Look. I’m just going to lay it on you. This production of Private Lives is not going to help you understand why the fuck this play keeps getting revived every five minutes. (Well. Beyond t…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 03:08PMIt’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 08:32AMSunday night Thomas Higgins’ new play Wild Animals You Should Know opened at the Lucille Lortel Theater. We weren’t there, but we know it opened because suddenly the internet is all abuz…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:18AM(And now, we’re in love.) Last night was Blogger Night at Seminar on Broadway. We’ve been looking forward to Seminar for months—It’s about writers just like us! It stars Alan R…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 11:50AMAbout ¾ of the way through the second act of The Rehearsal: Playing the Dane, the actors playing Laertes and Hamlet decided it was necessary to pause and take their shirts off before a swor…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 11:15AMThank God. That’s what I kept thinking over and over at my seat in the Circle in the Square. And not because my lapsed Catholic self was suddenly feeling faithful again. No. I was just rel…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 09:30AMSo. The Craptacular went on a bit of a trip recently, hopping across the Atlantic Sea to ogle some cute boys with even cuter accents, drink some beer, and see some theatre. With an re. And i…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 09:33AMY’all. Someone gave us an amplifier! No, but seriously. We were extremely honored to be invited to speak as a part of the Public Lab Thursday Night Speaker Series on a panel entitled “Wh…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:04PMWe 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 09:48PMSo. Lucky and I failed kind of hard at London Theater last weekend. You’ll hear more about that later, but I bring it up now because there was one thing that went just as planned. Sa…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:56PMI maintain that there is little on earth more awesome than the combination of booze, and the bard. This week’s Haunted ShakesBEER, hosted at Amity Hall and produced by The New York Shakesp…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:22PMYou’ve probably never looked at your iPhone and felt like an asshole before. Okay, I mean, maybe a text or email made you feel pretty shitty, once or twice. But I’m talking about som…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 09:05PMBenjamin Walker has returned, y’all. At least for the time being. Tuesday night, Mr. Walker took a break from his big, fancy, Hollywood life where he makes movies with Bradley Cooper, …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:09PMAfter opening to solid raves, the rumors have begun to swirl—Newsies could transfer to Broadway and it could even make that transfer this very spring. As Newsies fans, we’re overjoyed.…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 11:56AMThis weekend The Phantom of the Opera celebrates its 25th Anniversary with a production at the Royal Albert Hall in London. We’re still in New York, but we think it’s high time to celebr…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 06:59PMThis past Sunday was the 25th Annual BC/EFA Flea Market which began on 44th Street and spilled into Times Square’s pedestrian plaza. It also sucked up basically an entire day of my life. B…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 02:54PMYou must rewatch this. It’s classic. Classic Jon and Lea, and frankly… classic craptacular. Because really, what is more craptacular that a terrible performance of a totally terrible…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 05:30PMHaving a rough day? Wishing you were back in bed? Just feeling nostalgic for the carefree good old days of the early 90s? Have we got news for you! (Har har.) The cast of the new stage ada…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 08:30PMThe New York Shakespeare Exchange—founded just two years ago—states that their mission is to offer “innovative theatrical programming that explores what happens when contemporary cultu…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 09:32AMFriday again. The theater season is about to go insane. And somewhere on the Groff farm in Pennsylvania, someone is singing “Totally Fucked” in order to call the goats to their feeding, …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 03:02PMThe absolute minute the cover article about Shirtless Spider-Men appeared in/on yesterday’s Time Out New York, we knew it was meant just for us — and every other red-blooded, hormona…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 03:57PMI’m just gonna get right on out with it—one of the stars of this show looks like a young Patrick Wilson. That should sell tickets on its own. I mean. He’s handsome. And so alarmi…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:49PMCross-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 01:04PMNick Jonas it is. Jailbait will succeed Darren Criss in How to Succeed. Twitter blew up with a useless debate about whether or not this was a stunt casting. And whether stunt casting is ug…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 02:25PMSorry 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 12:26PMIn the real world—and not, say, in the Literature Department at Trinity College in Dublin—a James Joyce obsession is not something a girl has many regular opportunities to celebrate. T…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 02:09PMWelcome to Weekend Agenda, filling your Friday afternoon theater snark needs since Spring 2010. In this week’s edition: Stephen Sondheim is angry about some things, all of them related t…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 04:23PMI 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…
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