Wisps of US Letter paper are found drifting in backstage ash. According to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York, they were once a piece of paper crushed into a ball with writing on it.

«Notes for Q & A. Sickening day of infamy, Jan 6. Experiment with approaches to smackdown. Steps by Frank O’Hara paved the way to Grant’s Tomb, enabled ‘stepping’ back from the BS crooks sell. Its opening line reads: How funny you are today New York.»

Selected Steps After Steps
Emery Roth’s New York Apartment Buildings (2025), Andrew Alpern
In and Out of Never-Never Land (1969), Maeve Brennan
Manhattan (1959), Blossom Dearie
Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Billie Holiday with William Dufty
The War of the Worlds (dir. Orson Welles, 1938), Howard Koch
Notable New Yorkers of Manhattan’s Upper West Side (2021), Jim Mackin
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918-1923 (ed. Kevin C. Fitzpatrick, 2014)
Mansions in the Clouds: The Skyscraper Palazzi of Emery Roth (1986), Steven Ruttenbaum
Twelfth Night (dir. Saheem Ali, Delacorte Theater, NYC, 2025), Shakespeare
Gotham at War: A History of New York City from 1933 to 1945 (2025), Mike Wallace

Selected Steps Before Steps
Faust (dir. Einar Schleef, Frankfurt, 1990), Goethe
Das Werk (dir. Nicolas Stemann, Vienna, 2003), Elfriede Jelinek
Ulysses (1922), James Joyce
Die Hamlet Machine (1977), Heiner Müller
Theater heute
The Wooster Group, 33 Wooster Street, NYC

rev. October 12, 2026