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I Sang On The Pippin Cast Album

No, it wasn't exactly a solo. Or a featured bit. Or even the usual ensemble. I was part of a massive chorus of 300 or so people singing harmony behind Tony nominee Andrea Martin on her big song "No Time At All." And we soared! This was done in an uptown hall yesterday, as presided over by Time Out ... More >>

The Whale: Bulk Delivery

Shuler Hensley displays a fat man's tragic sorrows

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

Special Mormon Edición

Wagon Master

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

GOTTA HAVE FAITH

Like Big Love, except theatrical

Mitt Romney Not a Christian, Says Mega-Christian With Megachurch

Robert Jeffress, the evangelical megachurch pastor who introduced Rick Perry at the Voter Values Summit yesterday, has publicly questioned Mitt Romney's faith. Politico reports that when asked whether Mitt Romney was a Christian, Jeffress said, "No." Jeffress added, "That is a mainstream view, that ... More >>

FILLED WITH GLEE

The NYMF presents 30 new musicals

Scandal and Subjective Reality in Errol Morris's Tabloid

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 >>

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 >>

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."

Kathie Lee and I Battle It Out Over The Book of Mormon

​ Yes, Today show host Kathie Lee Gifford and I are the focal points of the print campaign for the smash Broadway musical The Book of Mormon! That's the one about Mormons going to Uganda and spreading lies, which results in the Ugandan natives putting on a fabulous musical revue!

The Book of Mormon--Joseph Smith's Great White Way

The South Park guys whip up an unstable mix of grim facts and showbiz hoopla

The Book of Mormon Will Make You A Believer

​I'm quite certain that The Book of Mormon is the only current Broadway musical with the song lyric, "Fuck you, God, in your ass, mouth, and cunt--and the eye!" And I defy anyone to get offended. Except Mormons. The show--done by the South Park guys with the help of an Avenue Q writer--manag ... More >>

'Fuck You, God!'

Book of Mormon​ No, that's not me talking. I don't believe in God, so why on earth would I tell Her to fuck off? It happens to be a line from The Book of Mormon, the reportedly wacky musical by the South Park guys that just started previews on Broadway.

Winter Guide: New York Theatre Workshop Uncorks Three Pianos

A guide to winter plays

FAMILY AFFAIR

Holidays with The Osmonds

Study: The Least Religious People Know the Most About Religion...and Other Things

​A new Pew Forum study about religion informs us that many of us actually don't know what we're talking about in that arena, including many of us who actually purport to be religious. A range of religious and general questions were given to atheists/agnostics, Jews, Protestants, Catholics, and ... More >>

Fun With Mormon Fantasies

Alas, Mexicans are not a lost tribe of Israel

Why Are There So Many Mormons in Mexico?

How the Mormon Church Brought Down the Gays in 8: The Mormon Proposition

South Park Creators Basically Ensuring LDS Church War on Theater

​Remember the other day, when we heard about New York playwright Neil LaBute's new play, which may or may not be about the Mormon religion, which he was basically tossed out of? LaBute doesn't exactly mince words in his plays, but what's now coming to Broadway will likely make whatever he has ... More >>

Playwright Neil LaBute Likely to Piss Off Some Mormons With This One

​In the canon of modern New York playwrights, Neil LaBute's dramedies about how awful people are (or rather, how fucking awful people are, as Voice critic Rob Weinert-Kendt once called him "American theater's reigning misanthrope") are pretty essential. He's also, notably, one of the few incre ... More >>

Are All Mormons Intolerant?

Richard JohnstoneSaying that all Mormons hate on the gays is basically the same as saying that all Muslims are terrorists or all gays are pervs who should never be allowed to marry. It's a gross generalization that doesn't really help anybody in the greater scheme of things. I'm sure there are wonde ... More >>

A Ban On Mormon Marriage And Their "Religious Fascism"!

This had to happen! The Universal Free Church is calling for a national petition drive to allow gay marriage and to ban Mormon marriage! (That should even things out. Otherwise, the chapels will be way overbooked.) Like so many people out there, they feel the Mormons have a right to say whatever t ... More >>

Thousands Protest Prop 8 at Mormon Temple

Why the Mormons Hate the Gays

Prop 8 Protest in New York at Mormon Temple!

Golden Tablets and the American Dream

Those wacky Mormons and their mandate to love illegals

Desert Bayou

Bad for the Mormons

Hackneyed drama re-enacts the Mountain Meadows massacre

Bad for the Mormons

Hackneyed drama re-enacts the Mountain Meadows massacre

Every Man's Fantasy?

Two television shows explore nontraditional relationships

Mormonsploitation!

Paint a Vulgar Picture

Clueless documentarian charts transformation of former Dolls bassist to Latter-Day Saint

Film

Missionary Positioning

Indie Mormon Cinema Attempts a Mainstream Conversion

Patriot Games

Flags! Condoms! Controversies Are Sweeping the Olympics. Care?

Love That Dare Not

Why We Should Support the Right to Marry Plurally

Practical Piety

A Guide for the Perplexed