Thursday, February 15, 2018
The Newsroom lives, in that Jeff Daniels and Aaron Sorkin are working together again, and pretty much no other ways. Daniels will star as Atticus Finch in Sorkin’s upcoming stage adaptatio…
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:49PMAmazon has officially cut Jeffrey Tambor from Transparent after an investigation into sexual-harassment claims against the actor. Per Deadline, Amazon has said Tambor will not return for the…
SOURCE: Vulture at 03:56PMWednesday, February 14, 2018
Forget the pie that came before, forget what used to be, the past is on the cutting room floor, for Waitress, the future is here: McPhee. With all the enthusiasm of people on Twitter who won…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:11AMMonday, February 5, 2018
One might assume it’s a stretch for Taylor Trensch to go from starring in a big theatrical confection like Hello, Dolly! to a tearjerker like Dear Evan Hansen, but Trensch thinks of it mor…
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:57PMFriday, February 2, 2018
Meet Donna, Donna, and Donna. The upcoming Broadway musical based on the life of Donna Summer has cast LaChanze, Ariana DeBose, and Storm Lever as three different incarnations of Summer: the…
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:42PMTuesday, January 30, 2018
Peppermint may have landed in second in Drag Race season nine, but she’s found a new stage to make her own. The New York drag favorite has been cast in the forthcoming musical Head Over He…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:14AMMonday, January 29, 2018
Eyes, hair, mouth, figure, dress, voice, style, movement, hands, magic, rings, glamour, face, diamonds, excitement, spon-con. Before appearing at the Grammys last night to casually slay “D…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:29AMFriday, January 26, 2018
Two great warring nations are apparently at peace, for now. Patti LuPone and Andrew Lloyd Webber, who have been at odds since 1994, reportedly made up during rehearsals for LuPone’s perfor…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:39AMWednesday, January 24, 2018
Greg has a very exciting new life ahead of him after leaving West Covina. Santino Fontana, formerly of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and a Tony nominee for Cinderella, is starring in a Broadway-bound …
SOURCE: Vulture at 06:05PMTuesday, January 9, 2018
NBC’s upcoming drama Rise, about a high-school production of Spring Awakening, looks a lot like a serious version of Glee, or perhaps a musical version of Friday Night Lights, given that i…
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:07PMFriday, January 5, 2018
Ben Vereen, a Broadway veteran known for his performances in musicals like Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Pippin, has been accused of sexual assault, intimidation, and other abusive behav…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:52AMThursday, January 4, 2018
The Grammy Awards are returning to New York this year, which means, like a middle-school kid who just discovered Dear Evan Hansen, they’re really into theater right now. In addition to ann…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:22AMWednesday, January 3, 2018
Literalists who arrive at SpongeBob SquarePants: the Musical hoping to see a man sing and dance in a big, yellow, sponge-shaped outfit are bound to be disappointed. Instead of mimicking a ca…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:58AMTuesday, December 19, 2017
Soon, John Legend will die for your sins live on TV. NBC announced today that Legend will play the lead role in its live Easter Sunday staging of Jesus Christ Superstar, which is good news f…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:25AMFriday, December 15, 2017
As previously evidenced in every single thing he does, Lin-Manuel Miranda has no desire to take a break or relax whatsoever. So it’s really no surprise that he’s decided to commit to rel…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:34AMThursday, December 14, 2017
Those lucky enough to live in New York right now have the chance to sample two very different, eye-catching Tony Shalhoub performances. In Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, he plays Abe …
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:00PMAdam Driver, who’s been on Broadway twice before (three times, if you count the time his character from Girls did Major Barbara), is coming back to the stage in 2019. In a change of pace f…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:37AMWednesday, December 13, 2017
In a development strategy roughly defined as “be as camp as possible,” the Universal theater group is working on a stage musical adaptation of Death Becomes Her with Kristin Chenoweth in…
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:14PMFriday, December 8, 2017
For the small slice of the American population that participated in high-school musicals, and the even smaller sliver that is actually proud of that experience, listen up: ABC is airing a de…
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:30PMMonday, December 4, 2017
Armie Hammer’s campaign to try new, scary things will continue next summer with a stint on Broadway. The actor is starring in Second Stage Theater’s production of the Young Jean Lee dark…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:24AMThursday, November 30, 2017
In one of the first major stories of sexual misconduct in the theater world since London’s Old Vic received 20 allegations against Kevin Spacey, nine women have spoken to the New York Time…
SOURCE: Vulture at 12:35PMWednesday, November 29, 2017
After Pixar and Walt Disney Animation CEO John Lasseter announced that he was taking a six-month “sabbatical” due to unspecified “missteps,” reports of his inappropriate sexual behav…
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:30PMThere’s going to be a reunion at the Waitress diner. Sara Bareilles, who wrote the music and lyrics for the musical, and Jason Mraz, who collaborated with Bareilles on the album that prece…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:48AMThursday, November 16, 2017
Darren Aronofsky, an aficionado of scarves and existential terror, also loves himself a good show tune. That’s according to Hugh Jackman, who invented show business and recently hosted a s…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:51AMIn the wake of allegations that Kevin Spacey sexual assaulted young men while serving as the artistic director at the Old Vic, the London theater conducted an investigation into the actor an…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:35AMTuesday, November 14, 2017
Former high-school theater nerds, no longer will you have to spend your days insisting to friends and family that your senior-year performance in The King and I was “revelatory,” “must…
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:52PMFriday, November 10, 2017
As many inside and outside of Hollywood tell their own stories of sexual harassment and abuse in the wake of revelations surrounding Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Louis C.K., and others, a…
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:50PMThursday, November 9, 2017
Rian Johnson likes Star Wars so much that he’s not going to let audiences have any star peace. Disney announced today that Johnson, who wrote and directed the forthcoming The Last Jedi and…
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:15PMWednesday, November 8, 2017
King Kong is coming to America, and hopefully, unlike every King Kong movie, it won’t end in terrible tragedy. A stage musical adaptation, which stars a six-meter-tall puppet, will start p…
SOURCE: Vulture at 12:23PMLin-Manuel Miranda, who has actively campaigned (and released music) to raise money for Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria, has announced plans to bring his hit musical to the island…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:23AMMonday, November 6, 2017
Sony has started to distance itself from its Ridley Scott–directed film All the Money in the World, starring Kevin Spacey, in the wake of multiple accusations against the actor for sexual …
SOURCE: Vulture at 06:06PM 
