358 stories by "Jackson McHenry"
The Broadway star on her greatest roles, her celebrity, and War Paint, which might be her last musical.
In her dressing room at the Nederlander Theatre on a Tuesday evening, Patti LuPone is doing her makeup for War Paint, which, she claims, will be her last Broadway musical. Of course, nothing…
Many musicals take a wandering path to Broadway, but Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 took a more wandering path than most " the show started at Ars Nova, an 87-seat Hell's Kitc…
No woman, no matter how wonderful, is safe from complaints from men. After Alamo Drafthouse announced a woman-only screening of Wonder Woman in Austin (and, after backlash online, added a fe…
Only in a musical about two cosmetics titans would a character deliver a torch song to a color. War Paint, now on Broadway, follows the rivalry between beauty tycoons Helena Rubinstein (Patt…
If there's one thing we can rely on, it's Elisabeth Moss making dark and harrowing television shows. Moss has signed on to star in Fever, a new BBC series about Typhoid Mary, the name given …
When reading War and Peace, Dave Malloy was struck with the way Leo Tolstoy's epic tells the story of "all of Russia," from princesses to troika drivers. So when Malloy decided to adapt a sl…
Soon, The Emoji Movie will arrive in theaters, just in time for you to ["see no evil" monkey face]. The [thinking face] film, which stars T.J. Miller, James Corden, and Sir Patrick Stewart (…
Live musical scheduling is getting astoundingly literal. First Fox aired The Passion for Easter, then NBC decided to put on Jesus Christ Superstar Live! for the next Easter, and now Fox is s…
Here's what's a-happening: Tyler Perry's The Passion may have brought Christian rock to live TV, but NBC's stepping it up with a live production of the 1971 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar…
Harry Potter is crossing the pond. The producers of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which is currently in performances in London, have confirmed that the show will come to Broadway's Lyri…
After Hamilton dominated both the Tony nominations and winners last year, this year's race doesn't have a clear favorite. Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812, a musical riff on a …
It turns out Mike Pence's run-in with Hamilton won't be this year's most political moment on Broadway. Michael Moore, known for his documentaries and grim predictions about the Trump preside…
The way Gideon Glick talks about acting makes it sound like being in a series of relationships. "In this business, you get attached to parts you audition for and don't get," explains the you…
Somehow, someone is going to upstage Cate Blanchett. The Australian film actress/recent Broadway star/Marvel goddess/drag queen/performance artist has signed on to star in a new London stage…
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…
The world of Cars is full of cars, which is strange because cars are designed to be used by humans. This fact may not bother the children watching the successful series of Pixar movies, but …
Back when Hamilton was just rap musical about the founding fathers that nobody knew what to think about, Andrea Martin got Lin-Manuel Miranda to write a rap just for her, or rather for Edith…
Chris Evans is putting all the other Hollywood Chrises on watch. The Second Stage Theatre announced today that Evans will make his Broadway debut in awards-season grump (and Oscar winner) Ke…
Over the course of its six seasons, Girls developed a soundtrack full of melancholy yet ecstatic indie-pop, so distinctive that it seemed possible to think of the Girls music cue " or specif…
Phil? Phil Connors, I thought that was you! After injuring his knee during the Friday, April 14, performance of the musical adaptation of Groundhog Day, the show's star Andy Karl will be bac…
Minutes before the curtain rose on Saturday night's performance of Broadway's Groundhog Day, Tim Minchin, who wrote the music and lyrics for the show, came onstage to address the elephant-si…
After years of playing the Genie in the Broadway musical Aladdin, James Monroe Iglehart is getting out of the bottle: On April 14, he will take over the Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson…
Because he hasn't already contributed enough drama to the world, Brendon Urie is making his debut on Broadway. The Panic! at the Disco front man is joining the cast of Kinky Boots to play Ch…
Sixteen years after the release of the French film Amélie, the young girl in Montmartre is searching for her destiny again, but this time in New York. A stage adaption of the whimsica…
