Laura Collins-Hughes
@collinshughes.bsky.social
Reporter/critic writing about theater, mostly. • Posting about theater, culture, journalism, NYC. • The world of the play has its own rules. • Curiosity saved the cat. • Freelance. • laura.collinshughes@gmail.com
A moody, misty Manhattan night.
October 31, 2025 at 2:50 AM
A moody, misty Manhattan night.
And ... I voted. Always makes me cheerful. (NYC has the best stickers. I'm in it for the democracy *and* the stickers.)
October 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
And ... I voted. Always makes me cheerful. (NYC has the best stickers. I'm in it for the democracy *and* the stickers.)
The sight of ice being made at Wollman Rink warms my heart, somehow.
October 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The sight of ice being made at Wollman Rink warms my heart, somehow.
A few pictures of protesters on Hollywood Boulevard today in support of Jimmy Kimmel.
September 19, 2025 at 3:36 AM
A few pictures of protesters on Hollywood Boulevard today in support of Jimmy Kimmel.
The tender care of this tribute.
July 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
The tender care of this tribute.
I keep seeing, in this Zeynep Tufekci column about the (often budgetary) decisions that contributed to the Texas flash-flood disaster, a metaphor for much of what bedevils journalism, keeping it from doing what it’s meant to do — what people need and expect it to do. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/o...
July 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I keep seeing, in this Zeynep Tufekci column about the (often budgetary) decisions that contributed to the Texas flash-flood disaster, a metaphor for much of what bedevils journalism, keeping it from doing what it’s meant to do — what people need and expect it to do. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/o...
Interesting programming twist.
July 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Interesting programming twist.
Poor “Boop! The Musical,” closing July 13. I remain fascinated with Phillip Huber, the marionette artist who operates in such graceful tandem with Pudgy, Betty’s dog, and seems so organically of Betty’s old-Hollywood world.
📷 Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman
📷 Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman
June 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Poor “Boop! The Musical,” closing July 13. I remain fascinated with Phillip Huber, the marionette artist who operates in such graceful tandem with Pudgy, Betty’s dog, and seems so organically of Betty’s old-Hollywood world.
📷 Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman
📷 Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman
Fierce, gentle, funny, kind, questing. 🤍
June 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Fierce, gentle, funny, kind, questing. 🤍
Sometimes a play that cries out to be performed in an intimate setting is given a cavernous one instead. I bet that “Call Me Izzy” would have worked very differently at, say, the Lortel.
📷 Marc J. Franklin
📷 Marc J. Franklin
June 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Sometimes a play that cries out to be performed in an intimate setting is given a cavernous one instead. I bet that “Call Me Izzy” would have worked very differently at, say, the Lortel.
📷 Marc J. Franklin
📷 Marc J. Franklin
The platypus in Taylor Mac’s “Prosperous Fools” nearly killed me (complimentary).
In a more somber way, so did these verse lines that Mac, playing the Artist, speaks:
“For when we sang the Yankee Doodle,
“Did not we sacrifice the feudal?”
📷 Hollis King
In a more somber way, so did these verse lines that Mac, playing the Artist, speaks:
“For when we sang the Yankee Doodle,
“Did not we sacrifice the feudal?”
📷 Hollis King
June 13, 2025 at 1:05 AM
The platypus in Taylor Mac’s “Prosperous Fools” nearly killed me (complimentary).
In a more somber way, so did these verse lines that Mac, playing the Artist, speaks:
“For when we sang the Yankee Doodle,
“Did not we sacrifice the feudal?”
📷 Hollis King
In a more somber way, so did these verse lines that Mac, playing the Artist, speaks:
“For when we sang the Yankee Doodle,
“Did not we sacrifice the feudal?”
📷 Hollis King
Wonderful news.
June 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Wonderful news.
This city’s exuberant warm-weather beauty.
May 31, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This city’s exuberant warm-weather beauty.
My goodness, the cast of “Bowl EP” and the adventure in design that is the Vineyard Theatre-National Black Theatre production. Adam Rigg and Anton Volovsek’s drained swimming pool set for skateboarding actors? YES.
📷 Carol Rosegg
📷 Carol Rosegg
May 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
My goodness, the cast of “Bowl EP” and the adventure in design that is the Vineyard Theatre-National Black Theatre production. Adam Rigg and Anton Volovsek’s drained swimming pool set for skateboarding actors? YES.
📷 Carol Rosegg
📷 Carol Rosegg
I know: You don’t need to see another riff on Chekhov’s “Seagull.” Except you do! Alexander Molochnikov and Eli Rarey’s “Seagull: True Story” is bold, intelligent, funny, chilling, freewheeling, sly. An unsettlingly timely tale of artistry and tyranny, at La MaMa through June 1.
📷 Frederick Charles
📷 Frederick Charles
May 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I know: You don’t need to see another riff on Chekhov’s “Seagull.” Except you do! Alexander Molochnikov and Eli Rarey’s “Seagull: True Story” is bold, intelligent, funny, chilling, freewheeling, sly. An unsettlingly timely tale of artistry and tyranny, at La MaMa through June 1.
📷 Frederick Charles
📷 Frederick Charles
This Playbill is so thick I almost want to weigh it. It feels, heaven forbid, healthy.
May 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This Playbill is so thick I almost want to weigh it. It feels, heaven forbid, healthy.