49 stories by "Jesse David Fox"
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…
Rachel Bloom seems so natural in her role on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, both on camera and behind it, that it's hard to imagine that there was a time when she wasn't combining her musical-theater …
"I know … I'm in the future also" are seven words that represented both a creative breakthrough and directive for Mike Birbiglia, when he riffed it, working on a story about a charity set …
Ed. note: Mike Birbiglia's The New One, a standup performance opening on Broadway tonight, falls across the two fields covered by our theater critic, Sara Holdren, and our comedy critic, Jes…
For about a decade, Chris Gethard, whose new self-help book/memoir, Lose Well, is in stores now, was not only one of the best improvisers at the UCB Theatre in New York, but he was one of th…
When you've been doing comedy together for as long as Nick Kroll and John Mulaney have " nearly 20 years now " there comes a time when you write scenes where you talk dirty to each other and…
In 2008, Nathan Lane introduced a young comedian with a funny name (well, a funny last name; his first name is Mike) and his one-person show to the New York theater world. Today, ten years a…
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…
Earlier today, it was announced that Hamilton received 13 Olivier nominations, becoming the most-nominated show in the history of London's biggest theater award. Which, we would be lying if …
Lin-Manuel Miranda has been known to recount the advice Stephen Sondheim gave him while working on Hamilton. "I sent him early drafts of songs over the seven-year development of Hamilton, an…
I didn't watch Fergie's rendition of the national anthem when it aired live, for the same reason I didn't watch it when the clip of it first started circulating " I have heard the national a…
Bruce Springsteen is a Jersey Boy at heart, but is he also a Broadway Baby? Apparently! Starting October 3 through February, Bruce Springsteen will be the titular Springsteen in Springsteen …
Thirty years ago, as of this week, Dirty Dancing premiered in theaters; ever since, no one has legally been allowed to put Baby in a corner. However, what they were allowed to put was Dirty …
In a show as jam-packed with memorable moments as The Simpsons, it's hard to say with any certainty where any one bit ranks. What I do know is when you mention anything about Planet of the A…
For over a year and half, Chris Gethard has been performing Career Suicide, a comedic one-man show about mental illness, and he's not stopping anytime soon. After wrapping a three-month…
As the globe made of water and dirt turns, another Golden Globes moves into our collective rearview. And it was, well, all over the place. Still, high were highs and lows low, winners won, s…
While Comedy Bang! Bang!'s Scott Aukerman had previously told Vulture there was much debate over who would be the guests for the show's series finale (Ben Affleck, Jon Hamm, and Tatiana Masl…
The stars were out Monday at the opening night of Oh, Hello on Broadway, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney's latest version of their stage show about two Upper West Side schmucks " Gil Faizon and …
The first thing I noticed when I took my seat in the Upper West Side's Triad cabaret theater was Rachael Ray. She, her husband, and a group of friends were sitting at a table right up a…
Oooooooh, promo. Half, or at least a third, of the fun of the Oh, Hello show is watching John Mulaney and Nick Kroll crack each other up as these two miserable jerks, Gil Faizon and Geo…
How do two bastard, old friends, son of a Jew and a Dutchman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot on the UPPER WEST SIDE OF MANHATTAN by providence, impoverished, in squalor, grow up t…
Laura Benanti, with her uncanny resemblance and musical-theater-trained ear, was definitely the right person to do a Melania Trump impression, and the night after the potential future First …
On an afternoon in late May, Mike Birbiglia sits in his dressing room at Manhattan's Lynn Redgrave Theater, where he's about to perform his one-man show Thank God for Jokes for the 109th and…
One of the most exciting parts of today's comedy boom is seeing comedians of different generations become friends and collaborators. And there is no better place to see that than Comedy Bang…
Two. Two-two two thousand. Two-two two thousand " 2016. A cast of wildly talented singers/rappers/actors, seemingly born to play the Founding Fathers and Mothers, in an unlikely Broadwa…
