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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
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Lea Michele Plays 3 Questions in Bed With Jonathan Groff, a Game We’d All Love to Play by E. Alex Jung

Besties Jonathan Groff and Lea Michele are the stars of Wednesday's digital Ham4Ham, that consolation prize for those who tried unsuccessfully to sell their firstborn for Hamilton tickets. &…

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:41AM
Monday, March 28, 2016

Hamilton’s Jonathan Groff Hands Over King George’s Crown to Rory O’Malley by E. Alex Jung

Jonathan Groff will be hanging up his crown as King George in Hamilton. We all knew it would be coming: Groff will play the lead in David Fincher's Netflix drama, Mindhunter, based on a book…

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:27PM
Sunday, March 13, 2016

You're Officially Old: Backstreet Boy Brian Littrell’s 13-Year-Old Son Is Making His Broadway Debut by E. Alex Jung

Ha ha, you're an old. Remember Brian Littrell? Of course you do! He's the really Christian Backstreet Boy who was born with a life-threatening heart defect that made you write signs that sai…

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:07PM
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Josh Gad Lip-synchs ‘I Touch Myself’ Dressed Up As Donald Trump and Then Makes Out With Johnny Galecki by E. Alex Jung

Welcome to a game of Vulture mad libs! Olaf the snowman Josh Gad is going hard with the spectacle on Lip Sync Battle, a show already drunk with spectacle. He starts with an A-plus song choic…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:13PM
Friday, January 15, 2016

It’s a Time Warp! Tim Curry Will Star in Fox’s Rocky Horror Picture Show by E. Alex Jung

Time really is fleeting. It's been over 40 years since Tim Curry donned his fishnets to play Dr. Frank N. Furter — first in the 1973 London stage production, and then in the film classic f…

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:49PM
Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Hamilton’s Online Lottery Had a Horrible Opening Performance by E. Alex Jung

New York City recently decided to embrace winter, and to keep crowds of people from shivering outside on 46th Street (and, come on, let's give Lin-Manuel Miranda a break), Hamilton decided t…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:41PM
Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Jonathan Groff Teaches Stephen Colbert That Hamilton Walk Beyoncé Wanted to Steal by E. Alex Jung

King George's heavy crown is back on Jonathan Groff's head in Hamilton, where the actor took a break to shoot the Looking movie. Which means theatergoers fortunate enough to sell t…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:40PM
Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Helen Mirren, Rami Malek, and Trumbo Score Nominations at the 2016 Screen Actors Guild Awards by E. Alex Jung

The actors have spoken. The largest nominating body within the Academy Awards has issued its nominees for the Screen Actors Guild Awards in television and film. There are a lot of pleasant s…

SOURCE: Vulture at 05:34PM
Friday, December 4, 2015

Uzo Aduba’s Performance As Glinda in The Wiz Live! Can Be Your Own Personal Encore by E. Alex Jung

On The Wiz Live! Suzanne finally became her own dandelion. During a pivotal moment on Orange Is the New Black, Uzo Aduba's character Suzanne Warren goes silent at her high-school graduation.…

SOURCE: Vulture at 07:20PM
Friday, November 6, 2015

Anna Kendrick and Zosia Mamet Feel Your Christmas Pain (You Know, If You Wear Fancy Furs and Head Wraps) by E. Alex Jung

The holidays can be a drag: All the same faces at all the same parties. There are no new faces! as Joan Didion would say. But sometimes there's a rare moment, when the streets are slick and …

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:15AM
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Badass Ballerina Misty Copeland Is Making a TV Dance Drama by E. Alex Jung

Ballerina Misty Copeland is co-producing a TV show alongside writer Tracy Oliver for Fox. And yes, it's about dance! Deadline reports that the gestating show is about a "young, hip and d…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:09PM
Monday, October 19, 2015

Please Try to Contain Yourself Watching Bradley Cooper Doing an Impression of Clint Eastwood Feeding Squirrels by E. Alex Jung

Bradley Cooper spent a lot of time on set with director Clint Eastwood for American Sniper — enough to prepare for his greatest acting challenge yet: doing an impression of the director fe…

SOURCE: Vulture at 05:28PM
Friday, September 4, 2015

Best Time Ever Promo: Neil Patrick Harris Will Be Doing Lots of Pranking by E. Alex Jung

While we got a name for Neil Patrick Harris's upcoming NBC variety show, Best Time Ever, we still weren't sure what, exactly, would constitute such a good time. Turns out: lots of pranks! Ju…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:49PM
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Mufasa Lives! James Earl Jones Will Return for The Lion King Sequel by E. Alex Jung

The sequel to The Lion King will kick off with The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar, a movie on the Disney Channel, followed by a series (simply The Lion Guard) on Disney Junior, with Rob…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:38PM
Wednesday, August 5, 2015

The Wiz: The Moment Shanice Williams Learns She’ll Play Dorothy Will Make You Cry Into Your Desk Lunch by E. Alex Jung

NBC has finally found a Dorothy for its live production of The Wiz: 18-year-old New Jersey native Shanice Williams snagged the part a million girls would kill for through an open casting cal…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:43PM
Friday, July 24, 2015

