@hanyayanagihara

class="content__text" First day of rehearsal/first read through. An overwhelming experience watching this brilliant cast in action together for the first time: #lukethompson, #nathaliearmin, @emilio.doorgasingh, #zubinvarla, @jginorton, @marsdoug, @lostwaxprocess, and @zachwwyatt. On-stage seats go on sale Monday; sign up at alittlelifeplay.com. #alittlelifeplay

February 07, 2023

class="content__text" For @tmagazine's first issue of 2023, the always-genius stylist @mr_carlos_nazario and photographer @johnnydufort shot our fashion cover story on location in NYC over three days (along with @patrickli__, of course). I'm still getting used to having to look presentable at work; this story was a good reminder of how satisfying dressing up can be. Starring @awetaleu, Lina Zhang (@linazhanglina), Ugbad Abdi (@iamugbad), @viviennerohner, @victoriafawole_, Sherry Shi (@sherryramsayshi), and @msalekwek. The full story is up now at tmagazine.com, and in your @nytimes on Feb 19. #Twomensissue #tmagazine

February 07, 2023

class="content__text" Gung hay fat choy! Thank heavens it's Year of the Rabbit (one of the luckiest years in the Chinese zodiac) and Year of the Tiger is over. Fellow Tigers, my friend Bitter's husband says that this is going to be an especially good year for us. I think @maryiida's trusted clairvoyant agreed. The photo, by @richardbarnes, is from a 2018 @tmagazine story by #PeterRock inspired by "Watership Down." #yearoftherabbit 🐇 🧧 🥟

January 24, 2023

class="content__text" On New Years Eve and New Years Day, Japanese make the rounds to their local/favorite temples and shrines to ask for good luck in the coming year and receive a blessing. Last night, I made my friend Bitter meet me at the 17th-century Hanazono-jinja in Shinjuku, near his house (the suffix "-jinja" indicates a Shinto shrine; "-dera" means temple. Shintoism and Buddhism were formally split at the beginning of the Meiji era, but Japanese continue to visit both places of worship). This is an Inari shrine, meaning it's associated with foxes, rice, and prosperity. (The fox spirit’s favorite food is inari sushi, seasoned rice in deep-fried tofu pockets, which is why you'll often see packages of it left as offerings at such shrines.) Along with the main shrine, Hanazono has a number of satellite shrines on its campus, including one specifically for actors; this shrine is surrounded by metal placards painted with the names of actors who have donated money for its upkeep over the years (second-to-last slide). Here I also bought the cast of @alittlelifeplay some good-luck charms made just for actors (last slide), as I know that actors are a superstitious bunch and any amount of luck can't be a bad thing. Happy 2023, everyone! #alittlelifeplay #tokyo 🦊

January 21, 2023

class="content__text" The best part of waking up! Clockwise from upper right: green tea, fresh fruit, red miso soup, simmered chicken dumplings, rice, grilled yellowtail with roasted chestnut and daikon, more tea, extra rice, fresh tofu, apple juice, hijiki, tamagoyaki, pickles, chirimen. #tokyo

January 21, 2023

class="content__text" Life goals complete! #tokyo

January 21, 2023

class="content__text" Final breakfasts from Japan: 1) @ritzcarlton Nikko; 2) special @parkhyatttokyo osechi (New Years) meal with beautiful, symbolic NY food; 3) a closeup; 4) standard @parkhyatttokyo breakfast. #japanesebreakfast 🍥🍚🦪🍵🌰🦐🦑🐟🎋

January 21, 2023

class="content__text" Two side trips from Tokyo. 1: Meigetsu-in, Kita-Kamakura. 2: Jochi-ji, Kita-Kamakura. 3, 4, 5: Toshogu-jinja, Nikko. 6: Futarasan-jinja, Nikko. 7: Shrimp sandwiched between two pieces of charcoal-grilled lotus root, @ritzcarlton Nikko. 8: Senjogahara (a protected marshland), Nikko. #nikko #kitakamakura

