For angsty teen Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen, today is a good day and here's why: The Broadway show's cast recording debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard 200, the highest debut of any cast…
James Corden might not be taking the wheel for every commute in the upcoming Carpool Karaoke webseries on Apple Music, but that doesn't mean some star-studded shenanigans won't happen withou…
Lin-Manuel Miranda has been plenty busy since leaving his Broadway megahit Hamilton, but he carved a brief window into his shooting schedule for the upcoming Disney film Mary Poppins Returns…
Yer not a wizard, Bruce. In further proof that Bruce Springsteen's Hogwarts letter got permanently lost in the mail, his rejected Harry Potter song, "I'll Stand by You Always," has apparentl…
The Oscars are nearing, and the Academy just announced the artists gracing the stage to perform the Best Original Song nominees. Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sting, Justin Timberlake, and John Legend…
Ben Affleck's stand-alone Batman movie needs some love. Now that Affleck has decided against directing the beleaguered Batman, the movie is left without a visionary in the director's chair. …
It's easy to see why Stephen Sondheim and the team of Kander and Ebb each took a stab at musicalizing Sunset Boulevard. The still-startling 1950 movie, directed and co-written by Billy Wilde…
It might be possible to enjoy the musical Big River by squinting. It is, after all, based on Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, whose main events " Huck's escape from his Pap, …
At long last, Linda Belcher is getting her own show " sort of. John Roberts, the voice behind the eccentric Belcher matriarch, is set to star in an HBO comedy executive produced by none othe…
Lady Gaga went with a minimalist visual for the Joanne album cover, but the "John Wayne" video goes back to her frenetic maximalism. In the music video, released today as an Apple Music excl…
Though 2019 will mark the end of the Skywalker-saga with Star Wars Episode IX, it will also mark the beginning of fans visiting its universe in theme-park form. According to the Hollywood Re…
The youngest Oscar nominee this year, Lucas Hedges, hasn't been making the usual rounds on the awards circuit to promote his supporting role in Manchester by the Sea, and for good reason " h…
When Marin Ireland graduated from drama school in 2000, she had to choose between two jobs: She could go to Vermont to play Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew, or she could join the cast of t…
Anyone pursuing a career in the arts fantasizes that one day, he or she will have a definitive marker of success he or she can show his or her mom and declare, "See, Mom? This was a valid li…
Living in a hollowed-out tree in the Bronx Zoo for free? Gil Faison and George St. Geeland would be absolutely green with envy. John Mulaney and Nick Kroll probably feel the same way, now th…
Lady Gaga opened tonight's Super Bowl Halftime show with a medley of the classics "God Bless America" and "This Land is Your Land," but don't worry, she was wearing some sort of shoulder-pad…
There was no way that Lady Gaga wasn't going to enter Super Bowl LI without making America's jaw drop " and little monsters, she delivered. Feeling patriotic during America's favorite sporti…
Phillipa Soo, Renee Elise Goldsberry and Jasmine Cephas Jones, AKA the Schuyler Sisters from Hamilton (that little-known musical that will hopefully blow up soon) performed "America the Beau…
This is music to Damien Chazelle's ears. The 69th annual Directors Guild of America Awards was seemingly business as usual for La La Land, which took the top honor for Outstanding Directoria…
Gather ye the most harmonic birds you can find, because Once Upon a Time is doing a musical episode. Executive producer Adam Horowitz confirmed news of the melodic endeavor, which will air s…
In 1944, Disney rereleased Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs into theaters nationwide. The film had been a sensation during its original 1937 release " in addition to being a virtuoso technica…
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has pulled off some mighty tricks this season, from delicately off-boarding one main character and bringing on another to completely fragmenting, and then rebuilding, its…
Moonlight writer-director Barry Jenkins just got back from an European tour promoting the movie, and he was shocked at what this year's Oscars race has done for his profile. "When I was in H…
Good news for all you Barden Bella fans out there. Hot off of his SAG Award win for playing Winston Churchill in The Crown, John Lithgow is doing what any EGOT-track thespian would do: He's …
Ariana Grande and John Legend are here to take the cherished, Oscar-winning Beauty and the Beast theme song, cover it for the live-action adaptation, and strip it of all discernible consonan…