The 2018 Tony Awards will be handed out on Sunday night, June 10, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, and CBS has announced the first round of presenters. Uzo Aduba, Matt Bomer, Clair…
Ariana Grande released her new single “No Tears Left to Cry” on April 20, and it debuted at number-three on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. And it has stayed in the top-10 s…
Director Alex Rudzinski admits that live television is a high risk, high reward business where there are “so many things that could go wrong,” and that was no different on …
When it comes to producing live television you only have “one chance to get it right,” so “Jesus Christ Superstar” production designer Jason Ardizzone West was “…
We’re approaching the 2018 Billboard Music Awards on Sunday, May 20, and the show has announced two more performers who will take the stage: John Legend and Kelly Clarkson. They join a…
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice “always conceived [‘Jesus Christ Superstar’] as more raw, stripped-down,” says producer Neil Meron about his approach to the rock ope…
There are four brand new songs in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart as two artists make big debuts: Ariana Grande enters at number-three with her new song “No Tears Lef…
“I’m excited for the possibility of being in that rare group of people who have won all four of those awards,” says John Legend about the possibility of achieving EGOT this…
Ben Platt and Rachel Bay Jones won the 2018 Daytime Emmy Award for Best Musical Performance in a Daytime Program. They and their co-stars from the hit Broadway musical “Dear Evan…
Ariana Grande has released her first new song in two years. “No Tears Left to Cry” premiered on April 19 along with a futuristic, visual effects-driven new music video directed b…
“It was really just about how you push the story forward. How does the movement help to tell the story?” says choreographer Camille A. Brown about her work on NBC’s live co…
You wouldn’t expect a children’s cartoon to be in a position to win Emmys and Tonys in the same year, but the long-running Nickelodeon series “SpongeBob SquarePants” …
NBC’s live production of “Jesus Christ Superstar” broadcast on Easter Sunday, April 1, to excellent reviews (with a current MetaCritic score of 81). In recent years these l…
Only 12 entertainers in the history of Hollywood have won EGOT: the showbiz grand slam of Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards. NBC’s live production of “Jesus Christ Superstar…
John Legend has won an Oscar, a Tony and multiple Grammys. That means he only needs an Emmy to complete his EGOT. And he’s certainly swinging for the fences in that regard. On Easter S…
NBC’s live April 1 production of “Jesus Christ Superstar” came with the combined star-wattage of A-list musicians John Legend as Jesus, Sara Bareilles as Mary Magdelene and…
Just like at the Oscars, James Ivory is way ahead in our Writers Guild Awards predictions for Best Adapted Screenplay for “Call Me by Your Name.” Based on the combined forecasts …
In the entire 90-year history of the Oscars there have only been three animated films nominated for Best Picture: “Beauty and the Beast” (1991), “Up” (2009) and ̶…
James Corden is an old hand at hosting award shows, so you feel as though you’re in good hands whenever he takes the stage. Indeed, the 2018 Grammy Awards he emceed on January 28 were …
“City of Stars” from “La La Land” won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 2017, so it makes sense that it’s now the Grammy front-runner for Best Visual Media So…
“La La Land” was released in 2016, and its composer Justin Hurwitz won the Oscar for Best Original Score last year, but he wasn’t nominated at the Grammys until 2018 bec…
It’s been a good season for “The Handmaid’s Tale.” The Hulu series became the first streaming program ever to win Best Drama Series at the Emmys last September, and s…
The Grammys honor a number of musical achievements in visual media (which include movies, TV programs, and even video games). Best Visual Media Compilation awards soundtrack albums that cons…
Singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles is a Grammy nominee and a Tony nominee, and with her original song “If I Dare” from “Battle of the Sexes” (watch the lyric video abov…
“Get Out” had a narrow lead for Best Film Comedy/Musical going into the Golden Globe nominations on Monday morning, December 11, but “Lady Bird” has moved way ahead n…