Friday, May 6, 2016
Writing about theater is hard. I mean. Writing is hard, just in general. Some days it’s there, and some days it’s not and honestly more days it’s not and nothing hurts like missing the…
Linked From The Craptacular at 11:19AMWednesday, October 7, 2015
A drop of… something, some kind of splooge, has just fallen from the dressing room ceiling backstage in Webster Hall. Lucky and I started a fanfic like that once– with a splotch …
Linked From The Craptacular at 12:30PMMonday, September 28, 2015
Every year I go to Broadway Flea, I think think the same two things: That it’s for an amazing cause, and that I should be selling my epic piles of apartment-cluttering, Broadway-relate…
Linked From The Craptacular at 10:21AMFriday, August 7, 2015
Heads up, if you’re concerned about SPOILERS you might not want to read this… Listen, it would have been really easy for Lin-Manuel Miranda to fuck this up. Broadway proves that …
Linked From The Craptacular at 02:56PMTuesday, June 23, 2015
As we launch our newest project, The Dressr, Lucky and I thought you might like a preview of what to expect over in the wilds of Tumblr. As a part of The Craptacular, The Dressr will be a h…
Linked From The Craptacular at 05:55PMThursday, June 4, 2015
Leanne Cope wore Rent the Runway to the Drama Desk Awards. I know this for two reasons: 1) As a Rent the Runway user myself, I recognized the dress. 2) She talked about it a few times that n…
Linked From The Craptacular at 01:37PMMonday, June 1, 2015
It is astonishingly impossible to be cool when you are anywhere in the vicinity of Helen Mirren. I don’t know if it’s because she’s played royalty so frequently that she…
Linked From The Craptacular at 05:50PMMonday, May 25, 2015
We're so tired of talking about Spider-Man it's beyond ridiculous. And yet, here we are. It's like we're drugged. Which…come to think of it, doesn't seem that impossible. Maybe the…
Linked From The Craptacular at 05:58PMOK, don’t be shocked by this. But there are new shows opening in 2011 that are not Spider-Man. One of them is Catch Me If You Can, a musicalization of the 2002 film that starred Leo Di…
Linked From The Craptacular at 05:58PM15 years ago today most of Broadway's hot new stars were still living in the suburbs, or the country, or a city far away from New York. Spring Awakening wasn't even a glimmer in Duncan Shei…
Linked From The Craptacular at 05:58PMRemember that time Gavin Creel was the only person who didn't get naked in Hair? And you were really upset because you know he's a hottie with a body? Well, in his new gig up at ART, Prometh…
Linked From The Craptacular at 05:58PMSee that guy up there? His name is Damon McToy, and he's going to be a big star. We're calling it here first, y'all (you know how we like to be the first ones to do that). McToy won a YouTub…
Linked From The Craptacular at 05:58PMTony Vincent made a splash in 2010, originating the role of the sinister-yet-seductive St. Jimmy in American Idiot. But long before that, he was a chart-topping solo artist . We recently cha…
Linked From The Craptacular at 05:58PMBloody Bloody Andrew Jackson has closed and a girl needs to get her fix when and where she can. So, on a frigid Tuesday night in early January, I left my Snuggie behind and checked out Benja…
Linked From The Craptacular at 05:58PMLove it or loathe it, everyone’s got something to say about Valentine’s Day. Even Lea Michele. Broadway.com recently unearthed this Spring Awakening-era video of her waxing on ab…
Linked From The Craptacular at 05:58PMBroadway expat Matthew Morrison released the first single off his debut album this week. We could say lots of things about it, but frankly, we’re more curious about what you have to s…
Linked From The Craptacular at 05:58PMHair pulled up its roots and set off on a US tour this past fall. Leading the way is actor Steel Burkhardt, who plays Berger, the loin cloth wearing third of the show's central love triangl…
Linked From The Craptacular at 05:58PMIt sucks. It sucked after the first preview and after the 30th. It will suck after its first official performance, and after its last, and on its 4,000th, which I’m sure it will play, …
Linked From The Craptacular at 05:58PMLucky is in Barcelona. I have a migraine. The weather in NYC is still unseasonably beautiful and you should be outside enjoying it and not inside near a computer. We’ll keep this sh…
Linked From The Craptacular at 05:58PMMost of the new shows are finally going to enter previews in the next couple days. We’re getting more rain and less snow. And there’s suddenly a truckload of new stuff to talk …
Linked From The Craptacular at 05:58PMWhile the spring shows get ready to open, and we get psyched about seeing some faves on stage again, it seemed high time for me to purge some of my theater demons. To confess, as it were, to…
Linked From The Craptacular at 05:58PMI thought I was done with Hair. I'd seen it in several productions, with several casts, on more than one continent, and I'd bid it farewell. Packed the Playbills into the memory box beneat…
Linked From The Craptacular at 05:58PMOf all the theatrical happenings in 2010, these moments remain near and dear to our Broadway-obsessed hearts: LUCKY Favorite Audience: First Preview of American Idiot Riding a wave of positi…
Linked From The Craptacular at 05:58PMLast week Kyle Dean Massey posted a Twitpic of himself in his Fiyero costume and, to quote the state of Massachusetts, he looked wicked sexy. But we here at The Craptacular remember when Shi…
Linked From The Craptacular at 05:58PMYeah, we said it. You were great and all, 2010–chock full of hotties, show after show after show, and lots of big performances–but seriously, we’re done with you. We̵…
Linked From The Craptacular at 05:58PMHow much do we love Laura Benanti? She sings like a bird, she’s cute as hell, she can do the acting thing real well, and she’s married to basically the hottest person on earth. B…
Linked From The Craptacular at 05:58PMIt's counter intuitive: Some of the most exciting moments in live theater are on video, poorly-edited and grainy and with tinny sound. But for a theater fan, YouTube is a treasure trove of o…
Linked From The Craptacular at 05:58PM19 inches of snow may or may not be enough to keep us inside—seriously, Billie Joe Armstrong is still on the Broadway stage, its mighty tempting to brave the elements. But. If we man…
Linked From The Craptacular at 05:58PMDon’t get us wrong. We’re looking forward to the coming year in theater. If all goes as planned, we’re slated to see Dan Radcliffe singing, Aaron Tveit with his shirt off (…
Linked From The Craptacular at 05:58PMSaturday night my roommate and I caught John Arthur Greene's acoustic gig at The Metropolitan Room and I had two jobs: 1. Keep mind out of gutter 2. Come back with something to write JAG did…
Linked From The Craptacular at 05:58PMGreen Day does this thing during their live shows. They pull someone up out of the audience and make them play the guitar, or sing, or playact some other type of rock n’ roll posturing…
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