Monday, April 15, 2013
So, on the off chance that you didn’t already know, this Drew Gasparini guy has a new album coming out on April 23rd. “I Could Use a Drink” is chock full of musical theater…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:03PMFriday, April 12, 2013
Fuck it all, Hands on a Hardbody, we hardly knew ‘ye. And tomorrow, 28 previews and 28 performances into your life on Broadway, you’re closing up shop. We’re sorry t…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 03:27PMThursday, March 21, 2013
We all spend the vast majority of our lives being taught about history by old people. Or at least, people older than us. Sometimes, theater can feel the same way. Like everything is being wr…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:59PMFriday, March 15, 2013
Alright, team. We’ve got some tickets to give a way. And Just like the folks at Jack Long Nissan, we’re hosting a competition. Unlike those guys, though, we’re not going to…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 03:58PM Okay. It’s really his character, big hick Benny Perkins’ fanny pack. But still. We couldn’t take our eyes off it from the minute it hit the Hardbody stage. 1. Condom…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:28PMTuesday, March 12, 2013
We’ll admit it. We’re bored to death with Broadway. Winter is always dull, but this year the fall was just as bad. It feels like forever since we loved ourselves a new show. Prob…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 07:38PMThursday, February 28, 2013
A musical about shoes with the word “Kinky” in the title is so perfectly suited to our interests, it’s entirely possible Cyndi Lauper and Havey Fierstein were writing Kinky…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 02:39PMMonday, February 25, 2013
Last night, on an Oscars telecast that you could have easily confused for the Tony Awards if there’d been just a tiny bit more Patti LuPone, Les Miz was front and center. Theate…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:23PMThursday, February 14, 2013
Love sucks, right? Particularly when you’re not in it. And especially on the one day a year when every inch of the earth seems to be covered in red and pink hearts and the streets of e…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 03:13PMThursday, February 7, 2013
Oscar Hammerstein, you’ve let me down. Halfway through Act II at Cinderella, things are going swimmingly. Prince Topher and Cinderella have been reunited after the first ball. In …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 05:35PMSaturday, February 2, 2013
It’s January, guys. It’s freezing. There are no major holidays in sight. You can only confidently recommend one Broadway show to your friends and family without embarrassing your…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:56AMMonday, January 28, 2013
This is the song that made me fall in love with Eric Michael Krop forever. It’s “Bless the Lord” from Godspell, and Krop was singing the shit out of it last Sunday night at 54 Below in…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 05:09PMWednesday, January 16, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FG Productions Announce Final Casting for Broadway’s 2012-13 Season, Pippin Tumbles into Role of Fangirl Favorite New York, New York – 16 January 2012 – Fangirl A…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:46PMWednesday, January 9, 2013
In the control room at Kilgore studios the Sierra Nevada has given way to Bud Light and between moments of quiet awe, listening to songs for Drew Gasparini’s new compilation I Could Us…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 11:01PMMonday, December 31, 2012
Ok, ladies and gents, here are… the gents. Or, our favorites, anyway. As you’re about to see 2012 was a lovely year in theater. Here’s hoping the outlook for 2013 is every …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 06:16PMWe couldn’t let the year come to a close without sharing a list of our our favorite badass females on the Broadway stage this past year. Hots, style, talent and beautiful hair — …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 05:22PMSunday, December 30, 2012
Just in case you were huffing glue and thought that the last year in theater was utterly perfect and special, we’d like to remind you that a lot of shows kind of sucked. Here they are,…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 09:01PMHere it is, guys. The whole year in a giant nutshell. Here are the shows and performances and scandals we loved with all our theater-obsessed hearts. As we wait with bated breath for Stark S…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:30PMFriday, December 21, 2012
Broadway fans know and love Aaron from musicals like Next to Normal and Catch Me If You Can. And TV fans may recognize him as Trip van der Bilt on Gossip Girl. But the whole entire world …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:51AMMonday, December 17, 2012
You know the song we’ve been singing all season, right? ‘Someday My Santino Fontana Will Come.’ Because at this point, it’s pretty clear that Broadway’s collective fang…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 11:14PMThursday, December 13, 2012
By now, you’re pretty tired of hearing Anne Hathaway talk about eating two Nilla Wafers a day and suffering for her Fantine. Like. You’re going to kick a baby deer in the face if she men…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:48AMTuesday, December 11, 2012
The precise amount of time you’ve been waiting for this film depends entirely upon how long it’s been since you first heart the score, or saw the stage show, or both. Suffice it to say, …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:38PMTuesday, December 4, 2012
Ah, the henley. The historical origins of his men’s fashion item aren’t totally clear, but let’s make a wild guess here: It was probably underwear. Hence our love and passi…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 11:49AMMonday, December 3, 2012
From my seat in row N at the Golden Theater—where David Mamet’s new play The Anarchist has just opened—it was hard to tell just exactly what was going on with Debra Winger’s hair. On…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:12AMThursday, October 11, 2012
Last night we attended a performance of Craig Wright’s Grace—starring Ed Asner, Paul Rudd, Michael Shannon and Kate Arrington—over at the Cort Theater. After the show was over we were …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 02:13PMWednesday, October 10, 2012
I went to Kansas City to see some theater last week. I know, you’re confused. I live in New York City, home of the Broadway, and the off-Broadway, and the off-off-Broadway. Surely I have p…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:31PMTuesday, October 2, 2012
People we love? Gingers. Cute British boys. Silver foxes. People featured in this fall’s Moises Kaufman production of Ruth and August Goetz’s The Heiress? Jessica Chastain, Dan Stevens…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:25PMThursday, September 27, 2012
Alright, team. We’ve got some tickets for you! A voucher for a pair of tickets to see Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf sometime in the month of October (or early November!), to be exact. W…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:02AMMonday, September 24, 2012
Every fall we Broadway fan types gather in Times Square to peruse/purchase all kinds of crazy, theater-related shit that other Broadway fan types need to get rid of. You know, t-shirts for s…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:00PMFriday, September 21, 2012
You know that awesome moment when you first get a new cast recording home and turn up the volume? When you’re finally hearing the songs that have previously only existed in your memory, an…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 02:10PMThursday, September 20, 2012
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…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 06:11PM 
