537 stories from The Craptacular
What? Opening night of the new musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder Where? Performance at the Walter Kerr Theater, natch, and black-tie after-party at The Pierre. With…
Even though Bob Fosse’s been dead longer than many of our readers have been alive, I can’t imagine that anyone here doesn’t have at least a passing familiarity with his wor…
Direct and unedited from our cellphones. Because there’s no such thing as too many photos of Alex Timbers. Or a bad photo of Alex Timbers. Also, here are some things you should know ab…
Right now the good folks over at the Belasco are probably up to their eyeballs in glowing reviews. As they should be. Richard III and Twelfth Night, imported by Shakespeare’s Globe in …
…Is this: It’s bad. It’s so bad, so not even a real Broadway show, that it’s not worth hating. Which isn’t to say there weren’t moments I considered hatin…
OMG you guys, Zack Zadek. He’s from Long Island and he went to NYU and he writes him some songs and more importantly, he writes us some musical theater. Okay, not just US like Lucky an…
When I moved to New York in February, I was thrilled to learn that one of the most notorious flops in Broadway history, Moose Murders, would be receiving its first New York revival off-of…
Right this minute, Trudie Styler is busy making her off-Broadway debut downtown at The Culture project, where she’s starring in The Seagull. (Quick, go see this weekend before it close…
So from what I understand, there are these things called sports which are like musicals in that the performers rehearse for a long time and then perform in front of an audience but unlike mu…
There is this moment in Big Fish: The Musical that’s really helpful for people who can’t think and who don’t like musicals, theater, or humanity. It’s the moment abou…
A couple of weeks ago, you may have felt a disturbance in The (Broadway) Force " the sound of a thousand queens suddenly squealing with a mixture of delight and disbelief. The momentous occa…
Last Friday night I saw the opening of Broadway Idiot, a new documentary about the making of the American Idiot musical. As a documentary Idiot was mediocre at best. But come Saturday aftern…
Have you ever seen Twitter blow up with excitement about some older star appearing at 54 Below only to find yourself asking, “Who?” Does the annual announcement of the Encores! s…
The Last Goodbye — a musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet featuring the songs of Jeff Buckley — opened at the Old Globe in San Diego this past weekend. Ev…
Tomorrow is Friday the 13th, y’all. Otherwise known as the day when Patrick Wilson’s new movie, Insidious 2, hits theaters. (Because one shitty horror film is never enough, gotta…
Spoken-word artist Kate Tempest took a seat on stage and watched the band behind her raise a ruckus–loud and fiery. It pleased her. A beaming smile filled her cherubic face, as the dru…
It was pretty much unanimous when the reviews for First  Date came in " Broadway loves Zachary Levi and thinks he should stay with us forever. I mean, I may be paraphrasing here. Bu…
Nothing quite prepares you for how mad and brilliant the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is. Or how many cereal bars you end up getting through. Yes, there are shows that are fantastic and some th…
Half buried in a mound of sand, the glowing light bulbs of an old motel sign light the path. Â More moonscape than desert, ominous music wails and builds. Â Was something about to happen…
“Have you ever stood outside a picket fence? You could see through, but you can’t get to the inside.” Yes. That’s a Hanson lyric. And no, I’m not just qu…
In May, Joe’s Pub hosted an even where composer Michael Friedman and adaptor/director Alex Timbers previewed a few songs from Love’s Labour’s Lost and chatted with a…
If you didn’t already know, the height difference in podiums was the best indication that tall-drink-of-water (and Tony winner) Gabriel Ebert was about to do a reading of British playw…
In honor of the fact that Nick Blaemire and his band, The Hustle, released a brand new music video for their tune “Trouble” today, I thought it was high time to dig into The Crap…
There are two ways to go about putting on a jukebox musical. You either weave a catalog of songs into an original story that has basically nothing to do with the original artists or s…
In the past few years, super, super cute, angel-voiced actor AJ Shively has taken big roles both on and off Broadway, in revivals and new works. Currently, he’s starring as book…
