358 stories by "Jackson McHenry"
Spoilers for Tulip Fever ahead.This weekend, the Weinstein Company's Tulip Fever finally arrives in theaters after years of delays, bringing people the 17th Dutch costume drama nobody was su…
Yes, just to get this out of the way in advance: La La Land director Damien Chazelle's new TV show The Eddy is going to be a musical. And yes, it's going to be set in a club, which happens t…
I've you've ever wanted to dig into research on Alexander Hamilton and then write a hit musical about him, we have bad news: Hamilton exists. If, on the other hand, you just want to dig into…
Dear Evan Hansen has found not one, but two actors who will follow Tony-winner Ben Platt when he steps out of that striped blue polo shirt this November. The musical announced today that Noa…
Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, and Hans will arrive on Broadway wearing the armor of level 5 characters in what appears to be a Frozen video game. Entertainment Weekly has a first look at the musical…
Phil Connors will stop having to live the same day over again (and again and again) in Broadway's Groundhog Day on September 17. The musical, based on the film with a book from screenwriter …
It's never too late to stage that one-man show you've always dreamed of doing. Bruce Springsteen, for instance, is planning to set up shop on Broadway at the 1,000-seat Walter Kerr Theater f…
With the exception of parents' bank balances, cute sidekicks tend to be the primary victims of an animated musical's transfer to Broadway. Anastasia recently cut Bartok the bat, and now, acc…
Maya Rudolph is going live once again. The Saturday Night Live alum will star in Fox's live production of the musical adaptation of A Christmas Story, which is based on the 2012 Broadway pro…
Are you able to deal with a hot Jafar? Disney has cast Dutch-Tunisian actor Marwan Kenzari as the evil vizier Jafar in its live-action adaptation of Aladdin, which has Mena Massoud in the ti…
In addition to his accomplishments as a playwright and actor, the late Sam Shepard was a devoted typewriter aficionado. In a clip from the upcoming film California Typewriter, which collects…
When everyone returns to Camp Firewood in Wet Hot American Summer: 10 Years Later, Ben is in a very different place. No, not just because he and McKinley have a baby, or because their babysi…
Do you want to build a Broadway musical? Let this first look at Disney's stage adaptation of Frozen tell you how. Before going to the St. James Theatre in New York next spring, the musical w…
The plastics are coming to D.C., and not just because Trump is rolling back environmental protections. The musical adaptation of Mean Girls, with a book by Tina Fey, music by her husband Jef…
Kevin Spacey has come out to Italy to shoot a Netflix biopic about author and public intellectual Gore Vidal. According to Variety, The Last Station's Michael Hoffman is directing the film, …
Nicole Kidman, one of our most devastating film (and television) actresses, is a not-so-secret goofball, as evidenced by her love of participating in sing-alongs in cars and in this video, a…
As we talk before the curtain goes up at the Broadway premiere of 1984 last week, Richard Blair apologizes for the fact that he likely won't have a strong reaction to the show. Blair, the 73…
As if Ryan Murphy wasn't busy enough with his many TV projects, the producer might soon try out life on Broadway. According to a report from the New York Post, Murphy has optioned the rights…
Here's a way to get all the music and star power of a big Broadway show, minus that pesky plot. Per the New York Post, Bruce Springsteen is planning to do an eight-week stint on Broadway at …
Amy Schumer could be Steve Martin's new bright star. (I apologize for any memories that phrasing might bring up.) The comedian and actress are in talks to star in Martin's new play Meteor Sh…
The week after the Tony Awards has been brutal for this season's plays. Today, Paula Vogel's Indecent, which centers on the 1923 production of Sholem Asch's God of Vengeance, announced plans…
As if "Sonya Alone" didn't already sound like a perfect Ingrid Michaelson song, it will soon be sung by Michaelson herself. The singer-songwriter will join the cast of Broadway's Natasha, Pi…
New York's Public Theater has posted a statement thanking people for their support online after corporate donors Delta Air Lines and Bank of America pulled their support due to a controversi…
Homosexuals, women with children, short insomniacs " welcome Falsettos to a movie theater near you. During the Tony Awards Sunday night, Live From Lincoln Center, Screenvision Media, and KAO…
Two things tend to define classic Disney movies: a childlike sense of fun that can easily be parlayed into theme-park attractions, and death, specifically of parents, and especially of mothe…
