218 stories by "the mick"
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 words…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
15 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…
Remember 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…
See 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…
Hair 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…
Lucky 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…
While 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…
I 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…
Last 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…
Saturday 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…
I mean, I guess there’s no real way to NOT mention Hamilton, because there was no real way that Hamilton was not going to win every damn thing at the 30th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards …
Much though I often wish otherwise, going to the theater is never a completely pure experience. Even when you don’t know anything about the show when you walk through those doors. Even…
You guys, I’m still really struggling with this New York Times article by Patrick Healy about Marin Ireland, and the proposals in front of Actor’s Equity for improving “pro…
So here’s my current dilemma. Hamilton (Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hip Hop musical about Alexander Hamilton) was so fucking good — yes, Dad, that f-bomb was extremely necessary &…
Which is an addendum to this post: Dear Broadway, Honestly, Why the Fuck Am I Even Here? In the past few days, there’s a lot that I’ve thought and a lot that could be said here a…
Welp, internet. I’ve hit my limit. It’s finally happened. After five years running The Craptacular, and more years loving theater than I can accurately tally, I just cannot take …
It feels like a travesty, every time this happens. Every time we manage to snatch an hour or two of the general public’s time and make them face a thing about musicals, or a mus…
Sometimes you have these moments where you’re just like “What is my life?” Sometimes they happen when you’re in the office, on an average Monday, and you catch your c…
Look. Here’s the deal. I really didn’t like Side Show. I didn’t hate it. It didn’t make me hellaciously mad, or want to like… stab everyone in a seven foot radi…
