John Mulaney and Nick Kroll are returning to host the Independent Spirit Awards this weekend, and don't worry, their success last year has made them extremely complacent. Kroll and Mulaney d…
Barbra Streisand hasn't directed a feature-length film since 1996's The Mirror Has Two Faces, but not for lack of trying. In an interview with Variety, Streisand discussed the various direct…
There's no one more deserving of due process than Harvey Weinstein, according to Uma Thurman. The Parisian Woman star was a guest on Late Night With Seth Meyers Monday night, and spoke about…
"I don't want to be tolerated. I want to be respected."So says Azeem Bhatti, the angry, suffering man at the center of Hammaad Chaudry's potent An Ordinary Muslim, under the assured directio…
I wrote recently of the blight of mediocre, self-congratulatory, hungry-for-relevance plays on the current theatrical landscape, so it was with some apprehension that I approached JC Lee's n…
On Monday, L.A.'s Geffen Playhouse cancelled a production of Neil LaBute's "Fat Pig" and announced the upcoming summer world premiere of "Our Very Own Carlin McCullough," a new play by Amand…
Sir Shaw! Our Lady Bird goddess divine will be attending her third Oscars next weekend, which has her doing a little reminiscing about the very first time she attended the ceremony back in 2…
In 2011, legendary Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno was dismissed from his position after it emerged that his former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky had been sexually abusing b…
David Mamet has, for some reason, decided to add in his own perspective on the Harvey Weinstein story. In an interview with the Chicago Tribute, the playwright, who recently published a crim…
NBC's Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert has found its Judas and he's a [pauses to reach for a high note] gooood choice. Brandon Victor Dixon, who recently played Aaron Burr as a replace…
Though she's currently nominated for an Oscar playing a 21st-century American teen in Lady Bird, Saoirse Ronan really built her career on playing melancholy women in period clothing, and dog…
There's a small play playing on Signature Theatre's largest stage.Well, in some ways it's small. In reputation, it's big. Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo (that's the legally mandated title…
Lupita Nyong'o is set to star in movie based on Trevor Noah's autobiography Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood. According to Deadline, the Oscar-winning actress will play t…
I didn't watch Fergie's rendition of the national anthem when it aired live, for the same reason I didn't watch it when the clip of it first started circulating " I have heard the national a…
Greg may have disappeared from West Covina, but he's popping up again in Yonkers. Santino Fontana, known for his work on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, is stepping into Broadway's Hello, Dolly! for a …
What makes us think that a play like Sarah Burgess's Kings " now at the Public under the direction of Thomas "I directed Hamilton, maybe you've heard of it" Kail " is necessary? Is it the ag…
Over three seasons and dozens of songs, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has covered nearly every topic and musical genre imaginable, fearlessly mocking everything from hip-hop to punk-pop, on subjects b…
Years before they made their names on television, Gillian Jacobs and Aya Cash would run into each other at the same auditions with the same group of people. "We were in a lot of waiting…
Harvey Fierstein's landmark play is returning to the Broadway theater where it was first performed nearly four decades ago. After a successful run of performances last fall, the Second Stage…
Though it may have burnt out on Broadway in the wake of a casting controversy last September, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 will soon reappear overseas. The boundary-pushing …
Is God Is. The title of Aleshea Harris's play is cyclical: a question, followed by an answer, followed by a question. Doubt, certainty, doubt again. The play has cycles built into its DNA: i…
If you're going to paint yourself into a corner, you might as well use the broadest brush available, and splatter the viewer while you're at it. This was the operative philosophy of Crazy Ex…
In November, Rachel Bloom, the co-creator and star of the CW's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, had trouble breathing during the table read for the final episode of the show's third season. By the time …
"What a queen!" exclaimed Aline Brosh McKenna, the co-creator of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and director of the show's season-three finale, as she gazed at Donna Lynne Champlin, dressed in silk chi…
There are fans of curling, the Winter Olympics most calming and misunderstood sport, everywhere, and one of them happens to be Brian Tyree Henry. At a press event for Lobby Hero, the Broadwa…