Paramount's upcoming "Mean Girls" movie musical has set its main cast " and it's so fetch. Reneé Rapp, Angourie Rice, Jaquel Spivey and Auli'i Cravalho will star in the film, based on the T…
Jon M. Chu's "Wicked" films have found a few more citizens of the Emerald City, filling out the already star-studded cast. Marissa Bode will make her feature film debut as Nessarose, Elp…
It may be easy to take for granted that Audra McDonald, with six Tony Awards to her name, is capable of performances that creep delicately into your psyche and rattle around there as if clea…
You don't get more American than descending from one of the witches burned at the stake in Salem, Mass. Unless, that is, you're also an opioid addict in that same town during the Trump years…
Hugh Jackman said there were two times in his life when he saw a performance that was so good it actually made him depressed. The first was when he watched Michael Gambon in "The Singing Det…
In a moment of crisis, the leaders of talent agency APA were not about to let opportunity pass them by. The dramatic changes that have swept across the content business and Hollywood's c…
When Nickelodeon revived its popular kids series "Blue's Clues" in 2019, the show found its new host on Broadway. Josh Dela Cruz was doing eight shows a week in "Aladdin" when he won the par…
The entirely beguiling lightness of touch is remarkable. Staging the startlingly prescient, gender-swapping, time-traveling 1928 novel "Orlando," a lesser creative team would have gone to…
If you are looking to draw an audience into what seems like a typical biographical jukebox musical, starting and ending your drama in psychoanalysis is a great device. Then again, "A Beautif…
The question at the heart of "Ain't No Mo'," the incendiary and incisive new comedy that opened on Broadway on Dec. 1, is riotously and fruitfully absurd. Consider it a gleeful reframing of …
"Once Upon a One More Time," a musical powered by the discography of Britney Spears, is coming to Broadway in 2023. The show will begin previews at Broadway's Marquis Theatre ahead of openin…
It's a few days after the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony when we find Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo holed up in the green room of a Beverly Hills performing arts center, talkin…
Broadway darling Aaron Tveit is returning to Broadway in January, reprising his Tony-winning role as Christian in "Moulin Rouge! The Musical." But don't get too excited, chickens. Tveit's ho…
The nearly hundred-year-old source material for "Lady Chatterley's Lover" once roused calls for censorship worldwide. DH Lawrence's novel, and now the new film (in theaters and streaming on …
As defined by boy bands like BTS and girl groups like Blackpink, K-pop " gayo " is a Korean musical genre ('brand' is better) where Instiz all-kills (chart domination) is essenti…
Nicole Kidman received a warm welcome on Broadway Saturday evening when she made a surprise appearance at a performance of Hugh Jackman's "The Music Man" revival. During an auction for the c…
Agatha Christie's landmark thriller "The Mousetrap" is the longest-running play in the world, yet it's never been staged on the Great White Way. That's about to change as the show " which tu…
A new stage adaptation of "A Little Life," one of the most heartrending stories of modern literature, is finally coming to the West End, with starring roles for James Norton and "It's a Sin"…
The announcement of a London stage musical titled "Berlusconi," depicting the turbulent life of Silvio Berlusconi through a feminist prism and produced by British "Fleabag" producer Francesc…
The new Museum of Broadway, which opened recently in Manhattan's theater district, has a list of producer credits just like it's a Broadway show. At the top of the list are co-founders Julie…
"Marley was dead, to begin with." That opening line always gives me the chills, and never more so than in this one-man (plus spooky specter) show featuring that consummate artist of many voi…
When playwright Danny Robins wrote "2:22 A Ghost Story," he thought he chose the titular number at random. "I wanted something that had a ring to it," he reveals. But when actor Tom Felton (…
Shakespeare's Juliet singing Britney Spears' "Oops…I Did It Again" is certainly a surprising and unexpected juxtaposition. While there is every reason to be skeptical of a Shakespearea…
The use of the word "fuck" as a statement occurs approximately 62 times in Will Arbery's new play, "Evanston Salt Costs Climbing," and "Haha" or "Hahahaha" appears approximately 34 times, so…
It's time to retire those "Glee" covers of "Don't Rain on My Parade" and "People." Lea Michele and the company of Broadway's "Funny Girl" revival have recorded a cast album. Michele made the…