Hey, you. Yes, you! You know anyone going into the law profession? Like, human rights, environmental, immigration, a small-time firm in Albuquerque? Do 'em a solid and make them watch the vi…
This article was originally published on October 31, 2011. It has been updated.The last year without a new "Treehouse of Horror" episode of The Simpsons was 1989, when Pet Sematary, Puppet M…
Plot Points in Our Sexual Development and India Pale Ale are teaching plays. They'd like us to leave the theater broader-minded than when we entered it, our ears and hearts more open to stor…
Spoilers for A Star Is Born's romantic climax follow.After a bender in Memphis, Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) and Ally Campana (Lady Gaga) spend time at his friend Noodles's (Dave Chappelle…
You won't be able to see Rami Malek's turn as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody until the movie arrives in theaters next week. But if you've seen the trailers you've seen the very specifi…
A Star Is Born is a movie you can't help but want to take another look at. As is perhaps proven by the film's strong box-office hold, Bradley Cooper's musical melodrama has been attracting d…
Writer-director hyphenates are ubiquitous in comedy today, but it was virtually unheard of during the studio film era until a popular playwright named Preston Sturges convinced Paramount to …
It's been a year since the #MeToo movement began, and conversations around abuse and power in the entertainment industry are fundamentally different. But has anything actually improved in Ho…
So audiences may not have flocked to theaters in droves to check out First Man, but if you haven't you should (in IMAX if you can swing it). The story of Neil Armstrong and the first Moon la…
Butt song, snubbed! Warner Bros. has announced who and what will be competing for Oscars on behalf of a A Star Is Born. Everything shakes out as expected " Bradley Cooper for best director, …
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…
We may as well start with the goose. By the time one of the more than 20 actors in Jez Butterworth's boisterous behemoth of a new play, The Ferryman, enters with a fat live goose under his a…
When you saw A Star Is Born, what did you think of Ally's pop hit "Why Did You Do That?" Did you thrill at the line "Why'd you come around me with an ass like that?" or did you, like Bradley…
Take a look at this news! It's passing in-between us. For those who weren't lucky enough to catch David Byrne's current (and excellent) American Utopia tour over the past few months " which …
In his first public acknowledgement of his breakup with Ariana Grande, Pete Davidson joked about some of his permanent body art. During his comedy set in Los Angeles at Judd and Pete for Ame…
You know our bitch is gonna work for her $500,000 per show payday! Britney Spears, whose new Las Vegas residency Domination will launch at the Park Theater at Park MGM in February, will appa…
Boo! Halloween greetings from the scariest place of all: Rebecca's past. This spooky, silly outing was a fun departure that reminded me of the show's first season, when there was more time f…
About halfway through The Lifespan of a Fact, Daniel Radcliffe's overeager, Harvard-educated magazine fact-checker is shooed away while his editor (Cherry Jones) sits in a living room poring…
The woman sitting next to me at the Daryl Roth Theatre leaned toward her daughter and pointed surreptitiously. "Look over there, there, with the red hair. Do you see her? That's her. That's …
Welcome to the riff-heavy, tearful, so '90s it's basically just Whitney portion of the Star Is Born soundtrack. After Lady Gaga's wail from "Shallow" catapulted A Star Is Born's trailer into…
Ahead of making his Broadway debut with his one-man show The New One next month, Mike Birbiglia stopped by last night's Jimmy Kimmel Live in Brooklyn to chat with Kimmel about everything fro…
"There is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization." "Werner Herzog"Look, Americans a…
Joan of Arc and I have an "it's complicated" relationship. I get the magnetism that keeps theater folk coming back to her, but I think she belongs in the same box, strangely, as Macbeth " th…
Janet McTeer is currently everywhere: on Broadway, on Netflix, and even on Facebook. "You can't miss me," she laughs. "Turn around and you'll see me somewhere." An English actor known for he…
In the three days since Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson broke up, ending their quickie engagement, she's reportedly given back the ring, he's canceled a comedy show, and now Ari's quitting s…