Ryan Donovan
@ryandonovan.bsky.social
Author | BROADWAY BODIES and QUEER APPROACHES IN MUSICAL THEATRE
Assistant Professor of Theater Studies | Duke University
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Assistant Professor of Theater Studies | Duke University
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Did Roger Sterling write this? It's like a parody of MAD MEN
November 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Did Roger Sterling write this? It's like a parody of MAD MEN
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Not every idea is worth airing. Not every point of view is worth hearing. Not everything that "a lot of people believe" should be credentialed by homepage space. Would the NYT editorial board run "Did Homosexuals Ruin Culture?" or "Did Black People Get Too Big for Their Britches?" I guess we'll see.
November 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Not every idea is worth airing. Not every point of view is worth hearing. Not everything that "a lot of people believe" should be credentialed by homepage space. Would the NYT editorial board run "Did Homosexuals Ruin Culture?" or "Did Black People Get Too Big for Their Britches?" I guess we'll see.
someone must revive "August: Osage County" for Laurie Metcalf
October 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
someone must revive "August: Osage County" for Laurie Metcalf
Did you know Kander & Ebb wrote their own (unproduced) Eva Peron musical called SANTA TERESA?
October 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Did you know Kander & Ebb wrote their own (unproduced) Eva Peron musical called SANTA TERESA?
brb gagging over the tea Barbara Cook spilled in her memoir
October 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
brb gagging over the tea Barbara Cook spilled in her memoir
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Plus ça change...."ALTHOUGH aged and infirm, and said to be suffering from a sort of flabby senility, the theatre still can come up, now and again, with a toast of the town." NYT (1957)
October 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Plus ça change...."ALTHOUGH aged and infirm, and said to be suffering from a sort of flabby senility, the theatre still can come up, now and again, with a toast of the town." NYT (1957)
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In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
Song, Stage and Screen 2026 is now accepting proposals!
Song, Stage and Screen — International Society for the Study of Musicals
www.issmusicals.org
October 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Song, Stage and Screen 2026 is now accepting proposals!
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Ezra Klein’s use of the word “we” sure is, uh, interesting
September 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Ezra Klein’s use of the word “we” sure is, uh, interesting
Angela as Liza Elliott!!! There was seemingly nothing she couldn't do...
2-11 The Saga of Jenny
YouTube video by jacksonupperco
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September 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Angela as Liza Elliott!!! There was seemingly nothing she couldn't do...
Sheer perfection.
August 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Sheer perfection.
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Materials "for educators who might find themselves inventing wheels alone while their administrators, trustees, and bosses unrelentingly hype AI and nakedly enthuse the negative consequences for educator labor." 🤖🤖🤖🤖
against-a-i.com
#highereducation #pedagogy
against-a-i.com
#highereducation #pedagogy
AGAINST AI -
against-a-i.com
August 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Materials "for educators who might find themselves inventing wheels alone while their administrators, trustees, and bosses unrelentingly hype AI and nakedly enthuse the negative consequences for educator labor." 🤖🤖🤖🤖
against-a-i.com
#highereducation #pedagogy
against-a-i.com
#highereducation #pedagogy
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“This week, Mellon Leadership Fellow and Nero scholar Lauren Donovan Ginsberg busts the myth of the useless humanist; a falsehood often used to justify cuts to humanities departments and programs today.”
August 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“This week, Mellon Leadership Fellow and Nero scholar Lauren Donovan Ginsberg busts the myth of the useless humanist; a falsehood often used to justify cuts to humanities departments and programs today.”
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Say it again for those in the back: HUMANITIES USUALLY SUBSIDIZE STEM at most R1s. Yes we have receipts.
What an absolutely pathological thing to say when the humanities subsidize the sciences and all the science funding is getting cut to the bone. Like just look at the vaccine stuff and the cancer research that’s disappearing. They hate science as much if not more than the humanities
In which a Yale prof calls for jettisoning humanities to make way for science-only universities.
“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”
“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”
August 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Say it again for those in the back: HUMANITIES USUALLY SUBSIDIZE STEM at most R1s. Yes we have receipts.
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for the record, nobody on earth is meaner about artists at work in a given medium than other artists in that same medium. critics *love* going to the theater or reading mystery novels or whatever it is they write about, otherwise they'd do something else
August 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
for the record, nobody on earth is meaner about artists at work in a given medium than other artists in that same medium. critics *love* going to the theater or reading mystery novels or whatever it is they write about, otherwise they'd do something else
Seems like you have to be a couple IRL to play one on Broadway or the West End these days....
August 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Seems like you have to be a couple IRL to play one on Broadway or the West End these days....
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I have yet to hear a single vision for the cool, AI-powered future being promoted that sounds interesting or desirable. The fact that I'm told it's inevitable makes me bonkers. It's like I'm being force-fed a shit sandwich.
August 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I have yet to hear a single vision for the cool, AI-powered future being promoted that sounds interesting or desirable. The fact that I'm told it's inevitable makes me bonkers. It's like I'm being force-fed a shit sandwich.
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Thieves get rich and saints get shot.
August 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Thieves get rich and saints get shot.
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In a memo to her staff, the New York Times’ culture editor, Sia Michel, reassigned four critics to new roles to “expand” the Times’ cultural coverage “beyond the traditional review.” This is a disservice to readers and art itself, @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social writes.
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 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
In a memo to her staff, the New York Times’ culture editor, Sia Michel, reassigned four critics to new roles to “expand” the Times’ cultural coverage “beyond the traditional review.” This is a disservice to readers and art itself, @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social writes.
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Glad my graduate alma mater cut 60 degree programs in subjects that require people to think so that they could offer this. Looking forward to living in a world full of Prompt Engineers.
July 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Glad my graduate alma mater cut 60 degree programs in subjects that require people to think so that they could offer this. Looking forward to living in a world full of Prompt Engineers.
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Fuck CBS cowardly cretins
July 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Fuck CBS cowardly cretins