Turning regular theater into political theater isn't just for Americans anymore. Canadian prime minister and all-around babe Justin Trudeau visited the Great White Way on Wednesday, taking i…
If you're a fan of big names on Broadway, this is quite the season for you, what with your Gyllenhaals, Blanchetts, and Fieldses making appearances on stages across the Great White Way. Tomo…
It's never easy being the second, third, or fourth person to try your hand at an iconic Broadway role, no matter how effortlessly and beautifully filmed your singing might be. It is, however…
Variety reports that Amazon Studios has purchased the U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to Annette, a musical drama from Holy Motors director Leos Carax with music from the band Sparks, …
For almost two decades, children have fallen in love with a chipper little sea sponge and his motley crew of underwater neighbors on Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants, and the show's creat…
The Playwrights Realm enjoyed a major success last year with The Wolves, a marvelous, eye-opening play by Sarah DeLappe that flipped the tropes of the men-in-sports genre to explore the live…
As the old cinematic folklore goes, numerous actors were once attached to Damien Chazelle's Oscar-confusing La La Land through the years before Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling ultimately starred…
Jordan Vogt-Roberts had a nice thing going. After cutting his teeth in Chicago directing the likes of Thomas Middleditch, Kumail Nanjiani, and T.J. Miller in short films, Vogt-Roberts's firs…
When Disney announced a new take on Aladdin, the 4,684th live-action remake (approximately) of one of its classic animated films, the most shocking part of the announcement was two-fold: The…
Surely we have reached the point with Tennessee Williams's great plays " if not, perhaps, his lesser ones " where it is desirable and even necessary to deploy them in new ways. They are, var…
You better know they're going to include women in the sequel. In support of both Women's History Month and International Women's Day on Wednesday, a group of Hamilton cast members chose to d…
It's 2017, and suddenly Hollywood loves old Hollywood musicals. Blame La La Land! Anyway, after the news last fall that Warner Bros. green-lit a new film adaptation of A Star Is Born " starr…
He's baaaaack: Brian d'Arcy James is following through on his threat to return. Per Deadline, Hamilton's very first King III will reprise his role in the juggernaut, though no timeline is ye…
At Disney's annual shareholders meeting in Denver today, the house that Walt built screened the first footage of its next Star Wars saga entry. Attendees got a brief look at The Last Jedi th…
On NBC's weepy powerhouse This Is Us, Susan Kelechi Watson as Beth has provided the much-needed anchor to her husband, Randall (played by Sterling K. Brown), as he dealt with the sudden appe…
RuPaul's Drag Race doesn't premiere until Friday, March 24, but you can see the best part of the entire ninth season right now, if you want. Courtesy of Conor Behan, a.k.a. Twitter user @pla…
Southern Californian parents out there who are dying to see the latest Disney movie, but are having trouble finding a babysitter to watch their children, will soon have a solution. On March …
From groundbreaking stop-motion techniques in the original 1933 King Kong film, to the CGI employed in the upcoming Kong: Skull Island, Kong movies have been defined by their special effects…
A week after winning three Oscars, Moonlight has had its biggest weekend yet. Buoyed by its Best Picture win and the requisite post-Oscar-win expansion in theaters, Barry Jenkins's drama has…
Time to dance all night again. The Lincoln Center Theater announced today that it will stage a revival of My Fair Lady directed Bartlett Sher, who also directed recent LCT revivals of The Ki…
Cue the indoor fireworks " literal fireworks, not chemistry between co-stars. Leading up to the March 17th release date of the live-action Beauty and the Beast remake, Ariana Grande and John…
Like plenty of Wolverine fans, Wade Wilson, a.k.a Deadpool, a.k.a Ryan Reynolds, went to see a screening of Logan, but " as seen in the Deadpool 2 teaser that debuted before Logan in theater…
As Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's second season came to a dramatic close, you'd be forgiven if you were too hooked on the narrative to consider the deeper, more probing questions. Namely, which of th…
The best movies are, on some level, about life-affirmation, beauty, escape, expanding minds, and understanding those different from or not-so-different from us. It's hard to picture someone …
The second season of Underground will debut next week on WGN, and Entertainment Weekly has a first look at the introduction of Frederick Douglass onto the show. Executive producer John Legen…