5 Broadway Roles We’d Pay to See Jake Gyllenhaal Play, Even Though He Might Suck at Them by The Mick

Tonight Jake Gyllenhaal—he of the beautiful blue eyes and frequent epic facial hair—opens the off-Broadway play If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet at The Roundabout’s Laura Pels Thea…

Crazy Fact of the Day: An Enemy of the People Edition by The Mick

Sometimes we all just curl up in bed on a Saturday afternoon and dick around on the internet reading about plays, right? No? Just me? Well then. This article is going to be all the more impo…

Q&A: Caught in the Act with… Adam Chanler-Berat by The Mick

Adam Chanler-Berat has been a pretty busy dude the past few years. After starring as Henry for the full Broadway run of Next to Normal he moved to a little off-Broadway play called Peter and…

Review: Sorry, Charlie, but Chaplin Stinks by The Mick

When the curtain rises on Chaplin, the new musical which opened last night at the Barrymore Theater, we see Charlie Chaplin balancing precariously on a high wire. From the angle where I was …

Album in Profile: Ryan Scott Oliver’s 35MM: A Musical Exhibition by The Mick

Remember that time in High School when your boyfriend wrote you a song inspired by a snap you took for your fourth period photography class? Yeah, well, 35MM: The Musical Exhibition is nothi…

Hot Mess in Manhattan, or, Carrie Bradshaw Was Full of Shit by The Mick

Being both generally intrigued by new musicals/their composers, and known to occasionally debate Sex in the City’s relationship to reality, when we heard about Cait and Meggie Doyle’s ne…

Fall, 2012 Broadway Preview: The Highly Anticipated and… the Not So Much by Lucky and The Mick

Remember that time that all of Broadway was so effing scared of shows closing instantly and with terrible reviews that they decided to open all of them in the spring instead of the fall? You…

5 Moments of Lea Michele YouTube Greatness by Lucky and The Mick

You guys, we have such mixed feelings about Lea Michele! One minute she’s blowing us away with her talent and adorableness, and the next she’s being kind of awkward and socially …

Crappy/Spectacular: 06 by Lucky and The Mick

Crappy/Spectacular: 06 by Lucky and The Mick

Crappy/Spectacular: 06 Volume 06--Featuring guest star @NineDaves, who helps us wax poetic about Jeremy Jordan, Norbert Leo Butz, and Into the Woods. From: luckyandthemick Views: 3 0 r…

Crappy/Spectacular Volume 06: Ten Days Late, Several Minutes Too Long by The Mick

Hey there. Guess when we filmed this edition of Crappy/Spectacular? If you went with August 18th, right after a Newsies matinee, you’re totally correct. As you can tell, seeing as it&#…

Q&A: Caught in the Act with… Matt Doyle by The Mick

Broadway darling Matt Doyle—last seen in War Horse on Broadway and Giant in Dallas—is, well, completely darling. He recently took some time to sit on a park bench with us, sip some green…

What I Did On My Summer Vacation: On and Off-Broadway Edition by Lucky and The Mick

Summer’s such a slow time for theater, right? WRONG. Here’s a recap of all the stuff we’ve seen in the last bunch of sweaty, summery weeks… Koberet This summer Andrew…

5 Reasons We Hope to See Dogfight on Broadway Someday by The Mick

The first time I saw Dogfight at Second Stage, I wasn’t with Lucky. (Yes, sometimes we do unglue ourselves from each other and do things independently.) But on the walk back to the sub…

What Was That? Into the Woods, Morgan James, and Theater’s Intense Case of Socialmediaphobia by The Mick

Remember that time an actress tweeted her distaste for the first preview performance of Into the Woods and the internet exploded? That was crazy, right? Although it seems like ancient histo…

Giveaway: Tickets to Cock by The Mick

Two things we here at The Craptacular love are: A) Contests where we get to give shit away to you, our readers 2) Saying the word “cock” in print (which differentiates us from the New Yo…

