The Mule Is a Modest Twist on the Clint Eastwood Myth
Slipped into theaters with few advance screenings or the usual ballyhoo for a Clint Eastwood film (this one featuring what might be the 88-year-old's last leading performance), The Mule turn…
Slipped into theaters with few advance screenings or the usual ballyhoo for a Clint Eastwood film (this one featuring what might be the 88-year-old's last leading performance), The Mule turn…
In the run-up to the Oscars, the SAG Awards are one of award season's most important nights. ("SAG" stands for "Screen Actors Guild," and stunningly not "Snatch Awards, Gaga.") The guild has…
Last winter, the city saw two beloved theaters shutter: the Upper West Side's Lincoln Plaza Cinema and the Lower East Side's Landmark Sunshine. Those closures, combined with the drop in movi…
Can you ever have enough Cher? Hopefully not, because there's about to be a lot more. Following the opening of the musical The Cher Show on Broadway, the actress and singer announced on Twit…
That classic musical Oklahoma! is coming back to Broadway, though in a form unlike any you've seen before (unless you had a really cool high-school theater teacher or something). Daniel Fish…
The idea of escapism became a hobbyhorse in the years following the September 11, 2001, attacks, right on time for the first of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings adaptation, The Fellowship o…
Nicole Kidman is currently filming the upcoming Roger Ailes movie that also stars Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly, Margot Robbie as a producer at the news network, and presumably much hairspr…
To really talk about Jeremy O. Harris's supercharged, fearsome, and often terribly funny Slave Play, I have to begin with a spoiler alert: If you're seeing the play " and there are plenty of…
As we go into 2019, Ariana Grande is setting an example for us all and making plans to show herself some much-deserved love. Last week, during her speech accepting the Billboa…
With Kevin Hart in and out in a record amount of time, just about every website with "pop culture" in its mission statement is speculating who should host next year's Oscars ceremony. Billy …
It's the episode we've all been waiting for: the introduction of New Greg. With Santino Fontana off doing his best Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Bloom's college chum Skylar Astin has taken on the r…
If you like resurrections, boy, does Disney+ have a project for you! According to Entertainment Weekly, Disney's upcoming streaming platform is reportedly developing a threequel to the nun-c…
As you may have heard, Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit broadway musical Cats is set to receive a big Hollywood adaptation, and casting is well underway. With a current December 20, 2019, release d…
Ivo van Hove and his designer Jan Versweyveld have created a signature style out of putting hot-blooded plays inside cold, technological boxes. They build worlds with hard, looming walls, of…
In what's generally referred to as "intense actressing news," Faye Dunaway will soon be playing Katharine Hepburn. Dunaway will star in a new production of Matthew Lombardo's play about Hepb…
Lifetime's Tuesday night New York City screening of its docuseries Surviving R. Kelly came to a halt when the NeueHouse Madison Square Garden theater had to be evacuated due to a gun threat.…
Everyone in Hollywood is getting cast in the Cats movie, but not Lucas Hedges " not yet. In an interview with Stephen Colbert last night, Lady Bird's resident theater devotee started talking…
Since arriving in theaters in August, Crazy Rich Asians has been on a seemingly unstoppable march toward both critical and commercial glory. The romantic comedy " the first Hollywood studio …
It would undoubtedly be distracting to see the bright glow of an audience member's cell phone in the middle of putting on a Broadway show. And then to look up and see that audience member is…
Is it possible to be brainwashed by sequins? I was so addled by the finale of The Cher Show that I began to imagine a tiny, spandex-and-spangle-clad devil on my shoulder, poking me behind th…
After a lengthy review process on behalf of the Chinese state to determine whether or not Crazy Rich Asians was fit for release in Chinese theaters, the American romantic comedy finally made…
Rachel Bloom seems so natural in her role on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, both on camera and behind it, that it's hard to imagine that there was a time when she wasn't combining her musical-theater …
Here comes the president! No, not that one.Chris Jackson " who played George Washington in the original cast of Hamilton " is striding down the Kennedy Center Honors red carpet on Sunday wit…
We have the momager Kris Jenner, we have the dick-talkin' Jennifer Coolidge, and to think we could've also been blessed with you got into Harvard Law? Matthew Davis, too. Ariana Grande's "Th…
As Paula mentioned earlier this season, Rebecca's list of unfinished business is long, and her mom is near the top. We last saw Naomi a full season's worth of episodes ago, when she out-and-…