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Social media has thoroughly integrated itself into society, so it's interesting to see how many shows and films continue to either misunderstand or completely elide its place in our lives. T…
While the CW hasn't confirmed that the critically acclaimed and beloved Crazy Ex-Girlfriend will be back for a third season, but if for some godforsaken reason the show doesn't return, Donna…
Ryan Gosling is the complete package: decorated actor, meme source material, funny-face-maker, and canvas upon which we may project our dreamiest fantasies. Now you can add to that list &quo…
It hasn't been a great year for new musicals; only one " Dear Evan Hansen " made my list of the top ten theatrical productions of 2016. Several others were great in part: the design of Natas…
Mutter a somber "and Peggy!" in commemoration. Jasmine Cephas Jones, who has portrayed Hamilton's dual role of Peggy Schuyler and Maria Reynolds during both the musical's Off Broad…
You can't stop the beat, but if you're NBC, you also can't get younger viewers to watch Hairspray Live! in massive numbers. The Peacock network's nearly three-hour TV adaptation of the movie…
The nearly perfect 2002 stage musical Hairspray is so hardy you don't notice how carefully it's crafted. The score, by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, is of course part of that, bringing to …
At this point, a Spotify-like game changer has yet to arise in the world of movie rentals. A number of platforms, like Apple, Amazon, and Google, all allow customers to pay a fee to rent fil…
Walking Dead star and Broadway playwright Danai Gurira has penned a passionate defense of the Hamilton cast and their decision to address Vice-President-elect Mike Pence from the stage. As t…
With their carefully choreographed repartee, when are late night shows not a dance, but Ryan Gosling and Jimmy Kimmel took things a literal step further on Wednesday's Jimmy Kimmel Live! wit…
On a textual level, "I Know Where I've Been" always had the potential to be Hairspray Live!'s most memorable number, and its resonance with a cultural moment that doesn't feel too removed fr…
You can't stop the beat, but you can surely weigh it down with a bunch of technical issues. Cribbing nearly every move from the Grease: Live playbook down to the golf carts, NBC's Hairspray …
In 2010, two years before she became famous as the author of Wild, Cheryl Strayed took over writing the "Dear Sugar" advice column from a friend. She had none of the skills that traditionall…
Epcot has been transformed into the Death Star, finally settling the debate on whether that thing is a golf ball or not (at least for now). Instead, it's one big advertisement for the new St…
When NBC first announced plans to stage a production of Hairspray as the network's next live musical, network chief Bob Greenblatt acknowledged that the show's focus on race and diversity pl…
Somewhere in Pawnee, Indiana Chris Pratt's alter-ego Andy Dwyer is nodding his head in approval of Tuesday night's Mad Lib Theater on the Tonight Show. Using words chosen by Pratt in the beg…
In a true signal that hope and idealism are dead, Disney has used light and trickery to transform its iconic Epcot center in Orlando, Florida, into Star Wars' Death Star. Yes, this looks coo…
Despite an alleged Hamilton boycott, tickets are still hard to come by around these parts (November 2017!). But take solace in the fact that The Hamilton Mixtape dropped last week so that yo…
The first words spoken in Richard Greenberg's The Babylon Line, which opened tonight in a fatally mild Lincoln Center Theater production directed by Terry Kinney, are "The End." This is a da…
Despite two previous successful movies training dragons, DreamWorks and Universal Pictures has decided to hold back the third offspring in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise for another …
Monroeville, Alabama, home to 6,500 residents, is hoping to completely rebrand itself from sleepy town to tourist destination. Known as the hometown of famed author Harper Lee, and the basis…
The big problem in writing great musicals is not the difficulty of writing great songs. The big problem is that the songs, great or not, are cannibals, picking the stories clean and leaving …
Aasif Mandvi has had enough of President-elect Donald Trump's ceaseless Twitter tirades against, well, just about every random thing under the sun. In a new essay for the New York Times, Man…
We know, we know. We wish we had John Legend and Chrissy Teigen at our dinner party playing silly games, too. But until that happens " which it never will, sigh " the two took a break from h…
Our culture allots two very separate slots to friendship and love. Friendship is considered a brittle thing, hard to make and easy to break, while love is supposed to occur near-instantaneou…
