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Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande are soooo in love. And they aren't going to let anyone forget it. Ariana smooched her fiancé during her Sweetener Sessions&nbs…
It is probably impossible for those theatergoers who didn't grow up with Neil Simon's plays to understand how big a deal he was in his prime, both to the theater and American pop culture. Th…
In 1991, on his tenth try, and after a theater career that had spanned thirty years and almost as many Broadway productions, Neil Simon finally won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He was rewar…
Bashing Neil Simon has been almost de rigueur for highbrow critics since the playwright had his first hits in the early sixties. But now that he's 82 [Editor's note: this story was originall…
We all like to complain about the heat and humidity of summer, but soon enough we'll be bundled up against the cold again, boots soaked in slush, huffing a half-empty bottle of sunscreen jus…
In his impressive career as a pop songwriter and producer, Savan Kotecha has helped craft some of the biggest radio hits of the last decade. The bulk of One Direction's discography, inc…
Laura Benanti, a gifted soprano stuck in an era of musicals full of belting, has long said she would love to play Eliza Doolittle, and now she finally will. The Tony winner will be joining t…
A quiet giant of American entertainment is gone.Those who followed the career of Craig Zadan, who died yesterday at 69 after complications from surgery, might raise an eyebrow at calling him…
When Sandra Oh was 21, her older sister spotted an ad in an alt-weekly looking for a young Asian actress. Oh, a student at the National Theatre School of Canada at the time, became fixated o…
In 1883's Thus Spake Zarathustra, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche famously declared, "God is dead," but even he would be grinding it out to Ariana Grande's "God Is a Woman" performance at Mo…
Cher, Hollywood dancing queen, told a haunting tale to an Atlantic City audience over the weekend. According to The Hollywood Reporter, during her concert, the 72-year-old singer reminisced …
We've all had a wild year, but Ariana Grande might've had the wildest. Since last spring, the Floridian singer with the outsize voice had her world rocked by a terror attack at her arena sho…
Onika Maraj woke up aggrieved on Sunday, after Travis Scott's Astroworld came in at #1 ahead of her new album Queen, and she took to Twitter to lay out an intricate web of criticisms leveled…
You don't have to be rich, to be my gi"ahem, sorry, you don't have to be rich to see Crazy Rich Asians in theaters, even if tickets in certain cities are reaching upwards of $18 at this poin…
About a year after the May 2017 terrorist attack at her Manchester concert claimed the lives of 22 people, Ariana Grande revealed she wasn't sure she'd ever perform again after the trauma sh…
Vulture hit the opening-night red carpet of Pretty Woman: The Musical (a simpler time, a tranquil time, with everyone in high spirits before the review bloodbath) and caught up wit…
It is by now not news that Ariana Grande has a brief song on Sweetener that is called "pete davidson" (lowercase hers), and is about " spoiler alert " her fiancé Pete Davidson. In the…
Ariana Grande, a singer who describes herself as "not a crush-y person," knew she was going to marry Pete Davidson after her episode of Saturday Night Live. She stepped out of the SNL writer…
While a few Ariana Grande fans complained that Aretha Franklin had inconveniently scheduled her death, the songstress herself took time to pay respect to the late Queen of Soul even on the e…
Ariana Grande's eagerly anticipated fourth studio album Sweetner has arrived, and it's got everything: lowercase titles, that Pete Davidson song, Missy Elliot, Pharrell, and Nicki Minaj. Gra…
As you approach the Nederlander Theatre, the marquee flashes a series of bold all-caps phrases: "BOLD WOMAN"FIERCE WOMAN"FUNNY WOMAN"SMART WOMAN," and finally, inevitably, the title: Pretty …
Now that she's got a little more free time on her hands, Keri Russell is doing what we all would do if we just had a few extra hours in the day: making her Broadway debut. The Americans star…
Even when made over into a stage musical, Pretty Woman retains many of the movie's most memorable scenes. There's the shopping spree on Rodeo Drive, the meet-cute between hot-shot businessma…
We've crunched the numbers, and can officially report the reason behind Ariana Grande and James Corden's Late Late Show "soundtrack" to Titanic was not for laughs, not for guaranteed viral s…
Before Gettin' the Band Back Together kicked off, the show's producer bounded down the aisle and up the steps to the stage to do a little hyping. He wanted to know how we were all doing that…
