Do you know what this is? It’s a video. It’s a video of us, sitting on the red couch in my apartment, talking about theater. This week’s topics: Love Never Dies, Joyful Noi…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:04AMCrappy/Spectacular 01 The innaugural episode of The Craptacular's new video feature, Crappy/Spectacular, wherein Lucky and The Mick chat about recent theater happenings and pass a few j…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:06AMGhost: The Musical, which is slated to open on Broadway on April 23, hosted a little shindig at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre last week. Some highlights: A first glimpse at the show’s star…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 11:32AMYou guys, it’s SNOWING! Happy weekend, and happy gossip… On Thursday night, we attended Ghost Light Sessions, a preview of… wait for it… Ghost: the Musical. Of note: Dave Ste…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:12PMAbout halfway through the first act of Matilda the Musical, which is currently playing in London at the Cambridge Theatre, I had a sacrilegious thought: This show is way too good for Broadwa…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:11PMA new year has begun, and we’re looking forward to all kinds of new things on the theater scene. Of course, when you’ve got your ear to the ground its easy to get excited, and su…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:25PMThe Public Theater’s Under the Radar festival is happening right now, and last night, I checked out Goodbar, a rock concert/opera about a nice woman from New York City who has scoliosi…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 11:21AMWe’re about to get Crif Dogs and see Once. Can you say Perfect Saturday? Here’s what we’ll be talking the whole time. Well, not during Once. At intermission. In what has go…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:44PMSo, here’s a cool thing. You now have a whole new way to read our web site. Check out The Craptacular on your iPhone using an app called iBroadway. Here’s why this generally rock…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:09PMOK, kids. This is the whole enchilada. The good, the bad and the ugly of 2011. From Baby It’s You to The Book of Mormon, relive it one last time before it goes. And then 2011 can GTFO …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 06:25PMThe best and worst of 2011? Well, not really. But here are the moments we wish we could pack up and put in our pockets and save forever. Lucky Favorite Act I Surprise: The First 10 Minutes o…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 02:26PMBroadway survived another year and so did we. God bless us, everyone. But before that, here’s a look back at some of the biggest trends in the year that just passed. Welcome Back, Inte…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:41AMOh, well you knew this was coming. He are our favorite-est, hunkiest, dreamiest. You get the picture. Clearly, 2011 was a… good looking… year. 1. Jeremy Jordan If you forced us t…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 07:44PMYou think we only slobber over cute boys here at The Craptacular? Not so. Behold our tribute to the loveliest ladies of the stage in 2011. It should be noted that these ladies are far more t…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 09:52AMWhile we’re simultaneously being naughty and nice this weekend, we’ll also be feverishly debating the following big, bright Broadway stories from the last few days… Aaron T…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:10AMIt’s that time of year again when you’re making your list and checking it twice and you realize… The Phantom is so damn hard to shop for. What do you get for the man who ha…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 03:30PMHolla! TV’s official Prince of Adorableness, Darren Criss, is going to be on Broadway real soon. You know what that means, right? Time to get a Joe’s Pub gig! Darren’s was …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:24AMIn the two years that we’ve been running this web site, I’m not sure I’ve known a show to open amidst such immensely negative buzz as Michael Mayer’s revised sort-of …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 07:51AMHigh unemployment? Rioting in the streets? Europe on the brink of economic collapse? Political chaos in North Africa? Bonnie & Clyde is closing? Well, I just want to tell you that all o…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:53AMSo, here’s the crappy thing. We didn’t immediately write about Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays because we thought we had some time. But winter is cruel in New York a…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 03:30PMSo let’s get some important things out of the way about Frank Wildhorn’s new musical: Yes, Jeremy Jordan is delicious and big singing, and you will want to dive headlong into the…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 09:22PMSo Alan Rickman is starring in this think-y play on Broadway called Seminar. It’s by Theresa Rebeck, and it’s about writers, and the notion of what it means to be a writer, which…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 04:32PMIt’s that time of year again! Between Black Friday sales and tree-trimming, please join us in our little annual tradition: The Craptacular’s hot shirtless men on Broadway post! E…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 11:37AMHey hey, America! What is up? Welcome to the one day of the year you pay any attention to Broadway musicals, besides the night of the Tony Awards. And let’s be real: You don’t ev…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 08:32AMSo, there’s a lot happening onstage at the Broadhurst Theatre right now, and his name is Hugh Jackman. All the critics lost their shit over his solo show, Hugh Jackman Back on Broadway…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 05:57PMYour name is Jeremy Jordan. You are the star of the Broadway musical Bonnie & Clyde. You are very handsome in a weird way and sing like a dream, and have extremely shapely and appealing …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 06:49PMWell, thank God that’s over. This week, we mean. Here’s some stuff we’ll be talking about when we’re not busy sleeping or… sleeping. Much to our dismay delight&…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 06:20PMWe may be n00bs to the West End scene but it doesn’t take long for The Craptacular to identify hotties wherever we go. Below, a cursory list of handsome, talented, wildly attractive …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 09:48PMJust when you thought we’d run out of teen idols and ex-boybanders to be in musicals, Aaron Carter gets himself cast in a musical in New York. Again. Slated to star in The Fantastics o…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:26PMSitting in the audience at Relatively Speaking, you can almost hear the producers’ wheels turning, hear the faint rumblings of the boardroom conversations and crackly late-night cell p…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 02:47PMAh, the glorious intersection of the two most storied streets in the world: Broadway and Sesame Street. Now in its 42nd season, Sesame Street has played host to singing, dancing Broadway act…
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