My first-ever round-up of mini “reviews” after a year of salvific reading and theatre-going.

Return to Santa Fe with me for my 45th birthday and a self-created solo writing retreat.

For the love of continuing ed and the Socratic Method, I recount my year-long journey with extraordinary books thanks to the New York Review!

As co-founder of L.A.’s legendary artists workshop Gemini G.E.L., Sidney Felsen supported many of the greatest artists of the past 50-plus years—and took over 70 thousand photos of artists at work while doing so. We owe Gotham Gallery to the support of Sidney and his wife Joni Moisant Weyl. Read the story of our friendship alongside a glimpse of the Getty’s centennial exhibition of Sidney’s extraordinary life in art.

Matthew Broderick puts Sinclair Lewis in the spotlight and gives us a George Babbitt to empathize with—or maybe even to like.

The celebration of Gwenda-lin Grewal’s Fashion | Sense: On Philosophy and Fashion in conversation with Valerie Steele made for a glamorous and gourmet night of fashion, philosophy, and fine dining.

Inspired by Benjamin Taylor’s luminous new biography of Willa Cather, which we helped launch at Gotham on 11/18/23, this Thanksgiving week I lectured on Cather’s heartwarming short story, Neighbor Rosicky, written shortly after her father died.

It was an honor to meet Ms. Etheridge after my second viewing of her Broadway show “My Window” for which I launched our Gotham-to-Broadway program!

We had Sparta to ourselves and Athens was soaked—welcome to September in Greece!

The heart of this adventure was our week near Mouratoglou’s new tennis center in Messinia!

Five years later, we made it back to Greece!

On the occasion of the retirements of couple Rachel Hadas and Shalom Gorowitz from 40 years of respective service at Rutgers and Ramapo, Gotham threw one heck of a Poetry Party.

Read the lecture I gave to an NYU undergrad classics class on Anne Carson’s modern classic “Autobiography of Red” in its 25th year!

Ulysses is lost again, this time in Harlem. Read about how poet-playwright Marcus Gardley put a twist on this epic tale to find its emotional core through the lens of Black American history.

Artistic Director of six years John Doyle bids farewell with Terrence McNally’s Oscar Wilde-inspired musical A Man of No Importance at Classic Stage Company.

A new Broadway-bound musical of the popular 2006 film, now in Chicago, aims to honor the original while probing its psychological complexities for a different age.

Climb abord our little family’s maiden voyage to Paris, a precious moveable feast.

Read about our return to my French hometown and our fortuitous extended stay!

I can’t imagine how 48 hours could contain more inspiration and joy, exceeding our highest expectations, than our weekend in Arles.