Your name is Jeremy Jordan. You are the star of the Broadway musical Bonnie & Clyde. You are very handsome in a weird way and sing like a dream, and have extremely shapely and appealing …
Well, thank God that’s over. This week, we mean. Here’s some stuff we’ll be talking about when we’re not busy sleeping or… sleeping. Much to our dismay delight&…
Just when you thought we’d run out of teen idols and ex-boybanders to be in musicals, Aaron Carter gets himself cast in a musical in New York. Again. Slated to star in The Fantastics o…
Sitting in the audience at Relatively Speaking, you can almost hear the producers’ wheels turning, hear the faint rumblings of the boardroom conversations and crackly late-night cell p…
Ah, the glorious intersection of the two most storied streets in the world: Broadway and Sesame Street. Now in its 42nd season, Sesame Street has played host to singing, dancing Broadway act…
There are a solid 15 minutes when Man and Boy, which opened Sunday night at the American Airlines Theatre, becomes a good show. Those 15 minutes involve a ruse between two of the main charac…
So, it seems that The Stratford Canada-not-England Festival’s production of Jesus Christ Superstar is transferring to Broadway this spring. Where Godspell will already be playing. So m…
Twice in a row now, Jonathan Groff has played a troubled writer. Last year in Deathtrap, his character struggled to take credit for a screenplay that he’d written " at all costs. This …
We always said it: Newsies would be done onstage when the people who love it " the people of our exact age demographic and taste " became the people in charge at America’s theater prod…
Our favorite thing to do on a Monday night? See a searingly emotional, blazingly important new play by a famous young writer, about one of the most important political issues of our times. N…
With Glee’s new season starting tomorrow, we’re feeling our usual combination of low-watt enthusiasm mixed with pulsating dread. Because you all know the story: Glee can be so ve…
So, remember that time when Stephen Sondheim decided to bitch about some people in theater? Yeah, that was crazy. In fact, that was last week. And still, days later, I am not feeling quite c…
The lovely and talented Sierra Boggess has played some badass leading ladies, from Ariel to Christine Daae. Now, in this season’s revival of Master Class, her character is going toe-to…
There is a moment I will never forget, sitting in my living room in Massachusetts, flipping through the channels. I was 16 years old, and I came across an episode of a show that I loved, but…
Do we smell a new promotional trend for rock musicals? Behold: The mildly uncomfortable rock band/theater cast combo music video! The first one we noticed was the Green Day/American Idiot ve…
It’s been happening for years, but never has the trend been more pronounced than it is right now: TV execs in Hollywood have figured out that Broadway is a talent goldmine. In fact, th…
Steel Burkhardt Big freaking surprise here, right? The Mick loves him, we know this. But this summer (of love) he's back on Broadway in Hair, and, dare we say it… giving his Broadway prede…
It’s happened twice now, at two entirely different kinds of performances. The first time was before a dodgy, early-January preview of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. The second was just…
We have a little saying here at The Craptacular that’s crept into our daily lexicon: You can’t have it all. Unless you’re Cheyenne Jackson. We developed this catch phrase a…
There are pimps! Whores! Dildos! Babies born out of wedlock! This week’s episode of 16 and Pregnant? No, sir. It’s Shakespeare in the Park. In David Esbjornson’s production…
No, you must. Two thoughts. 1. If you can watch this and somehow don’t believe that Gavin Creel is the single most talented musical theater performer of our times, get off the face of …
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber announced this week that Cats may be returning to the West End. So of course, we had to ask.
Kids! Welcome to our new mini-interview series with theater up-and-comers. Our first subject is the handsome young staaah of The Signature Theatre’s production of The Illusion " Tony K…
The Effing ChandelierIt’s twice the size of the Broadway version, comes in four pieces, and does its own little dance at the top of the show. It’s pretty thrilling and if youR…
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