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Monday, December 5, 2016

How To Train Your Dragon 3 Won't Soar Into Theaters Until 2019 by Tolly Wright

Despite two previous successful movies training dragons, DreamWorks and Universal Pictures has decided to hold back the third offspring in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise for another …

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:14PM
Sunday, December 4, 2016

Harper Lee’s Hometown Plans to Attract More To Kill A Mockingbird Tourism by Tolly Wright

Monroeville, Alabama, home to 6,500 residents, is hoping to completely rebrand itself from sleepy town to tourist destination. Known as the hometown of famed author Harper Lee, and the basis…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:26PM
Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Cher, Mark Ruffalo, and More Sound the Climate-Change Alarm in Trailer for In This Climate by Tolly Wright

In what might just be the scariest movie coming out next year, Cher, Mark Ruffalo, and more celebrities are ready to ring the alarm about global warming in the upcoming documentary In This C…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:28PM
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda and The Rock's Mockumentary For Millennials: The Musical by Tolly Wright

Realizing that one incredibly hyped Disney movie wasn't enough to contain their talent, Moana's Lin-Manuel Miranda and Dwayne Johnson decided to use all that spare time they have to produce …

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:01PM

Seth Meyers Takes a Closer Look at Trump's Hamilton Feud and Finds Potential Conflicts of Interest by Tolly Wright

Seth Meyers continued his Late Show crusade against President-elect Donald Trump on Monday night by examining the all encompassing Trump v Hamilton twitter feud. On top of arguing that Vice …

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:44AM
Monday, November 21, 2016

Trump Twitter Followers Raged at Hamilton Theater in Hamilton, Ontario Without Consulting Google First by Tolly Wright

Donald Trump's outrage at how the cast and audience of Broadway's Hamilton treated his right hand man, Mike Pence, last Friday, spurred many of his followers to join his social media tirade …

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:27PM
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Lin-Maneul Miranda's High School Bully Was Rapper Immortal Technique by Tolly Wright

Sure Alexander Hamilton had to stand up to the likes of Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson, but when Hamilton's Lin-Manuel Miranda was in high school his main adversary was the renowned politic…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:04AM
Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Stephen Colbert Understands Exactly How You Feel, Opens an Election Anxiety Screaming Booth by Tolly Wright

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the slow roll-out of Election results? Well head on over to New York City's Ed Sullivan Theater, where Stephen Colbert has provided you with a perfect solution…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:13PM
Sunday, October 30, 2016

Lady Gaga Gains Her 4th No. 1 Album With Joanne by Tolly Wright

Lady Gaga has a million reasons to be happy after Joanne took the number one spot on the Billboard albums chart in its debut week. Joanne, Gaga's fifth solo LP, sold 201,000 units, far excee…

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:22PM
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Watch Lady Gaga and James Corden Harmonize On All of Gaga's Greatest Hits on Carpool Karaoke by Tolly Wright

On Tuesday night Lady Gaga took her deserved spot in the Carpool Karaoke hall of fame by being one of the Late Late Show segment's all-time best guests. Does she with ease and confidence dro…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:42AM
Monday, October 24, 2016

Breaking Elizabethan Theater News: New Edition of Shakespeare's Henry VI Lists Christopher Marlowe As a Co-Author by Tolly Wright

What's in a name? That which we call Shakespeare by any other name would still be a masterpiece, but that doesn't mean another author's name attached to a Shakespeare play wouldn't shake-up …

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:01PM
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda's New Version of 'Ten Duel Commandments' With Lyrics About Hillary Clinton by Tolly Wright

During Monday night's Broadway for Hillary event, Hamilton's superstar creator, writer, and original Alexander Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda teamed up with his former co-star, Tony Award-winn…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:48AM
Sunday, October 16, 2016

Teaser Scene From Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Season Two: Paula Isn't So Sure About Rebecca and Josh After All by Tolly Wright

With just days to go until the return of the best show on TV — that's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, obviously — the CW dropped a scene from the second season premiere early. And, surprise, surpri…

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:15PM
Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda Rap About Mr. Robot, Harry Potter, and My Little Pony on Fallon by Tolly Wright

Before hosting this weekend's Saturday Night Live, Lin-Manuel Miranda stopped by The Tonight Show to prove that he can rap about more than the Founding Fathers; he can also freestyle about b…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:14AM
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Aurora Shooting Survivors Won't Have to Pay Cinemark's $700,000 Legal Fees After All by Tolly Wright

In a bizarre turn of events, survivors of the 2012 mass shooting at a Dark Night Rises midnight screening in Aurora, Colorado were recently ordered by a Colorado court to pay the theater cha…

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:30PM
Monday, September 12, 2016

Born to Read Bruce Springsteen Is Going On an Eight-City Book Tour by Tolly Wright

True to the name of his memoir (and famous chart-topping single) Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen can't stop, won't stop in 2016. Following over eight months on the road performing epic, perso…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:11PM

