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Thursday, December 20, 2018

With Echoes of Moonlight, Tarell Alvin McCraney Makes His Broadway Debut by E. Alex Jung

Backstage at the Samuel Friedman Theatre on a wintry Thursday evening, the stars of Choir Boy are going through their preshow routines. J. Quinton Johnson, who plays the bullyish legacy stud…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:24PM
Friday, October 5, 2018

How Shangela and Willam Dragged Up A Star Is Born by E. Alex Jung

In A Star Is Born, Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper), the country rock star who’ll drink any liquor as long as it’s wet, meets the supremely talented but undiscovered Ally (Lady Gaga) at a …

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:49PM
Saturday, September 8, 2018

Lady Gaga Was Happy to Become Bradley Cooper’s Drag Mother for A Star is Born by E. Alex Jung

When Bradley Cooper’s Jackson Maine first encounters Lady Gaga’s Ally in A Star is Born, they’re at a drag bar called Bleu Bleu outside of Los Angeles staffed by RuPaul’s Drag Race a…

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:36PM
Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Darren Criss on Playing Serial Killer Andrew Cunanan in ACS: Versace and Passing As White by E. Alex Jung

“Yo, man, Darren,” Darren Criss says by way of introduction at the Television Critics Association tour in Pasadena, where he was doing press for his show, American Crime Story: The Assas…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:30PM
Friday, February 16, 2018

Crazy Ex-Girlriend’s Donna Lynne Champlin on Finally Getting Worshipped as a Goddess by E. Alex Jung

“What a queen!” exclaimed Aline Brosh McKenna, the co-creator of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and director of the show’s season-three finale, as she gazed at Donna Lynne Champlin, dressed in si…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:00PM

The Hardest-Working Show in Show Business by E. Alex Jung

In November, Rachel Bloom, the co-creator and star of the CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, had trouble breathing during the table read for the final episode of the show’s third season. By the t…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:00PM

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Tackles the Glorious, Bloody Joy of Child Birth in Exclusive Music Video by E. Alex Jung

“Do you know how thrilled I am to make a middle-aged woman a goddess?” Aline Brosh McKenna says in between takes on the set of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Donna Lynne Champlin, who plays Paula,…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:00AM
Thursday, November 2, 2017

Man Comes Forward to Describe an Alleged Extended Sexual Relationship He Had at Age 14 With Kevin Spacey by E. Alex Jung

Earlier this week, the actor Anthony Rapp alleged that Kevin Spacey made a sexual advance toward him in 1986, when he was 14 years old. After Rapp’s allegation, Spacey released a statement…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:20PM
Monday, October 23, 2017

BPM Is a Radical Gay Love Story by E. Alex Jung

There’s a generation of gay men filled with ghosts. Men who populated clubs and bars; men you took home to bed, or a glory hole; men you saw in the office, the theater, a park, a pier, a b…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:32PM
Thursday, September 7, 2017

Younger’s Miriam Shor on Diana Trout’s Necklaces, Meeting Cher, and Ageism in Hollywood by E. Alex Jung

Just because you’re an accomplished 40-something woman who wins major publishing awards and wears giant floral neckpieces doesn’t mean that you don’t have growing pains. At least, that…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:15PM
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Who’s the Sexiest Shakespeare Ever? by E. Alex Jung

The new TNT drama Will tackles William Shakespeare’s “lost years” — the historical black hole when a 20-something Bard lived in Stratford-upon-Avon to the point where he reemerg…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:22PM
Monday, June 12, 2017

Welcome to Tatiana Maslany’s Acting Master Class by E. Alex Jung

When I arrive at a soundstage on Orphan Black’s Toronto set, the crew members tell me to sit back and take it all in because today is a Sarah Manning day. What they mean, in part, is liter…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:01PM
Thursday, May 4, 2017

Tracy Letts on The Lovers, Sobriety, and His Marriage to Carrie Coon by E. Alex Jung

Tracy Letts is living out the ambitions of both of his parents. His mother, Billie, and his father, Dennis, were both English professors. Billie wrote novels in her spare time, penning the b…

SOURCE: Vulture at 03:16PM
Wednesday, March 8, 2017

This Is Us’ Susan Kelechi Watson on Beth and Randall’s Marriage, Singing Hamilton on Set, and the Racial Dynamics of Louie by E. Alex Jung

On NBC’s weepy powerhouse This Is Us, Susan Kelechi Watson as Beth has provided the much-needed anchor to her husband, Randall (played by Sterling K. Brown), as he dealt with the sudden ap…

SOURCE: Vulture at 03:03PM
Thursday, March 2, 2017

David Hyde Pierce On When We Rise, Frasier’s Legacy, and Coming Out by E. Alex Jung

You can divide David Hyde Pierce’s professional career so far into three acts. The first began when he moved to New York after graduating from Yale in 1981. He was a young, working theater…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:20AM
Thursday, February 16, 2017

Will The Great Wall Make Me Mad? by E. Alex Jung

The Great Wall, which stars Matt Damon as a monster-slayer in medieval China, hits U.S. theaters this weekend, finally answering the question: How many white men does it take to save the Gre…

