537 stories from The Craptacular
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…
OK, don’t be shocked by this. But there are new shows opening in 2011 that are not Spider-Man. One of them is Catch Me If You Can, a musicalization of the 2002 film that starred Leo Di…
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…
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson has closed and a girl needs to get her fix when and where she can. So, on a frigid Tuesday night in early January, I left my Snuggie behind and checked out Benja…
Don’t get us wrong. We’re looking forward to the coming year in theater. If all goes as planned, we’re slated to see Dan Radcliffe singing, Aaron Tveit with his shirt off (…
How much do we love Laura Benanti? She sings like a bird, she’s cute as hell, she can do the acting thing real well, and she’s married to basically the hottest person on earth. B…
Yeah, we said it. You were great and all, 2010–chock full of hotties, show after show after show, and lots of big performances–but seriously, we’re done with you. We̵…
Of all the theatrical happenings in 2010, these moments remain near and dear to our Broadway-obsessed hearts: LUCKY Favorite Audience: First Preview of American Idiot Riding a wave of positi…
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…
Happy holidays, y'all! Just thought you needed a little more merry to put in your, um, stocking. Recently I was leafing through this lovely new coffee table book called The Art of Discovery …
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…
So, everyone. You may have noticed that things have been a little… quieter… here at The Craptacular lately. There are lots of reasons for this, some of them personal. For one thing, both…
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…
Just in case the Tonys don’t have enough toptless scenes. Also, because we just figured out that the best thing about Australia is the beach. Definitely… the beach. Hugh’s …
