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Monday, November 6, 2017

Kevin Spacey Film All the Money in the World Pulled From AFI Fest in Wake of Sexual-Assault Allegations by Jackson McHenry

Sony has started to distance itself from its Ridley Scott–directed film All the Money in the World, starring Kevin Spacey, in the wake of multiple accusations against the actor for sexual …

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:06PM

Report: 21st Century Fox Considering Selling Much of Itself to Disney by Jackson McHenry

In news that would both allow the X-Men to join the rest of the Marvel universe, and push Disney’s already significant standing within the entertainment industry to an even higher level, C…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:41PM

Watch Tony Shalhoub in a First Look at Broadway’s Haunting The Band’s Visit by Jackson McHenry

“Once, not long ago, a group of musicians came to Israel from Egypt,” begins The Band’s Visit, the new musical based on the 2007 Israeli film. “You probably didn’t hear about it. I…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:00PM
Thursday, November 2, 2017

Okay, Fine, Jonathan Groff Will Give You a Musical Version of Mindhunter by Jackson McHenry

It’s just logical: When someone who can sing gets cast in a television series, that TV show should eventually force the actor to sing, no matter how ridiculous that would be to the plot. U…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:18AM
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Netflix Suspends House of Cards Production in Wake of Kevin Spacey Allegations by Jackson McHenry

After announcing that House of Cards would end after its next season yesterday, today Netflix seems to have accelerated its collapse. The streaming service has suspended production on the po…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:11PM
Friday, October 27, 2017

Vella Lovell on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The Big Sick, and Heather’s Future in West Covina by Jackson McHenry

On Friday night’s episode of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Rebecca Bunch’s wisecracking roommate Heather is dragged into the spotlight: After spending eight years in community college, she finall…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:00PM

Smash’s Josh Safran Is Making a New Musical TV Show – Hit List Lives! by Jackson McHenry

For those of you who have spent the last long, cold, four years mourning the end of NBC’s Smash, good news: The show’s season two showrunner Josh Safran is making a new musical TV show. …

SOURCE: Vulture at 05:55PM
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Exclusive Video: Mandy Gonzalez Melds the Personal and Political in ‘Fearless,’ Written by Lin Manuel-Miranda by Jackson McHenry

Mandy Gonzalez, who currently stars as Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton, knew she needed a knock-out anthem for her debut album Fearless, so she turned to her friend and long-time collaborator …

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:20AM
Thursday, October 19, 2017

Lee Pace Will Play Joe Pitt in Nathan Lane and Andrew Garfield’s Angels in America by Jackson McHenry

The Broadway-bound London production of Angels in America has found its new American Joe Pitt. Lee Pace, best known for The Hobbit, Pushing Daisies, and Halt and Catch Fire (which you should…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:23AM
Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Cher Joins Meryl Streep in the Gay Fantasia That Is Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again by Jackson McHenry

As if having the best sequel title in recent memory weren’t enough, the gay fantasia that is Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again has also managed to land Cher. The singer slash actress slash futur…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:48AM
Thursday, October 12, 2017

In the Heights Book Writer Asks the Weinstein Company to Release Film Rights by Jackson McHenry

Quiara Alegría Hudes, co-author with Lin-Manuel Miranda of the musical In the Heights, which is currently being developed for film with the Weinstein Company, no longer wants to work …

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:11PM
Friday, October 6, 2017

The Grey’s Anatomy Firefighter Spinoff Just Cast Some of Your Broadway Faves by Jackson McHenry

Shondaland shows are full of actors who can sing — consider Audra McDonald in Private Practice, or Sara Ramirez in Grey’s Anatomy — and her latest project is keeping the grand traditio…

SOURCE: Vulture at 03:36PM
Thursday, October 5, 2017

Lauren Ambrose — and, Oh My God, Also Diana Rigg — Will Be in Broadway’s My Fair Lady Revival by Jackson McHenry

Yadda yadda yadda Lauren Ambrose will star as Eliza Doolittle in the upcoming revival of My Fair Lady directed by Bartlett Sher. Yadda yadda yadda Ambrose is famous for Six Feet Under, but h…

SOURCE: Vulture at 03:58PM

Bryan Fuller Really Wants to Bring Pushing Daisies Back From the Dead as a Broadway Musical by Jackson McHenry

Given the fact that it cast both Kristin Chenoweth and Ellen Greene and let them sing, Pushing Daisies was always just a few jazz steps away from turning into a full-blown musical. As it tur…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:10PM
Wednesday, October 4, 2017

All Right, All Riiiight: A Bob’s Burgers Movie Is Coming in 2020 by Jackson McHenry

A Bob’s Burgers movie — and can it please be a musical? — is coming to theaters in 2020. Fox announced plans today for a feature film based on the TV show from the same creative team. …

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:09PM
Thursday, September 28, 2017

