Fargo Recap: La La Land
It's not common to see a show like Fargo do a standalone episode. Given what Noah Hawley crafted in the first two seasons, one has to believe that the flashback-heavy "Law of Non-Contradicti…
It's not common to see a show like Fargo do a standalone episode. Given what Noah Hawley crafted in the first two seasons, one has to believe that the flashback-heavy "Law of Non-Contradicti…
We guess, in some ways, Severus Snape always had to die. He was mischaracterized as the villain second only to Voldemort throughout the series, rather than the unknowingly heartbroken guardi…
After Hamilton dominated both the Tony nominations and winners last year, this year's race doesn't have a clear favorite. Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812, a musical riff on a …
It turns out Mike Pence's run-in with Hamilton won't be this year's most political moment on Broadway. Michael Moore, known for his documentaries and grim predictions about the Trump preside…
On Wednesday, beloved filmmaker Jonathan Demme died at 73. While Demme won an Oscar for directing Silence of Lambs, his subsequent film, Philadelphia, is regarded as some of his most groundb…
As each and every photograph from the experience proves, Barack Obama has enjoyed vacationing tremendously. So it should be easy enough to assume that Tom Hanks, beacon of affability that he…
The way Gideon Glick talks about acting makes it sound like being in a series of relationships. "In this business, you get attached to parts you audition for and don't get," explains the you…
Somehow, someone is going to upstage Cate Blanchett. The Australian film actress/recent Broadway star/Marvel goddess/drag queen/performance artist has signed on to star in a new London stage…
Yes, just to get this out of the way in advance: La La Land director Damien Chazelle's new TV show The Eddy is going to be a musical. And yes, it's going to be set in a club, which happens t…
Covering the walls at every booth of Elisabeth Moss's favorite place, Café Fiorello, across the street from Lincoln Center, are brass plaques bearing the names of devoted regulars: Ka…
As Netflix and Amazon have gotten into the movie game more or less simultaneously, they've taken two very different approaches. Amazon partners with theatrical distributors to put its films …
In order to explain what's good about Bandstand, a serious-minded original musical opening on Broadway tonight, it helps to know what's bad about some of its predecessors on the Boulevard of…
The world of Cars is full of cars, which is strange because cars are designed to be used by humans. This fact may not bother the children watching the successful series of Pixar movies, but …
When it debuted in 1990, John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation played like a satire of liberal values after the hugely disruptive confusions of a decade of Reaganism. The married couple at …
Good news for Aquaman: Disney released its updated schedule of opening weekends for its next 15 blockbusters, and the water-loving superhero won't have to compete with a Star Wars movie. Epi…
As Jon Favreau continues work on his next sashay through the Disney vault with the live-action revival of The Lion King, it looks like the director might be joined by two very funny people. …
Back when Hamilton was just rap musical about the founding fathers that nobody knew what to think about, Andrea Martin got Lin-Manuel Miranda to write a rap just for her, or rather for Edith…
Many a Broadway musical adaptation seems like an Ikea product you're supposed to admire just because someone was able to assemble it. Anastasia, opening tonight at the Broadhurst, is that ki…
Last September, Jon Favreau signed on to direct a "reimagining" of The Lion King. For Favreau, who already has Iron Man and most recently The Jungle Book under his belt, adaptations are beco…
Though often described as confections, musical comedies have no known recipe. If they did, a show like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which opened on Broadway tonight, ought to have been…
Pre-production publicity for Annie Baker's The Antipodes, which opens tonight at the Signature, revealed only that it is "a play about people telling stories about telling stories." That tur…
It's the same thing every year " Broadway shows begin opening left and right to become eligible for the year's Tony Awards, ushering in a new wave of talent hopeful to be recognized by the t…
In our current political climate, many people have looked forward to this month's premiere of The Handmaid's Tale, which stars Elisabeth Moss as a forced reproductive concubine living in a m…
The show curtain now in use at the Shubert Theatre, where the ecstatic revival of Hello, Dolly! starring Bette Midler opens tonight, may be the reddest red-red I've ever seen. The beaded gow…
Chris Evans is putting all the other Hollywood Chrises on watch. The Second Stage Theatre announced today that Evans will make his Broadway debut in awards-season grump (and Oscar winner) Ke…