Ellen Tumposky
@ellentumposky.bsky.social
Editing at New York Times Metro Desk. Newmark School of Journalism at CUNY. Daily News alum. Utica native.
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QUEEN OF VERSAILLES glides along sleepily, then abruptly rolls out the guillotine. For Theatrely: www.theatrely.com/post/the-que...
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES Doesn’t Quite Reign Over Broadway — Review
Theatrely's Broadway review of The Queen of Versailles on Broadway starring Kristen Chenoweth in New York City.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:17 AM
QUEEN OF VERSAILLES glides along sleepily, then abruptly rolls out the guillotine. For Theatrely: www.theatrely.com/post/the-que...
Great news, and all respect to those who fought the good fight.
WE HAVE A DEAL: We are happy to share that all of our hard work - and with the support of the people of New York - we have a tentative agreement on our first contract with Alden Global Capital
November 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Great news, and all respect to those who fought the good fight.
Brexit is mentioned in passing...
Voters in New York should study the lesson of London’s slow-motion car crash, Matthew Lynn writes.
"What happened to one half of NyLon can happen to the other as well — and a lot more quickly than New Yorkers might imagine."
"What happened to one half of NyLon can happen to the other as well — and a lot more quickly than New Yorkers might imagine."
Opinion | London’s sad decline is a warning to New Yorkers
In three terms as mayor, Sadiq Khan has crushed the economic life out of Britain’s capital.
wapo.st
October 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Brexit is mentioned in passing...
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It’s evidently less of a regulatory hassle to destroy a third of the motherfuckin White House complex that dates back to FDR than it is to repoint the bricks on a historic brownstone in prospect park.
Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
October 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
It’s evidently less of a regulatory hassle to destroy a third of the motherfuckin White House complex that dates back to FDR than it is to repoint the bricks on a historic brownstone in prospect park.
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A year later, RAGTIME does not hit nearly as hard. But my god, those voices! www.theatrely.com/post/a-glori...
A Glorious RAGTIME Is Finally Back On Broadway — Review
Theatrely's Broadway review of Ragtime at Lincoln Center Theatre in New York City.
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October 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A year later, RAGTIME does not hit nearly as hard. But my god, those voices! www.theatrely.com/post/a-glori...
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Happy birthday to these NYC legends.
October 20, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Happy birthday to these NYC legends.
And U.S. migrants will have to recite "The Blithedale Romance."
BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood announces that immigrants will have to recite Beowulf in its entirety in Old English, without notes, before being allowed entry to the U.K.
October 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
And U.S. migrants will have to recite "The Blithedale Romance."
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Can folks do me a favor?
I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January.
I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am.
I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics.
Here’s two favorite set photos.
Repost? I am in the wilderness.
I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January.
I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am.
I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics.
Here’s two favorite set photos.
Repost? I am in the wilderness.
August 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Can folks do me a favor?
I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January.
I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am.
I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics.
Here’s two favorite set photos.
Repost? I am in the wilderness.
I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January.
I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am.
I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics.
Here’s two favorite set photos.
Repost? I am in the wilderness.
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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...
August 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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...
@katiehonan.bsky.social : we knew her when.
August 21, 2025 at 2:44 AM
@katiehonan.bsky.social : we knew her when.
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hell yeah @joeysims.bsky.social in the new york times www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/t...
In This Intimate Play, You Perform for a Tree
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August 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
hell yeah @joeysims.bsky.social in the new york times www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/t...
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insane
Area Critic (Me) Needs New Job.
Reach out if you want me to write for you! Doesn't have to be reviews!
Reach out if you want me to write for you! Doesn't have to be reviews!
Vanity Fair Will Refocus on Hollywood and Cut Back Some Coverage Areas, Says New Editorial Director
Vanity Fair will scale back certain areas of coverage, including shutting down The Hive, to focus on entertainment and culture, editorial director Mark Guiducci said.
variety.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
insane
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Eliminating critics is not how you "boost" your coverage of Hollywood and culture, it's how you make that coverage more toothless. variety.com/2025/digital...
Vanity Fair Will Boost Focus on Core Areas Like Hollywood While Cutting Back Some Coverage, Says New Editorial Director
Vanity Fair will scale back certain areas of coverage, including shutting down The Hive, to focus on entertainment and culture, editorial director Mark Guiducci said.
variety.com
August 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Eliminating critics is not how you "boost" your coverage of Hollywood and culture, it's how you make that coverage more toothless. variety.com/2025/digital...
