Backstage at the Samuel Friedman Theatre on a wintry Thursday evening, the stars of Choir Boy are going through their preshow routines. J. Quinton Johnson, who plays the bullyish legacy stud…
In A Star Is Born, Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper), the country rock star who'll drink any liquor as long as it's wet, meets the supremely talented but undiscovered Ally (Lady Gaga) at a gay …
When Bradley Cooper's Jackson Maine first encounters Lady Gaga's Ally in A Star is Born, they're at a drag bar called Bleu Bleu outside of Los Angeles staffed by RuPaul's Drag Race alumni Sh…
"Yo, man, Darren," Darren Criss says by way of introduction at the Television Critics Association tour in Pasadena, where he was doing press for his show, American Crime Story: The Assassina…
"What a queen!" exclaimed Aline Brosh McKenna, the co-creator of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and director of the show's season-three finale, as she gazed at Donna Lynne Champlin, dressed in silk chi…
In November, Rachel Bloom, the co-creator and star of the CW's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, had trouble breathing during the table read for the final episode of the show's third season. By the time …
"Do you know how thrilled I am to make a middle-aged woman a goddess?" Aline Brosh McKenna says in between takes on the set of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Donna Lynne Champlin, who plays Paula, is …
Earlier this week, the actor Anthony Rapp alleged that Kevin Spacey made a sexual advance toward him in 1986, when he was 14 years old. After Rapp's allegation, Spacey released a statement i…
There's a generation of gay men filled with ghosts. Men who populated clubs and bars; men you took home to bed, or a glory hole; men you saw in the office, the theater, a park, a pier, a bal…
Just because you're an accomplished 40-something woman who wins major publishing awards and wears giant floral neckpieces doesn't mean that you don't have growing pains. At least, that's wha…
The new TNT drama Will tackles William Shakespeare's "lost years" " the historical black hole when a 20-something Bard lived in Stratford-upon-Avon to the point where he reemerged in th…
When I arrive at a soundstage on Orphan Black's Toronto set, the crew members tell me to sit back and take it all in because today is a Sarah Manning day. What they mean, in part, is literal…
Tracy Letts is living out the ambitions of both of his parents. His mother, Billie, and his father, Dennis, were both English professors. Billie wrote novels in her spare time, penning the b…
On NBC's weepy powerhouse This Is Us, Susan Kelechi Watson as Beth has provided the much-needed anchor to her husband, Randall (played by Sterling K. Brown), as he dealt with the sudden appe…
You can divide David Hyde Pierce's professional career so far into three acts. The first began when he moved to New York after graduating from Yale in 1981. He was a young, working theater a…
The Great Wall, which stars Matt Damon as a monster-slayer in medieval China, hits U.S. theaters this weekend, finally answering the question: How many white men does it take to save the Gre…
Giovanni Ribisi may play a con artist on TV, but don't expect him to pick your pocket anytime soon. The actor, whose career spans more than three decades, stars in a new Amazon series co-cre…
Everyone loves an Al Pacino impression, and no one loves doing impressions more than Kevin Spacey. (He's got a whole wheel of 'em!) As a way to salute Al Pacino at the Kennedy Center Honors,…
Despite an alleged Hamilton boycott, tickets are still hard to come by around these parts (November 2017!). But take solace in the fact that The Hamilton Mixtape dropped last week so that yo…
While speaking with host Jonathan Ross at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Michael Douglas recounted his time filming the 1996 movie The Ghost and the Darkness with Val Kilmer, and revealed tha…
King Cobra might be best known as the gay porn"murder movie starring James Franco, but the film's actual star is Garrett Clayton, a unknown whose previous credits include the Disney Channel …
Your favorite pair of New York City misanthropes are going to make it after all. Hulu has renewed Difficult People for a ten-episode third season, meaning Billy (Billy Eichner) and Julie (Ju…
Lin-Manuel Miranda, the man who recently got a haircut, is hosting SNL! It's a natural progression for the man who made kids and adults care about U.S. history again. Miranda will take on ho…
Naya Rivera, known to viewers as the acid-tongued mean girl Santana from Glee, is also known to tabloid readers as an acid-tongued mean girl who allegedly keyed Mark Salling's Lexus. But she…
Author, playwright, and activist Larry Kramer is putting pressure on the real-estate mogul Steven Roth to withdraw his support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Days before…