Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Phil Connors will stop having to live the same day over again (and again and again) in Broadway’s Groundhog Day on September 17. The musical, based on the film with a book from screenwrite…
SOURCE: Vulture at 06:28PMWednesday, August 9, 2017
It’s never too late to stage that one-man show you’ve always dreamed of doing. Bruce Springsteen, for instance, is planning to set up shop on Broadway at the 1,000-seat Walter Kerr Theat…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:49AMWith the exception of parents’ bank balances, cute sidekicks tend to be the primary victims of an animated musical’s transfer to Broadway. Anastasia recently cut Bartok the bat, and now,…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:47AMTuesday, August 8, 2017
Maya Rudolph is going live once again. The Saturday Night Live alum will star in Fox’s live production of the musical adaptation of A Christmas Story, which is based on the 2012 Broadway p…
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:23PMFriday, August 4, 2017
Are you able to deal with a hot Jafar? Disney has cast Dutch-Tunisian actor Marwan Kenzari as the evil vizier Jafar in its live-action adaptation of Aladdin, which has Mena Massoud in the ti…
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:54PMWednesday, August 2, 2017
In addition to his accomplishments as a playwright and actor, the late Sam Shepard was a devoted typewriter aficionado. In a clip from the upcoming film California Typewriter, which collects…
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:18PMWhen everyone returns to Camp Firewood in Wet Hot American Summer: 10 Years Later, Ben is in a very different place. No, not just because he and McKinley have a baby, or because their babysi…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:01AMMonday, July 31, 2017
Do you want to build a Broadway musical? Let this first look at Disney’s stage adaptation of Frozen tell you how. Before going to the St. James Theatre in New York next spring, the musical…
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:57PMThursday, July 27, 2017
The plastics are coming to D.C., and not just because Trump is rolling back environmental protections. The musical adaptation of Mean Girls, with a book by Tina Fey, music by her husband Jef…
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:34PMFriday, July 21, 2017
Kevin Spacey has come out to Italy to shoot a Netflix biopic about author and public intellectual Gore Vidal. According to Variety, The Last Station’s Michael Hoffman is directing the film…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:58AMWednesday, June 28, 2017
Nicole Kidman, one of our most devastating film (and television) actresses, is a not-so-secret goofball, as evidenced by her love of participating in sing-alongs in cars and in this video, a…
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:46PMTuesday, June 27, 2017
As we talk before the curtain goes up at the Broadway premiere of 1984 last week, Richard Blair apologizes for the fact that he likely won’t have a strong reaction to the show. Blair, the …
SOURCE: Vulture at 06:31PMFriday, June 23, 2017
As if Ryan Murphy wasn’t busy enough with his many TV projects, the producer might soon try out life on Broadway. According to a report from the New York Post, Murphy has optioned the righ…
SOURCE: Vulture at 12:18PMFriday, June 16, 2017
Here’s a way to get all the music and star power of a big Broadway show, minus that pesky plot. Per the New York Post, Bruce Springsteen is planning to do an eight-week stint on Broadway a…
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:49PMAmy Schumer could be Steve Martin’s new bright star. (I apologize for any memories that phrasing might bring up.) The comedian and actress are in talks to star in Martin’s new play Meteo…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:35AMWednesday, June 14, 2017
The week after the Tony Awards has been brutal for this season’s plays. Today, Paula Vogel’s Indecent, which centers on the 1923 production of Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance, announced…
SOURCE: Vulture at 03:13PMAs if “Sonya Alone” didn’t already sound like a perfect Ingrid Michaelson song, it will soon be sung by Michaelson herself. The singer-songwriter will join the cast of Broadway’s Nat…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:36AMMonday, June 12, 2017
New York’s Public Theater has posted a statement thanking people for their support online after corporate donors Delta Air Lines and Bank of America pulled their support due to a controver…
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:35PMSunday, June 11, 2017
Homosexuals, women with children, short insomniacs — welcome Falsettos to a movie theater near you. During the Tony Awards Sunday night, Live From Lincoln Center, Screenvision Media, and K…
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:47PMThursday, June 8, 2017
Two things tend to define classic Disney movies: a childlike sense of fun that can easily be parlayed into theme-park attractions, and death, specifically of parents, and especially of mothe…
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:05PMTuesday, June 6, 2017
The Broadway star on her greatest roles, her celebrity, and War Paint, which might be her last musical.
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:00PMIn her dressing room at the Nederlander Theatre on a Tuesday evening, Patti LuPone is doing her makeup for War Paint, which, she claims, will be her last Broadway musical. Of course, nothing…
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:49PMMonday, June 5, 2017
Many musicals take a wandering path to Broadway, but Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 took a more wandering path than most — the show started at Ars Nova, an 87-seat Hell’s …
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:00AMFriday, June 2, 2017
No woman, no matter how wonderful, is safe from complaints from men. After Alamo Drafthouse announced a woman-only screening of Wonder Woman in Austin (and, after backlash online, added a fe…
SOURCE: Vulture at 03:34PMWednesday, May 24, 2017
Only in a musical about two cosmetics titans would a character deliver a torch song to a color. War Paint, now on Broadway, follows the rivalry between beauty tycoons Helena Rubinstein (Patt…
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:13PMTuesday, May 23, 2017
If there’s one thing we can rely on, it’s Elisabeth Moss making dark and harrowing television shows. Moss has signed on to star in Fever, a new BBC series about Typhoid Mary, the name gi…
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:37PMWednesday, May 17, 2017
When reading War and Peace, Dave Malloy was struck with the way Leo Tolstoy’s epic tells the story of “all of Russia,” from princesses to troika drivers. So when Malloy decided to adap…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00AMTuesday, May 16, 2017
Soon, The Emoji Movie will arrive in theaters, just in time for you to [“see no evil” monkey face]. The [thinking face] film, which stars T.J. Miller, James Corden, and Sir Patrick Stewa…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:12AMFriday, May 12, 2017
Live musical scheduling is getting astoundingly literal. First Fox aired The Passion for Easter, then NBC decided to put on Jesus Christ Superstar Live! for the next Easter, and now Fox is s…
SOURCE: Vulture at 03:42PMWednesday, May 10, 2017
Here’s what’s a-happening: Tyler Perry’s The Passion may have brought Christian rock to live TV, but NBC’s stepping it up with a live production of the 1971 rock opera Jesus Christ S…
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:00PMThursday, May 4, 2017
Harry Potter is crossing the pond. The producers of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which is currently in performances in London, have confirmed that the show will come to Broadway’s Ly…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:49AM 