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:32PM
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Giovanni Ribisi on Sneaky Pete, Working With Bryan Cranston, and Friends by E. Alex Jung

Giovanni Ribisi may play a con artist on TV, but don’t expect him to pick your pocket anytime soon. The actor, whose career spans more than three decades, stars in a new Amazon series co-c…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:03PM
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Kevin Spacey Can Do the Perfect Al Pacino Impression, and Now So Can You by E. Alex Jung

Everyone loves an Al Pacino impression, and no one loves doing impressions more than Kevin Spacey. (He's got a whole wheel of ’em!) As a way to salute Al Pacino at the Kennedy Center Honor…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:43AM
Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Busta Rhymes, Joell Ortiz, and the Roots Bring a Strong Coat Game to Perform Hamilton’s ‘My Shot’ by E. Alex Jung

Despite an alleged Hamilton boycott, tickets are still hard to come by around these parts (November 2017!). But take solace in the fact that The Hamilton Mixtape dropped last week so that yo…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:51AM
Monday, October 31, 2016

Michael Douglas Says Val Kilmer Is Fighting Cancer: ‘Things Don’t Look Too Good for Him’ by E. Alex Jung

While speaking with host Jonathan Ross at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Michael Douglas recounted his time filming the 1996 movie The Ghost and the Darkness with Val Kilmer, and revealed tha…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:49PM
Friday, October 28, 2016

How King Cobra Got a Disney Actor to Play Gay Porn Star Brent Corrigan by E. Alex Jung

King Cobra might be best known as the gay porn–murder movie starring James Franco, but the film's actual star is Garrett Clayton, a unknown whose previous credits include the Disney Channe…

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:25PM
Monday, October 17, 2016

Get Ready, Kevin Spacey: Difficult People Has Been Renewed for Season 3 by E. Alex Jung

Your favorite pair of New York City misanthropes are going to make it after all. Hulu has renewed Difficult People for a ten-episode third season, meaning Billy (Billy Eichner) and Julie (Ju…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:28PM
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

His Name Is Lin-Manuel Miranda and Hosting SNL Is Just One of the Million Things He’s Doing by E. Alex Jung

Lin-Manuel Miranda, the man who recently got a haircut, is hosting SNL! It's a natural progression for the man who made kids and adults care about U.S. history again. Miranda will take on ho…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:05AM
Wednesday, September 14, 2016

All the Tea Naya Rivera’s Memoir, Sorry Not Sorry, Spills on Glee, Big Sean, and Ariana Grande by E. Alex Jung

Naya Rivera, known to viewers as the acid-tongued mean girl Santana from Glee, is also known to tabloid readers as an acid-tongued mean girl who allegedly keyed Mark Salling's Lexus. But she…

SOURCE: Vulture at 05:45PM
Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Larry Kramer Shames Roth for Supporting Trump by E. Alex Jung

Author, playwright, and activist Larry Kramer is putting pressure on the real-estate mogul Steven Roth to withdraw his support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Days before…

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:13PM
Monday, June 13, 2016

The Cast of Hamilton Introduced James Corden at the Tonys with a Custom Version of \"Alexander Hamilton\" by E. Alex Jung

Who's the host of the 70th annual Tony Awards? He's "that chubby dude from Into the Woods," the late night host with the best pipes, Tony Award winner for One Man, Two Guvnors, a h…

SOURCE: Vulture at 07:38AM

Andrew Rannells Spoofs Donald Trump and Glenn Close Plays Hillary Clinton at the Tonys by E. Alex Jung

You didn't think the Tony Awards were going to end without a spoof of presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, did you? Here to skewer our presidential hopefuls are Andrew R…

SOURCE: Vulture at 07:38AM

Proud Papa Lin-Manuel Miranda Had The Best Reactions as Hamilton Swept the Tonys by E. Alex Jung

The Hamiltonys went pretty much as expected, with Hamilton taking home 11 Tony awards Sunday night — just one shy of tying The Producers' record of 12. And no one was a prouder papa t…

SOURCE: Vulture at 07:38AM
Sunday, June 12, 2016

James Corden Opens the Tony Awards With a Somber Statement on the Orlando Shooting by E. Alex Jung

The Tony Awards were in a tough position: Early Sunday morning, the country experienced the deadliest mass shooting in the its history, with 50 dead and 53 wounded at a gay nightclub in Orla…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:21PM
Thursday, June 9, 2016

Noah Galvin on Losing a Role for Being ‘Too Gay’ and the Politics of Coming Out in Hollywood by E. Alex Jung

The 2016 Emmy race has begun, and Vulture will take a close look at the contenders until voting closes on June 27. Noah Galvin is smoking a cigarette next to a bodega on the corner of 97th a…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00AM
Monday, May 16, 2016

Fox’s Rocky Horror Picture Show Trailer: Laverne Cox Can Rock Those Pink Rubber Gloves by E. Alex Jung

We know you've had the shivers since Fox announced that it would be doing a remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the cult classic of stage and screen from the '70s. You've already seen L…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:38PM

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