Keith Gow
@keithgow.bsky.social
Playwright & theatre critic (The Saturday Paper, Time Out, Theatre First).
Bi. He/him. Melb, Australia
Loves: theatre, TV, film, travel.
http://www.keithgow.com/
Support my writing: https://ko-fi.com/keithgow1975
Bi. He/him. Melb, Australia
Loves: theatre, TV, film, travel.
http://www.keithgow.com/
Support my writing: https://ko-fi.com/keithgow1975
Pinned
Support Keith Gow
Support Keith Gow
ko-fi.com
If you read my reviews, I am asking for a little support to keep things rolling along in the new year. A one-off tip or a small recurring donation would be really appreciated.
Reposted by Keith Gow
may your 2026 be magical and filled with more lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans people and queer people
December 31, 2025 at 8:11 PM
may your 2026 be magical and filled with more lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans people and queer people
HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎉 I had a great 2025, but 2026 is going to be amazing.
December 31, 2025 at 1:08 PM
HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎉 I had a great 2025, but 2026 is going to be amazing.
The smallest inconvenience made you a fascist? No, you had fascist tendencies all along and were looking for an excuse.
“having to mask made me go fash” is so common and it’s just baffling
I mean, yes, it was annoying to wear one all the time? it also wasn’t that big a deal? if, today, someone asks me to put a mask on I go “ok” and put one on
and yet so many people treat it as a life-ruining imposition
I mean, yes, it was annoying to wear one all the time? it also wasn’t that big a deal? if, today, someone asks me to put a mask on I go “ok” and put one on
and yet so many people treat it as a life-ruining imposition
The reason this Harvard history professor decided he was done with one of the best and most privileged jobs in the world was, in his own words, because he was forced to lecture in a mask during peak Covid.
I’m not making this up.
I’m not making this up.
December 31, 2025 at 4:07 AM
The smallest inconvenience made you a fascist? No, you had fascist tendencies all along and were looking for an excuse.
Reposted by Keith Gow
Men doing this whole “I will vanquish continents for my children” LARP is so goofy in the context of household surveys. It’s nice you’ll kill millions for your daughter, maybe we can start at doing a load of laundry for your wife who does the vast majority of household labor?
December 30, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Men doing this whole “I will vanquish continents for my children” LARP is so goofy in the context of household surveys. It’s nice you’ll kill millions for your daughter, maybe we can start at doing a load of laundry for your wife who does the vast majority of household labor?
Mad at me? On Bluesky? I curate my feed and my takes too well.
What’s the funniest reason someone got mad at you on Bluesky this year?
December 31, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Mad at me? On Bluesky? I curate my feed and my takes too well.
Reposted by Keith Gow
i too have begun watching the straight man hockey podcasts discuss heated rivalry. this is the forum of athens to me
December 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
i too have begun watching the straight man hockey podcasts discuss heated rivalry. this is the forum of athens to me
Reposted by Keith Gow
May I also introduce a great theatre scene in the DC area that they can go to instead?
Arena Stage, Wooly Mammoth, Studio Theatre, Signature Theatre in Arlington, Ford Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Co.?
So many great alternative choices!
(I don't even live there and I know this)
Arena Stage, Wooly Mammoth, Studio Theatre, Signature Theatre in Arlington, Ford Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Co.?
So many great alternative choices!
(I don't even live there and I know this)
This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.
December 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
May I also introduce a great theatre scene in the DC area that they can go to instead?
Arena Stage, Wooly Mammoth, Studio Theatre, Signature Theatre in Arlington, Ford Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Co.?
So many great alternative choices!
(I don't even live there and I know this)
Arena Stage, Wooly Mammoth, Studio Theatre, Signature Theatre in Arlington, Ford Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Co.?
So many great alternative choices!
(I don't even live there and I know this)
Reposted by Keith Gow
I saw this in my phone and was reminded of Donald Fisher forever receiving bad news on the cheeseburger phone.
December 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I saw this in my phone and was reminded of Donald Fisher forever receiving bad news on the cheeseburger phone.
Tax billionaires back to being millionaires.
No one on earth should ever accumulate this much wealth, not even our faves
Beyoncé Is Now a Billionaire
The Cowboy Carter Tour earnings were enough to push her into a new echelon.
www.thecut.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Tax billionaires back to being millionaires.
Reposted by Keith Gow
The Australian media is just not equipped to deal with the creeping fascism in our lives. Every major publication's editorial direction barely deviates from government policy in any meaningful way.
Labor is simultaneously talking about letting CSG, a Zionist security org with close links to the IDF, carry heavy firearms at events in Australia, and also Australians can't protest anymore... What does that feel like?? Seriously?? Anyone that isn't batshit psycho ok with this?
December 30, 2025 at 5:05 AM
The Australian media is just not equipped to deal with the creeping fascism in our lives. Every major publication's editorial direction barely deviates from government policy in any meaningful way.
