Wisps of US Letter paper are found drifting in backstage ash; according to the city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, they exhibit signs of being crushed balls marked «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 BS crooks sell.

How funny you are today New York

Selected Influences Since Steps
Emery Roth’s New York Apartment Buildings (2025), Andrew Alpern
In and Out of Never-Never Land (1969), Maeve Brennan
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
Die Hamlet Machine (1977), Heiner Müller
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918-1923 (ed. Kevin C. Fitzpatrick, 2014)
Mansions in the Clouds: The Skyscraper Palazzi of Emery Roth (1986), Steven Ruttenbaum
Theater heute
Twelfth Night (dir. Saheem Ali, Delacorte Theater, 2025), William Shakespeare
Gotham at War: A History of New York City from 1933 to 1945 (2025), Mike Wallace
The Wooster Group

rev. August 18, 2026