When Platt opened his mouth to sing, the crowd’s eyes widened and mouths silently formed “wows.” Playing an anxiety-ridden teenager in Dear Evan Hansen, Platt, 25, won a Tony for perfo…
SOURCE: Billboard at 09:27AMWith its record-breaking 11 Tony nominations — the most for a play in Tony history — and star-studded cast led by Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane, the new production of Tony Kushner’s …
SOURCE: Vulture at 12:57PMJulie Taymor can still recall the day nearly 30 years ago when she saw M. Butterfly for the first time. She’d heard about “this fabulous new play by this Asian-American wonderful writer�…
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:00AMOn November 4, 2015, David Hallberg posted a photograph of himself on Twitter, though the person in the photo did not much resemble the David Hallberg his thousands of followers knew. In the…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:00AMWhen Marin Ireland graduated from drama school in 2000, she had to choose between two jobs: She could go to Vermont to play Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew, or she could join the cast of t…
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:00AMThe “High School Musical” star straps on his tap shoes for “Holiday Inn,” a new musical take on the 1942 film.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:40PMNearly 40 years ago, Diane Lane acted in Joseph Papp’s production of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard; this fall, at 51, she returns to the play as tragedy-beset heroine Madame Ranevskaya. T…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:15AMWhen a musical storms the Tonys as thoroughly as Hamilton did last month, the idea of replacing key members of the original cast — especially if they won the Best Actor award over the show…
SOURCE: Vulture at 07:02PMThe choreographer Mia Michaels springs from Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance” (and more) to the latest Radio City Music Hall spectacular.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:16PMWhen Prince died last week, two of the most extraordinary shows on Broadway immediately paid tribute: Hamilton with an onstage “Let’s Go Crazy” dance party and The Color Purple with a …
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:04PMWhen Rent began rehearsals in December 1995, it hardly looked like a phenomenon in the making. Composer Jonathan Larson had only recently quit his job at a Soho diner, its stars for the most…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:06PM“For the first quarter of an hour, I was thinking, Here I am, this boy from Belgium, sitting opposite David Bowie,” director Ivo van Hove recalls of his initial meeting with th…
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:58PMAt 74, choreographer Twyla Tharp is overdue for a breather. Over a 50-year career, she's continually evolved, making dances that blend the rigor and technique of ballet, the loose insoucianc…
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:32PMTo hardcore ballet fans, Ethan Stiefel and Sascha Radetsky are two of the greatest male dancers of the past decade, both of whom retired after storied careers at American Ballet Theatre. To …
SOURCE: Vulture at 07:27PMStar Trek alum George Takei may be best known these days for his delightful online presence, but he’s completely serious about his latest project: Allegiance, a new Broadway musi…
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:39PMIn “On Your Feet!,” a musical take on Gloria and Emilio Estefan’s rise to fame, the choreographer has found his most personal project yet.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:32AMAt ages 60 and 27, Bruce and Rumer Willis find themselves, oddly, experiencing the same career first: a Broadway debut. Rumer, Bruce's eldest daughter with Demi Moore, is strutting Chic…
SOURCE: Vulture at 12:46PMHopefully, you’ve had a few minutes to play around with our Fall Entertainment Generator. But if you’re looking for straight and simple lists of things to look out for by medium, we…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:21PMHopefully, you’ve had a few minutes to play around with our Fall Entertainment Generator. But if you’re looking for straight and simple lists of things to look out for by medium, we…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:21PMIn Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical Hamilton (which opens on Broadway on August 6 after a much-praised run this past winter at the Public Theater), the founding father emerges as an immigrant …
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:50PMHow the classic film Brief Encounter became a wonder onstage.
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PMDave Itzkoff of ArtsBeat and Rebecca Milzoff of Vulture.com chat about the "Glee" episode that paid homage to "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMNBC’s musical series Smash was widely panned and only lasted two seasons, but two years after its final episode, its small but devoted contingent of fans are just as invested in …
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:10AMIt seemed preordained that Robert Fairchild would one day play Jerry Mulligan, the World War II vet and expat artist portrayed by Gene Kelly in the 1951 film An American in Paris. “Without…
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:05AMInto the Woods is a musical that many people care about. A lot. But perhaps you are not one of those people! With Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s twist on fairy tales opening on Christ…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:15AM“Well, we opened in October,” says Sting, 63, about The Last Ship, the musical he co-wrote and, through January 24, will star in. “And like most of the new musicals on Broadway, we wer…
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:00AMTonight, Allison Williams will don the green tunic to star in NBC’s Peter Pan Live! Since appearing in 1904, J. M. Barrie’s poignant tale, with its themes of eternal youth and defiled in…
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:00AMIn his 1996 “non-reconsideration” of A Delicate Balance, Edward Albee writes that his play “concerns, as it always has … the rigidity and ultimate paralysis which afflicts thos…
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:00AMEvery morning (except for Sundays), at 5:45 a.m. sharp, the DogPound meets at an elite West Village gym. A year ago, Hugh Jackman assembled this group of 14 guys—who include NYSE president…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:00PMMarguerite Derricks, a Hollywood choreographer known for “Austin Powers” and “Showgirls,” among many other movies and TV shows, brings her skills to the Off Broadway “Heathers.”
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