76 stories by "E. Alex Jung"
Will these ill-mannered audience members never learn? During a Wednesday night performance of Shows for Days at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Patti LuPone confiscated an audience member's p…
Misty Copeland's big year is about to get bigger: Time 100 cover girl and the American Ballet Theater's first black principal will make her Broadway debut in On the Town in a special two-wee…
Bombshell is becoming a real-life Smash. Universal announced Monday that due to the overwhelming response from the one-night only Bombshell benefit concert earlier in June, it is going to de…
Earlier this year, Russell Crowe had the gall (ignorance?) to suggest that actresses like Meryl Streep and Helen Mirren would "give you 10,000 examples and arguments as to why [complaint…
Jessica Lange will return to Broadway for the first time in over a decade next spring, with the Eugene O'Neill classic Long Day's Journey Into Night. Lange reprises the role of the morp…
Taye Diggs will be Broadway's sixth Hedwig, following the high-octane runs of Neil Patrick Harris, Andrew Rannells, Michael C. Hall, OG John Cameron Mitchell, and the latest, Darren Criss. D…
Here's Hugh Jackman lip-syncing "Bacon Pancakes," originally sung by Jake the magic dog from Adventure Time, because why not? Hugh is ahead of the curve with this ditty, because this…
Jake Gyllenhaal is getting more comfortable with the stage. After starring opposite Ruth Wilson in Constellations on Broadway, he'll be making his musical-theater debut as nerdy florist Seym…
Driving around with celebrities is the new talking to celebrities on the couch. After a charming carpool karaoke with Mariah Carey, James Corden enlists another diva, Jennifer Hudson, as the…
To celebrate Record Store Day, international treasure Stephen Hawking recorded a cover of Monty Python's universe explainer "Galaxy Song" from the troupe's 1983 film The Meaning of L…
It's time for more Ew!, the recurring sketch on Jimmy Fallon where he lives out his dream of talking like a baby bird. This week he has an appropriately tween-sized guest, Ariana Grande and …
At 80 years old, Dame Judi Dench has no plans to retire. Further, she thinks that the word is one of the "rudest" words you could fling at her. "And 'old' is another one,"…
So remember how Tom Hanks just like, lounged around the New York City subway like a house cat? Well, here is Dame Helen Mirren, spotted by an Instagram user who kept their wits about them, d…
As many of you know, the MTA is attempting to crack down on the widespread epidemic known as "manspreading" through a public awareness campaign on its subways. But do you need to fol…
One is not born Meryl Streep; one becomes her. In the past Streep has talked about how she used to hate her nose and worry about her weight when she was young " all things she learned not to…
During the still-absurdly titled telecast for Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest, Broadway star Idina Menzel did a performance of Frozen's "Let It Go." This…
Fellow New Yorker staff writer John Lahr caused a bit of a stir on Friday night when he tweeted, "Farewell David Denby, a masterly film critic and cohort, after a distinguished sixteen y…
Baby Ariana Grande continues to step into momma Mariah's territory with the release of the music video "Santa Tell Me" Friday night. This isn't her first foray into Christmas music, …
Kevin Spacey's mimicry skills were on full display on Friday night, when Jimmy Fallon put him to work on a Halloween-themed "Wheel of Impressions." Spacey and Fallon take turns …
Neil Patrick Harris " or, NPH as I'll be calling him " has had an enviable life. The 41-year-old actor has starred on two hit TV shows, first as a child star on Doogie Howser, then…
According to the person who knows him best, George Takei doesn't become the George Takei whose unique voice you know and love until he's had a cup of green tea. "When he wakes up in the morn…
The Clinton Foundation pulled some of its Hollywood strings and got Frank Underwood (a.k.a. Kevin Spacey) to do his Bill Clinton impression for Bill's 68th birthday. In the video, Frank…
Neil Patrick Harris stopped by EW Radio and geeked out with Mario Correa about variety shows, The Gong Show, and of course, freak shows. Apparently when Harris found out that the next Americ…
ABC's Once Upon a Time promised a new set of characters by unveiling Elsa, the supernaturally gifted and psychologically wracked ice queen from Frozen in last season's finale. Georgina Haig,…
TMZ now has a video of Shia LaBeouf trying to start a fight with yet another random person outside of a strip club in New York. In the video, LaBeouf does shadowboxer moves behind someone in…