Over in West Covina, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is reimagining the character of Greg as Skylar Astin, while over on Broadway, the old Greg, Santino Fontana, will be reimagining himself as a woman. …
You may have seen or heard him patter along as Evan Hansen's friend of convenience Jared in Dear Evan Hansen, but sidekick isn't the only role for actor Will Roland. This summer, Roland is s…
As you already know if you follow Cher on Twitter (if you don't, why deprive yourself like this?), she's been hinting at an ABBA music project in the lead up to the release of Mamma Mia! Her…
Soon, Broadway will once again be blessed with the presence of a yelling Bryan Cranston. The producers of the National Theatre's stage adaptation of Paddy Chayefsky's movie Network, directed…
This weekend, Slender Man opens in theaters after a long and winding road to the box office (including multiple release-date changes and a mostly absent marketing campaign). The central stor…
The signs, a crucial element of any anti-Trump protest, had a Broadway theme at Monday's White House protest."Book of Moron," said one, which melded the The Art of the Deal's book jacket and…
If we as a society are ever going to find out a conclusive answer to the question "Who shot Biggie Smalls?," it's starting to look like Johnny Depp won't be the source of that long sought af…
When Crazy Ex-Girlfriend returns for its final season on October 12, the beloved character of Greg will finally be back in West Covina " but he won't be played by actor Santino Fontana,…
Following the death of model and actor "Zombie Boy" Rick Genest, Lady Gaga took to Twitter to mourn the passing of her "Born This Way" co-star, whose ornate skeleton tattoos she replicated f…
A funny thing happened to Sir Ian McKellen on the way to the theatre today: he fell trying to catch a train and hurt his leg. (This is funny only because it means even Sir Ian McKellen takes…
There's no telling what the political effectiveness will be, but in terms of driving President Trump completely up the wall, there are few protest ideas more powerful than Rosie O'Donnell si…
Hot off the success of her production of Avenue Q, Madeline Martha Mackenzie has gotten involved in a new bit of outrageous theater. In a photo from the set of Big Little Lies, we can see Re…
There are over 130 bios in the Playbill for Kwame Kwei-Armah and Shaina Taub's musical adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, now receiving a revival at the Public's Central Park home, t…
Kristen Bell is the Platonic ideal of the adult theater kid " lively, bubbling with personality, able to conjure enthusiasm for anyone or anything " and her biggest roles have usually requir…
Like a cool teen with no curfew, Harvey Weinstein has been spending a lot of time at his local movie theater lately. As the ex-Weinstein Company boss awaits trial on six charges of sexual as…
At the end of the first act of Marcus Gardley's The House That Will Not Stand, an angry mother stands center stage, a mounting storm whipping at the windows of her home as she rails against …
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall in the elevator where Jeff Whitty, best known for a musical about the neuroses of New York Muppets, originally pitched the idea for Head Over Heels: "It's …
If you're one of those people who grew up terrified you'd contract Ebola in a movie theater because you watched Outbreak, then news of National Geographic's new series The Hot Zone should op…
I bought a cookie at the intermission of This Ain't No Disco. Weirdly, I needed the sugar. For all the insistent, glitter-ball-bedecked, in-your-face-sleazy-sexy exuberance of the new rock o…
Lights, camera, action, dance! In your latest A-listers-on-TV news from The Hollywood Reporter, Michelle Williams and Sam Rockwell are set to star as the titular characters in Fosse/Ve…
A few days ago, the Times published an extensive profile of Young Jean Lee in anticipation of Second Stage's revival of her 2014 play Straight White Men, which marks"in that equally exciting…
On Sunday, America's sweetest dad Lin-Manuel Miranda took his unflagging optimism to the next level, touching down in a Puerto Rico still struggling to recover from Hurricane Maria and annou…
At a raucous engagement at San Diego's Horton Grand Theatre Saturday, the comedy troupe Broken Lizard used San Diego Comic-Con to basically take its victory lap, basking in the unlikely fina…
Jessie was never supposed to make it through the first season of Breaking Bad, but Vince Gilligan so loved Aaron Paul's performance that he decided to keep him around for the long haul. At t…
To judge by its trailer alone, Assassination Nation (which hits theaters Sept. 21) promises to a jolt of uncut Teensploitation. The ultra-violent, darkly satiric horror-thriller is plotted a…