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The devaluation of skill, experience, and expertise is a crisis across cultural journalism right now--it's being felt profoundly in theater. It's great that anyone can post a review, but that does not, even in the smallest way, replace what's being thrown away.
August 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The devaluation of skill, experience, and expertise is a crisis across cultural journalism right now--it's being felt profoundly in theater. It's great that anyone can post a review, but that does not, even in the smallest way, replace what's being thrown away.
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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.
August 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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.
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The Times's reassignment of four critics is one thing, but its downgrading of the so-called traditional review is altogether another:
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
In Defense of the Traditional Review
Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future.
www.newyorker.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The Times's reassignment of four critics is one thing, but its downgrading of the so-called traditional review is altogether another:
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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really lovely to talk to Libby and Charlotte. finally a podcast where uttering the words “airing cupboard” make everyone come to LIFE
NEW episode with David Sims! An extended love song for the Tube, one of Britain’s greatest things. Listen now, with ads if you’re a chump and without ads on Patreon if you’re a smart biscuit (cookie) linktr.ee/whatsallthis...
June 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
really lovely to talk to Libby and Charlotte. finally a podcast where uttering the words “airing cupboard” make everyone come to LIFE
And try to be genuine
[quietest possible voice]
don't use your phone for this
don't use your phone for this
June 9, 2025 at 3:04 AM
And try to be genuine
Just don’t love Nicole
June 9, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Just don’t love Nicole
Excellent story. Enough with the megarich!
This excellent Sophie Gilbert piece nails a TV trend that fills me with “to the barricades!”anger. I do wish she’d spent as much time demolishing “Succession” as she did “And Just Like That.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
Money Is Ruining Television
Depictions of extreme wealth are everywhere on the small screen and, well, it’s all quite boring.
www.theatlantic.com
June 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Excellent story. Enough with the megarich!
@davidlsims.bsky.social and “Blank Check” in The New Yorker
This week in @newyorker.com: All you need to know is that the name of the show is Blank Check.
I walked around the Museum of the Moving Image's new Mission: Impossible exhibit with the top minds behind @blankcheck.bsky.social to talk Tom, "Sinners," and Videology trivia.
I walked around the Museum of the Moving Image's new Mission: Impossible exhibit with the top minds behind @blankcheck.bsky.social to talk Tom, "Sinners," and Videology trivia.
Is the “Mission: Impossible” Series Tom Cruise’s “Blank Check”?
The movie podcast, which examines the crazy passion projects that directors pursue after their first big hit (“Aloha” or “Speed Racer,” anyone?) celebrates its tenth birthday with a trip to a “Mission...
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June 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
@davidlsims.bsky.social and “Blank Check” in The New Yorker
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Round-up of some off-Broadway thoughts - including a rave for Kallan Dana's superb LOBSTER, at The Tank thru Sat www.theatrely.com/post/what-i-...
What I Saw Off-Broadway This Month — Reviews
Senior critic Joey Sims caught the following Off-Broadway and here are his thoughts: IRISHTOWN, I’M ASSUMING YOU KNOW DAVID GREENSPAN, HOLD ME IN THE WATER, FIVE MODELS IN RUINS, 1981, and LOBSTER
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May 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Round-up of some off-Broadway thoughts - including a rave for Kallan Dana's superb LOBSTER, at The Tank thru Sat www.theatrely.com/post/what-i-...
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In UTOPIAN HOTLINE, Brooklyn-based Theater Mitu created a show for the Charles Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Science, Boston (among other partners), producing what writer @joeysims.bsky.social calls a "dreamlike meditation on unanswerable questions." www.americantheatre.org/2025/05/07/u...
‘Utopian Hotline’ Calling: Do You Have an Answer?
Theater Mitu's investigation into a better world proves an unexpectedly perfect fit beneath a Boston planetarium's dome.
www.americantheatre.org
May 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
In UTOPIAN HOTLINE, Brooklyn-based Theater Mitu created a show for the Charles Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Science, Boston (among other partners), producing what writer @joeysims.bsky.social calls a "dreamlike meditation on unanswerable questions." www.americantheatre.org/2025/05/07/u...
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Misha Chowdhury's RHEOLOGY has extended thru May 17 at Bushwick Starr. I spoke to Misha and his mother, Bulbul - who, no joke, is giving one of the finest performances I've seen on stage all year extendedplay.thecivilians.org/rheology-a-m...
May 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Misha Chowdhury's RHEOLOGY has extended thru May 17 at Bushwick Starr. I spoke to Misha and his mother, Bulbul - who, no joke, is giving one of the finest performances I've seen on stage all year extendedplay.thecivilians.org/rheology-a-m...