Emily G. Furlich
@emdashfurlich.bsky.social
knower of obscure details about divas of the stage and screen • Theatre PhDing at the CUNY Graduate Center • she/her
My roommate and I are watching Task and Martha Plimpton is great in it, but whenever she comes on screen I can’t help thinking about this Amy Ryan line reading from Broad City.
October 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
My roommate and I are watching Task and Martha Plimpton is great in it, but whenever she comes on screen I can’t help thinking about this Amy Ryan line reading from Broad City.
Two different unsolicited letters about phalluses from Patti LuPone’s papers at Columbia.
September 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Two different unsolicited letters about phalluses from Patti LuPone’s papers at Columbia.
I am so normal
August 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I am so normal
I may have flown too close to the sun; I have thirteen interlibrary loan DVDs in at the library right now
August 28, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I may have flown too close to the sun; I have thirteen interlibrary loan DVDs in at the library right now
Brooklyn College campus today
August 28, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Brooklyn College campus today
Sources are telling me it’s Black Cat Appreciation Day, so behold: Mack.
August 17, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Sources are telling me it’s Black Cat Appreciation Day, so behold: Mack.
Daydreaming about Bernadette Peters playing Fosca in the original London production of Passion again…
August 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Daydreaming about Bernadette Peters playing Fosca in the original London production of Passion again…
Among the books Patti LuPone donated to Columbia University for its collection of her papers—
Trotsky: Terrorism and Communism by Slavoj Zizek
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Trotsky: Terrorism and Communism by Slavoj Zizek
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
August 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Among the books Patti LuPone donated to Columbia University for its collection of her papers—
Trotsky: Terrorism and Communism by Slavoj Zizek
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Trotsky: Terrorism and Communism by Slavoj Zizek
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
I went to the Shubert Archive on Monday for research and my favorite discovery was a collection of stage manager reports from almost the entire run of Passion. For an evening performance with a particularly high number of mishaps, the SM began with, “Rough night in Parma.”
July 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I went to the Shubert Archive on Monday for research and my favorite discovery was a collection of stage manager reports from almost the entire run of Passion. For an evening performance with a particularly high number of mishaps, the SM began with, “Rough night in Parma.”
Every day I check my Amy Ryan Google Alert to see if she has a new acting project, and instead find another obituary of a poor soul survived by their children: Amy, Ryan.
July 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Every day I check my Amy Ryan Google Alert to see if she has a new acting project, and instead find another obituary of a poor soul survived by their children: Amy, Ryan.
I am in Chicago for the first time. What little I know about this city is entirely derived from The Blues Brothers
June 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I am in Chicago for the first time. What little I know about this city is entirely derived from The Blues Brothers
Do you think this is helpful to anyone
June 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Do you think this is helpful to anyone
Bernadette Peters, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson are on Celebrity Wheel or Fortune tonight. If you even care…
June 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Bernadette Peters, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson are on Celebrity Wheel or Fortune tonight. If you even care…
Because I like to remind everyone how old Bernadette Peters actually is, here she is remembering where she was when she learned about the dance phenomenon of the twist. (Chicago, during the second national tour of Gypsy.)
June 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Because I like to remind everyone how old Bernadette Peters actually is, here she is remembering where she was when she learned about the dance phenomenon of the twist. (Chicago, during the second national tour of Gypsy.)
In 1969, Bernadette Peters was spending the 2025 equivalent of $2,162.66 a month on taxi rides between Queens and Manhattan to perform in Dames at Sea.
June 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
In 1969, Bernadette Peters was spending the 2025 equivalent of $2,162.66 a month on taxi rides between Queens and Manhattan to perform in Dames at Sea.
I’m back 🥰 … It’s a two show day paired with Bebe Neuwirth’s last turn as Fräulein Schneider in Cabaret❣️
March 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I’m back 🥰 … It’s a two show day paired with Bebe Neuwirth’s last turn as Fräulein Schneider in Cabaret❣️
Reposted by Emily G. Furlich
I wrote about Shulamith Firestone’s “Airless Spaces” and radical feminism’s relationship to madness for The New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/books/under-...
“Airless Spaces” Captures the Nadir of the Second Wave
If Shulamith Firestone’s last work haunts the feminist movement, it may be because it suggests something disturbing about feminism itself.
www.newyorker.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I wrote about Shulamith Firestone’s “Airless Spaces” and radical feminism’s relationship to madness for The New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/books/under-...
Last night. It was my first time sitting in the orchestra section at City Center.
March 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Last night. It was my first time sitting in the orchestra section at City Center.
Cameron Mackintosh making Bernadette go on The Tonight Show for the first time in 33 years…🤐
March 13, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Cameron Mackintosh making Bernadette go on The Tonight Show for the first time in 33 years…🤐
I love to log on here every few weeks to diva!post then disappear again.
March 11, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I love to log on here every few weeks to diva!post then disappear again.
Apparently Bluesky just updated today to allow videos up to 3 minutes long so I can post the full song, which was part of a tribute to Irving Berlin she performed with Peter Allen.
March 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Apparently Bluesky just updated today to allow videos up to 3 minutes long so I can post the full song, which was part of a tribute to Irving Berlin she performed with Peter Allen.
Kate Baldwin’s medley of What’ll I Do and Time Heals Everything was a beautiful tribute to Bernadette Peters, not just because she originated the latter song in Mack & Mabel, but also because the former was a torch song she sang often earlier in her career, including at the 1982 Oscars ceremony.
March 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Kate Baldwin’s medley of What’ll I Do and Time Heals Everything was a beautiful tribute to Bernadette Peters, not just because she originated the latter song in Mack & Mabel, but also because the former was a torch song she sang often earlier in her career, including at the 1982 Oscars ceremony.
@bebeneuwirth.bsky.social It was a pleasure to listen to you & the ladies of A Chorus Line pay tribute to the dancers who inspired you tonight. I loved what you said about dance’s ephemerality and the importance of preserving it by teaching that embodied knowledge to future generations of dancers.
March 11, 2025 at 3:01 AM
@bebeneuwirth.bsky.social It was a pleasure to listen to you & the ladies of A Chorus Line pay tribute to the dancers who inspired you tonight. I loved what you said about dance’s ephemerality and the importance of preserving it by teaching that embodied knowledge to future generations of dancers.
Sometimes life is just biding my time between my “Amy Ryan” Google Alert digests
March 3, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Sometimes life is just biding my time between my “Amy Ryan” Google Alert digests