Book of Mormon

Wicked's Record Breaking Week: What's Behind It?

The long running Broadway smash Wicked posted a weekly gross of almost three million dollars for the week between Christmas and New Year's, edging out the previous record by Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark. Having seen the show, you might well wonder: "Why is the musical with the green lady still rac ... More >>

Here's What Merch Different Broadway Shows Should Sell

Enough with the T-shirts and mugs. How many can one tourist really ever need? I've decided what the following Broadway shows should be really be hawking: Spider-Man: Turn off The Dark: Raid Wicked: Green paint remover Glengarry Glen Ross. Crummy real estate

BEST OF NYC™
The Too-Much City Arts Options? Why, Yes—We Have a Few.

Woody Harrelson: "I Wish My Indies Were Blockbusters!"

The actor comes back to theater with Bullet for Adolf

Mormons: Why Are Thousands of Them Gathering in Upstate New York This Week?

This week, thousands of Mormons are meeting up in Upstate New York for what's called the Hill Cumorah Pageant. Of course, the pageant is getting a little extra attention this year, and not just because 2012 marks the fest's 75th anniversary. G.O.P. presidential contender Mitt Romney is Mormon, an ... More >>

BROADWAY BABIES

Where new musicals are born

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Special Mormon Edición

Outside People Goes Inside China

The Vineyard Theatre mounts Zayd Dohrn's comedy

Musto Occupies 2011: A Rich Year for Gossip

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 >>

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

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

GOTTA HAVE FAITH

Like Big Love, except theatrical

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 >>

FILLED WITH GLEE

The NYMF presents 30 new musicals

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 >>

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 >>

Scandal and Subjective Reality in Errol Morris's Tabloid

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 >>

Measure for Measure: Sex and the Citizens

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

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

Musto's verdict on the retooled musical

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 >>

Blind Items! Scads And Scads Of Them!

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

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.

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 >>

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 >>

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."

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.

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

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

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

FAMILY AFFAIR

Holidays with The Osmonds

Golden Tablets and the American Dream

Those wacky Mormons and their mandate to love illegals

Missionary Positioning

Indie Mormon Cinema Attempts a Mainstream Conversion

Love That Dare Not

Why We Should Support the Right to Marry Plurally

Practical Piety

A Guide for the Perplexed