If you've been to the theater lately there is a good chance the person sitting next to you was busy tapping away on their iPhone during the performance. Maybe at first you thought, "Ok, they’re a big time reporter just taking notes or their mother is sick. I can completely ignore the bright shining light and constant movement next to me." And then maybe the person next to you did it, and in front, and behind you and you realized none of these people were doing anything neccesary, they were just busy alerting people that #musicaltheaterisawesome. Now these text and Twitter addicts will get their very own annoying section.

Super stud Hugh Jackman is known best for his action roles, particularly as Wolverine in the X-Men franchise. But he's also an accomplished stage actor; he first gained popularity outside of his native land down under when he starred in Oklahoma! in London. He's no stranger to Broadway, having won a Tony for his portrayal of Australian singer Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz. This week, Jackman made his return to the Great White Way in a one-man show, aptly titled Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway, and apparently it's a big, sexy hit.

Meteoric rises to fame are Broadway’s bread and butter, so much so that, well, innumerable plays have been penned about meteoric rises to fame on Broadway. The breakout star of 2010 was Nina Arianda, a 26-year-old actor from Clifton, New Jersey, whose twisty, hilarious, hot-and-cold performance as Vanda in David Ives’ Venus in Fur earned her a mantel’s worth of awards. After wrapping a Tony-nominated turn in Born Yesterday over the summer, Arianda, who has an endearing Betty Boop voice and a heart-shaped face, will reprise her role in Venus, this time on the Great White Way.

Pedro Almodovar’s classic, campy Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown will soon ride the melodramatic giggles of theater geeks everywhere onto a Broadway stage. The film steps off the silver screen and soft-shoes, taps and, we hope, pirouettes onstage as a musical that should premiere November 4th at the Belasco Theater.

Writer and performer Mark Sam Rosenthal, of the one-man show Blanche Survives Katrina in a FEMA Trailer Named Desire, muses on King cake, critics and the beloved Blanche DuBois. Now playing at the Soho Playhouse through March 15.

Talk about being in the Weeds -- reviews for the Roundabout's recent Mary-Louise Parker-led production of Hedda Gabler on Broadway haven't been too kind. The New York Times' all-too-powerful Ben Brantley called it "one of the worst revivals I have ever, ever seen," so: there goes that extension. Thing is, it's not all bad. The production has a few saving graces that go without mention elsewhere, though.

Before the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of Gypsy closed on January 11, the show's star, musical theater icon Patti LuPone, went haywire on an audience member who (stupidly) took pictures during a performance, going so far as to interrupt a number and have said audience member forcibly ejected from the show. The audio of the incident recently leaked to YouTube; that was exciting enough for LuPone's fans, who are, to be kind, fanatical. But the real treasure from all of this -- like so many other YouTube sensations -- came when some enterprising Gypsy fan decided to give LuPone's rant a hip-hop/techno remix. May we present LuPWNed! after the jump, for your mid-day enjoyment. If you haven't seen a Broadway show recently, let this be a reminder as to how far those $100 tickets can take you. Seriously.

New York City Opera recently called for an aria-infused interpretation of "I wish I knew how to quit you!" when news came that Brokeback Mountain would become an opera. The whole thing seemed destined for punchlines like this one: "Well, we all know how the boys hit their high notes, hehe. Because, you see, they're total gays." But, NYMag.com suggests that history might prove helpful in warding off parody, by citing operatic inclinations towards sexual ambivalence ("Mozart’s Cherubino from Le Nozze di Figaro, Strauss’s Octavian from Rosenkavalier, and Gluck’s Orestes and Pylades from Iphigénie en Tauride, to name a few") and, yes, cowboys ("Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West").

Madonna recently told Vanity Fair that New York isn’t what it used to be, that it doesn’t feel alive anymore, and that the synergy between art, music, and fashion is no more. That’s because Joey Arias has been hiding in Las Vegas for the last six years, duh! The drag diva with the speakeasy voice was handling Mistress of Seduction duties at Zumanity, Cirque du Soleil’s carnal carnival. And in a "you can take the drag queen out of the city, but you can’t take the city out of the drag queen" twist of irony, the show was at the New York, New York Hotel & Casino.

Shed clothes, but no tears, for Broadway’s Cry-Baby star James Snyder.