Announcing the 2012 Broadway Hottie Olympics by The Mick

DRUMROLL PLEASE. We here at The Craptacular are proud to announce our next big project of the summer—The Hottie Olympics, a guts and glory competition for theater hottie domination featuri…

Weekend Agenda: This Is Kind of Boring Edition by Lucky and The Mick

Summer lovin’, had you a blast. Well, we hope so anyway. We hope you’re dividing your time evenly this weekend between working on your tan, drinking beverages that contain a litt…

The Phantom of the 2012 Olympics by The Mick

Stop everything, we have an important news update for you. It just so happens this is also the best Theater-related Olympics story you’ll read in 2012, so, prepare ye. Michael Crawford is …

Weekend Agenda: Before Brunch Edition by The Mick

I’m about to go spend my afternoon solidly indoors–where everything is air-conditioned, so that I don’t die of the heat. First up, is brunch. Then, a pub crawl with ShakesB…

10 Photos of Broadway Stars with Puppies and Babies (and One Marsupial) by Lucky and The Mick

It’s Broadway Barks time y’all! And you know what the purpose of Broadway Barks is, right? To raise awareness of the plight of small, adorable creatures who need love: Broadway actors. N…

Occupy Broadway: 9 Musical Activists and Revolutionaries by Lucky and The Mick

It’s America’s birthday, y’all! The best day of the year to celebrate history by getting drunk and blowing stuff up.  (Besides flag day, of course.) While you honor this great nation …

Weekend Agenda: It’s Too Darn Hot Edition by Lucky and The Mick

Sources say Broadway’s Benjamin Walker was in New York seeing some theater this week, and even checked out As You Like It in Central Park on Friday night. No wonder it’s been so …

Happy Friday, or, A Whole Bunch of Things About Aaron Tveit by Lucky and The Mick

Hi there, Aaron Tveit, hottie of all hotties. You’re back in the news this week. And damn are we glad to see it. While we’re pleased to see your TV show Graceland—with fellow hottie Da…

ANDY MIENTUS IS ON SMASH AND WE ARE FREAKING OUT MORE THAN HIS MOM by Lucky and The Mick

Sub-headline: Okay, maybe not his Mom Sub-sub-headline: SHUT UP ANDY MIENTUS IS FAMOUS. So Andy Mientus is going to be on Smash. This is how we… um… reacted. Lucky: OMG OMG ANDY …

Plus One Party Report: First Preview of Terminator Too: Judgment Play by The Mick

Alternate title: ALL CHAPS ARE ASSLESS, or, This is Not A Review of Terminator Too What: Terminator Too: Judgment Play, first preview Where: Santos Party House, a mix of nightclub and dirty …

Sweating Our Asses Off, or, Shakespeare in the Park’s As You Like It by The Mick

It was 100 degrees on opening night. Almost unbearably hot. People were fanning themselves with anything they could get their hands on, mopping their brows with sweat-rags, and eventually, r…

Plus One Party Report: Shakespeare in the Park’s 50th Anniversary Gala by The Mick

What? The Public Theater’s Annual Gala, this year celebrating Shakespeare in the Park’s 50th Anniversary at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park with a star-studded reading of Romeo and…

5 Hot Guys: Shakespeare/Sondheim in the Park 50th Anniversary Summer Edition by The Mick

The Tonys are over. And much though we love them, THANK GOD for that. Now it’s time to talk about other things, including a most beloved summer tradition here in New York City, which i…

Friday Funtimes: Josh Young’s (Amazing, Cheeky) Shoes in Jesus Christ Superstar by The Mick

You guys probably remember our interview with Josh Young, Tony Nominee and star of Jesus Christ Superstar, wherein he talked about the amazing, cheeky lining in the shoes for his “Supersta…

Inside, Outside, and Underneath the Tony Awards: A Sort-Of Scrapbook by Lucky and The Mick

We’ve been watching since we were kids. And last year, we live-tweeted the Tony Awards from The Mick’s apartment in our pajamas. We drank beer and had snacks, and it was fun. But as …