With the Walt Disney Company's announcement Thursday that it had reached a megadeal to buy most of the assets of 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion (plus another $13.7 billion in assumed deb…
Those lucky enough to live in New York right now have the chance to sample two very different, eye-catching Tony Shalhoub performances. In Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, he plays Abe We…
The collision of universes is a common trope in superhero fiction. Time and again, comic books have presented stories in which a group of characters from one version of Earth merge into a di…
Adam Driver, who's been on Broadway twice before (three times, if you count the time his character from Girls did Major Barbara), is coming back to the stage in 2019. In a change of pace fro…
The Walt Disney Co. has announced that it is acquiring most of 21st Century Fox in a deal worth $52.4 billion. The deal has been in the works for weeks, and includes Fox's film and TV s…
My childhood had many endings " witnessing my father's abuse of my mother, which I remember better than the sound of his voice; the swift personality shift within my mother that I only later…
In a development strategy roughly defined as "be as camp as possible," the Universal theater group is working on a stage musical adaptation of Death Becomes Her with Kristin Chenoweth in the…
Get ready, Broadway because here the Temptation biographical-musical comes. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. announced on Tuesday that Ain't Too Proud"T…
"How are the children?" shouts a woman standing in a spare, roughly furnished cottage kitchen at the start of Lucy Kirkwood's potent, aching new play. The woman is still, serious " there's a…
In 1964 in Paris, the 25-year-old Ariane Mnouchkine did what countless young theater artists, fresh out of school and full of ideas and ambition, set out to do: She founded a company with so…
Outside Circle in the Square, the winter winds are starting to snap. But inside a different wind is blowing " literally. In Michael Arden's vivid, celebratory revival of Lynn Ahrens and Step…
Rebecca has had a very rough year, but let's not underrate what's happened to Paula. She unexpectedly got pregnant and had an abortion. Her husband cheated on her. Her new boss is a huge jer…
For the small slice of the American population that participated in high-school musicals, and the even smaller sliver that is actually proud of that experience, listen up: ABC is airing a de…
An actress from the 1984, Dustin Hoffman"starring Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman has accused Hoffman of sexual harassment. In a first-person essay for The Hollywood Reporter, K…
If 2016 was the frying pan, 2017 has frequently felt like the fire. In this year of daily shifts, shocks, and sucker punches, I went from being an opinionated director to being a critic, and…
Earlier this week Gabriel Byrne said production on The Usual Suspects was briefly suspended because of Kevin Spacey's misconduct. Not true, director Bryan Singer told TMZ Thursday. Singer sa…
Star Wars: The Last Jedi hits theaters next week, and the press tour is already at full throttle. The cast " including Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega, and Mark Hamill " are…
Titanic, which is back in theaters now in honor of its 20th anniversary, is a perfectly good movie, but a little too sad. That's the conclusion my friend Alanna and I came to one evening thi…
"Tonya Harding my star, this world is a cold one, but it takes one to know one." That is how Sufjan Stevens opens his new song, "Tonya Harding," which is a tribute to the woman he calls "Ame…
Watching the deliberate, origami-like unfolding of Rajiv Joseph's dense and fascinating new play Describe the Night, directed by Giovanna Sardelli at Atlantic Theater Company, I found myself…
Last month at Vulture Festival Los Angeles, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's Donna Lynne Champlin (Paula Proctor) got a standing O when we premiered her upcoming solo number, "First Penis I Saw," from …
Be sure to set out a glass of milk and a print-out of any emails containing evidence of collusion with the Russians this year: Robert Mueller is going to shimmy down all of our chimneys this…
"When are you going to learn, SpongeBob? The world is a horrible place filled with fear, suffering and despair… Also dashed hopes, shattered dreams, broken promises and abject misery."So s…
In the wake of multiple sexual assault accusations and allegations of workplace sexual harassment, colleagues of Kevin Spacey can't be blamed for looking back at their professional interacti…
House of Cards will resume production early next year on a shortened Kevin Spacey"less season, Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos announced Monday. Speaking at the UBS Global Media and Commu…