Tonight (well, Sunday night, January 30th) was John Tartaglia's last performance (for now, at least) in Avenue Q. I am thrilled to have been there. It was a really special night. But don't take my word for it: read some other audience members' reactions here.

Last night, MSNBC aired a story about the family behind The Trixie Update, which I adore. After it was annouced that this was going to happen -- and before the story aired -- all kinds of lurkers posted comments on the site about how they had been reading since way back when. Not wanting to be a bandwagon-jumper, I did not. So how to explain this slightly passive-agressive re-blogging (with explanation) of the link? Well, the URL has changed since last time....

Check out this DIVA TALK column.

More cool photos.

Here's another piece about joy.

This game is really cool. Sure, it's in German, which may be an impediment if one doesn't speak German, but the place names may still be recognizable and it's just so cool.

Tonight I saw the wonderful Kate Pazakis's fabulous show The Sexless Years at The Duplex. I urge you, dear reader, to catch this one.

A bit more about joy from Playbill.com.

joy now has a listing on TheaterMania.

Walking in Central Park tonight, I saw some of the bases for The Gates. It took us a few minutes to figure out that that was why there were all those little slabs on the ground, but once we did, it was kinda exciting to be in the middle of a giant art installation in progress. I'm looking forward to taking some pictures when the project is all ready.

I really hope that all of you in Toronto go to see "tick...tick...BOOM!" at the Poor Alex Theatre in February.

I have a funny feeling that there will be some new content at danielorban.com very soon!