If you were hoping that Lin-Manuel Miranda would drop a few rhymes during his commencement address at UPenn, you will be sorely disappointed to learn that the only bars came from University …
Audra McDonald is one of the greatest voices on the stage and the main draw for Shuffle Along, a show about the creation of a Broadway hit, but the production will h…
Lin-Manuel Miranda will be in the room where it happens once more " that is, at the Beacon Theater, site of the 2016 Tony Awards. Andrew Rannells and Nikki M. James read off the nominees thi…
Peggy Olson may have been the most famous Elisabeth Moss character to live in a society that devalues women, but she certainly won't be the last " and not just because today's world is alrea…
Madeleine Sherwood, who was best known for playing the serious Reverend Mother Superior Lydia Placido, opposite Sally Field, on the 1967"1970 sitcom The Flying Nun, has died at 93. Sherwood …
It's going to be awfully hard to snark about the nicest kids in town, though Twitter will surely find a way to try. Jennifer Hudson and Harvey Fierstein will headline Hairspray Live!, NBC's …
Do you hear the sound whispering the wind, a fundamental imbalance creeping into the universe? Meryl Streep has a performance she's not totally proud of. Yes, really truly, it is possible th…
Gay Talese has a (stone) cold (deal). Dreamworks has bought the rights to Gay Talese's The Voyeur's Motel, which is set be directed by American Beauty and Skyfall's Sam Mendes and produced b…
In a spiritual sequel to the Manhattan housewives' fight club on 30 Rock, Tina Fey has added Anna Camp as a sparring partner for Jane Krakowski in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's second sea…
So it turns out that "Jennifer," Kerry Washington's substitute dance teacher from the Bronx, went off to Hollywood to appear on In Living Color and eventually become casual texting f…
Judi Dench now has enough Olivier awards to hold a respectable tea party of metal Laurence Oliviers, if that's what she decides she wants to with her trophies. Dench won a record eighth Oliv…
Faced with that eternal question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to play the Stars and Wars to outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of theater critics and perform Ham…
Word to the wise: When you're bringing sexy back, make sure that you reimburse its previous owners properly. Cirque du Soleil, which, yes, released an album called Quidam in 1997, is suing J…
After winning a Tony for his portrayal of Lyndon B. Johnson in All the Way on Broadway, Bryan Cranston is back in all that jowly makeup to bring LBJ to HBO. Anthony Mackie co-stars as M…
Surface of the sun-level hot take: Hamilton is Sesame Street for those who have taken AP US History. Okay, maybe that's too far, because Sesame Street is also for pe…
Today's Digital Ham4Ham pop quiz: Does Jimmy Fallon actually know all the words to "You'll Be Back" or is he covering with funny voices? Show your work. ... More »
Soon enough, the Hough siblings will be in all the stuff. Dancing With the Stars vet Derek Hough, whose sister recently starred in Fox's Grease: Live, is going to be Broadway's new Gene Kell…
Patriots tight end, guttural noise, and subject of erotica Rob "Gronk" Gronkowski is getting a kids show on Nickelodeon. The network announced today that Gronk will host Crashletes, …
Will the help of Martin Short and Will Arnett, James Corden is here to turn some of your favorite brutal and masculine movies into musicals " and also into love stories. It's a bit like a pr…
"That's the thing about corsets," Keira Knightley mumbles to her agent. "Just when you thought you were out, they pull you back in." Knightley, who recently appeared as 19th …
Sutton Foster, who basically played a mirror universe Lorelai Gilmore on Amy Sherman-Palladino's late, lamented Bunheads, has joined the cast of Netflix's Gilmore Girls revival. Foster'…
How low can you dip it, and how slow can you play it, in a French maid uniform? Singer, actress, and Dancing With the Stars contestant Christina Milian will answer that very specific qu…
Sunday's performance of Grease: Live will have everything: A live studio audience, Boyz II Men, High School Musical's Vanessa Hudgens, pop sensation Carly Rae Jepsen, and now,…
Neil Patrick Harris " actor, magician, probably not evil " might just play Count Olaf, the actor, con artist, and villain in Netflix's upcoming adaptation of Lemony Sniket's A Seri…
In what might seem like run of the mill entertainment news, a talented comedic actress has taken the role of the wife in a comedy centered on a competition between two men. The film in quest…