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Nicola, Wendy, and I saw *Buena Vista Social Club* on Broadway on Oct 6, 2026. It's inspired by the 1999 Wim Wenders documentary about an American music producer going to Havana to convince retired (and mostly forgotten) Cuban musicians to reunite for a concert. The musical centers on the same content as the film but also flashes back to the late 1950s, when the musicians were young. We were lucky to have seen Natalie Venetia Belcon in the central role of Omara. She won the T

I saw Kramer/Fauci at St. Ann's Warehouse on Oct 8, 2026. It's a play "conceived and directed" by Daniel Fish. Here's the blurb from the St. Ann's website: "Internationally acclaimed director Daniel Fish (Oklahoma!) turns his eye to one of the most combustible conversations of the AIDS crisis: the 1993 televised clash between Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading AIDS researcher, and playwright-activist Larry Kramer. A confrontation charged with rage, urgency, and unexpecte