John Legend and Stevie Wonder Recreaeted 'Hey Ya' Music Video on Lip Sync Battle by Tolly Wright

During Sunday night's Lip Sync Battle — when merman Michael Phelps wasn't attempting to prove that he can move outside of the water to Eminem's "Lose Yourself" — John Legend an…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:24PM
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Paradise By the Marquee Light: Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell Is Getting a Musical Adaptation by Tolly Wright

The songwriter behind Meat Loaf's massively successful 1977 rock opera Bat Out of Hell, Jim Steinman, is all revved up with a place to adapt his music for the stage. In honor of the album's …

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:25PM
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Phil Collins Comes Out of Retirement to Sing at the U.S. Open with Hamilton's Leslie Odom Jr. by Tolly Wright

Phil Collins was in the air (and on the stage) tonight during the U.S. Open's opening ceremonies. Though Collins has rarely performed in the past few years during his temporary retirement, h…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:51AM
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Britney Spears Forgets to Sing With James Corden in Carpool Karaoke Teaser by Tolly Wright

Perhaps mixing up her late-night hosts, Britney Spears appears to be Lip Sync Battling while James Corden croons in the teaser trailer for Thursday night's Carpool Karaoke. Although past not…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:32PM
Monday, August 22, 2016

Barbra Streisand Does Not Suffer Fools Mispronouncing Her Name, Tells Apple CEO Tim Cook to Correct Siri by Tolly Wright

Barbra Streisand, the owner of two Oscars, 10 Grammys, Five Emmys, a Tony and a basement that is a goddamn mall (really), has a problem that many of us non-celebrated plebeians have encounte…

SOURCE: Vulture at 07:30AM
Monday, August 15, 2016

Fyvush Finkel, Picket Fences Actor and Yiddish Theater Star, Dead at 93 by Tolly Wright

Character actor Philip "Fyvush” Finkel, whose acting career started over 80 years ago, is dead at 93, his son confirmed to the New York Times. Finkel is best known for his late-in-lif…

SOURCE: Vulture at 05:59AM
Monday, August 8, 2016

Jennifer Grey Already Had the Time of Her Life, Won’t Be in ABC’s Dirty Dancing Remake by Tolly Wright

Nobody puts Baby in a corner, that is unless decades have gone by and the actress who played the original Dirty Dancing’s "Baby" chooses to be in that corner on her own volition.…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:54AM

Barbra Streisand and Alec Baldwin Unleash the Power of 'New Yawk' on a Broadway Song by Tolly Wright

After having a near-religious experience while recording “At the Ballet” with Anne Hathaway and Daisy Ridley, and channeling some Austrian nuns with Jamie Foxx for “Climb Ev’ry Mount…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:54AM
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Today in ‘Quit Playing Our Music’ News: Donald Trump Asked to Stop Playing Air Force One Score by Tolly Wright

Donald Trump can’t always get what he wants. After both Queen and The Rolling Stones spoke out last week against the Republican presidential nominee for using their songs without permissio…

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:48AM
Monday, July 25, 2016

Meghan Trainor and James Corden Sang a Duet and (Surprise!) It Wasn’t in a Car by Tolly Wright

James Corden took a break from singing in cars with celebrities (and the First Lady) to croon with Meghan Trainor live on stage. During Trainor’s Friday night show at L.A.’s Greek Theate…

SOURCE: Vulture at 07:33AM
Sunday, July 10, 2016

Ariana Grande Cast As Penny in NBC’s Hairspray Live! by Tolly Wright

Ariana Grande's going to have to ditch that ponytail for some pigtails — she's joining the cast of NBC's Hairspray Live! The pop star and former Broadway performer announced the news …

SOURCE: Vulture at 07:02PM
Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Smokey Robinson Will Receive the Library of Congress’s Gershwin Prize by Tolly Wright

This November, the track of Smokey Robinson’s tears will surely be one of joy when the Motown Legend receives the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the Library of Congress. The New York…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:37AM

Jenna Fischer and Greg Germann Are the Stars in Steve Martin’s Meteor Shower by Tolly Wright

Just weeks after the Broadway lights went off his Tony-nominated musical Bright Star, playwright (and famous actor/comedian/banjo player) Steve Martin is back, baby. With an all-star cast fe…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:30AM
Monday, July 4, 2016

Anna Kendrick Wants to Play Marvel’s Squirrel Girl and Finally Give Us the Superhero Movie We Deserve by Tolly Wright

Anna Kendrick may be in six movies this year, but she’s ready to add a Marvel franchise as well: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl. Always willing to display her acting range, Kendrick said in …

SOURCE: Vulture at 05:45PM

Jennifer Lopez and Lin-Manuel Miranda Team Up With a New Song For a Good Cause by Tolly Wright

Never one to let a holiday go without giving a gift, Lin-Manuel Miranda released a small taste of his song with Jennifer Lopez on July 4 on Twitter. The tune will benefit the Somos Orlando c…

SOURCE: Vulture at 05:45PM

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