95 stories by "Tolly Wright"
True to the name of his memoir (and famous chart-topping single) Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen can't stop, won't stop in 2016. Following over eight months on the road performing epic, perso…
During Sunday night's Lip Sync Battle " when merman Michael Phelps wasn't attempting to prove that he can move outside of the water to Eminem's "Lose Yourself" " John Legend and St…
The songwriter behind Meat Loaf's massively successful 1977 rock opera Bat Out of Hell, Jim Steinman, is all revved up with a place to adapt his music for the stage. In honor of the album's …
Phil Collins was in the air (and on the stage) tonight during the U.S. Open's opening ceremonies. Though Collins has rarely performed in the past few years during his temporary retirement, h…
Perhaps mixing up her late-night hosts, Britney Spears appears to be Lip Sync Battling while James Corden croons in the teaser trailer for Thursday night's Carpool Karaoke. Although past not…
Barbra Streisand, the owner of two Oscars, 10 Grammys, Five Emmys, a Tony and a basement that is a goddamn mall (really), has a problem that many of us non-celebrated plebeians have encounte…
Character actor Philip "Fyvush" Finkel, whose acting career started over 80 years ago, is dead at 93, his son confirmed to the New York Times. Finkel is best known for his late-in-life …
Nobody puts Baby in a corner, that is unless decades have gone by and the actress who played the original Dirty Dancing's "Baby" chooses to be in that corner on her own volition. S…
After having a near-religious experience while recording "At the Ballet" with Anne Hathaway and Daisy Ridley, and channeling some Austrian nuns with Jamie Foxx for "Climb Ev'ry Mountain," Ba…
Donald Trump can't always get what he wants. After both Queen and The Rolling Stones spoke out last week against the Republican presidential nominee for using their songs without permission,…
James Corden took a break from singing in cars with celebrities (and the First Lady) to croon with Meghan Trainor live on stage. During Trainor's Friday night show at L.A.'s Greek Theater, t…
Ariana Grande's going to have to ditch that ponytail for some pigtails " she's joining the cast of NBC's Hairspray Live! The pop star and former Broadway performer announced the news on…
This November, the track of Smokey Robinson's tears will surely be one of joy when the Motown Legend receives the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the Library of Congress. The New York T…
Just weeks after the Broadway lights went off his Tony-nominated musical Bright Star, playwright (and famous actor/comedian/banjo player) Steve Martin is back, baby. With an all-star cast fe…
Anna Kendrick may be in six movies this year, but she's ready to add a Marvel franchise as well: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl. Always willing to display her acting range, Kendrick said in an…
Never one to let a holiday go without giving a gift, Lin-Manuel Miranda released a small taste of his song with Jennifer Lopez on July 4 on Twitter. The tune will benefit the Somos Orlando c…
Fans of the debunked legends surrounding Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia "or '90s animated musicals about it"are in luck: Out of the dark of the night, Anastasia has found it's …
After over two years on the Great White Way, Fun Home shuts its doors to visitors in September. Based on the graphic memoir of the same name by Alison Bechdel, the story was a far cry from t…
Remember the first season of Cheers? Well writer Erik Forrest Jackson certainly does. According to the The Hollywood Reporter, Jackson binge-watched the 22-episode first season of the long-r…
In the same year as the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, history had its eyes on the 70th annual Tony Awards. Between the casts of Hamilton and The Color Purple, black performers swept the musica…