January 21, 2023

class="content__text" I’m thrilled and honored to announce that the English-language version of #IvovanHove's theatrical adaptation of #ALittleLife will open on the West End in London at the Harold Pinter Theatre on March 30, 2023. The extraordinary cast is: #JamesNorton (@jginorton) as Jude; #LukeThompson as Willem; #OmariDouglas (@marsdoug) as JB; #ZachWyatt (@zachwwyatt) as Malcolm; #ElliotCowan (@lostwaxprocess) as Brother Luke, Dr. Traylor, and Caleb; #EmilioDoorgasingh (@emilio.doorgasingh) as Andy; #NathalieArmin as Ana; and #ZubinVarla as Harold. Tickets are on sale now at alittlelifeplay.com, and follow @alittlelifebook and @alittlelifeplay for more information about the production. Finally: Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who's supported this book, and me, with such passion and generosity—this one’s for you. Produced by @wessexgrove @playfulprods @gavkalin; thank you to @atg_tickets and @haroldpintertheatre. #alittlelifeplay

December 21, 2022

class="content__text" For @tmagazine's final issue of the year, we dropped in on twelve creative people's dinner parties around the world, from Tokyo to Lagos. A good dinner party is a piece of theater in itself: Take a bunch of people (all in various moods and mind frames), place them in a context governed not by law but by social expectations, add in a few bottles of alcohol and you have a potential tinderbox. It’s why we look forward to dinner parties, and why we dread them, too (and why they’ve always been such rich fodder for satirists). A host’s nightmare — a misbehaving guest; a disagreement that accelerates into a full-blown fight — can make for delicious art. Yet at its best, a dinner party is an act of communion. It’s defined by generosity: Someone is feeding you; someone is inviting you to sit down with them. It’s a gesture of peacemaking, of intimacy, of trust. We wanted to know how people were gathering these days: What were they talking about (and not talking about)? What were they eating? What were they listening to? Find out for yourself at tmagazine.com. Our covers are: the cast and creators of the film “Women Talking” in New York, photographed by @jasonschmidtstudio; Valentino’s Pierpaolo Piccioli (@pppiccioli) and friends in Paris, photographed by @robirodriguez; and @johndavidwashington, @samuelljackson and LaTanya Richardson Jackson (@ltjackson_) of the play “The Piano Lesson” in New York, photographed by Justin French (@frenchgold). In your @nytimes this Sunday. #THolidayIssue

December 21, 2022

class="content__text" For @tmagazine's latest #T25 list, we asked five of our favorite adventurous people— the writers Pico Iyer and Aatish Taseer (@aatishalitaseer), the architect Toshiko Mori (@toshiko.mori.architect), the chef and food scientist @david_zilber and the landscape photographer @victoriasambunaris—to come up with the ultimate 25 travel experiences, from an unforgettable meal to swimming in a desert oasis. The list they ended up with is at once surprising and moving: a reminder of not only how much there is to marvel at in the world, but how a place's beauty is often separable from its government. As Aatish said about including a ride on the Trans-Siberian Railway, "I have a firewall between this idea of Russia as a culturally rich nation and the political reality that one can speak critically of. Lots of nations we love will come to be ruled by bad people." Get spirited away with the full list at tmagazine.com (and to learn more about these pictures). #tmagazine #T25Travel

November 21, 2022

class="content__text" Hibiscus has always been a key flower in my life. It's Hawaii's state flower. It's a favorite snack of @fredyanagihara (slide 4). One of its varieties, hibiscus mutabilis, which shades from white to dark fuschia over the course of its day-long life (slide 2) is my parents' pride. Of late, it's being bred and hybridized with the kind of passion and elan we commonly associate with roses, tulips, and orchids. For our story, up now on tmagazine.com, we asked the talented @renkofloral, who was responsible for creating one of the most beautiful arrangements I've ever received (slide 3), to create a fantasy hibiscus arrangement, and boy, did she (above). Story by @amandafortini, photo by @jokimbo, set design by @smargherita. Video directed by (@gavin_mci). @tmagazine #tmagazine #TTravelIssue 🌺

November 21, 2022