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In 2003, the Mint produced Lawrence's 1913 drama The Daughter-in-Law; in 2009, it was the bleaker The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd. Now they return to The Daughter-in-Law, a strange and compelli…
A portrait of a toxic workplace. By Anne Victoria Clark, Jackson McHenry, Lila Shapiro, Gazelle Emami, Helen Shaw, Tara Abell, Nate Jones, E. Alex Jung, and Megh Wright
The Shiva Baby co-star is thrilled to be a supporting player, but she's got big theater-kid ambitions.
It took until March 1 " 354 days after Broadway shut down " for the theater industry to start voting on the best of the 2019"20 season that COVID cut short, and there's still no planned cere…
The downtown theater company is in crisis.
Photographs by Erik Tanner. Welcome to Tony Awards season, when the stars of Broadway's biggest shows are honored while still, in many cases, performing eight times a week. The day after the…
A new production exposes the darkness that's always been at the heart of the musical " and the American experiment.
Danny Burstein hid a GoPro in a hat won by Kerstin Anderson, who plays a reveler in the scene (and is the Eliza alternate for Laura Benanti).
On Friday, Universal's feature adaptation of the Broadway blockbuster Wicked got a new release date: December 22, 2021. Back in 2016, we learned the movie-musical was hitting theaters t…
After a strike lasting 33 days, Actors' Equity has made a deal with producers trade association the Broadway League to give a fraction of successful Broadway shows' profits to its performers…
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has had a few strong outings here and there in its final season, but with this episode marking the two-thirds point, I have to confess that I'm just not enjoying the show…
After being fired from his position atop CBS last December, following myriad accusations of sexual misconduct that span decades, Les Moonves is getting back to work. According to the New Yor…
While Bradley Cooper is off feeling like a failure for not getting a Best Director nomination out of A Star Is Born, Sean Penn, we now know, is outraged on his behalf. In a new "editorial" p…
Rita Moreno won the O in her EGOT from playing Anita in the film version of West Side Story, and she's not about to let anybody mess up the movie's legacy with the remake. Moreno has a small…
Who better to educate the youth of America on all matters sexual than two comedians? Since Big Mouth is all about adolescent horniness/mistakes/horny mistakes, Conan brought Nick Kroll to a …
What a busy gal! At last, our long national nightmare is over: Ariana Grande doesn't have to tease the release of her new album anymore because it's here, honey! Grande dropped thank u, next…
Everyone who's been wondering if Matt Smith can pull off a Queens accent, wonder no more! Mapplethorpe premiered last year at the Tribeca Film Festival, and is finally entering theaters sele…
Universal Pictures and Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video has bought the feature rights to The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior. Accordi…
You would think that the Grammys would know better than to get on the wrong side of someone who wrote a whole album about how she'll be fine without you. The Associated Press published an in…
For months now, I have repeatedly issued a few humble requests to actor/Lady Bird stan/A Star Is Born director Bradley Cooper, mostly via Vulture dot com, and my own personal Twitter: What h…
Gypsy (no, not that Naomi Watts Netflix thing, purge that from your mind) the musical may finally be making its way back onto the silver screen. Variety reports that Amy Sherman-Palladino, t…
If you're looking for someone to blame for the #RentNotLive controversy that happened after star Brennin Hunt broke his foot last month, look no further than Charlie Collier. The new Fox Ent…
Disney's next movie-to-theater adaptation is arriving in an unexpected format. After premiering big, yet conventional, movie-to-theater adaptations like Frozen and Aladdin on Broadway (and s…
In a pivot to utter humility, beard-growth, and softness, actor, director, and Lady Bird stan Bradley Cooper sat down with Oprah on Tuesday afternoon for a SuperSoul Conversation. Among Coop…
The Grammys have done what only dummies have dared to do and have crossed Ariana Grande. Variety reports that not only will Grande no longer perform on Sunday's broadcast, she's skipping the…
When Morpheus told us our reality was fake, it sounded far-fetched. Since then, though, the idea has picked up steam. In 2001, two years after The Matrix hit theaters, Oxford University phil…
