental work, have canceled their in-person offerings.

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Alexis Soloski

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Hi, friends. It is my birthday. To celebrate, come join me in two weeks for the "Here in the Dark" book launch. On Dec. 5 I'll be at the Strand with Rachel Syme. On Dec. 6 at Community Books with Alex Segura, both at 7 PM.

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2 years

I always feel weird hyping sold out or nearly sold out shows, but Into the Woods at Encores! is splendid and lovely and funny and I want everyone to see it.

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‘Into the Woods’ Review: Some Enchanted Evening (Published 2022)

Sara Bareilles and Neil Patrick Harris lead a starry Encores! revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s sweet-sour musical.

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Alexis Soloski

5 years

Saw an actor I love and have seen a million times on the bus this morning and did the wave and smile thing before remembering that I'm the one sitting in the dark and this friendship we have is pretty one-sided.

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Alexis Soloski

4 years

Audible was really ahead of the curve on this theater without theater thing.

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Alexis Soloski

2 years

Did not win a Pulitzer but did manage to hold a notebook, a pen, a recorder and a backup recorder while roller skating yesterday and where is the prize for that?

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Alexis Soloski

11 months

If Ben Platt and Jessica Chastain win, what a year for sitting down!

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Alexis Soloski

6 years

Stephen Payne, everyone! I may have teared up a little reporting this.

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He Used to Move Pianos. Now He Moves Audiences. (Published 2018)

Stephen Payne, a longtime understudy, gets his first Broadway starring role in “Straight White Men.”

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2 years

Five year old had a sidewalk meltdown today because his sister picked the "wrong" macaron flavor. Love to be an absolute parody of a brooklyn mom

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3 years

Just offhandedly referred to my vaccination card as my v-card and had to stammer than one back real quick

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2 years

Excerpt from the nine-year-old's new story: "I tasted the rain. It tasted like despair." Teen years are going to be wild.

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4 years

By the time Rosie ends, we may be out of quarantine.

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1 year

Hi, babies. I've been taking a Twitter break. Because Twitter is bad? But I have something nice to tell you: "Party Down" is good. It's the very rare revival/ reboot that won't make you feel weird or bad about having liked the original.

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Alexis Soloski

6 years

An actor just sent a charming thank you note, which is both a gracious gesture and a sobering reminder that actors know where I live.

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4 years

I love that ALW's house is full regency glamour and SS is like, wanna see my bathroom?

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3 years

But what if you were both?!

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trash jones

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too much hate for “theater kid energy” and not enough hate for “school newspaper kid energy”

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@rachsyme She is criminally underrated. Re-annoyed about On Becoming a God being cancelled.

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6 months

Yes, why don't you?

@BookTrib

BookTrib

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Follow the tale of a theater critic in the performance of her life — and maybe her death — in HERE IN THE DARK by Alexis Soloski. @ASoloski #psychologicalsuspense #gripping #novel #ThanksgivingWeekend #reading

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3 years

I was back in a rehearsal room yesterday and those punishing fluorescent lights have never looked so good.

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Alexis Soloski

2 years

A quick note regarding BAM's Next Wave: Saw Ostermeier's Hamlet in Berlin years ago and have never experienced anything that was at once perfect encapsulation of Euro avant garde and perfect parody. Wanted to leave but was fully too terrified of the heckling that would follow

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10 months

Press seats are the great privilege of my life, but it's healthy and responsible to buy theater tickets once in a while which is why we'll be seeing Matilda from literally the last row of the upper balcony. Hope those swings go really high.

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Alexis Soloski

3 years

Someone wrote stationary when they meant stationery and I didn't immediately correct them and I'd like to think this means I'm growing as a person.

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