The Cher Show Will Strut Into Broadway in Fall 2018 by Jackson McHenry

You might have heard the rumors, or seen Cher’s tweets about it, but finally, everything is confirmed: The Cher Show, a musical about Cher featuring the music of Cher starring three differ…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:05AM
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Pretty Woman Is the Latest Movie Turned Musical to Head to Broadway by Jackson McHenry

Pretty Woman, that classic romantic comedy about prostitution and investment banking, is becoming a musical. Samantha Barks, best known as the Les Misérables movie’s Éponine,…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:29AM
Monday, September 25, 2017

Pitch Perfect 3 Trailer: The Bellas Are Back Aca-at It Again With the Unaccompanied Musical Numbers by Jackson McHenry

Just when the Barden Bellas think they’re out, something pulls them right back into the whole singing-with-other-people-but-without-instruments game. Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Anna Camp…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:45AM
Thursday, September 21, 2017

Matthew Broderick, Ferris Bueller Himself, Will Narrate Fox’s Live Christmas Story Musical by Jackson McHenry

Why hire just just anyone to narrate your show based on a 1980s movie when you can get Ferris Bueller? (Bueller? Bueller?) Fox has announced that Matthew Broderick will play the narrator (a …

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:04PM
Friday, September 15, 2017

First Look: Carrie Coon Returns to Theater in NYTW’s Mary Jane by Jackson McHenry

One small hiccup for New York Theater Workshop’s relatively small-scale Off Broadway production of Mary Jane this September is that its star, Carrie Coon, has to dash out to California thi…

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:17PM

See Elizabeth McGovern Return to Broadway and the Downton Era in Time and the Conways by Jackson McHenry

In the Roundabout Theatre’s production of Time and the Conways this fall, audiences will find Elizabeth McGovern in a context both familiar and new. In the 1937 play written by J.B. Priest…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:00PM
Thursday, September 14, 2017

Please Enjoy Jennifer Garner’s Instagram Video of Herself Crying Over Hamilton While on Novocaine: ‘It’s So Beautiful!’ by Jackson McHenry

Two weeks ago, Jennifer Garner started curating an Instagram account, and it has been exactly as endearing and dorky as I could have hoped. She introduced herself with a time-lapse video, sh…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:35PM
Thursday, September 7, 2017

Nathan Lane and Andrew Garfield’s Angels in America Is Coming From London to Broadway in February by Jackson McHenry

The National Theatre’s production of Angels in America is finally coming to America. Producers Tim Levy and Jordan Roth announced plans to bring the London production of Tony Kushner’s e…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:32AM
Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Aaron Sorkin’s Adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird Is Coming to Broadway Next December by Jackson McHenry

Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird that you probably forgot about is coming to Broadway next season. Producer Scott Rudin acquired the stage rights to …

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:27PM
Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Bernadette Peters Will Replace Bette Midler in Hello, Dolly! (Cue Gasps) by Jackson McHenry

The producers of Hello, Dolly! have found someone big enough to descend the Harmonia Gardens staircase after Tony-winner Bette Midler: Bernadette Peters. The Two-time Tony winner (plus an ho…

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:35PM
Friday, September 1, 2017

How Sexy Is Tulip Fever? A Tulip-Based Analysis by Jackson McHenry

Spoilers for Tulip Fever ahead.This weekend, the Weinstein Company’s Tulip Fever finally arrives in theaters after years of delays, bringing people the 17th Dutch costume drama nobody was …

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:00PM

Like Emma Stone’s Aunt in La La Land, Damien Chazelle’s Netflix Show The Eddy Will Live in Paris by Jackson McHenry

Yes, just to get this out of the way in advance: La La Land director Damien Chazelle’s new TV show The Eddy is going to be a musical. And yes, it’s going to be set in a club, which happe…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:11AM
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

A Trove of Alexander Hamilton’s Papers Are Now Online; Most of Them Do Not Rhyme by Jackson McHenry

I’ve you’ve ever wanted to dig into research on Alexander Hamilton and then write a hit musical about him, we have bad news: Hamilton exists. If, on the other hand, you just want to dig …

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:30PM
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Noah Galvin and Taylor Trensch Are the Next Evan Hansens by Jackson McHenry

Dear Evan Hansen has found not one, but two actors who will follow Tony-winner Ben Platt when he steps out of that striped blue polo shirt this November. The musical announced today that Noa…

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:47PM
Thursday, August 17, 2017

See the LARP-Ready Costumes for the Broadway-Bound Frozen Musical by Jackson McHenry

Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, and Hans will arrive on Broadway wearing the armor of level 5 characters in what appears to be a Frozen video game. Entertainment Weekly has a first look at the musical…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:03AM
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Broadway’s Groundhog Day Will Close September 17 (and on September 17 and on September 17) by Jackson McHenry

Phil Connors will stop having to live the same day over again (and again and again) in Broadway’s Groundhog Day on September 17. The musical, based on the film with a book from screenwrite…

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:28PM

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