25 stories from whatblows.blogspot.com
Today, Sherie Rene Scott teaches us a lesson in brown-nosing. When the Times asks you what you're excited about this season, you do not hesitate to kiss ass."As a proud three-time Tony-losi…
- Readers know that I'm remorse for Helen Hayes and her eternal shit end of the stick (the bitch just can't keep a theatre named after her). Justice is now being served in the form of a com…
Yes.So I'm a little into RAIN, A TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES. I've seen it twice. And while I'd never recommend it to theatre people, or any people for that matter, I just kinda enjoy it. Is t…
Some genius made these videos that are making the rounds this week and I'm obsessed with them. Sorry they're embedding weird, but they're worth it.
We don't hate it actually. And she's not really our friend either. But we're also not more than one person, so whatever (thanks Morrissey).But how much money do you think off-broadway's ow…
People, excuse me for sucking. Here's two quick things you should see:If you've not yet seen Joshua Conkel's MILKMILKLEMONADE either last year at Under St. Marks or this fall at the Astori…
Pronouns are not for Daniel Radcliff, who's eager to bang the dancer chorus of HOW TO SUCCEED this season. Word of advice to Radcliff: Theatre people are nutso, keep your distance.In other…
WOMAN ON THE VERGE is the hot ticket right now, and Time Out is giving away a pair for tickets. Click here to enter.
Free Night Of Theater is this great thing that offers free tickets to various shows in an effort to bring people to plays they wouldn't normally get to see.Tickets were available starting We…
Playwrights Horizons is trying out an innovative new approach to theatre this fall. Albee fans feeling slighted by the all-wrong production of ME, MYSELF & I can simply turn around and r…
I got some design gossip on SPIDERMAN. Expect a bedroom set with trampoline walls for a Peter Parker number. He'll be bouncing off the walls literally while singing. Also the finale will …
First reports are good for DEATHTRAP in merry ole London. The Whingers gave the show 4 out of five libations (that's good) and say "No tightening is needed for Groff's West End stage debut. …
Soho Rep announced their season yesterday. And 99cent tickets to Greg Moss's ORANGE, HAT & GRACE go on sale tomorrow morning at 9am. They sell out very quickly, so get up early and get…
And like that, A DISAPPEARING NUMBER came and went. Did you see it? In typical Rocco-style, I told you all to buy tickets 4 months in advance and then didn't get my own till the day before…
This video is old, but I saw it on Tosh.0 this weekend and had to look it up so I could watch it over and over (and over and over). It's really the second part that gets me. Make sure you ha…
Its that time of year when I get hundreds of emails asking for love from Fringe shows that, well, need love. And while I can't throw my arms around shows I know nothing about, I can say fro…
$10 tickets are on sale right now for the first 4 performances of BRIEF ENCOUNTER at Studio 54. Roundabout is presenting, but the show originated elsewhere so it should be ready for audienc…
God I suck at this. Thanks for sticking around. I'm gonna put down my margarita little more often and crank out more unintelligible ramblings. Complete with spelling errors and piss poor …
Excuse the hyperbole, but I've always equated the National Theatre with the Vatican. It's big, its grand, and like the Vat's relation to Catholicism, it the one place in the world where the…
Why bother even having awards when we can just watch Green Day play all night??That was my first thought last week. The first of many.Cate Blachett look like silver butter. Why is Marian Sel…
So sad to hear of the sudden passing of blogger extraordinaire Patrick Lee this past week to a heart attack at 51. Patrick's Just Shows To Go You had become a must read for me and just last…
I just...really can't believe this.TMZ.com and Playbill report that tv and film actor Charlie Sheen's sentence after pleading no contest to domestic violence (a 3rd degree misdemeanor assaul…
I really appreciate this mentality:"you can't trick an audience"or not for long. What I believe in is product. Don't waste your time trying to figure out how to get a young audience to see T…
Sheila Callaghan should write a play about an air-conditioner. Cause apparently that's the only way she'll ever get one in a theatre where her plays are being performed. After seeing DEAD …
"Should I feel guilty that, for me, the most satisfying moment of Cirque du Soleil's BANANA SHPEEL came when a clown was riddled with mock machine-gun fire?"- from Neil Genzlinger's review t…
