What the Butler Saw Interview (2026)
- Stephanie Bentley
- Jun 4
- 1 min read
Lustily Ever After Heads to Hollywood Fringe and Gets a Critical Dispatch!
Ahead of its Hollywood Fringe Festival run at the Broadwater Blackbox Theatre, critic and interviewer James Scarborough sat down with Stephanie for What the Butler Saw, a cultural criticism blog dedicated to sharp, thoughtful dispatches on theater, cinema, books, and the arts, to talk about Lustily Ever After: The Musical and what it means to spend years living inside a genre and then turn around and lovingly skewer it.
The conversation goes deep: the book club framing that opens the show, what 500+ narrated audiobooks taught Stephanie about how romance actually works at the sentence level, why the romantasy genre was a natural fit for the story's next chapter, and the very specific challenge of writing a parody that laughs with romance readers, never at them.
It's a generous and genuinely thoughtful piece, and we're glad the show found its way onto Scarborough's radar.
Read the full article on the What the Butler Saw website below.
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