Weeks before last night's premiere of Sunday in the Park With George, the Stephen Sondheim musical's star Jake Gyllenhaal and director-auteur Cary Fukunaga got together to make a backstage t…
A 98-year-old woman named Marie sits in a wheelchair surveying the Georges Seurat painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1984. She …
The wistful Russian dreams of '90s kids will soon be alive again, as a new musical inspired by 1997's Anastasia comes to Broadway this spring. The new Anastasia is a more grown-up affair tha…
One of the great rises to fame in recent television history has been that of Jean Smart. The veteran actress has accumulated an impressive number of film, TV, and theater credits in her four…
Charles Isherwood woke up on the morning of February 3 with one of the best jobs in the country: second-string theater critic for the New York Times. Around noon that day, he was summoned to…
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins " a MacArthur genius, a Pulitzer finalist, and a recipient of Yale's Windham"Campbell Literature Prize " gets my award for most-restless playwright. Five of his works …
A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity came around a second time for Australian teen Nathan Testa when Bruce Springsteen pulled him on stage to play "Growin' Up" at a show in Brisbane, Australia, …
Just days ahead of the Oscars, Lin-Manuel Miranda who is nominated for "How Far I'll Go," his song for Disney's Moana, reminisced about growing up watching the awards show with his family, i…
The National Basketball Association might be biased, but they're pretty into professional basketball. Which explains why the annual NBA All-Star Game on Sunday night started with a full orig…
If you've ever seen the paparazzi pics of Gwyneth Paltrow striding down a London street, $8,000 bag dangling casually from one arm, hand in hand with one of her towheaded children, white tee…
Anastasia is coming to Broadway, and while the albino bat may have gone the way of Anastasia's childhood memories, "Journey to the Past" had no problem making the cut. The Oscar-nominated so…
Last September, the not-totally-unsurprising news that Jon Favreau would be helming a remake of Disney's The Lion King pretty immediately fueled speculation about whose voice and/or likeness…
Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Dick Van Dyke, Emily Mortimer, and Ben Whishaw, make way: Angela Lansbury has joined the cast of Disney's Mary Poppins sequel, Mary Poppins Ret…
For at least 30 years, Wallace Shawn has been warning theatergoers about totalitarianism: how near it is, how easily we might acquiesce in it. I have to admit I've sometimes found his alarm …
The surreal FX show Legion wants to put viewers inside the head of its main character, tortured mutant David Haller. Doing so takes the form of disorienting visuals and timelines, but the sh…
The Great Wall, which stars Matt Damon as a monster-slayer in medieval China, hits U.S. theaters this weekend, finally answering the question: How many white men does it take to save the Gre…
Because we never got the Like Mike follow-up we deserved (this one doesn't count), the Roots made a basketball-themed musical for Sunday's NBA All-Star Game. The original NBA-themed musical,…
After being greeted by some very warm welcomes at The Color Purple and In Transit, Hillary Clinton got another Broadway crowd clapping on Wednesday night. The former presidential candidate t…
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is good at basketball, so it makes sense that he's also good at throwing shade. In his new gig as a contributing editor at The Hollywood Reporter, the basketball icon wei…
How do you replace a name as recognizable as Josh Groban? Broadway's Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 is going with a man who needs no introduction, Hercules Mulligan. The show …
If you learn two things from Denzel Washington's earnest round of "Did I Say That?" on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the first would be: the L.A. farmers market is filled with the cutest selection of …
Whether you're snuggled up with your sweetheart or curled around an ice-cream scoop and a Costco-sized jar of Jif, hopefully your face is approaching Weekend at Bernie's"level slack tranquil…
Very big spoilers ahead for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.The second season of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is already available to stream on Netflix, just a week after the finale aired. Whether you're watchin…
Giovanni Ribisi may play a con artist on TV, but don't expect him to pick your pocket anytime soon. The actor, whose career spans more than three decades, stars in a new Amazon series co-cre…
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