May 26, 2026 · 30 min · 14 segments
In which the hilarious playrwight, screenwirter and novelist talks about his new book about an elite group of gay spies who are here to save the world. And snarkily! Hosted on Acast. See…
Paul RudnickGuestJohn-Paul SarniHostAnd I love that you say that it paid for the, your habit of theater, because theater really is, you know, a habit.
It is, um, it does, it does need support, right? But I, I'm so, I'm curious now because you're, I believe you're in New York, right? Um, how, how is it feeling right now? I've seen on, especially on, on Instagram, it's, it's been great to see so many people get so excited about, you know, Evita is finally coming to New York, and how's that going to happen? Like, there's a, there's a fresh kind of youthful buzz, like The Lost Boys is now, is now on stage.
Uh, how, how does it feel this, this season in New York for the theater? Are you, are you still going to the theater constantl- like, like it's a habit?
It's sort of shockingly great, especially the most interesting thing is what's on Broadway, that there are so many supremely talented people working on things like breakout hits like Oh, Mary! by Cole Escola, which no one saw coming, and now it just can't stop, and they're, every great star in the world wants to be part of it.
And I saw the, the new revival of Death of a Salesman with Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf is just staggeringly great.
I mean, it's a play that you imagine you've seen maybe too many times, and you go and it feels so fresh and so, um, sort of shocking in a way that it, you, you just, you don't remember what's coming.
And so you get that really visceral theatrical thrill of wanting to leap out on the, on the stage and tell this family to stop fighting.
And I love that you say that it paid for the, your habit of theater, because theater really is, you know, a habit.
It is, um, it does, it does need support, right? But I, I'm so, I'm curious now because you're, I believe you're in New York, right? Um, how, how is it feeling right now? I've seen on, especially on, on Instagram, it's, it's been great to see so many people get so excited about, you know, Evita is finally coming to New York, and how's that going to happen? Like, there's a, there's a fresh kind of youthful buzz, like The Lost Boys is now, is now on stage.
Uh, how, how does it feel this, this season in New York for the theater? Are you, are you still going to the theater constantl- like, like it's a habit?
It's sort of shockingly great, especially the most interesting thing is what's on Broadway, that there are so many supremely talented people working on things like breakout hits like Oh, Mary! by Cole Escola, which no one saw coming, and now it just can't stop, and they're, every great star in the world wants to be part of it.
And I saw the, the new revival of Death of a Salesman with Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf is just staggeringly great.
I mean, it's a play that you imagine you've seen maybe too many times, and you go and it feels so fresh and so, um, sort of shocking in a way that it, you, you just, you don't remember what's coming.
And so you get that really visceral theatrical thrill of wanting to leap out on the, on the stage and tell this family to stop fighting.
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