151 stories by "lucky"
Oh haaaay, cute Jonathan Groff, it’s your birthday! Jonathan Groffinator turns 27 today, and we’d like to personally thank him for several things. Dear Jonathan: 1. Thanks for si…
You’ll see it in the faces of the uninitiated"people who are too young or too old, or people who just didn’t get the film, or have never seen it. Mention the word Newsies to them…
What’s up, guys? It’s Saturday, so get out and see some theater. And if you can’t, you should spend at least several hours pointlessly browsing the internet reading things …
When was the last time you saw a show where people started freaking out at each other as soon as the lights came up? And I mean shouting in anger " not in rapture " about what they just saw.…
The milestone birthdays of great theater composers are often heralded with tribute concerts and revivals. People give achievement awards and make speeches. It’s a good time. So natural…
It has been made abundantly clear that Stephen Sondheim doesn’t like opera. This is fortunate, because this post isn’t about him. And because no matter how strongly he dislikes o…
If the casting of Samantha Barks as Eponine didn’t fill your theater nerd heart with enough joy, we’re now learning that other, smaller roles are being filled by Les Miserables s…
So we hit up the opening night of William Shatner’s sentimental solo show last night, entitled Shatner’s World: We Just Live in It. We had fun. (And I nearly swooned in the lobby…
So here’s a cool thing: Every night at Godspell, following their show, there’s a raffle where you can win a backstage tour. We wanted to know what it was like, and we wanted to s…
Sitting in the cozy restaurant at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London, I had an intense moment of deja vu. Hanging on the walls all around me were posters of Broadway shows I’d seen…
So apparently the powers that be behind the Les Miserables film stopped huffing glue long enough to realize that young Taylor Swift, queen of the semi-literate mid-tempo rock ballad, was not…
We don’t want to go crazy with this or anything, given that 90% of “announced” projects never happen, but news broke over the weekend that a revival of Jekyll & Hyde c…
If you’ve gotten anywhere near the Circle in the Square lately, you know that the lovely Lindsay Mendez is blowing the roof off eight times a week in Godspell. We caught up with her ba…
Do you know what this is? It’s a video. It’s a video of us, sitting on the red couch in my apartment, talking about theater. This week’s topics: Love Never Dies, Joyful Noi…
Ghost: The Musical, which is slated to open on Broadway on April 23, hosted a little shindig at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre last week. Some highlights: A first glimpse at the show’s star…
About halfway through the first act of Matilda the Musical, which is currently playing in London at the Cambridge Theatre, I had a sacrilegious thought: This show is way too good for Broadwa…
The Public Theater’s Under the Radar festival is happening right now, and last night, I checked out Goodbar, a rock concert/opera about a nice woman from New York City who has scoliosi…
So, here’s a cool thing. You now have a whole new way to read our web site. Check out The Craptacular on your iPhone using an app called iBroadway. Here’s why this generally rock…
Holla! TV’s official Prince of Adorableness, Darren Criss, is going to be on Broadway real soon. You know what that means, right? Time to get a Joe’s Pub gig! Darren’s was …
In the two years that we’ve been running this web site, I’m not sure I’ve known a show to open amidst such immensely negative buzz as Michael Mayer’s revised sort-of …
High unemployment? Rioting in the streets? Europe on the brink of economic collapse? Political chaos in North Africa? Bonnie & Clyde is closing? Well, I just want to tell you that all o…
So, here’s the crappy thing. We didn’t immediately write about Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays because we thought we had some time. But winter is cruel in New York a…
So let’s get some important things out of the way about Frank Wildhorn’s new musical: Yes, Jeremy Jordan is delicious and big singing, and you will want to dive headlong into the…
So Alan Rickman is starring in this think-y play on Broadway called Seminar. It’s by Theresa Rebeck, and it’s about writers, and the notion of what it means to be a writer, which…
So, there’s a lot happening onstage at the Broadhurst Theatre right now, and his name is Hugh Jackman. All the critics lost their shit over his solo show, Hugh Jackman Back on Broadway…
