When looking for a Halloween costume, a good rule of thumb is to find something that stands out, is comfortable, and doesn't involve wearing the skin of other people's cultures in a shocking…
In what we all hope is a long con to get Ariana Grande on Billy on the Street, Billy Eichner has joined the cast of NBC's Hairspray Live! He'll play local TV newscaster Rob Barker, who …
After leaving Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda cut off his ponytail. This wouldn't be much news, except, oh my God, Lin-Manuel Miranda cut off his ponytail. Sorry, we apologize for los…
In a marketing move that will draw no new Lady Gaga fans to Scream Queens (because, let's be honest, all the Lady Gaga fans are already watching it), Gaga announced today that she will …
For 742 performances, the poor players in Broadway's Something Rotten! have strutted and fretted their hours upon the stage, but now, they will be heard no more. The Shakespeare-ce…
Fox's Rocky Horror Picture Show remake is light on the lip close-ups, but heavy on the metafictional staging. Instead of offering up the classic credits roll, the first five m…
Fade in on a girl, with a hunger for fame and a talent routine to remember. That girl is Savvy Shields, who entered the competition as Miss Arkansas, and is now, through the power vested in …
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is the best show on TV, and yes, you can quote us on that. On October 21, it'll return for season two with all the musical numbers, sex jokes, and cactus outfit…
You might think of Narcos as just another Netflix series to binge, or perhaps as drug-cartel dinner theater with Ken Burns narration, but for some, this tale of Pablo Escobar is immense…
At 66, Bruce Springsteen is as busy as ever: He's in the midst of a tour that has him playing hours-long sets, and he has a memoir, Born to Run, out later this month, and a new alb…
There was a film, a very strange enchanted film. They say it wandered very far, very far, until one day ... someone decided it should be a musical. Yes, Baz Luhrmann's 2001 movie musical Mou…
Before he descended into the pile of filth that is American television to play Jimmy on FX's You're the Worst, Chris Geere was an illustrious actor in the British theater (pronounced &q…
Richard Linklater loves himself a good meditation on the fleeting nature of time. The Boyhood and Before trilogy director has signed on to direct an adaptation of Darryl Ponicsan's…
As if The Color Purple didn't have a ridiculously gifted vocal cast already, Jennifer Holliday, who famously originated the role of Effie White in Dreamgirls, is returning to Broad…
As it prepares to premiere Hairspray Live!, NBC would like remind everyone that it started this whole live TV-musical revival " excuse you, Fox. It also wants to point out that the…
Appropriately choosing yet another project with a plot that's centered around a major act of violence, Hamilton's Leslie Odom Jr. is reportedly in talks to join Kenneth Branagh's remake…
Jason Sudeikis is here to sound his barbaric yawp over the roofs of New York. The SNL vet has taken the role of prep-school teacher John Keating in a production of Dead Poets Society, w…
Man's battle with machine is nonstop. Even though he's stepped away from Hamilton and is busy with about 15 million other projects, Lin-Manuel Miranda continues his valiant crusade…
Progressive historical musicals about American history are so hot right now, even if, like so many American staples, they're not made in America. Rosa, a new musical based on the l…
The snow glows white on Broadway tonight, not a director to be seen. A kingdom of isolation, and it looks like Alex Timbers is no longer the king. Disney has dismissed the prolific dire…
Well, this is one way to do a Garry Marshall tribute. Lifetime has announced that it is remaking the classic Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey tearjerker Beaches with Idina Menzel playing CC,…
Marni Nixon, who made a career out of "ghosting," or dubbing over the vocals of numerous stars in classic Hollywood films, has died at 86. Nixon provided a precisely articulated so…
Guess who wants to start "haaling" in some Tonys (it's not Maggie, at least not right now). Jake Gyllenhaal, who previously appeared in Constellations on Broadway, has signed …
With a cast this good, maybe Chicago audiences will forgive Hamilton for calling New York "the greatest city in the world." Miguel Cervantes, whose credits include Broadway ap…
That Tavi Gevinson, why does she always seem to be Russian ahead of the rest of us? Gevinson is returning to Broadway to play Anya in the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Anton Che…