Emily Nussbaum
@emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
In “Rocket Man,” does the narrator have weekends off??
December 26, 2025 at 4:15 AM
In “Rocket Man,” does the narrator have weekends off??
I am really enjoying this sweet, smutty series designed to turn all hockey fans gay and all gay men hockey fan
December 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I am really enjoying this sweet, smutty series designed to turn all hockey fans gay and all gay men hockey fan
Merry Christmas!!
December 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Merry Christmas!!
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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
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Here's a particularly juicy nugget I found in my reporting . . .
December 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Here's a particularly juicy nugget I found in my reporting . . .
I’ve seen a ton of theater in the last few weeks & the shows I dug the most were the spectacular, sleek & heartbreaking Oedipus; the scrambled Austen of Are The Bennett Sisters OK?; the sweet revival of The Baker’s Wife
December 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I’ve seen a ton of theater in the last few weeks & the shows I dug the most were the spectacular, sleek & heartbreaking Oedipus; the scrambled Austen of Are The Bennett Sisters OK?; the sweet revival of The Baker’s Wife
“Blue Moon” was beautiful & touching & made me love Ethan Hawke, what a terrific career he’s had
December 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
“Blue Moon” was beautiful & touching & made me love Ethan Hawke, what a terrific career he’s had
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weissand effect
December 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
weissand effect
You know you have good friends in Canada when they *immediately* text you about the accidentally posted 60 Minutes segment
December 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
You know you have good friends in Canada when they *immediately* text you about the accidentally posted 60 Minutes segment
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!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
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Speaking of which, there are SO MANY good movies out in theaters this week (that aren't about blue aliens)! Go see "The Testament of Ann Lee" for singing Shakers, "No Other Choice" for late-capitalist mayhem, "Is This Thing On?" for marriage trouble, or "Marty Supreme" for sexy ping pong.
For my last New Yorker piece of the year, I visited the Shaker room at the Met with the director Mona Fastvold, whose film "The Testament of Ann Lee" opens on Christmas Day and is absolutely weird and wonderful. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Mona Fastvold Knows Her Way Around a Chair
The director’s new movie, “The Testament of Ann Lee,” stars Amanda Seyfried as the Shakers’ founder. But the film’s furniture alone is worth a trip to the theatre.
www.newyorker.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Speaking of which, there are SO MANY good movies out in theaters this week (that aren't about blue aliens)! Go see "The Testament of Ann Lee" for singing Shakers, "No Other Choice" for late-capitalist mayhem, "Is This Thing On?" for marriage trouble, or "Marty Supreme" for sexy ping pong.
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“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
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CBS News now has to decide if it's a news organization or a White House propaganda instrument. If it is the former, Bari Weiss should lose her job over this decision, and CBS News staffers should go public and say she does not have their confidence. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:13 AM
CBS News now has to decide if it's a news organization or a White House propaganda instrument. If it is the former, Bari Weiss should lose her job over this decision, and CBS News staffers should go public and say she does not have their confidence. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
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Good on 60's Sharyn Alfonsi, who emailed the show's staff and correspondents to say Bari Weiss had "spiked" her story in what she says was a "political" call.
With cals like this, "We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state,” Alfonsi said.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
With cals like this, "We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state,” Alfonsi said.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
CBS News Pulls ‘60 Minutes’ Segment; Correspondent Calls Decision Political
The news organization said the segment about the El Salvador prison where the Trump administration sent deportees needed additional reporting.
www.wsj.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Good on 60's Sharyn Alfonsi, who emailed the show's staff and correspondents to say Bari Weiss had "spiked" her story in what she says was a "political" call.
With cals like this, "We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state,” Alfonsi said.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
With cals like this, "We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state,” Alfonsi said.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
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All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.
December 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.
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I saw this tonight--it's a fantastically sharp, thoughtful, tough and uproariously funny take on Austen (btw one that doesn't smirk at Pride & Prejudice but attests to its brilliance), with the best comic cast I have seen in ages. This richly deserves more life in NYC and elsewhere.
Much to my regret I only saw Emily Breeze's "Are the Bennet Girls OK" at Bedlam last night--they close on Sunday, and so the tickets are now TIGHT and also, lbr, pricy. But it's gorgeous! I had clocked it was an Austen-in-modern-idiom project and thought, oh, we've seen those already...(1/7)
December 21, 2025 at 5:31 AM
I saw this tonight--it's a fantastically sharp, thoughtful, tough and uproariously funny take on Austen (btw one that doesn't smirk at Pride & Prejudice but attests to its brilliance), with the best comic cast I have seen in ages. This richly deserves more life in NYC and elsewhere.
Went to two fun parties & then energetically sang along to Scenes From An Italian Restaurant with the Uber driver on the way home, a good day
December 21, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Went to two fun parties & then energetically sang along to Scenes From An Italian Restaurant with the Uber driver on the way home, a good day
I knew listening to Mary Rodgers’ Shy would give me greater insight into Merrily We Roll Along but it’s REALLY helping me understand Company
December 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I knew listening to Mary Rodgers’ Shy would give me greater insight into Merrily We Roll Along but it’s REALLY helping me understand Company
My son just reminded me that I once had a dream about watching a searingly brilliant, dark-humored stage show about the life of Paul Manafort, scored to the music of Prince. This should happen!!
December 20, 2025 at 6:23 AM
My son just reminded me that I once had a dream about watching a searingly brilliant, dark-humored stage show about the life of Paul Manafort, scored to the music of Prince. This should happen!!
Listening to a Sturgill Simpson cover of In Bloom
December 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Listening to a Sturgill Simpson cover of In Bloom
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My response to anything over the next two weeks
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
My response to anything over the next two weeks
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the next Democratic president has five minutes to change this back
BREAKING: Trump's hand-picked board votes to rename Washington performing arts center the Trump-Kennedy Center, the White House says.
Trump's handpicked board votes to rename Washington performing arts center the Trump-Kennedy Center
The White House says President Donald Trump’s handpicked board has voted to rename Washington's premier performing arts center the Trump-Kennedy Center.
bit.ly
December 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
the next Democratic president has five minutes to change this back
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One small way to try to re-establish social trust would be to transparently disclose *in this very column* that you hung out with Jeffrey Epstein.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Opinion | The Epstein Story? Count Me Out.
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
One small way to try to re-establish social trust would be to transparently disclose *in this very column* that you hung out with Jeffrey Epstein.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
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Like it is every year, the headline "The Best TV Episodes" is a lie--but here are SOME of the best, culled from the vast amount of TV I (and Mike Hale) watched, which was a fraction of the amount of TV that aired [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/a...
The Best TV Episodes of 2025
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Like it is every year, the headline "The Best TV Episodes" is a lie--but here are SOME of the best, culled from the vast amount of TV I (and Mike Hale) watched, which was a fraction of the amount of TV that aired [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/a...