218 stories by "the mick"
You've probably never looked at your iPhone and felt like an asshole before. Okay, I mean, maybe a text or email made you feel pretty shitty, once or twice. But I'm talking about som…
Benjamin Walker has returned, y'all. At least for the time being. Tuesday night, Mr. Walker took a break from his big, fancy, Hollywood life where he makes movies with Bradley Cooper…
After opening to solid raves, the rumors have begun to swirl"Newsies could transfer to Broadway and it could even make that transfer this very spring. As Newsies fans, we're overjoyed.…
This weekend The Phantom of the Opera celebrates its 25th Anniversary with a production at the Royal Albert Hall in London. We're still in New York, but we think it's high time to celebrate,…
This past Sunday was the 25th Annual BC/EFA Flea Market which began on 44th Street and spilled into Times Square's pedestrian plaza. It also sucked up basically an entire day of my life. But…
You must rewatch this. It's classic. Classic Jon and Lea, and frankly… classic craptacular. Because really, what is more craptacular that a terrible performance of a totally terrib…
Having a rough day? Wishing you were back in bed? Just feeling nostalgic for the carefree good old days of the early 90s? Have we got news for you! Â (Har har.) The cast of the new stage a…
The New York Shakespeare Exchange"founded just two years ago"states that their mission is to offer "innovative theatrical programming that explores what happens when contemporary culture is …
Friday again. The theater season is about to go insane. And somewhere on the Groff farm in Pennsylvania, someone is singing "Totally Fucked" in order to call the goats to their feeding, we s…
The absolute minute the cover article about Shirtless Spider-Men appeared in/on yesterday's Time Out New York, we knew it was meant just for us — and every other red-blooded, hormonal …
I'm just gonna get right on out with it"one of the stars of this show looks like a young Patrick Wilson. That should sell tickets on its own. I mean. He's handsome. And so alarmi…
Nick Jonas it is. Jailbait will succeed Darren Criss in How to Succeed. Twitter blew up with a useless debate about whether or not this was a stunt casting. And whether stunt casting is …
In the real world"and not, say, in the Literature Department at Trinity College in Dublin"a James Joyce obsession is not something a girl has many regular opportunities to celebrate. The…
Welcome to Weekend Agenda, filling your Friday afternoon theater snark needs since Spring 2010. In this week's edition: Stephen Sondheim is angry about some things, all of them related t…
Wow. Flexibility is awesome! Too bad I can't even touch my toes. These fools would come in handy if I ever wanted to pull off my own Oceans 11-style heist. Spider-Man wasted a lot of money o…
Jonathan Groff told us it wasn’t happening months ago, in an interview. And he knows everything there is to know on planet earth, obviously, so we weren't shocked when we heard Lea Mic…
The following is a brief excerpt from our list of Top Most Loved Things of All Life (In No Particular Order): Shakespeare Cute Boys Beer So you can imagine our delight this past Saturday aft…
So. Saturday was Broadway Barks 13"the annual fundraiser/adoption drive/dating show that takes place in Shubert Alley, hosted by Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore. It was loaded wit…
Remember that time your best friend started dating that dreadful hipster/manchild from Williamsburg who was completely unworthy of someone as smart and classy as her? And you had to sit …
The After-Party for the Gala Performance of Shakespeare in the Park’s All's Well That Ends Well is a crazy mashup of fairy-tale and modern-day theater lover's fever dream. Strands …
Fact: there are all different kinds of sexy. Another fact: this summer, for their repertory productions of Measure for Measure and All's Well That Ends Well, the Public has gathered some fin…
Rory O’Malley. As if being an epic crusader for marriage equality weren't cool enough, you had to go and get cast in the coolest show in town. Then you had to bring the house d…
Truth: I loved you the minute you set foot on stage in Rob Ashford's revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. The very minute. I'd like to say that's because I have some …
So here's the deal. The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures is closing this week at the Public Theater and you should get there and see it…
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 whether they take home a trophy. Here's the second in …