Summertime and the living is " well, not easy, but at least movie theaters are air-conditioned. From intergalactic bad boys to Silver Lake"set neo-noirs, Vulture has the rundown on all the s…
"As a system, art fairs are like America: They're broken and no one knows how to fix them. Like America, they also benefit those at very top more than anyone else, and this gap is only growi…
Consider us humbled by Ariana Grande. The "Dangerous Woman" singer proved once again that's she's a master impressionist on The Tonight Show. During Jimmy Fallon's "Music Genre Challenge," G…
A pair of very talented (and very handsome!) men are coming together to bring Leonard Bernstein's life story to the big screen. It was announced today that Jake Gyllenhaal will star in the B…
You may know her from TV, but as of this morning, Tina Fey is a Tony nominee for writing the book of the Mean Girls musical, and therefore a theater person. This Friday, Fey will appear on D…
Hurston trained as a cultural anthropologist, and Barracoon, which languished in her archives for decades and is only now being published, is the result of months of interviews with Cudjo Le…
The cutest thing about this morning's Tony nominations was Katharine McPhee's steadily increasing inability to pronounce the words "SpongeBob SquarePants." She had to say them a lot " the Sp…
It's the best day ever for big musical adaptations, as SpongeBob and Mean Girls led the Tony nominations this morning, with 12 nominations apiece, with The Band's Visit close behind with 11.…
Soon you will be able to see Carey Mulligan in New York, and later listen to Carey Mulligan if you don't have the chance to be there in person. Audible, which previously produced Billy Crudu…
Kanye West released two songs over the weekend. Both were terrible, albeit in different ways. Friday evening witnessed the arrival of "Lift Yourself," where the artist responded to rap radio…
This past weekend at the box office was particularly gay. Love, Simon was still playing at theaters across America, and it was joined by Disobedience " which tells the story of two women fin…
If there were an awards show for awards shows, the Tonys would probably take the prize for the most rules (and then probably do something like read a sonnet about love in their acceptance sp…
The King Kong musical would like to introduce the story of a woman and a giant ape, and a woman and a giant ape, and a woman and a giant ape. To promote the larger-than-life musical, coming …
Some spoilers below for Duck Butter.What if, instead of wasting days or months or years of your life wondering whether somebody was The Right Person, you condensed an entire romantic relatio…
The annual CinemaCon is underway in Las Vegas right now, and attendees at the official convention of the National Association of Theater Owners are getting all kinds of treats not yet availa…
The revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh"now at the Bernard B. Jacobs under the direction of George C. Wolfe and strapped with heavy starpower in Denzel Washington"is the kind of pr…
On Wednesday Kanye West reaffirmed his love for Donald Trump and shared multiple pictures on Twitter of an autographed Make America Great Again hat. This came a couple days after he tweeted …
What is it that keeps artists coming back to the story of Joan of Arc, and why do they keep making a royal mess of it? The material is certainly captivating: Lone young woman"champion of fai…
In 2008, Nathan Lane introduced a young comedian with a funny name (well, a funny last name; his first name is Mike) and his one-person show to the New York theater world. Today, ten years a…
Before debuting the first trailer for A Star Is Born " Bradley Cooper's first outing as a director, screenwriter and singer " during the Warner Bros. panel at Las Vegas's CinemaCon on Tuesda…
It's no secret that NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt would love to recreate some of the network's past television magic, even publicly pushing for reboots of beloved series like The…
"It was a great party," reminisces one of Summer: The Donna Summer Musical's three avatars for its central singer, near the end of its speedy 100 minutes. "And I wasn't just at the party""he…
"My geekness is a-quiverin'!" a teenage wizard named Scorpius yelps in excitement somewhere around hour five. He's not the only one. If you've ever wanted to experience the feeling of 1,626 …
To be a fly on that wall! Or preferably just a normal human being, as J.K. Rowling and Jessica Williams don't seem like the type to hang out in a lot of fly-infested theaters. While attendin…
Lady Gaga is starring in Bradley Cooper's A Star Is Born remake, and the singer had one key request: All of the singing should be done live. In a conversation with Robert De Niro at the Trib…