Intro for November 4, 2026

Dear Gossips, I can't pretend at all that I am a theatre nerd even though I'm surrounded by so many of them you'd think I would be by now. Once in a while, though, there is a production that hits me in all the right places, without having seen it. If I could be in New York right now, the show I would go to is Jamie Lloyd's revival of Much Ado About Nothing that is now on Broadway after a record-breaking stretch on the West End, starring Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell as Benedick and Beatrice. The first week of previews has been a sell-out, and it's looking good that the ten-week . . .