James Corden and Kristin Chenoweth Duet, Making Him One Song Away From a Musical Episode by E. Alex Jung

James Corden might be finding his late-night niche. Sure, the other Jimmys have more established comedic followings, but Corden can do classic song-and-dance numbers. So last night he had ve…

SOURCE: Vulture at 07:01AM
Thursday, July 16, 2015

Jane Krakowski on Getting Her Fifth Emmy Nomination for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt by E. Alex Jung

Jane Krakowski teamed up again with Tina Fey to play the comically tragic Upper East Side housewife Jacqueline Voorhees on Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and it paid off with another…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:35PM
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Amanda Seyfried Made 10 Percent of What Her Male Co-Star Did by E. Alex Jung

Women in Hollywood are still getting paid less than their male counterparts, but at least they're speaking out about it. Amanda Seyfried followed in the badass steps of Patricia Arquette and…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:05PM
Saturday, July 11, 2015

Jonathan Groff Calls Out Madonna: ‘That B*tch Was on Her Phone’ During Hamilton Performance by E. Alex Jung

It's the scandal of the summer! Bad phone etiquette is running rampant in theaters everywhere, and the performers aren't going to let it go — not even if you're Madonna. First there was th…

SOURCE: Vulture at 07:40AM
Thursday, July 9, 2015

Patti LuPone, Badass, Confiscated a Theatergoer’s Phone for Texting During a Performance by E. Alex Jung

Will these ill-mannered audience members never learn? During a Wednesday night performance of Shows for Days at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Patti LuPone confiscated an audience member's p…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:42PM
Monday, July 6, 2015

Misty Copeland Will Make Her Broadway Debut in On the Town by E. Alex Jung

Misty Copeland's big year is about to get bigger: Time 100 cover girl and the American Ballet Theater's first black principal will make her Broadway debut in On the Town in a special two-wee…

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:19PM
Monday, June 22, 2015

Smash Is Becoming Real Life As Bombshell the Musical Goes Into Development by E. Alex Jung

Bombshell is becoming a real-life Smash. Universal announced Monday that due to the overwhelming response from the one-night only Bombshell benefit concert earlier in June, it is going to de…

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:47PM
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Helen Mirren Thinks Ageism Against Women in Hollywood Is ‘F*cking Outrageous’ by E. Alex Jung

Earlier this year, Russell Crowe had the gall (ignorance?) to suggest that actresses like Meryl Streep and Helen Mirren would "give you 10,000 examples and arguments as to why [complaint…

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:37PM
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Ryan Murphy Helps Bring Jessica Lange Back to Broadway After a Decade Away by E. Alex Jung

Jessica Lange will return to Broadway for the first time in over a decade next spring, with the Eugene O'Neill classic Long Day's Journey Into Night. Lange reprises the role of the morp…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:06PM
Monday, May 18, 2015

Taye Diggs Is Your Sixth Hedwig by E. Alex Jung

Taye Diggs will be Broadway's sixth Hedwig, following the high-octane runs of Neil Patrick Harris, Andrew Rannells, Michael C. Hall, OG John Cameron Mitchell, and the latest, Darren Criss. D…

SOURCE: Vulture at 03:56PM
Monday, May 4, 2015

And Now Here’s Hugh Jackman Lip-Syncing ‘Bacon Pancakes’ From Adventure Time by E. Alex Jung

Here's Hugh Jackman lip-syncing "Bacon Pancakes," originally sung by Jake the magic dog from Adventure Time, because why not? Hugh is ahead of the curve with this ditty, because this…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:25PM
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Jake Gyllenhaal Is Suddenly Seymour With His Musical-Theater Debut in Little Shop of Horrors by E. Alex Jung

Jake Gyllenhaal is getting more comfortable with the stage. After starring opposite Ruth Wilson in Constellations on Broadway, he'll be making his musical-theater debut as nerdy florist Seym…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:57PM

Jennifer Hudson Drives Around With James Corden: It’s Like Training Day, If It Were a Delightful Morning of Singing and Burgers by E. Alex Jung

Driving around with celebrities is the new talking to celebrities on the couch. After a charming carpool karaoke with Mariah Carey, James Corden enlists another diva, Jennifer Hudson, as the…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:12AM
Monday, April 13, 2015

Stephen Hawking Explains How the Universe Works by Singing Monty Python’s ‘Galaxy Song’ by E. Alex Jung

To celebrate Record Store Day, international treasure Stephen Hawking recorded a cover of Monty Python's universe explainer "Galaxy Song" from the troupe's 1983 film The Meaning of L…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:15PM
Saturday, March 21, 2015

Jimmy Fallon and Ariana Grande Go Into Adorable Giggle Fits During Their \"Ew!\" Sketch by E. Alex Jung

It's time for more Ew!, the recurring sketch on Jimmy Fallon where he lives out his dream of talking like a baby bird. This week he has an appropriately tween-sized guest, Ariana Grande and …

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:49AM

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Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
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