This "Hamilton" Shit Has Really Gone Too Far
Yeah I saw it and it was a good musical and all that but come on.
Dumbass Teen Who Plugged Phone Cord Into Broadway Set: Play "Wasn't Bad"
Last week the world learned about a dumbass who tried to charge his iPhone by plugging it into a fake outlet on the set of Hand to God, a Broadway play that was just about to begin. Now, thanks to Playbill, we know the idiot’s name: Nick Silvestri of Seaford, Long Island.
J.K. Rowling Announces "Not a Prequel" Play About Harry Potter's Parents
J.K. Rowling announced Friday that “not a prequel” to her quadrillion-selling Harry Potter septology is headed for London’s Palace Theatre in summer 2016. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will cover the “untold part” of Harry’s story, including the lives of his dead mom and dad. (Again, “not a prequel.”)
Play Canceled After Actor Breaks Character to Fight an Audience Member
The show must go on, unless the lead actor breaks character and jumps into the audience to fight a drunk heckler. Then the show gets canceled.
"Gay men are widely considered by producers and group sales agents to be a reliable Broadway demographic," reports the New York Times.
The Sound of Beyoncé Screaming: A One-Act Play to Stage with Friends
Inspired by the following (DIDDY DENIED) item from the New York Daily News' "Confidenti@l" column:
Christians Stink-Bomb Play That Features a Poop-Covered Jesus
AFP tells us that Italian director Romeo Castellucci's production of the play On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God features the face of Jesus "drizzled in excrement." The Guardian explains the poop on Jesus' face comes from "an excremental stream pouring from his right eye-socket." Sounds a bit like an…
Scrubs Creator Doesn't Like It When People Are Mean to Zach Braff
Droopy renaissance man Zach Braff wrote a new play called All New People that's currently running off-Broadway, and New York Magazine's theater critic Scott Brown really did not like it. His review was scathing, but hilariously so! Everyone loved it! Well, almost everyone. Braff's friend, Scrubs and Cougar Town guru…
Watch the Spider-Man Cast's Weird Late Show Performance
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the forever-delayed, utterly doomed musical from Julie Taymor, Bono and the Edge, is still in previews. But that doesn't mean that the cast can't perform a weirdly tame song on David Letterman's Late Show!
Stephen Colbert: Other Broadway Shows Should Be More Like Spider-Man
Tonight, Stephen Colbert gave a "Tip of [His] Hat" to the doomed Spider-Man broadway musical for, well, selling tons of tickets even though its actors keep getting injured. Then, Colbert called on other plays to violently follow suit. Watch inside.
Actor Apparently Shot in Face During Play
Actor David Birrell was apparently shot in the eye with a gun that was supposed to be loaded with blanks during a matinee performance of the London production Stephen Sondheim's Passion. He is "currently being treated in hospital." [Telegraph]
I Hope They Serve Morphine at Play From Hell
Broblogger Tucker Max's poop movie I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell is allegedly an item of interest for some theater dude who wants to make it into I Hope They Serve Beer...On Broadway! We hope they serve something stronger.
Zombies Bring Evil To Broadway
Toronto, proving once again that it is a city ahead of its time when it comes to zombie creativity, is currently hosting an onstage musical version of the classic, terrible 1981 zombiesploitation flick Evil Dead. To advertise the show their agency is making zombie-themed versions of posters from popular Broadway…
Someone Wrote a Play About Jonathan Safran Foer!
From lovable Brooklynite novelist Jonathan "Safran" Foer (the hip one!) to New Republic editor Franklin Foer (he's the serious one!) to stunt-rememberer and baby brother Joshua Foer (he will come up with some way to bother us later!), everyone loves the Foer Brothers. Everyone except, apparently, playwright Itamar…
