Tim Teeman

New York

Senior Editor and Writer at The Daily Beast

Senior Editor and Writer, @TheDailyBeast. Author: In Bed With Gore Vidal: https://t.co/nBvbuzJYaP

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‘True’ Story of the ‘3 Bimbos of the Apocalypse’ Revealed

1 day ago | flipboard.com | Tim Teeman

Now“Original Sin,” by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, depicts an aging president whose family and aides enabled his quixotic campaign for a second term. ORIGINAL SIN: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson In Christian theology, …
True Story of ‘3 Bimbos of the Apocalypse’ Paris, Lindsay, and Britney

1 day ago | thedailybeast.com | Tim Teeman

The inspiration for the New Group’s latest production, the memorably titled Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse (Signature Theatre, to June 1), is an infamous photograph taken of Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, and Lindsay Lohan in 2006.
Hugh Jackman’s Charm Makes Him Perfect Choice for ‘Sexual Misconduct’

2 days ago | thedailybeast.com | Tim Teeman

What it is to have a voice, and what it is to be voiceless: That is the knot at the center of the oddly titled yet compelling and cracklingly well-acted Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes (Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre, to June 18). Here, Hugh Jackman plays Jon Macklem, a famous author and teacher, and Ella Beatty one of his students, Annie, in a taut, 80-minute tale of an affair and its aftermath where not all is as it seems.
‘Wonderful Town’: This May Be the Worst Musical About New York City

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Tim Teeman

There is a historical lineage to City Center’s 2025 presentation of Wonderful Town (booking to May 11), even if this distinctly underwhelming and shaky Encores! production is not likely to head to Broadway following in the previously stellar paths of Into the Woods and Parade. Wonderful Town can certainly be done well. First performed on Broadway in 1953, when it won Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Choreography, its first City Center revival came five years later in 1958.
film drenched in blood cannot escape off-screen tragedy

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Tim Teeman
‘Real Women Have Curves’ Fires Up a Huge Musical Showstopper

2 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Tim Teeman

How’s this for timing? The final Broadway show opening in time to vie for Tony Award nominations has one of the best show-stopping numbers of the entire season. In the middle of the second act of Real Women Have Curves (James Earl Jones Theatre, booking to Oct.
‘Dead Outlaw’ Is Stunning-and Broadway’s Most Insane Musical

2 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Tim Teeman

When it gets too hot, a splash of cold water is deliciously welcome. And so it is on Broadway at this time of year when a gaggle of shows scramble to open before the stroke of midnight Sunday, the cutoff time to be eligible for this year’s Tony Awards, whose nominations will be announced Thursday. All the conventional heat comes from celebrities in starring roles, and spectacular shows with big budgets.
Jonathan Groff Is a Wildly Entertaining Bobby Darin in New Musical

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Tim Teeman

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Jonathan Groff Is a Wildly Entertaining Bobby Darin

2 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Tim Teeman

The makers of any show based on the life of a famous person—especially when the subject is long-dead—have a substantial checklist to work through before a word is written. Is the figure well-enough known to merit an audience wanting to come see a production about them, many years later? If they’re not, is the actor playing them well-enough known to lock in a modern-day audience? What does the audience already know about the subject?
David Hyde Pierce Is a National Treasure

2 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Tim Teeman

Somehow, the sooner the better, David Hyde Pierce should be designated an official National Treasure. My theater buddy and I were mulling what the (extremely positive) feeling Hyde Pierce elicits as soon as he appears on stage in Pirates! The Penzance Musical (Todd Haimes Theatre, booking to July 27) was all about—and not just in this, but in other stage roles such as the Bishop in Stephen Sondheim’s final musical, Here We Are.