Broadway's musical adaptation of Mean Girls brings Tina Fey's 2004 movie into the present with jokes about smartphones and Donald Trump, but some things are constant, like pretending to be d…
Fans of Supergirl, rejoice! People who vaguely remember the later seasons of Glee, experience a brief flash of recognition! Melissa Benoist is going to be making her Broadway debut. The actr…
In order to live up to your movie boyfriend Ewan McGregor, the forthcoming Moulin Rouge! musical has cast your theater boyfriend Aaron Tveit as Christian, a.k.a. the writer who is artistic a…
You may know her from TV, but as of this morning, Tina Fey is a Tony nominee for writing the book of the Mean Girls musical, and therefore a theater person. This Friday, Fey will appear on D…
It's the best day ever for big musical adaptations, as SpongeBob and Mean Girls led the Tony nominations this morning, with 12 nominations apiece, with The Band's Visit close behind with 11.…
Soon you will be able to see Carey Mulligan in New York, and later listen to Carey Mulligan if you don't have the chance to be there in person. Audible, which previously produced Billy Crudu…
If there were an awards show for awards shows, the Tonys would probably take the prize for the most rules (and then probably do something like read a sonnet about love in their acceptance sp…
The King Kong musical would like to introduce the story of a woman and a giant ape, and a woman and a giant ape, and a woman and a giant ape. To promote the larger-than-life musical, coming …
To get into the mind of his character in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Anthony Boyle thought about dogs. In the two-part play, Boyle routinely steals scenes as Scorpius Malfoy, son of H…
Most high schools tend to stick to the established hits when they're staging a musical: The Music Man, Fiddler on the Roof, or maybe Spring Awakening if they're really daring (or if Ted Mosb…
Presumably, after being stunned by that high-school performance of Merrily in Lady Bird, the legendary Elaine May has decided to come back to Broadway to do a play with Lucas Hedges. Well, t…
Patti LuPone, never one to hold back about anything (and especially her thoughts on movie stars), has arrived at a new opinion. Speaking at an event for Marianne Elliott's upcoming gender-fl…
Performers of the kind whose names run above the title on Broadway musicals often have a signature " an idiosyncrasy, some way of essentially playing themselves. Jessie Mueller's performance…
Moulin Rouge! The Musical, the stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's movie musical about love, tuberculosis, and exclamation points has cast its very dreamy stars. Karen Olivo (West Side Story,…
Someone in some theater development office must have sung "Beetlejuice" three times, and lo, a Beetlejuice musical appeared. Warner Bros.'s theater department announced today that the Beetle…
Finally, your chance to see American treasure Stockard Channing as a left-wing radical turned art historian has arrived. The Roundabout Theatre Company announced today that it's bringing Apo…
At first, Bruce Springsteen was only going to appear on Broadway for eight weeks starting last fall, but now, like a tourist lost on the way to Wicked, he's going to be here for much longer …
Laura Benanti, The Late Show's resident, seething Melania Trump, thinks we're all caught in a situation like the First Lady right now. "We're all reluctantly married to Donald Trump," Benant…
Whether you like it or not, Big Little Lies fever is back. After announcing that the (formerly) limited series would return, HBO has pushed out a steady stream of updates about the upcoming …
More than a year after his death, Sam Shepard's work is getting a new life on Broadway. The Roundabout Theatre Company announced today that Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano will star as the brother…
Over dinner at Joe Allen, with her hoodie sweatshirt zipped all the way to the top ("I'm in a draft"), Glenda Jackson insists she is not intimidating. Never mind that the 81-year-old is a tw…
Two of Broadway's biggest schemers " one founding father and the other guy a polo-shirted kid in high school " have joined forces for a cause. Yes, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ben Platt finally t…
Weeks before Steven Spielberg releases his megabudget virtual-reality movie Ready Player One, all of Hollywood wonders just what he might do next. Could he make that that next Indiana Jones …
Broadway's big-name adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Aaron Sorkin, starring Jeff Daniels as Atticus Finch, and set to open this fall, has run into trouble with Harper Lee's es…
Jesus is coming, and he's wearing some nice fitted white T-shirts. In a new trailer for NBC's Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, we meet John Legend's Jesus, Alice Cooper's Herod, and S…