Joey Sims
@joeysims.bsky.social
he/him. writing about theater. https://joeysims.substack.com/
obsessed with Chess now.
all these numbers that are like, “CHESS CHESS NOW IS TIME FOR CHESS *crashing noises*”
all these numbers that are like, “CHESS CHESS NOW IS TIME FOR CHESS *crashing noises*”
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM
obsessed with Chess now.
all these numbers that are like, “CHESS CHESS NOW IS TIME FOR CHESS *crashing noises*”
all these numbers that are like, “CHESS CHESS NOW IS TIME FOR CHESS *crashing noises*”
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...
solo shows....so hot right now (help we're broke) www.theatrely.com/post/a-theat...
A Theatrical Solo Show Roundup — Reviews
Senior Critic Joey Sims catches up on solo works here in New York and reviews Blue Cowboy, Did You Eat? (밥 먹었니?), Heaux Church, and Other all Off-Broadway productions.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
solo shows....so hot right now (help we're broke) www.theatrely.com/post/a-theat...
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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In a first-person essay for our fall History issue, D.C.-based journalist/culture critic Nathan Pugh, a former Kennedy Center copywriter, reflects on the events that drove him to leave and the tenuous position of arts workers under the Trump administration.
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Why I Left Kennedy Center
A former copywriter for the D.C. organization reflects on the tenuous position of arts workers under the Trump administration.
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October 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In a first-person essay for our fall History issue, D.C.-based journalist/culture critic Nathan Pugh, a former Kennedy Center copywriter, reflects on the events that drove him to leave and the tenuous position of arts workers under the Trump administration.
www.americantheatre.org/2025/10/15/w...
www.americantheatre.org/2025/10/15/w...
SATURDAY CHURCH is a mess, and might not be telling the right story. But what a cast! www.theatrely.com/post/in-satu...
In SATURDAY CHURCH, We Are All Looking For Community — Review
Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of Saturday Church a new musical featuring the music of Sia and Honey Dijon at New York Theatre Workshop.
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September 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
SATURDAY CHURCH is a mess, and might not be telling the right story. But what a cast! www.theatrely.com/post/in-satu...
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I think it’s a really embarrassing bit of nationwide theater to pretend that a racist podcaster means anything to the world. he lived for nothing and died for nothing. the world is laughing at us and we deserve it because all this shit is fucking stupid!
September 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I think it’s a really embarrassing bit of nationwide theater to pretend that a racist podcaster means anything to the world. he lived for nothing and died for nothing. the world is laughing at us and we deserve it because all this shit is fucking stupid!
loved this show, glad it is returning mcctheater.org/cold-war-cho...
COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE | MCC Theater
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September 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
loved this show, glad it is returning mcctheater.org/cold-war-cho...
A few fave quotes from new pieces of mine. First, on NYU Skirball (so hot right now) for TDF Stages: www.tdf.org/on-stage/tdf...
September 18, 2025 at 3:31 AM
A few fave quotes from new pieces of mine. First, on NYU Skirball (so hot right now) for TDF Stages: www.tdf.org/on-stage/tdf...
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Disney has Tron: Ares, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Rental Family, Zootopia 2, Ella McCay, Avatar: Fire and Ash, and Is This Thing On? opening this year. I hope the talent involved in these movies curtails all planned publicity until the company reverses its decision about Kimmel.
September 18, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Disney has Tron: Ares, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Rental Family, Zootopia 2, Ella McCay, Avatar: Fire and Ash, and Is This Thing On? opening this year. I hope the talent involved in these movies curtails all planned publicity until the company reverses its decision about Kimmel.
alright let's pack it up www.theatermania.com/news/taika-w...
Taika Waititi and Rita Ora Producing Musical About Fyre Festival - TheaterMania.com
In a statement, Waititi said, “I can’t wait to get started and snatch me some of that sweet American theater money.”
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September 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
alright let's pack it up www.theatermania.com/news/taika-w...
My latest for The Brooklyn Rail: talkin’ Tennessee Williams, THE WHOLE OF TIME and weighty legacies with Tony Torn brooklynrail.org/2025/09/thea...
