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David Gordon

Editor-in-chief of TheaterMania and President of the Outer Critics Circle, and frequent guest host of The WhatsOnStage Podcast.

Sep 9, 2026

14:32
Mm
14:32
... there's nothing better.
14:33
I think back to when he did Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf on Broadway well over a decade ago at this point, and, you know, that, that play has a sort of unorthodox history in New York of, uh, of casting because the whole revival before that had Bill Irwin, who is typically known as sort of, you know, a clown just based on, just based on his profession.
14:55
He's a, he's a, a movement person, a clown, and no one expected him to be as good as he was as George.
15:00
And it was sort of the same thing with Tracy Letts.
15:02
People in New York didn't really realize that he was an actor too, and he blew-
16:34
Is there anyone allowed not to use it?
16:36
Uh, the Broadway revival that was running right during COVID, the Ivo van Hove production, uh, did not use the Jerome Robbins choreography.
54:19
That's my pick.
54:20
... ignore what he's done.
54:22
He, he's got three top fives here, or here meaning the PGA since 2020, most of any player.
54:29
And he's got six top fives in all majors since 2020, all at different venues, which I think is a r- is a really interesting way to look at it.
54:38
So I'm gonna play him top 10.
54:40
Morikawa in, Scheffler out.
59:27
I guess this was a double hammer that got reduced to a single hammer?
59:30
We had a third, which, uh, would've been a first time in the, in the hammer era, which dates back to '21.

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