Notes on the 2025 MTI Stiles + Drewe Mentorship Prize

(Ten, to be exact)

Highlights from the year I became a bit more American

Or: An Idiot’s Guide to Dealing with Rejection

A libretto isn’t a play, lyric or poem. So what is it?

525,600 minutes, 37 anecdotes

The Chaos House is dead! Long live the Chaos House!

How does Sondheim temporarily turn us into monsters?

Perfect rhymes are straightforward. Imperfect rhymes are hard.

I saw the new revival of Assassins on January 6th, the first anniversary of the Capitol attack.

Niche? Yes. Faintly ridiculous? Perhaps. But perhaps also a radically democratic new art form with the power to shake up Broadway.