151 stories by "Lucky"
How many Tonys will The Book of Mormon win tonight? During tonight’s telecast, follow along with The Mormon Meter! For more Tonys coverage, check back here, and follow @thecraptacular …
The Craptacular’s general fixation on the Tony Awards continues with a look back at awesomeness from years’ past… Norbert Leo Butz in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels I can’t …
What’s better than seeing Joshua Henry in a Broadway show? Seeing Joshua Henry in two Broadway shows in a single season. And… bonus prize! He got a Tony nom for one of them. Afte…
The Tony Awards are Sunday! Let’s hear it for people named Tony who are also really awesome! Tony Sheldon: If Tony (Sheldon) wins a Tony (Award) this year, well… that headline ju…
Yes, blah blah blah, Mark Rylance is awesome. And Mark Rylance wins at everything. And Mark Rylance is giving a performance for the ages over there at Jerusalem. And the giants bow down to M…
So… maybe they won’t win. Or maybe they will. All we know is that these Tony nominees took our breath away this season, regardless of the odds that they’ll take home a trop…
So, something cool that we got to do recently: We got to interview Jonathan Groff. Yeah, that’s him right up there. That was fun. And yeah, we were so nervous that we almost puked. And…
He’s back on Glee. I mean, I know we said "besides," but whatever. He’s half-Mennonite. Sort of. We’re still fascinated and want to know more. Even after all these years. E…
The biggest Broadway stars of tomorrow? Check ‘em out today. And then act all smug about it when tomorrow actually gets here. Jeanna de Waal To see the Broadway stars of tomorrow, you …
So I’ve been mulling about how I’m going to talk to you, dear reader, about the play Jerusalem. Because you should see it. But you should see it for reasons that involve whatR…
There were moments during the second act when I closed my eyes, and I thought, "Maybe when I open my eyes, this show will have disappeared. I will be somewhere soothing and wonderful, like i…
Do you know what has happened every year on April 18 throughout history? That’s when all the awesome people were born. Which leads us to this: ZOMG It’s BOTH Gavin Creel’s …
They sing! They act! And yeah, they apparently dance, too. Behold Broadway’s newest young crop of… um… hoofers. Or something. Sutton Foster Yeah, she danced in Thoroughly M…
Hair‘s coming back to Broadway this summer, y’all, and thumbs up to that. We’re always happy to see shows that we love alive and thriving, and within walking distance. But …
So. Broadway’s unlikeliest star, Billie Joe Armstrong, is clearly having a fabulous time playing St. Jimmy in American Idiot, which closes in two weeks–and raiding the show’…
The people sitting next to me went to the wrong show. They were sweet"two friends from Philadelphia and their tweenage daughters, and they meant to get tickets to How to Succeed…. The …
Blah blah blah… Aaron Tveit… blah blah… new show… Catch Me If You Can… blah blah blah… Frank Abagnale, Jr…. blah blah… opens on Sunday… …
Who doesn’t love seeing Broadway actors in movies? There’s always a curious sense of satisfaction that comes along with it, like we’ve seen our children go on to do amazing…
So, there’s something I don’t get about Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera sequel, Love Never Dies. OK, there are lots of things I don’t get about Love Never …
Something that we didn’t expect to be talking about today: The 1992 revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. It seems that lots of other folks are talking about it,…
And then God created Gavin Creel. And his solar plexus. That should probably be the tagline of Prometheus Bound at A.R.T., because you will see so much of both if you happen to catch Diane P…
Shows have done a lot of nutty things over the years to show an audience that their $127 is well spent. Priscilla‘s thing is sequins. And feathers. And glitter. Splashed across the sta…
It’s Friday, baby! New shows are opening! It’s spring, which means that we can feel our hands again! It’s Sutton Foster’s birthday! Reasons for celebration, all. This…
So, we like new musical theater a lot. And we spend a lot of time seeking out new musicals and composers, partly because it’s fun, and partly because we like to be first to the party i…
From punk to Jeff Buckley to Billy Joel, just about anything counts as a showtune these days. Priscilla Queen of the Desert, which opens at the Palace Theatre on Sunday, features a playlist …
