15 stories by "Jen Chaney"
When live TV musicals go well, they can be fantastic. When things go awry, like when one of your leads injures himself in the dress rehearsal and can no longer run up and down all the stairs…
The New Group's production of Clueless, the Musical will close its two-month, sold-out Off Broadway run this Saturday. But according to Amy Heckerling, the writer and director of the 1995 te…
The signs, a crucial element of any anti-Trump protest, had a Broadway theme at Monday's White House protest."Book of Moron," said one, which melded the The Art of the Deal's book jacket and…
Teenagers who love the theater have never been more fully, widely represented by popular culture than they are right now.During the past six months alone, Hollywood has put more drama-club k…
To celebrate the resurrection of Christ, NBC continued its annual TV musical tradition with Jesus Christ Superstar: Live in Concert, a spirited staging that involved lots of guitar shreds, g…
To announce the launch of her campaign for governor of New York, Cynthia Nixon released a video on Monday that featured footage of herself doing typical New Yorker things: dropping off her d…
Even before it opened in theaters over the weekend, It, the adaptation of Stephen King's novel about a group of preteens terrorized by the sewer-dwelling Pennywise the clown, had already spa…
The 1990 TV mini-series It " the adaptation of Stephen King's creepy 1986 novel that came before the film opening in theaters this week " is often cited on lists of the scariest TV shows eve…
Like most young actors co-starring in a major HBO drama opposite Oscar-nominated actresses, Iain Armitage got his start as a theater critic. Okay, so he's the only one in that category, but …
Everyone's favorite mess returns tonight for the back half of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's second season, which has so far subverted traditional rom-com expectations at every turn, sending Greg (Sa…
You can't stop the beat, but you can surely weigh it down with a bunch of technical issues. Cribbing nearly every move from the Grease: Live playbook down to the golf carts, NBC's Hairspray …
When NBC first announced plans to stage a production of Hairspray as the network's next live musical, network chief Bob Greenblatt acknowledged that the show's focus on race and diversity pl…
Think of every trope associated with animated family movies and you'll find them all in "Norm of the North," a thoroughly uninspired story of a polar bear attempting to save his habitat from…
Last week, fans of Star Wars and musical theater were very excited to learn that J.J. Abrams and Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and star of Hamilton and presumptive winner of every Tony Award i…
On the surface, Kevin Spacey and Jack Abramoff don't appear to share much in common.