Tony Torn Confronts His Family Legacy in The Whole of Time | The Brooklyn Rail
Tony Torn was only ten years old when he witnessed his father, the inimitable Rip Torn, perform the role of Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie on Broadway. Torn, at sixty years old, is now an essent...
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September 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
My latest for The Brooklyn Rail: talkin’ Tennessee Williams, THE WHOLE OF TIME and weighty legacies with Tony Torn brooklynrail.org/2025/09/thea...
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Featured in the "Finding Beauty" series, Robert writes about the loss experienced when trees — young & old, small & large — are felled in a prison yard. The work reminds us of the meaning each of us can make, & the harm any of us can do, as we choose to honor or ignore what is precious around us.
August 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Featured in the "Finding Beauty" series, Robert writes about the loss experienced when trees — young & old, small & large — are felled in a prison yard. The work reminds us of the meaning each of us can make, & the harm any of us can do, as we choose to honor or ignore what is precious around us.
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Today, the New York Times published this exceptional opinion piece by Robert Lee Williams.
Incarcerated at Eastern NY Correctional Facility, Robert — in addition to his work as an essayist — is a full-time Bard student enrolled through BPI.
Incarcerated at Eastern NY Correctional Facility, Robert — in addition to his work as an essayist — is a full-time Bard student enrolled through BPI.
Opinion | In Prison, Trees Are a Symbol of Freedom (Gift Article)
These trees were the only living beings that I could touch without fear.
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August 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Today, the New York Times published this exceptional opinion piece by Robert Lee Williams.
Incarcerated at Eastern NY Correctional Facility, Robert — in addition to his work as an essayist — is a full-time Bard student enrolled through BPI.
Incarcerated at Eastern NY Correctional Facility, Robert — in addition to his work as an essayist — is a full-time Bard student enrolled through BPI.
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Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war.
She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.
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She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.
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Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital
A hospital strike in southern Gaza has killed at least eight people, including four journalists. The attack happened on Monday.
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August 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war.
She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.
tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb
She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.
tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb
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...
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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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Just gutted. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
Aurora Theatre moves to lay off staff, vacate downtown Berkeley venue
If it ceases to exist, Aurora will join a list of recently closed or hibernating companies and venues that, in of themselves, could sustain a theater scene in a midsize city.
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August 12, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Just gutted. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
you should
August 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
you should
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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Good @naveenkumarnyc.bsky.social column on the "Maybe Happy Ending" recasting www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Column | The ‘Maybe Happy Ending’ recasting is a major misstep
The production’s decision to recast Tony winner Darren Criss with a White actor has drawn justifiable backlash.
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August 1, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Good @naveenkumarnyc.bsky.social column on the "Maybe Happy Ending" recasting www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
MAYBE HAPPY ENDING now pivoting a problem entirely of their own making to, “So important we have this conversation”…you are not serious people
August 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
MAYBE HAPPY ENDING now pivoting a problem entirely of their own making to, “So important we have this conversation”…you are not serious people
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"When there was a role that was originated by somebody in our community...that's a big win for us, because of the scarcity that we live in." I report on the AAPI Broadway community's disappointment in the recent Maybe Happy Ending casting decision
Conrad Ricamora Launches Scholarship Fund for Asian Actors Following Maybe Happy Ending Casting Controversy
The announcement of Andrew Barth Feldman as the musical's new lead has led to outcry from Broadway's Asian American actors.
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July 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
"When there was a role that was originated by somebody in our community...that's a big win for us, because of the scarcity that we live in." I report on the AAPI Broadway community's disappointment in the recent Maybe Happy Ending casting decision
Green not going out quietly....the contempt for Jeremy O. Harris here feels outsized (have Meadow, Haimes etc ever felt such wrath?) but perhaps correct on the results. Or a reaction to sensing a gentler criticism moving in? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/t...
The Circus Comes to Williamstown, With Celebrities and Beefcake
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July 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Green not going out quietly....the contempt for Jeremy O. Harris here feels outsized (have Meadow, Haimes etc ever felt such wrath?) but perhaps correct on the results. Or a reaction to sensing a gentler criticism moving in? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/t...