Susan Kattwinkel
@drkatt.bsky.social
Theatre history, esp. American popular theatre. Current research - incubator baby shows. Also - dogs, kayaking.
Seeing #EurekaDay in person is way different than reading it. When my class read it we took it seriously as a real conversation about vaccines and we thought the play didn’t work. In person I can see that it’s just a humorous takedown of really terrible people. #theatresky #puretheatre #charleston
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Seeing #EurekaDay in person is way different than reading it. When my class read it we took it seriously as a real conversation about vaccines and we thought the play didn’t work. In person I can see that it’s just a humorous takedown of really terrible people. #theatresky #puretheatre #charleston
Every time I come grocery shopping I become more convinced that somewhere in a back room, a @harristeeter.bsky.social manager is systematically going through the list of things I buy regularly and removing them from their orders.
November 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Every time I come grocery shopping I become more convinced that somewhere in a back room, a @harristeeter.bsky.social manager is systematically going through the list of things I buy regularly and removing them from their orders.
As ludicrous as the whole answer is, what gets me is the use of “despite scale” to refer to Elon’s gaggle of offspring. Like they’re a business model, which I guess in his mind they are.
*laughs in historian* “… ranks among the 10 minds in history, rivalling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton…”
November 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
As ludicrous as the whole answer is, what gets me is the use of “despite scale” to refer to Elon’s gaggle of offspring. Like they’re a business model, which I guess in his mind they are.
Pinot Grigio and Red Hots are quickly becoming my grading-avoidance Friday evening snack. I’m not sure if I’m aging or regressing.
November 15, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Pinot Grigio and Red Hots are quickly becoming my grading-avoidance Friday evening snack. I’m not sure if I’m aging or regressing.
#todaysperformancespace is @puretheatre for Dan Hoyle’s It Takes All Kinds. #theatre
September 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
#todaysperformancespace is @puretheatre for Dan Hoyle’s It Takes All Kinds. #theatre
Cole Escola on @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social doing a whole category of answers on Abraham Lincoln was just the perfect fusion of some of my favorite things. #theatreSky
April 15, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Cole Escola on @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social doing a whole category of answers on Abraham Lincoln was just the perfect fusion of some of my favorite things. #theatreSky
I miss the old hellsite. Once upon a time, people actually talked about #theatre there. Here it’s all Shakespeare quotes and “Your twenty favorite” whatever and no actual discussion. Does being nice mean we can’t mentally engage?
March 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I miss the old hellsite. Once upon a time, people actually talked about #theatre there. Here it’s all Shakespeare quotes and “Your twenty favorite” whatever and no actual discussion. Does being nice mean we can’t mentally engage?
#CircusQuixote at Looking Glass Theatre was fantastic. Amazing circus work that didn’t overwhelm the poignance of the show. I highly recommend it! #theatresky
March 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
#CircusQuixote at Looking Glass Theatre was fantastic. Amazing circus work that didn’t overwhelm the poignance of the show. I highly recommend it! #theatresky
March 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Tonight’s #theatre was Rajiv Joseph’s Dakar 2000 @mtc-nyc.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Tonight’s #theatre was Rajiv Joseph’s Dakar 2000 @mtc-nyc.bsky.social
Today I’m at Playwrights Horizons for Jordan Harrison’s The Antiquities. I love speculative theatre that gets us thinking about our present. I’m excited for this!
March 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Today I’m at Playwrights Horizons for Jordan Harrison’s The Antiquities. I love speculative theatre that gets us thinking about our present. I’m excited for this!
I’m so glad I was able to see Sanaz Toossi’s English @roundaboutnyc.bsky.social before it closes. It’s a beautiful character study that also confronts the problems caused by the englishization (I declare it a word) of the world. Even more lovely in the acting than in the reading.
March 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I’m so glad I was able to see Sanaz Toossi’s English @roundaboutnyc.bsky.social before it closes. It’s a beautiful character study that also confronts the problems caused by the englishization (I declare it a word) of the world. Even more lovely in the acting than in the reading.