Reposted by Keith Gow
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
"For lots of young theatre kids in the audience, it made their year. For me, it was just my last show of 2025." My review of ANASTASIA, a stage musical based on an animated film based on an Ingrid Bergman film that's based on a play that's based on a lie.
REVIEW: Anastasia by Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens and Terrence McNally
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia was murdered along with the rest of the Romanov family in 1918, as part of the Red Terror durin...
www.keithgow.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:04 AM
"For lots of young theatre kids in the audience, it made their year. For me, it was just my last show of 2025." My review of ANASTASIA, a stage musical based on an animated film based on an Ingrid Bergman film that's based on a play that's based on a lie.
Reposted by Keith Gow
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
Reposted by Keith Gow
being trans and going to family reunions is weird bc they'll ask u what you've been up to this year and "ive been taking all the necessary steps to get my dick inverted" isnt really an acceptable answer
December 29, 2025 at 11:02 PM
being trans and going to family reunions is weird bc they'll ask u what you've been up to this year and "ive been taking all the necessary steps to get my dick inverted" isnt really an acceptable answer
Holding a door open for Megan Hilty. I didn't clock who she was until moments after she swept past me.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Holding a door open for Megan Hilty. I didn't clock who she was until moments after she swept past me.
Reposted by Keith Gow
Reposted by Keith Gow
Finally, an actual backbone. Good to see at least.
Sarah McBride put out a fundraising post on her Instagram specifically denouncing Republicans for trying to ban gender-affirming health care for trans people. It's probably one of the most forceful statements I've read from her.
December 30, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Finally, an actual backbone. Good to see at least.
Reposted by Keith Gow
So glad to see this written about. It takes 4 - 6 (or more!) human labor hours of editing, mixing and mastering to make a 90 minute conversation flow nicely and artfully. Video-forward shows tend to excise this process entirely and the resultant conversations flow and sound like shit as a result.
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
From Joe Marler’s visual-only stunts to the incomprehensible shuffling sounds Steven Bartlett recently subjected headphone users to, dodgy audio experiences are on the rise
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
So glad to see this written about. It takes 4 - 6 (or more!) human labor hours of editing, mixing and mastering to make a 90 minute conversation flow nicely and artfully. Video-forward shows tend to excise this process entirely and the resultant conversations flow and sound like shit as a result.
This is such a ridiculous metric.
Zoe Saldaña is set to become the highest grossing actor of all time worldwide.
December 29, 2025 at 10:39 PM
This is such a ridiculous metric.
Reposted by Keith Gow
Quite an achievement to write an entire feature on costume without crediting designer, director or actor, or even using the term 'Costume Designer' #nakedwithoutus
www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...
www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...
Dressing the part: the TV characters who nailed small-screen style this year
From Jackson Lamb’s mac in Slow Horses to the queen-bee wardrobe of Wild Cherry, Guardian writers choose the outfits that shaped storylines and revealed personalities in 2025
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Quite an achievement to write an entire feature on costume without crediting designer, director or actor, or even using the term 'Costume Designer' #nakedwithoutus
www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...
www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...
Reposted by Keith Gow
Trump-Musk defunded USAID. As of Nov 2025, this caused as many as 600,000 deaths – 342, 000 of them children (Boston Univ). If USAID or some type of equivalence is not reestablished, by 2030 the death-toll will be 14 million – 4.5 million of them children under 5 yrs old (Lancet).
This is Genocide.
This is Genocide.
December 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Trump-Musk defunded USAID. As of Nov 2025, this caused as many as 600,000 deaths – 342, 000 of them children (Boston Univ). If USAID or some type of equivalence is not reestablished, by 2030 the death-toll will be 14 million – 4.5 million of them children under 5 yrs old (Lancet).
This is Genocide.
This is Genocide.
Reposted by Keith Gow
I'm late to Pluribus but I've seen 6 now and my gosh. Staggeringly well-made, pleasurable television. I'm slightly bewildered by the people who find it slow; I've been mesmerized. Feels like it says something new about the seductiveness of giving in/up and who's cut out for the misery of resistance.
December 29, 2025 at 4:56 AM
I'm late to Pluribus but I've seen 6 now and my gosh. Staggeringly well-made, pleasurable television. I'm slightly bewildered by the people who find it slow; I've been mesmerized. Feels like it says something new about the seductiveness of giving in/up and who's cut out for the misery of resistance.
Reposted by Keith Gow
Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance
Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn
Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter
Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn
Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter
December 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance
Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn
Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter
Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn
Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter
Reposted by Keith Gow
Bob Dylan, Chubby Checker and Bernie Goetz are in one weird-ass little club.
The death of Brigitte Bardot necessitated the update of this marvelous chart. Only three people mentioned in Billy Joel's banger "We Didn't Start The Fire" are still alive. Source: buff.ly/cWkphRB
December 29, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Bob Dylan, Chubby Checker and Bernie Goetz are in one weird-ass little club.