218 stories by "the mick"
So this one time, Lucky and I had a chance to interview Alex Timbers for Broadway Radio. And we were both so staggeringly nervous I’m not entirely sure how our racing hearts remained w…
Sometimes, when you’re walking through Georgetown toward the car after dinner, you get caught in a rainstorm so unbelievably torrential that your you cannot see 10 feet in front of you…
Whatever man, King Lear is a bullshit play and seeing even good productions of it makes me think that maybe Shakespeare was a hack/want to tweet some incendiary shit about how Shakespeare is…
I keep wanting to make Challah jokes. Because this is Broadway. But honestly, that’s totally unfair to Holler If Ya Hear Me. Which is so not like anything you’ve ever seen on Bro…
So. After Sunday night, a new item has taken the top spot on my “Biggest Regrets of Life” list. And no, it’s not ‘Shouting “CHARLIE!” in Dule Hill’s…
By now, we’d like to think the whole entire planet knows that in The Theater, the characters aren’t just on stage. They’re everywhere. Because… duh, that’…
The end of a very long story is this: I did not see Hedwig and the Angry Inch in the late 90s or early ‘aughts. Despite ample opportunity, and friends urging me to do so, I opted out o…
Last night some of theater’s most elite were given some of theater’s most elite fictional awards. As tradition dictates, these awards are voted on by a committee of two, and dole…
Here’s the thing, Paul, I almost forgot you were a Paul and not, say, a Paula. Which, I’m guessing, just looking at how purely manly you actually are, is not a thing you heard ve…
I mean. It helps that you’re in one of the best musicals we’ve seen in a long time. Gentleman’s Guide is a marvel of technical excellence on basically every level of existe…
Sunday night Jeremy Shamos danced across the Kimmel Center stage before taking off into a sudden run and leaping  into Steven Pasquale’s strong arms (where, truth be told, he was ca…
I dunno, guys. Sometimes you see a kind of wonky musical and you just love it anyway. A recent example of this? Violet " the story of a disfigured young woman on a pilgrimage for a cure, who…
Up close " and I mean very close, like, if I coughed too hard we’d be touching " Steven Pasquale’s hair falls in waves that look so soft it’s near impossible to resist touc…
In a the basement party-room below an Irish pub on the Upper West Side " our own little underworld, where no one is dead " there is a hubub, followed by silence. A voice rises over the…
…Or at least, they tell us who they’d try to bring back. If they had a shot. So. Ryan Scott Oliver and Hunter Foster’s new musical Jasper in Deadland started previews last …
My Dearest Alex, I’m sorry. It pains me to say this, it does, but I have to be honest. And I feel like just getting this out of the way might make it hurt less? I dunno, I guess I̵…
Like. I will end your soul. Because last night in The Bridges of Madison County you got up on that stage and sang a song so beautifully that I cried until snot ran down my face in public. IN…
Is the new Will Eno play The Realistic Joneses " starring Toni Collette, Tracy Letts, Marisa Tomei & Michael C Hall " going to unpack the emotional and psychological impact of attemptin…
The Mick (l) and Lucky (r) say some things on stage at LPR. They say it takes a village to raise a child. You know what else takes a village? Producing a concert. Which is kind of an appropr…
In December, we hung out backstage before Drew Gasparini’s first gig at 54 Below kicking asses and taking names asking questions and making people play games with us. One of the people…
As ever, the world of theater lovers and creators continues to rail against “criticism” and “critics.” Because Isherwood and Brantley — and their ilk — ar…
To the shock of exactly no-one, Disney has confirmed that they’ll be bringing Frozen to the stage. Things are clearly still early days — there’s no mention of timeline, etc…
Alex Timbers The thing about putting Alex Timbers on this list — on any list, really — is that it doesn’t make much sense, given Alex’s acute duel tendencies toward b…
Stressed because you have deadlines at that thing you call a job and you still haven’t finished Christmas shopping and your whole damn family is fucking everything up by celebrating Ch…
On Friday night, I read Tony Kushner’s speech about being a writer, given at the Whiting Writers Awards, and I cry. This is not wildly out of character for me. I was raised by a woman …
