I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.

By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all.

In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.

I can't drive, so I can only live in New York, which is fine with me.

It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too.

It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.

This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of todays elected officials.