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 09:24PMIn 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 04:49PMWhen 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“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“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 09:00PMIn 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“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 09:00AMEarlier 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 01:20PMThere’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 02:32PMJust 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 01:15PMThe 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 02:22PMWhen 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 12:01PMTracy 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 03:16PMOn 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 03:03PMYou 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 11:20AMThe 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 04:32PMGiovanni 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 02:03PMEveryone 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 09:43AMDespite 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 11:51AMWhile 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 02:49PMKing 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 04:25PMYour 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 12:28PMLin-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 11:05AMNaya 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 05:45PMAuthor, 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 08:13PMWho'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 07:38AMYou 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 07:38AMThe 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 07:38AMThe 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 11:21PMThe 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 10:00AMWe 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…
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