84 stories by "karen Brill"
Barring Aaron Burr rising from the grave and tackling Lin-Manuel Miranda to the ground, Hamilton is going to sweep the Tony Awards this weekend. But that doesn't mean the cast is resting on …
The Tony Awards, which " plug!" James Corden is hosting, is a time for the masters of one of our most exacting arts to celebrate the meticulous professionalism of their craft. Carpool Karaok…
Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake, while at Cannes to hype Trolls, an inherently troll-able film, sang a lovely, exceedingly earnest rendition of Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors.&quo…
It's a juggernaut musical that follows two youthful friends (one is more image-conscious; one is loaded with raw talent) as circumstances bigger than them corrupt their mutual respect and ma…
Amidst the moping and dramatic pfft-ing in Shakespeare's Hamlet, the beautiful, kind, seemingly chill Ophelia loses her marbles over Hamlet, a 30-something man-child. It's a haunting ch…
Answering the question, "Is that a garter in your pocket, or are you really that happy to see Jimmy Fallon?," Jonathan Groff crowned Fallon on The Tonight Show yesterday. Groff is Ha…
After a career spent writing about people who make live television (Sports Night, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Newsroom), Aaron Sorkin is taking on the honored rite himself, writing an…
The West Wing is adored for its sonorously rhythmic dialogue, so it makes a sick kind of sense that combining the show's rat-a-tat banter with Hamilton's hip-hop broke a sound barrier, bring…
Finally, some Gilmore Girls revival news that isn't more crushing than your most wistful missed connection. Sutton Foster has finished filming her bits (she's playing a new character in two …