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Saturday, December 31, 2016

Alert Your Army of Skanks: the Mean Girls Musical Has a Premiere Date, Theater and Director by Halle Kiefer

Gretchen Wiener's hair is a little smaller today, as a tiny secret has slipped free regarding the exactly premiere date and theater selected for next fall's world debut of the Mean Girls mus…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:06PM

Artist Tyrus Wong, Who Created the Visual Style of Disney's Bambi, Dies at 106 by Halle Kiefer

Artist and Disney animator Tyrus Wong, whose paintings inspired the look of Disney’s 1942 animated classic Bambi, has died at 106. “With heavy hearts, we announce the passing of Tyrus Wo…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:20AM
Saturday, December 10, 2016

John Legend Writes Open Letter Asking President Obama to Grant Clemency to As Many Non-Violent Drug Offenders As Possible by Halle Kiefer

President Obama has approximately forty days before the end of his history-making presidency, and John Legend is hoping he wants to squeeze in a little more history making before he goes. In…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:38PM
Thursday, December 8, 2016

Who Needs an Oscar When Ryan Gosling Can Use His La La Land Experience to Teach Jimmy Kimmel the Waltz? by Halle Kiefer

With their carefully choreographed repartee, when are late night shows not a dance, but Ryan Gosling and Jimmy Kimmel took things a literal step further on Wednesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! w…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:54AM
Friday, December 2, 2016

Questlove Reveals How Lin-Manuel Miranda Would Don a Disguise to Watch Celebrities in the Hamilton Audience by Halle Kiefer

As it turns out, that weird guy you saw in the bright blonde wig, coke-bottle glasses, and fake handlebar mustache staring at President Obama throughout the entirety of Hamilton was not, as …

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:08PM
Saturday, November 26, 2016

U.S. Box Office Hits $10 Billion Earlier Than Ever Before by Halle Kiefer

According to Variety, the National Association of Theater Owners reports that the U.S. box office has already topped $10 billion for the year, the earliest it ever has reached that benchmark…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:51AM
Thursday, November 24, 2016

Hear Ashanti and Ja Rule's 'Helpless’ from The Hamilton Mixtape and Feel Your Heart Go Boom by Halle Kiefer

Per Lin-Manuel Miranda's Twitter, Ashanti and Ja Rule's version of "Helpless" from The Hamilton Mixtape technically officially drops at midnight tonight, but thanks to the Internet…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:26PM

Jonathan Groff, Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy's Loud Lungs Serenade You With a Little Bit of Hamilton's 'You'll Be Back’ by Halle Kiefer

The Hamilton Mixtape doesn't drop until December 2, but the show's King George III Jonathan Groff and the mixtape's King George III Jimmy Fallon joined forces last night to give you a sneak …

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:56AM
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Stephen Colbert Gives Donald Trump His Very Own Hamilton Spinoff by Halle Kiefer

"The only president who can complain about the theater is Abraham Lincoln," Stephen Colbert declares, before launching into "Donald Trump," the titular number in the imag…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:35AM
Monday, November 7, 2016

Trump Fans Boo Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born in the USA’ Meaning This Election Has Hit Rock Bottom by Halle Kiefer

You might be holding out hope but sadly, no, they were not saying "The Boo-ss! The Boo-ss!" Huffington Post political reporter S.V. Date reported Sunday that Bruce Spring…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:29AM
Sunday, November 6, 2016

Many Broadway Shows Will Go Dark on Election Day, Because Who Wants to Compete When the Circus Comes to Town? by Halle Kiefer

If you were hoping to survive Election Day by hiding out somewhere fun, festive, and entertaining where you can't use your phone, bad news: the Times Square Señor Frog's closed in Aug…

SOURCE: Vulture at 03:07PM
Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Someone Wasted a Perfectly Good Jake Gyllenhaal Subway Sighting by Mistaking Him for Aaron Rodgers by Halle Kiefer

If you had to guess, what percentage of the American public falls in the middle of the Aaron Rodgers–Jake Gyllenhaal Venn diagram? Are there a lot of people who would be excited to be sitt…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:52AM
Saturday, October 29, 2016

Anna Kendrick and John Lithgow Will Scare Your Underpants Clean Off With Terrifying Tales Written By Kids by Halle Kiefer

Fear: mankind’s most primal emotion. Children: humanity’s natural storytellers. On The Tonight Show last night, Anna Kendrick and John Lithgow were mere conduits for the elemental, spook…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:06AM
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Glenn Close to Slink Down the Staircase and Into Your Heart in Sunset Boulevard on Broadway by Halle Kiefer

Great news for all those wonderful people out there in the dark. Glenn Close returns to the role she was born to play, and arguably has been playing this entire time: Norma Desmond in Andrew…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:41PM
Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Jon Hamm and John Slattery Are the Fictional Understudies for Broadway’s Oh, Hello by Halle Kiefer

If you've finally made it through the mile of tuna on your gigantic sandwich, you might have been able to get out of the house and see the Broadway premiere of Nick Kroll and John Mulaney's …

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:42PM
Sunday, October 9, 2016

You Know Lin-Manuel Miranda Is Good When He Can Sing a Hamilton-ified SNL Monologue About Trump and Still Be the Best Part by Halle Kiefer

Oh, so it turns out this guy is pretty good at this. A lesser Manuel might have been crushed under the weight of a topical musical monologue that combines Hamilton’s "My Shot," D…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:14PM
Saturday, October 8, 2016

