The Kael Report in Conversation with … Adam Feldman, 2 June 2025
January 2026
The Kael Report had the immense pleasure of lunching with one of the finest theatre writers working in the English language: Adam Feldman, critic and editor at Time Out New York. Together, we discussed the just-completed 2024–25 season, the then-forthcoming Tony Awards, the current state of the industry — and much more.
Feldman is exactly the sort of person one hopes to sit next to at a dinner party or encounter at a social event: charming, fiercely intelligent, and generous of spirit. I left our two-hour, fifteen-minute conversation still wanting more.
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