Are you able to deal with a hot Jafar? Disney has cast Dutch-Tunisian actor Marwan Kenzari as the evil vizier Jafar in its live-action adaptation of Aladdin, which has Mena Massoud in the ti…
R. Kelly is set to play Georgia's Wolf Creek Amphitheater on August 25, but if local government gets its way, he'll have nowhere to perform. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Fu…
After Bruce Norris's A Parallelogram at Second Stage Theater, I stood outside and cried on the sidewalk.Okay, so it had been a long day, but I would be lying if I said that the restless, dis…
In the season-two finale of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Rachel Bloom's hyperactively imaginative heroine, Rebecca Bunch, was jilted at the altar. The third season will pick up from there with a "fu…
In addition to his accomplishments as a playwright and actor, the late Sam Shepard was a devoted typewriter aficionado. In a clip from the upcoming film California Typewriter, which collects…
Whoever thought to partner up Billy Eichner with Metallica for the upcoming season of Apple Music's Carpool Karaoke is working the job he or she was meant to have. The spinoff of Corden's po…
When everyone returns to Camp Firewood in Wet Hot American Summer: 10 Years Later, Ben is in a very different place. No, not just because he and McKinley have a baby, or because their babysi…
On Monday, Anthony Scaramucci's whirlwind 11-day stint as the White House communications director came to an abrupt end. Along with losing his job, the New York financier's wife&nb…
Last Thursday, we lost an artist as mythic in stature as the great tall tale heroes of the Old West. Sam Shepard " playwright, actor, Pulitzer Prize"winner, musician, and rancher, to name ju…
When I was a kid, I had a friend who loved icing but hated cake. At her birthday parties, I would sit at the table with a bunch of other slightly uncomfortable elementary school girls, while…
Do you want to build a Broadway musical? Let this first look at Disney's stage adaptation of Frozen tell you how. Before going to the St. James Theatre in New York next spring, the musical w…
Sam Shepard, the actor and playwright known for The Right Stuff and Buried Child, died Thursday due to complications from Lou Gehrig's disease, Broadway World reports. He was 73.A prolific p…
Kesha may be in the midst of a thrilling creative comeback, but her legal battle with her former producer and alleged abuser Dr. Luke continues on. On Saturday, Dr. Luke officially subpoenae…
The plastics are coming to D.C., and not just because Trump is rolling back environmental protections. The musical adaptation of Mean Girls, with a book by Tina Fey, music by her husband Jef…
Douglas firs, roaring waterfalls, piping hot coffee, and offbeat characters helped to establish Twin Peaks as a physical place in the American television viewer's consciousness when the seri…
So far, Justin Bieber hasn't gotten the relaxation he craved after canceling the rest of his Purpose World Tour to ride bikes and maybe reconvene with God. While leaving a City Church event …
If the name Britney Young doesn't quite ring a bell yet (no, not that Britney Young " more on that later), maybe the name of her kindhearted character on Netflix's GLOW will. Carmen Wade, kn…
The term "magic spy" might conjure the image of a whimsical Harry Potter-infused James Bond, but in reality the phrase adds up to good ol' fashioned industrial espionage. According to the Ne…
The Big Story:This weekend, every black auntie you know converged upon their local movie theater to see the Malcolm D. Lee comedy Girls Trip. The Essence Festival"set bacchanalia about a fou…
Kevin Spacey has come out to Italy to shoot a Netflix biopic about author and public intellectual Gore Vidal. According to Variety, The Last Station's Michael Hoffman is directing the film, …
While organizing his personal archives, former Walt Disney imagineer Tom K. Morris stumbled upon a note scrawled on Mickey Mouse letterhead. The list, which reads like a bar's '80s-night pla…
NBC found success in recent years with the unexpectedly charming, undeniably wholesome The Wiz Live! and Hairspray Live! The natural next step? A live televised version of the Aaron Sorkin s…
The former voice of Kermit the Frog, Steve Whitmire, is moving beyond his personal blog and discussing his recent firing with The Hollywood Reporter. According to a new interview, the voice …
A little over a third of the way into the modestly dressed, disarmingly brilliant production of Hamlet now playing at the Public, Oscar Isaac as the iconic prince turns to us before one of h…
Emily Blunt is Mary Poppins in the upcoming sequel, #MaryPoppinsReturns. The brand new film opens in theatres December 2018. #D23Expo pic.twitter.com/egxozrpRbr" Walt Disney Studios (@Disney…