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Book of Mormon

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    Newsies Opens: My Review

    Let's table the palaver and get down to business, to quote one of the characters. Newsies the Musical--based on the so-so 1992 movie about striking newsboys--is a slick, entertaining show that's sort of like Annie meets Billy Elliot. As in the movie, the boys are selling their "papes" (i.e., newsp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2012

    Animal House Musical In The Works! I Know Who Should Star!

    They're developing a stage musical based on the rambunctious 1978 comedy National Lampoon's Animal House--with music by Barenaked Ladies--and it will probably be the rowdiest thing to hit Broadway since The Book of Mormon. And since that show's director Casey Nicholaw happens to be helming this one ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2012

    Wall Street Frat Bros' Party Is Like Vegas With OWS Jokes

    Last night, DealBook posted the story of what happens when a bunch of high powered financial types get together to party. Thursday marked the "annual black tie dinner and induction ceremony" for Kappa Beta Phi (yes, like Phi Beta Kappa, only not), an invite-only, group for master of the universe-ty ... More >>

  • Columns

    January 18, 2012

    Special Mormon Edición

    Last night, DealBook posted the story of what happens when a bunch of high powered financial types get together to party. Thursday marked the "annual black tie dinner and induction ceremony" for Kappa Beta Phi (yes, like Phi Beta Kappa, only not), an invite-only, group for master of the universe-ty ... More >>

  • Theater

    January 11, 2012

    Outside People Goes Inside China

    The Vineyard Theatre mounts Zayd Dohrn's comedy

  • News

    December 28, 2011

    Musto Occupies 2011: A Rich Year for Gossip

    The Vineyard Theatre mounts Zayd Dohrn's comedy

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2011

    My "Year In Review": NYC Became Fun City Again!

    In my breathlessly enchanting cover story looking back at 2011, I decide that New York became "Fun City" again thanks to the double-dipping economic crisis that had everyone taking the stick out of their asses and riding it to the streets for protest marches, bonding experiences, and general camarad ... More >>

  • Film

    December 21, 2011

    The Year in Film: People of the Year

    Or: The Netflix meltdown, the resurrection of Harvey Weinstein, and Kristen Wiig's box office coup all in one list

  • News

    November 2, 2011

    Mormons: A Shallow Yet Helpful Guide to See If You Should Hate Them or Not

    Or: The Netflix meltdown, the resurrection of Harvey Weinstein, and Kristen Wiig's box office coup all in one list

  • Voice Choices

    October 26, 2011

    GOTTA HAVE FAITH

    Like Big Love, except theatrical

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2011

    Photos From My Incredible Book Party!

    ​The Copacabana turned it out last night with food, booze, percussionists, and dancing Copa girls for the gala launch of my book, Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back, promoted by Chip Duckett. Countess LuAnn de Lesseps and Lisa Lampanelli cohosted and were pure delight, both taking the stage ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 14, 2011

    FILLED WITH GLEE

    The NYMF presents 30 new musicals

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    New Yorkers Still Want to See Wicked

    Wikipedia​Even after eight years, Wicked is still popular. (Sorry about that, we just had to.) HopStop calculated the top 10 Broadway shows New Yorkers have been going to see this summer, based on what theaters were most frequently inserted as HopStop destinations or starting addresses between ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2011

    Pop Up Chapel Will Marry 24 Same-Sex Couples Today in Central Park

    Stage and Marks, photo by Matt Miller​Today, the first Saturday after gay marriages began in New York City, 24 same-sex couples will marry in Central Park at Merchant's Gate, on the corner of 59th Street and Central Park West. The Pop Up Chapel was an idea born among friends -- including loca ... More >>

  • Film

    July 13, 2011

    Scandal and Subjective Reality in Errol Morris's Tabloid

    Stage and Marks, photo by Matt Miller​Today, the first Saturday after gay marriages began in New York City, 24 same-sex couples will marry in Central Park at Merchant's Gate, on the corner of 59th Street and Central Park West. The Pop Up Chapel was an idea born among friends -- including loca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2011

    SILENCE! The Musical: My Review

    ​Move over Assassins, Sweeney Todd, and Capeman. There's a new killer musical in town, and this one's supposed to be funny. A hit at the Fringe Festival, SILENCE! The Musical--the unauthorized spoof of Silence of the Lambs--is like a darker Xanadu, a satire that also manages to be creepy in ... More >>

  • Theater

    July 6, 2011

    Measure for Measure: Sex and the Citizens

    David Esbjornson's Shakespeare production puts an urban hell in Central Park

  • Columns

    June 15, 2011

    'Spider-Man' Review: I'm Buggin'!

    Musto's verdict on the retooled musical

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2011

    Tony Awards Prove My Blind Items Right!

    ​This very week, my column has a blind item about an actor/director who broke up with a Wicked chorus boy, only to take up with the Pal Joey guy, who broke up with an ex Chicago cast member. I also said that the Chicago guy is now a pair with that Book of Mormon star. Well, at the Tonys toni ... More >>

  • Columns

    June 8, 2011

    Blind Items! Scads And Scads Of Them!

    Here's what I know—and what you have to guess. Good luck.

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2011

    The Book of Mormon's Most Outrageous Outtake!

    ​Click here to read my column in which I talk to the stars and creators of The Book of Mormon about the volatile and hilarious musical that's uplifted the whole season while a certain superhero faltered right out of the sky a tiny bit.

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2011

    Tony Nominations! My Final Predictions!

    ​The dramatics! The emoting! The singing and dancing and screeching for the back row! I'm talking about what's going to happen when the Tony nominations are announced tomorrow morning. My final (and 100% correct) predictions are: BEST PLAY Jerusalem War Horse Good People Motherf**k ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2011

    Jerusalem Brings Blood And Guts To Broadway: My Review

    ​The new Olivier by way of John Belushi, Mark Rylance is willing to go to even darker places than an electrician in a power blackout. Three years ago, he won a Tony for his Buster Keaton-ish deadpan in Boeing Boeing, and more recently he played a scary vulgarian who spoke in verse in the stim ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    Mormon Lined Up For Obie Awards

    ​Well, someone who plays a Mormon. In, you know, The Book of Mormon. It's Andrew Rannells, who every night brings some interesting ideology to Uganda, thoughtfully pausing to sing the showstopping power ballad "I Believe."

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2011

    All Of This Year's Musicals Have The Same Plot

    ​Catch Me If You Can. A con man lies and wheedles his way around the country, but in the course of his unending fakeness, he elicits respect and some people find he's the realest thing they've ever met.

  • Theater

    April 6, 2011

    Robin Williams Shows Some Claws in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

    Rajiv Joseph's powerful, ghost-ridden new drama earns its stripes

  • Columns

    March 30, 2011

    What's Wrong With Broadway? It's Not Just Spider-Man!

    Bono's Peter Parker isn't the only thing that's crashing and boring

  • Voice Choices

    November 24, 2010

    FAMILY AFFAIR

    Holidays with The Osmonds

  • People

    January 1, 2008

    Golden Tablets and the American Dream

    Those wacky Mormons and their mandate to love illegals

  • News

    January 13, 2004

    Missionary Positioning

    Indie Mormon Cinema Attempts a Mainstream Conversion

  • News

    May 29, 2001

    Love That Dare Not

    Why We Should Support the Right to Marry Plurally

  • News

    January 26, 1999

    Practical Piety

    A Guide for the Perplexed

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