New York for spring break and shows. First up - @roundaboutnyc.bsky.social for Sanaz Toossi’s English. We read this for one of my classes this semester so I’ve thought about it a lot. Looking forward to it!
March 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
New York for spring break and shows. First up - @roundaboutnyc.bsky.social for Sanaz Toossi’s English. We read this for one of my classes this semester so I’ve thought about it a lot. Looking forward to it!
I decided three shows last weekend was too many, so this weekend I just went to part of a tech rehearsal last night, and tonight I’m at The Footlight Players for Gutenberg! The Musical! Looking forward to some silly fun.
February 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I decided three shows last weekend was too many, so this weekend I just went to part of a tech rehearsal last night, and tonight I’m at The Footlight Players for Gutenberg! The Musical! Looking forward to some silly fun.
Last night’s theatre - Alice by Heart at Coastal Carolina University. Today’s theatre - The Nerd at Flowertown Playhouse. Thursday night I was at The Shark is Broken in Charleston. Charleston to Conway to Summerville, all for theatre. It’s been quite a weekend. All worth it!
February 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Last night’s theatre - Alice by Heart at Coastal Carolina University. Today’s theatre - The Nerd at Flowertown Playhouse. Thursday night I was at The Shark is Broken in Charleston. Charleston to Conway to Summerville, all for theatre. It’s been quite a weekend. All worth it!
Here for TheShark is Broken at PURE Theatre!
February 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Here for TheShark is Broken at PURE Theatre!
Reposted by Susan Kattwinkel
Feels like we are living in the first third of a Star Wars opening crawl
February 1, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Feels like we are living in the first third of a Star Wars opening crawl
You know how sometimes people make mistakes or are late with something because someone else made a mistake or was late with something and it snowballs? I think that’s just life now.
January 10, 2025 at 5:23 AM
You know how sometimes people make mistakes or are late with something because someone else made a mistake or was late with something and it snowballs? I think that’s just life now.
I’m very sad that @suffsmusical.bsky.social is closing, because more people should see it. And perhaps this has already been said, but that closing date (1/5) feels like a statement to me.
December 24, 2024 at 3:35 PM
I’m very sad that @suffsmusical.bsky.social is closing, because more people should see it. And perhaps this has already been said, but that closing date (1/5) feels like a statement to me.
Reposted by Susan Kattwinkel
Anyone else watch movies with IMDb open?
December 21, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Anyone else watch movies with IMDb open?
I don’t think I’ve ever been as exhausted at the end of a semester. I’ve barely slept the last two nights b/c I’ve been grading all the late papers I received. I’ve always been very generous, but that may have to change. Students are pathologically afraid of #writing.
December 11, 2024 at 7:03 PM
I don’t think I’ve ever been as exhausted at the end of a semester. I’ve barely slept the last two nights b/c I’ve been grading all the late papers I received. I’ve always been very generous, but that may have to change. Students are pathologically afraid of #writing.
The final project for my American Theatre History class is to propose a play based on an important American document and the number of students who want to time travel a founding father to the present so they can see what they’ve caused is just 👩🍳😘 #theatrehistory
December 10, 2024 at 6:16 AM
The final project for my American Theatre History class is to propose a play based on an important American document and the number of students who want to time travel a founding father to the present so they can see what they’ve caused is just 👩🍳😘 #theatrehistory
I literally gave my #theatrehistory students the essay questions in advance and yet most of them bombed them. Studying just isn’t a thing anymore.
December 9, 2024 at 1:22 AM
I literally gave my #theatrehistory students the essay questions in advance and yet most of them bombed them. Studying just isn’t a thing anymore.
Holy cow, Blue Man Group at Astor Place is closing after 33 years. I’ve been planning to publish something on them my entire academic career. (I had a chapter in my diss.) If that’s not the perfect example of the difficulties of writing while teaching, I don’t know what is.
December 7, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Holy cow, Blue Man Group at Astor Place is closing after 33 years. I’ve been planning to publish something on them my entire academic career. (I had a chapter in my diss.) If that’s not the perfect example of the difficulties of writing while teaching, I don’t know what is.