Ah, 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…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:44PMThere are a solid 15 minutes when Man and Boy, which opened Sunday night at the American Airlines Theatre, becomes a good show. Those 15 minutes involve a ruse between two of the main charac…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:53AMSo, it seems that The Stratford Canada-not-England Festival’s production of Jesus Christ Superstar is transferring to Broadway this spring. Where Godspell will already be playing. So m…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:54PMTwice in a row now, Jonathan Groff has played a troubled writer. Last year in Deathtrap, his character struggled to take credit for a screenplay that he’d written – at all costs. Thi…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 08:44PMWe always said it: Newsies would be done onstage when the people who love it – the people of our exact age demographic and taste – became the people in charge at America’s theater …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 09:54AMOur favorite thing to do on a Monday night? See a searingly emotional, blazingly important new play by a famous young writer, about one of the most important political issues of our times. N…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:15AMWith Glee’s new season starting tomorrow, we’re feeling our usual combination of low-watt enthusiasm mixed with pulsating dread. Because you all know the story: Glee can be so ve…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:51PMCross-polination between Broadway and pop music isn’t exactly a new thing. Songs written for the stage have been covered by pop stars since forever. Frank Sinatra made a Guys and Dolls…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 05:16PMIt’s Friday again, though given the fact that Labor Day weekend is now long past, summer is semi-officially gone, which is kind of a letdown. Thank goodness there was some theater news t…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:04PMSorry for the delay, dear reader. Lucky is on the road in Hawaii, where Broadway news arrives at a more relaxed pace, and The Mick was having a battle extraordinaire with the Almeida Theater…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:16PMAs the fall season bears down upon us there’s a lot on our minds. Like how we’re going to fit in all the shows we want to see while continuing to stalk Jonathan Groff around th…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:26PMSo, remember that time when Stephen Sondheim decided to bitch about some people in theater? Yeah, that was crazy. In fact, that was last week. And still, days later, I am not feeling quite c…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:28PMThe lovely and talented Sierra Boggess has played some badass leading ladies, from Ariel to Christine Daae. Now, in this season’s revival of Master Class, her character is going toe-to…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 02:20PMThere is a moment I will never forget, sitting in my living room in Massachusetts, flipping through the channels. I was 16 years old, and I came across an episode of a show that I loved, but…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 03:18PMI should feel guilty about how quickly the son of god has taken over my sexual fantasies. I do not. Thank you, Hunter Parrish. As the only person on earth who could credibly follow in the wa…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 11:05AMThe recent revival of Rent at New World Stages (opens August 11) got us thinking about something we clearly never think about: good looking men in theater, and the good looking characters th…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:40AMYou know what sucks about seeing Matt Morrison on stage these days? You know, onstage at Nassau Colisseum — like we did on Sunday night — and not, say, at the Neil Simon Theatre.…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 02:10PMThe humidity in NYC got us hot and bothered this week. Here’s the theater news we’ll be discussing while we’re huddled inside with cool towels on our foreheads like swoony …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 02:26PMDo we smell a new promotional trend for rock musicals? Behold: The mildly uncomfortable rock band/theater cast combo music video! The first one we noticed was the Green Day/American Idiot ve…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 03:50PMThe Confirmed On A Clear Day Look. Harry Connick Jr. may, in fact, be the world’s most perfect man. We’d pay good money to sit in the St. James and watch him lie down in the middle o…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 11:50AMIt’s been happening for years, but never has the trend been more pronounced than it is right now: TV execs in Hollywood have figured out that Broadway is a talent goldmine. In fact, th…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:43PMSteel Burkhardt Big freaking surprise here, right? The Mick loves him, we know this. But this summer (of love) he’s back on Broadway in Hair, and, dare we say it… giving his Broadway pre…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:09PMWhat? Hair Summer of Love 2011 Opening Night, July 13th 2011 Where? The St. James Theater and Sky Bar With whom? Jordan Roth, Oskar Eustis, Diane Paulus, James Rado, Will Swenson, Audra McDo…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 03:50PMTonight, the New York revival of RENT begins its off Broadway run. The last time this musical appeared on the off Broadway stage? Fifteen years ago, in January 1996, immediately prior to…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:42PMIt’s happened twice now, at two entirely different kinds of performances. The first time was before a dodgy, early-January preview of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. The second was just…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:42PMWe have a little saying here at The Craptacular that’s crept into our daily lexicon: You can’t have it all. Unless you’re Cheyenne Jackson. We developed this catch phrase a…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 03:40PMThe weekend is heeeeeeah. Get out there and see a show! And then sit around and talk about all this stuff… This week, the inimitable Jesse North invited us to be guests on Stage Rush T…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 05:38PMThere are pimps! Whores! Dildos! Babies born out of wedlock! This week’s episode of 16 and Pregnant? No, sir. It’s Shakespeare in the Park. In David Esbjornson’s production…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:34PMHappy freaking holiday weekend y’all. We thought you might need some shit to talk about between fireworks shows/kegs of Sam Adams, so we’ve compiled a brief list of several theater-rel…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 02:21PMNo, you must. Two thoughts. 1. If you can watch this and somehow don’t believe that Gavin Creel is the single most talented musical theater performer of our times, get off the face of …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 06:32AMSir Andrew Lloyd Webber announced this week that Cats may be returning to the West End. So of course, we had to ask.
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