A journey to the past can only last so long. Broadway's musical adaptation of the 1997 animated movie Anastasia has announced that it will close on March 31 this year. The musical, with a bo…
Midway through Skittles Commercial: The Broadway Musical, which performed on the Great White Way Sunday afternoon, Michael C. Hall dies. To be clear, that's not the Michael C. Hall you know …
On the surface, this episode seemed like it would be silly fun. We finally get to go to Raging Waters! It's Rebecca's Paris! But the waterslides are just window-dressing, because the real th…
If you find yourself wanting to draw parallels between today's political unrest and the tumultuous late '60s, Aaron Sorkin is here with a gigantic sketch pad and 1,000,000 sharpened pencils.…
As the Oscars continue to lose its freaking mind right before our very eyes, a benevolent goddess has apparently arrived to right at least one of its wrongs: Deadline is reporting that the A…
Ever since Merrily We Roll Along premiered and then quickly closed on Broadway in 1981, people have been trying to find a way to resurrect Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's showbiz musical…
When Ariana Grande released her latest single off her as-yet-unreleased new album, listeners began hearing echoes of other songs. Soulja Boy's "Pretty Boy Swag," Princess Nokia's "Mine" had …
Bradley Cooper's physical transformation for A Star Is Born rivaled " nay, eclipsed! " Christian Bale's for Vice. To play the jaded, addicted country rockstar Jackson Maine, Cooper added amb…
A newly unsealed deposition from Kesha's ongoing legal battle with Dr. Luke shows a heated exchange between Dr. Luke's lawyer and Lady Gaga, according to The Blast. The deposition, which too…
And we're here to remind you that they made a musical around the songs from Alanis Morissette's album Jagged Little Pill. Today, the musical's producers announced that after premiering at Bo…
Glenn Close is the front-runner in the Best Actress Oscar race for playing a wife whose writing talent is overlooked in favor of her award-winning husband's. After picking up a SAG award for…
On Sunday night, Fox had promised to air a live staging of Rent, but after a cast member was injured, the network decided to air footage from a dress rehearsal instead, up until the closing …
Rent: Live, a mostly prerecorded telecast cobbled together in the wake of cast member Brennin Hunt's broken foot, should have been called Rent: Live-ish. I can't remember the last time a liv…
When live TV musicals go well, they can be fantastic. When things go awry, like when one of your leads injures himself in the dress rehearsal and can no longer run up and down all the stairs…
Why tell a story that's already been told before? We see it so much, particularly in the midst of the recent true crime boom, that we barely think about that question beyond the first obviou…
If you, like comedian Julie Klausner, fought the winter blues by transporting yourself into the fantastical world of Mary Poppins Returns at your local theater, only to be perplexed at why J…
Not that they had to seal the deal to be the Oscars' frontrunner for Best Original Song or anything. Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, co-stars and compliment givers of A Star Is Born, blew off …
The brutal world of stand-up comedy has been reuniting with a friendly face as of late, thanks to Pete Davidson slowly dipping his toes back into a non-SNL outlet for his various internal mo…
We're still a long way from the finale, but in many senses, this is the episode that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has been building up to for the past four years. Of all the genres the show has parod…
It's hard to think of two projects as different from one another as Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile and Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes. Both are about Ted Bundy,…
A documentary about child sex-abuse allegations against Michael Jackson premiered at the Sundance Film Festival Friday morning and it is already causing controversy. Leaving Neverland, direc…
Bookseller One Grand Books has asked celebrities to name the ten titles they'd take to a desert island, and they've shared the results with Vulture. Below is playwright Terrence Mc…
Things fall apart in Sam Shepard's True West. The simmering almost-two-hander about a pair of estranged brothers locked in competition over the sale of a screenplay to a Hollywood producer i…
The movie-to-musical stage adaptations just keep, uh, coming. Today, the producers of the long-gestating Magic Mike musical " including Channing Tatum, Steven Soderbergh, Gregory Jacobs, Nic…
