After an already rollicking musical ride down Broadway lane during his appearance at Vulture Festival on Saturday, Tituss Burgess informed his packed audience they were in for a surprise. A …
Unlike the character he plays on TV, Tituss Burgess made his mark on Broadway a long time ago. His biggest break came in 2007, when he originated the role of Sebastian in Broadway's Little M…
David Lynch hasn't released a feature film since 2006's Inland Empire, a characteristically baffling movie that was only seen by Lynch enthusiasts, critics, and Laura Dern completists (which…
On November 4, 2015, David Hallberg posted a photograph of himself on Twitter, though the person in the photo did not much resemble the David Hallberg his thousands of followers knew. In the…
When reading War and Peace, Dave Malloy was struck with the way Leo Tolstoy's epic tells the story of "all of Russia," from princesses to troika drivers. So when Malloy decided to adapt a sl…
Soon, The Emoji Movie will arrive in theaters, just in time for you to ["see no evil" monkey face]. The [thinking face] film, which stars T.J. Miller, James Corden, and Sir Patrick Stewart (…
If Zac Efron had a sling on his arm, there would be a line of people down the block waiting to help him carry his books to his car. Which is just one of the many qualities that make him a fi…
Earlier today, reports came in that an unnamed, unreleased Disney movie had been stolen from the company by hackers. Company CEO Bob Iger informed ABC employees at a town hall style meeting …
It's that time again. The lineup for the super-sized improv and comedy gathering the Del Close Marathon has been announced, and from Friday June 23 through Sunday June 25 you'll be able to l…
This weekend, Guy Ritchie's King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, a big-budget retelling of the British legend, starring Charlie Hunnam and Jude Law and updated with Ritchie's signature zoom sho…
James Comey has, perhaps unsurprisingly, been laying low ever since he was fired from the FBI last week by President Trump. But the self-imposed short seclusion ended on Saturday afternoon, …
Fox will soon present to the world five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes of … something. The network has announced that the beloved production Rent will be getting the live…
Live musical scheduling is getting astoundingly literal. First Fox aired The Passion for Easter, then NBC decided to put on Jesus Christ Superstar Live! for the next Easter, and now Fox is s…
In 1983, Bette Gordon directed the chill, tantalizingly unresolved Variety, in which a young woman goes to work in the ticket booth of a hard-core porn theater and begins to see herself thro…
Unfortunately, Riverdale's season finale fails to match the winningly bizarre penultimate episode, given that it's more concerned with tying up loose ends and setting up future storylines th…
It turns out that Nazi torture-chamber interlude in "Sleepers Wake" wasn't just a memorable flirtation with the horror genre, but rather the vanguard of a chilling new status quo. "Waxing Gi…
Here's what's a-happening: Tyler Perry's The Passion may have brought Christian rock to live TV, but NBC's stepping it up with a live production of the 1971 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar…
Every month is blockbuster month at movie theaters these days, but that doesn't mean summer has lost its traditional spot as the natural home of the tentpoles. While the rest of the year see…
If you see Dimitri, the charming con artist and love interest of Fox's animated Anastasia, tell him to call me. That charming cartoon crook was my first crush. And now that we're on a journe…
Spoilers ahead for tonight's episode of American Gods.Every once in a while, a monologue comes along that seems destined to be recited by theater students and auditioning actors until the su…
If a star is born and Dave Chappelle isn't around to riff on it, was that star ever really born? The answer, quite simply, is no. Fortunately, according to The Hollywood Reporter, the Chappe…
If you need an intense amount of whimsy in the next few weeks, you better move fast: Amélie, A New Musical is scheduled to end its Broadway run on Sunday, May 21, after opening on Apr…
Tracy Letts is living out the ambitions of both of his parents. His mother, Billie, and his father, Dennis, were both English professors. Billie wrote novels in her spare time, penning the b…
Have you been watching The Handmaid's Tale and marveling that the emotions that travel across Elisabeth Moss's face always seem perfectly in sync with the voice-over of Offred's sometimes fu…
Harry Potter is crossing the pond. The producers of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which is currently in performances in London, have confirmed that the show will come to Broadway's Lyri…