Lin-Manuel Miranda Visited the SNL Stand-By Line, so If You Didn't Go, Oh Boy, Did You Blow It by Halle Kiefer

Like a pizza-bearing angel, he descends from on high, "on high" being a greenroom in Studio 8H. Lin-Manuel Miranda stopped by to visit the teaming, unwashed masses waiting in the S…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:30PM
Sunday, October 2, 2016

Lady Gaga Returns to Her Sticky, Vodka-Soaked Roots to Debut Her New Song ‘Million Reasons’ by Halle Kiefer

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, disgusting bathrooms to someone threw up in that booth over there: Lady Gaga returns to her bar-show roots this month to debut the new song "Million Reason…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:07PM
Saturday, October 1, 2016

Grumpy Cat Made Her Broadway Debut in Cats Last Night; Undoubtedly Hated It by Halle Kiefer

In case you were wondering how they taught Grumpy Cat how to sing and dance for her Broadway debut in Cats last night, it turns out she was actually more of an one-night-only guest of honor …

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:48PM
Monday, September 26, 2016

Birth of a Nation Kicks Off an In-Theater Voter Registration Tie-in on National Voter Registration Day by Halle Kiefer

Get yourself some popcorn, a soda, and the inalienable right to help select the leader of the free world. In honor of Tuesday’s National Voter Registration Day, Fox Searchlight is launchin…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:14AM
Sunday, September 25, 2016

Lin-Manuel Miranda Joins Weird Al Yankovic to Sing ‘Yoda,’ Achieving the Much Sought After Nerd Holy Trinity by Halle Kiefer

Don’t worry if you didn’t attend a house of nerd worship this weekend, because the universe has conspired to deliver unto you a nerd experience of transcendental proportions. Weird Al su…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:38PM
Saturday, September 24, 2016

Bruce Springsteen Picks His Top Five Springsteen Songs and It Looks Like You and Bruce Have a Lot in Common by Halle Kiefer

In a truly epic, long interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Bruce Springsteen ruminates on everything from his late father’s mental illness, to his childhood obsession with Elvi…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:17AM
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Sharon Stone Gets A Little Something for Your Birthday and That Little Something Is Tony Goldwyn by Halle Kiefer

Traveling the land, seducing women, and enabling them to stand up to their overbearing mothers seems like an excellent post–White House plan for President Fitzgerald Grant III. According t…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:07AM
Sunday, September 18, 2016

La La Land Wins People’s Choice Award at TIFF, So Maybe This Movie Is Kind of Good or Something by Halle Kiefer

The Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone musical La La Land took home the People's Choice audience award at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend, which might not be a surprise if you�…

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:08PM
Saturday, September 17, 2016

Bryan Cranston and Your Other Favs Are Standing By for Your Call on The Late Show’s Celeb Hotline, You Perv by Halle Kiefer

If you can put down your hoagie for two goddamn seconds, and lord knows you can’t, then pick up the phone with those mayo-covered hands of yours and dial The Late Show’s Celebrity Chat L…

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:08PM
Saturday, September 10, 2016

Lady Gaga Lovingly Blows the Cobwebs Off Her Nipple Tape for a Surprise Club Performance of ‘Perfect Illusion’ by Halle Kiefer

How long has Gaga’s nipple tape sadly languished in her official designated nipple-tape drawer? Through all those long Tony Bennett recording sessions? Through the Oscars? Through more Ton…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:46PM
Thursday, September 8, 2016

Muriel’s Wedding The Musical Is Coming and It Will Be As Good As ‘Dancing Queen’ by Halle Kiefer

Spinal tumors, marriage fraud, suicide, horrible bangs: Just like all those crazy T.S. Eliot poems about cats, Muriel’s Wedding has always been destined for the stage. According to Enterta…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:17AM
Monday, June 20, 2016

Monopoly the Musical Gunning for Broadway, Then Park Place, Then Atlantic Avenue, Then Reading Railroad, Then ... by Halle Kiefer

"Pass Go To This.” “History Has Its Die On You.” “It’s Quiet Uptown (As I Have Bought Up All of Atlantic Avenue).” It was only a matter of time before the recent wave of gam…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:44PM
Monday, June 13, 2016

Rachel Bloom’s Version of ‘Teenage Dream’ on Lip Sync Battle Looks Like It Was Straight Lifted Out of a Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Episode by Halle Kiefer

Do you think Rachel Bloom looked up from her air flute at any point while shooting this week's Lip Sync Battle and thought, “Goddamn it, if only we did covers?” From the looks of the pro…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:05AM
Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Lin-Manuel Miranda Pens New York Times Op-Ed After Somehow Conquering Sleep by Halle Kiefer

Jeez, he’s already doing so much. Is it really fair for us to sit back and let Lin-Manuel Miranda conquer the robots for us too? The Hamilton creator wrote an impassioned New York Times op…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:09PM
Thursday, June 2, 2016

Jake Gyllenhaal to Star in an Adaptation of the Division Video Game, Which Has to Go Better Than Prince of Persia, It Just Has To by Halle Kiefer

It only took two decades for a generation to be born with no memory of 1993's Super Mario Bros., but video-game movies are back, baby! According to Variety, Jake Gyllenhaal will star in…

SOURCE: Vulture at 05:31PM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
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