The last half-hour or so of War Paint, the beguiling but frustrating new musical about beauty legends Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden, is just about everything you could want from a Br…
The annual MCC Theater Miscast Gala does two things: Raise money, and more importantly, add fuel to your musical-theater YouTube wormholes. Each year, the gala lets talented people who can s…
The best part of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is about to become a bigger part of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. David Hull, who plays the wonderful, if judgmental, White Josh " WhiJo to those of us who know a…
Noël Coward described his 1939 romp Present Laughter as "a series of semiautobiographical pyrotechnics" " merely "semi," presumably, because the main character, Garry Essendine, though …
It's okay if you missed your chance (or just couldn't afford) tickets to the first weekend (April 14-16) at Coachella: YouTube has you covered. According to Billboard, the website has receiv…
This weekend The Assignment hits theaters. You may know it by its previous title, (re)Assignment, which references the movie's premise: Michelle Rodriguez plays a hit man named Frank who, af…
To my knowledge, Zeno's paradox has never been recruited as a plot point and thematic touchstone in a Broadway musical before Amélie, the wistful new show starring Phillipa Soo that o…
Is Jeff Sessions a little monster? Once upon a time, the attorney general used a Lady Gaga quote to argue against medical marijuana. "This drug is dangerous, you cannot play with it, it's no…
Farce is not an acquired taste; even babies laugh at pratfalls. Rather, farce is the taste you fail to grow out of " and thank God, because sometimes only the stupidest fun will do. If this …
There's something about our time that doesn't favor expressionism, especially in mainstream theater. The distortion of perspective and the inflation of emotional state that we may enjoy in p…
If you recently walked through Times Square and saw a woman in a beanie singing about pie, that may have been Sara Bareilles " though given how much happens in Times Square, it could certain…
As the great poet Nelly once rapped, "It's getting hot in herre." So overheated is Calvin Harris's new song with Ariana Grande, Young Thug, and Pharrell that they had the foresight to title …
When you sit down with Mystery Science Theater 3000 creator Joel Hodgson and the show's new host Jonah Ray, you feel like you're in the presence of a comfortable buddy duo. Although the two …
Man, if this works out, we certainly won't need to worry about dubbing. Jon Favreau is heading up Disney's live-action (ahem, CGI) remake of The Lion King, and, according to Variety, he has …
Contrary to what a panel audience might have observed, Aaron Sorkin promises that he has known about Hollywood's diversity problem for quite some time. After the famous West Wing scribe spok…
Pharrell Williams might have been nominated by the Academy for Hidden Figures this year, but his new project seems like a combo of two other Oscar contenders. Take the musical romance of La …
When a play's title is Latin History for Morons, you may not want to be one of the title characters. Nevertheless, that's what you are in John Leguizamo's new stand-up-act-posing-as-a-theate…
Sometimes you see a photo and just shout "Canada!" This happens a lot with Justin Trudeau, but occasionally with other things: beautiful maple syrup, a particularly polite moose, and now, la…
A spring theater preview mostly means a spring Broadway preview, since April is the month in which many of the year's biggest-ticket shows rush the end zone. (To be eligible for this season'…
Donald Trump's prolific Twitter account has long been a source of entertainment, irony, and symbolism for humanity's impending doom. And in 2010, all three of those qualities came neatly wra…
After a run of not-so comedic episodes " unless you count the performance by The Michaels Sisters, which I found too painful to be straight funny " Girls returns to some more explicitly come…
Fade in on a boy, with a hunger for fame, and a face and coiffure to remember. On Sunday night's episode of Girls, Andrew Rannells's Elijah decided to chase his Broadway dreams by auditionin…
Big Little Lies has never shied away from the the more, ahem, corporeal aspects of humanity. We've witnessed cyber sex, shower sex, sex in a closet, sex in a car, sex in a theatre dressing r…
It's going to take a lot of walking-and-talking to wrap Aaron Sorkin's head around this one. The writer participated in a discussion at the Writers Guild Festival this weekend, where he was …
Fan theories have increasingly become an integral, compulsive facet of the way we enjoy art. Which, whatever rocks your robots' socks off, you do you, whatever. But if you don't want to terr…