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Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Amy Heckerling on the ’90s Hits That Made It — and Didn’t Make It — Into Clueless, the Musical by Jen Chaney

The New Group’s production of Clueless, the Musical will close its two-month, sold-out Off Broadway run this Saturday. But according to Amy Heckerling, the writer and director of the 1995 …

SOURCE: Vulture at 03:10PM

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Rosie O’Donnell and Broadway Stars Sing the Songs of Angry Men at the White House by Jen Chaney

The signs, a crucial element of any anti-Trump protest, had a Broadway theme at Monday’s White House protest.“Book of Moron,” said one, which melded the The Art of the Deal’s book ja…

SOURCE: Vulture at 03:54PM

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Theater Kids Are Everywhere on TV and in Movies by Jen Chaney

Teenagers who love the theater have never been more fully, widely represented by popular culture than they are right now.During the past six months alone, Hollywood has put more drama-club k…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:07AM

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Cynthia Nixon Is Running for Office, But Some Can Only See Miranda Hobbes by Jen Chaney

To announce the launch of her campaign for governor of New York, Cynthia Nixon released a video on Monday that featured footage of herself doing typical New Yorker things: dropping off her d…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:35PM

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Have We, As a Society, Reached Peak Scary Clown? by Jen Chaney

Even before it opened in theaters over the weekend, It, the adaptation of Stephen King’s novel about a group of preteens terrorized by the sewer-dwelling Pennywise the clown, had already s…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:19AM

Thursday, September 7, 2017

The 1990 It Mini-series Is Not As Scary As You Remember by Jen Chaney

The 1990 TV mini-series It — the adaptation of Stephen King’s creepy 1986 novel that came before the film opening in theaters this week — is often cited on lists of the scariest TV sho…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:09PM

Friday, March 17, 2017

Iain Armitage on Big Little Lies, David Bowie, and the Big Bang Theory Spinoff by Jen Chaney

Like most young actors co-starring in a major HBO drama opposite Oscar-nominated actresses, Iain Armitage got his start as a theater critic. Okay, so he’s the only one in that category, bu…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:26PM

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

NBC’s Hairspray Live! Could Be the First Live Musical That Matters by Jen Chaney

When NBC first announced plans to stage a production of Hairspray as the network’s next live musical, network chief Bob Greenblatt acknowledged that the show’s focus on race and diversit…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:12AM

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Lin-Manuel Miranda Reveals the Story Behind the Song He Wrote for Star Wars: The Force Awakens by Jen Chaney

Last week, fans of Star Wars and musical theater were very excited to learn that J.J. Abrams and Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and star of Hamilton and presumptive winner of every Tony Award i…

SOURCE: Vulture at 05:53AM

Monday, May 25, 2015