Laurie Metcalf’s Third Act
How Scott Rudin turned Laurie Metcalf into the First Lady of American Theatre.
"I stayed away from bucket-list-type roles, just in case. And now, in my dotage—here they come!" — Laurie Metcalf
May 4, 2026
“Spring Salutations,” by Tomer Hanuka.
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Donald Trump’s Spring Cleaning
The exact reasons are often left vague and the successors to be determined, but people are leaving the Administration—including three Cabinet secretaries.
“Process of Elimination”
Fiction by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, the author of “American Estrangement” and “When Skateboards Will Be Free”: The night the tip jar went missing, we assumed that it had been stolen by a student, or maybe a professor—an adjunct—who had taken it when we weren’t looking.