Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Spoiler alert, love does not win in awards season… Sure we may not have loved everything about this multi-million dollar tuner but this is shocking. Rocky was not nominated for Best Mu…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:57PMLet’s give Woody Allen some things because Woody Allen doesn’t have enough things… Rightfully ignored in most of the major musical categories (Best Musical, directing, the …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:07PMWelp. Here we go. The nominations have been announced, the feteeing and campaigning and dress shopping is about to begin, and basically everyone in the Theater District just went on an even …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 11:59AMTuesday, April 29, 2014
Well. The nominations are out. So, it’s like… time for Tony Fever and stuff. We here at The Craptacular are getting into the spirit by asking today’s most burning question …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:23PMTuesday, April 22, 2014
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, w…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:49PMTuesday, April 1, 2014
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 …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 09:49PMThursday, March 27, 2014
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…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:18PMMonday, March 17, 2014
…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 …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:08PMFriday, March 14, 2014
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…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 11:37AMFriday, March 7, 2014
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…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:31PMThursday, February 27, 2014
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 attem…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 03:29PMTuesday, February 18, 2014
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…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 03:36PMMonday, February 3, 2014
It’s at (Le) Poisson Rouge on February 10th and it’s going to be so amazing we don’t even have words. Sometimes we get so excited we cry a little bit when we think about it…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:38PMWednesday, January 29, 2014
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…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 03:54PMThursday, January 16, 2014
As ever, the world of theater lovers and creators continues to rail against “criticism” and “critics.” Because Isherwood and Brantley — and their ilk — ar…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 02:35PMMonday, January 13, 2014
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…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 04:01PMTuesday, December 31, 2013
The bests… Alex Timbers Is God This was a great year for us. Want to know why? Because Alex Timbers was everywhere. Uptown, downtown, across the country, seriously, the man was putting…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 03:36PMAlex 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…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:39AMMonday, December 30, 2013
Patina Miller Never mind the accolades. Never mind that she was Tony-nominated two years in a row, won once, and showed up to both ceremonies in easily the best dress of the night. Let’…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 08:07PMFriday, December 20, 2013
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…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 03:36PMMonday, December 16, 2013
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 …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 03:01PMFriday, December 6, 2013
Ah, the internet, how it brings people together. Like Lucky and I, for example. We met as… well. That’s another story for another party, best told when everyone’s slightly …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 02:02PMThursday, November 28, 2013
HAHA LOL Remember that time at the dinner table on Thanksgiving when your uncle pretended he was about to make an hilarious joke, but instead he jabbed you with a condescending comment about…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 09:59AMThursday, November 21, 2013
So yesterday we found out this guy is playing Enjolras on Broadway, which we’re sure is all fine and dandy but it still kind of broke our hearts. Because why, you ask? Because over the…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 11:04AMWednesday, November 20, 2013
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…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 03:30PMWednesday, November 13, 2013
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…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:11PMMonday, November 11, 2013
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 …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:53PMFriday, November 8, 2013
…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…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:15PMThursday, November 7, 2013
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…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 05:15PMFriday, November 1, 2013
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…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 11:42AMWednesday, October 16, 2013
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…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 05:06PM 
