Joey Sims is a freelance theater journalist who has written for The Brooklyn Rail, Vulture, American Theatre and others. Follow him on Twitter @joeycsims or subscribe to his theater Substack, Transitions.
As social media manager on the off-Broadway sensation turned unlikely Broadway hit, Spero is tasked with maintaining an online presence as witty and unconventional as befits Cole Escola’s acclaimed farce, billed as “the forgotten life and dream of Mary Todd Lincoln through the lens of an idiot.”
Off-Broadway new work hub Playwrights Horizons, coming off a celebrated 2023-24 season which launched the Tony Award-winning Best Play Stereophonic and an off-Broadway commercial transfer of hit musical Teeth, last week laid off 5 full-time staffers and instituted a number of cost reduction measures.
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