103 stories by "Nate Jones"
Joseph "Shakespeare in Love" Fiennes is set to play yet another creative genius: The Guardian reports that Fiennes has confirmed he'll play Michael Jackson " yes, that Michael Jackso…
Because it's filmed in the greatest city in the wooooooooorld, Law & Order: SVU is a handy way for Broadway stars to stretch their TV muscles in between shows, and the cast of Hamilton i…
Shhh! Paul Giamatti hasn't seen Hamilton yet, and he's looking forward to seeing how the hit musical portrays John Adams, whom he won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for playing in the HBO mini-s…
Cats will no longer be just a memory: Deadline reports that Andrew Lloyd Webber's feline musical will return to Broadway this summer for the first time since 2000. Based on a tail by T.S. El…
It's like John Laurens said: We'll never be truly free until there's a Hamilton documentary on public TV. To that end, then, PBS announced on Monday that it would premiere a Hamilt…
How does a Berklee hotshot halfway to an EGOT end up playing keyboards on a tribute to a melting pot, spend half a decade working to eliminate its weak spots, and find himself sitting at the…
NBC can't stop the beat, even if it wanted to: Fresh off the widespread acclaim for its version of The Wiz, the network announced at the TCA tour on Wednesday that its next prime-time theate…
Tonya Pinkins has left the Off Broadway production of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, currently in previews, saying the production had "neutered" her character "…
How does a Nuyorican Genius who sells out arenas with his keenness end up writing music for intergalactic cantinas? J.J. Abrams told the story on Tonight: The director was seeing Hamilton wi…
On Monday, Daniel Radcliffe appeared on Marc Maron's "WTF" podcast to talk about the magical curse that continues to haunt his life: the unbreakable hex Aspecto Lignum, which makes e…
On Tuesday, Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch, Old Harrovian and son of Tim and Wanda, defied all rational limits and became somehow even more British when he was named a Commander of the…
Anna Kendrick " so versatile! Last week, the Pitch Perfect star popped up in a hilarious web series for Kate Spade; this week, she's starring in this "live action trailer" for the vi…
Andrew Lloyd Webber loved School of Rock so much that he bought the rights and turned it into a Broadway musical. That adaptation premieres December 6, but right now we've got the exclusive …
Lupita Nyong'o will be the latest Oscar winner to come to Broadway when her production of Eclipsed, a play by The Walking Dead's Danai Gurira, moves uptown from the Public Theater in Fe…
Bradley Cooper has played a sniper, a raccoon, a theater enthusiast, and a chef (twice!), but now he's about to face his greatest challenge yet: According to THR, Cooper is in final talks to…
Keira Knightley was making her Broadway debut in the first preview performance of Thérèse Raquin when she was interrupted by a man who began screaming at her in the middle of the s…
Look around, look around, at how lucky we are to be alive right now: Last night at the BET Hip-Hop Awards, Hamilton's Lin-Manuel Miranda, Renée-Elise Goldsberry, and Daveed Diggs did a …
After refusing to allow films about gay couples to open in theaters for years, Chinese censors this week approved the release of Wang Chao's Seek McCartney, a romance about a secret interrac…
In the confusing parlance of trailer language, the new Macbeth preview that debuted today is the "official U.S. trailer," even though Americans were perfectly capable of watching the…
As Tracking Board first reported and The Wrap confirmed, Jennifer Hudson is in talks to star in an Aretha Franklin biopic from Straight Outta Compton producer Scott Bernstein. The biopic, wh…
In a sign that fan-theory disease is even infecting creators now, Frozen's directors told Reddit last year that Anna and Elsa's parents survived that film's shipwreck and went on to give bir…
USC's Media, Diversity, and Social Change Initiative has released its latest report on diversity and representation in the film industry, and the results are as disappointing as they are pre…
Remember that limited-run TV series that saw a talented filmmaker reconstitute our image of a beloved star by casting them in the story of a detective investigating a mysterious string of vi…
"I was obsessed with Eminem," Daniel Radcliffe told Jimmy Fallon last year before showing off his rapping skills. "I think I was the first kid in my class to learn all the words …
Aaron Tveit will play Danny Zuko in Fox's upcoming live performance of Grease, the network announced Thursday. What's that, you say? Tell you more, tell you more? Well-ah, well-ah, well-ah: …
