Monday, March 26, 2018
Finally, your chance to see American treasure Stockard Channing as a left-wing radical turned art historian has arrived. The Roundabout Theatre Company announced today that it’s bringing A…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00AMWednesday, March 21, 2018
At first, Bruce Springsteen was only going to appear on Broadway for eight weeks starting last fall, but now, like a tourist lost on the way to Wicked, he’s going to be here for much longe…
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:03PMLaura Benanti, The Late Show’s resident, seething Melania Trump, thinks we’re all caught in a situation like the First Lady right now. “We’re all reluctantly married to Donald Trump,…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:55AMTuesday, March 20, 2018
Whether you like it or not, Big Little Lies fever is back. After announcing that the (formerly) limited series would return, HBO has pushed out a steady stream of updates about the upcoming …
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:49PMMore than a year after his death, Sam Shepard’s work is getting a new life on Broadway. The Roundabout Theatre Company announced today that Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano will star as the broth…
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:00PMMonday, March 19, 2018
Over dinner at Joe Allen, with her hoodie sweatshirt zipped all the way to the top (“I’m in a draft”), Glenda Jackson insists she is not intimidating. Never mind that the 81-year-old i…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:00AMTwo of Broadway’s biggest schemers — one founding father and the other guy a polo-shirted kid in high school — have joined forces for a cause. Yes, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ben Platt fin…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:26AMThursday, March 15, 2018
Weeks before Steven Spielberg releases his megabudget virtual-reality movie Ready Player One, all of Hollywood wonders just what he might do next. Could he make that that next Indiana Jones …
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:16AMWednesday, March 14, 2018
Broadway’s big-name adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Aaron Sorkin, starring Jeff Daniels as Atticus Finch, and set to open this fall, has run into trouble with Harper Lee’…
SOURCE: Vulture at 06:52PMJesus is coming, and he’s wearing some nice fitted white T-shirts. In a new trailer for NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, we meet John Legend’s Jesus, Alice Cooper’s Hero…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:54AMTuesday, March 13, 2018
This spring, theater is going big — at least in terms of spectacle, length, and expense. The Broadway productions lining up like 747s to land before the April 26 cutoff for Tonys qualifica…
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:19PMAt this year’s Lucille Lortel Awards, co-host Laura Benanti says you can expect “one beautiful, hilarious theater star who has a deep respect for the theater and all it stands for and a …
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:00AMMonday, March 12, 2018
The Metropolitan Opera fired conductor and former music director James Levine today after it “uncovered credible evidence that Mr. Levine engaged in sexually abusive and harassing conduct …
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:34PMHot off of making tons of money from remaking Beauty and the Beast, Disney has found a new way to make money off of Beauty and the Beast. Zooey Deschanel is playing Belle in a live performan…
SOURCE: Vulture at 12:00PMFriday, March 9, 2018
The success of The Book of Dust seems to have been the push needed to move forward a new adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series. Tom Hooper is in talks to direct a new ei…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:06AMThursday, March 8, 2018
“Don’t forget me.” That’s what Karen Cartwright and then Ivy Lynn, dressed as Marilyn Monroe in the fake musical Bombshell from the dearly departed NBC show Smash, once implored audi…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:10AMTuesday, March 6, 2018
Actress Ruthie Ann Miles was injured and her 4-year-old daughter, Abigail, was killed after a Brooklyn car crash yesterday in which a car sped through a red light. Another woman, Lauren Lew,…
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:01PMMonday, March 5, 2018
When Diane Lockhart returns for the second season of The Good Fight, she’s not the buttoned-up lawyer she once was. She’s still powerful, but thanks to the pressures of living under the …
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:00AMThursday, March 1, 2018
After winning a Tony for Dear Evan Hansen, Ben Platt is continuing to book roles that will (probably, definitely) involve crying. Variety reports that Platt will star in the film Love & …
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:33PMWednesday, February 28, 2018
Wendell Pierce has a master plan: Each year he tries to shoot a film and a TV show, and also appear in a play. Even with training from Julliard, he’s still interested in honing his skill a…
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:33PMTuesday, February 27, 2018
John Mulaney and Nick Kroll are returning to host the Independent Spirit Awards this weekend, and don’t worry, their success last year has made them extremely complacent. Kroll and Mulaney…
SOURCE: Vulture at 12:01PMBarbra Streisand hasn’t directed a feature-length film since 1996’s The Mirror Has Two Faces, but not for lack of trying. In an interview with Variety, Streisand discussed the various di…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:16AMFriday, February 23, 2018
David Mamet has, for some reason, decided to add in his own perspective on the Harvey Weinstein story. In an interview with the Chicago Tribute, the playwright, who recently published a crim…
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:49PMThursday, February 22, 2018
NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert has found its Judas and he’s a [pauses to reach for a high note] gooood choice. Brandon Victor Dixon, who recently played Aaron Burr as a rep…
SOURCE: Vulture at 12:36PMThough she’s currently nominated for an Oscar playing a 21st-century American teen in Lady Bird, Saoirse Ronan really built her career on playing melancholy women in period clothing, and d…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:25AMWednesday, February 21, 2018
Greg may have disappeared from West Covina, but he’s popping up again in Yonkers. Santino Fontana, known for his work on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, is stepping into Broadway’s Hello, Dolly! fo…
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:25PMTuesday, February 20, 2018
Years before they made their names on television, Gillian Jacobs and Aya Cash would run into each other at the same auditions with the same group of people. “We were in a lot of waiti…
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:47PMHarvey Fierstein’s landmark play is returning to the Broadway theater where it was first performed nearly four decades ago. After a successful run of performances last fall, the Second Sta…
SOURCE: Vulture at 03:51PMThough it may have burnt out on Broadway in the wake of a casting controversy last September, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 will soon reappear overseas. The boundary-pushing …
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:31AMFriday, February 16, 2018
There are fans of curling, the Winter Olympics most calming and misunderstood sport, everywhere, and one of them happens to be Brian Tyree Henry. At a press event for Lobby Hero, the Broadwa…
SOURCE: Vulture at 03:01PMThursday, February 15, 2018
The Newsroom lives, in that Jeff Daniels and Aaron Sorkin are working together again, and pretty much no other ways. Daniels will star as Atticus Finch in Sorkin’s upcoming stage adaptatio…
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:49PM 
