537 stories from The Craptacular
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 …
Every year I go to Broadway Flea, I think think the same two things: That it’s for an amazing cause, and that I should be selling my epic piles of apartment-cluttering, Broadway-relate…
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…
Tony Vincent made a splash in 2010, originating the role of the sinister-yet-seductive St. Jimmy in American Idiot. But long before that, he was a chart-topping solo artist . We recently cha…
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…
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…
Broadway expat Matthew Morrison released the first single off his debut album this week. We could say lots of things about it, but frankly, we’re more curious about what you have to s…
Most of the new shows are finally going to enter previews in the next couple days. We’re getting more rain and less snow. And there’s suddenly a truckload of new stuff to talk …
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…
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…
Green Day does this thing during their live shows. They pull someone up out of the audience and make them play the guitar, or sing, or playact some other type of rock n’ roll posturing…
After a few long, quiet months in which half our favorite shows closed and Spider-Man was the only new thing to talk about—if you were willing to break the embargo, that is—The C…
Love it or loathe it, everyone’s got something to say about Valentine’s Day. Even Lea Michele. Broadway.com recently unearthed this Spring Awakening-era video of her waxing on ab…
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…
Secret: Reeve Carney is not a Broadway actor. Or he didn’t start out as one, at least. The first time I saw him, though, he was indeed playing on a New York stage. And at the time, you…
It sucks. It sucked after the first preview and after the 30th. It will suck after its first official performance, and after its last, and on its 4,000th, which I’m sure it will play, …
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…
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…
19 inches of snow may or may not be enough to keep us inside—seriously, Billie Joe Armstrong is still on the Broadway stage, its mighty tempting to brave the elements. But. If we man…
It's counter intuitive: Some of the most exciting moments in live theater are on video, poorly-edited and grainy and with tinny sound. But for a theater fan, YouTube is a treasure trove of o…
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…
