There are plenty who may be threatening to boycott Hamilton in the aftermath of vice-president-elect Mike Pence's visit to the show this weekend. To those people, Broadway darling Idina Menz…
If you got used to seeing Lady Gaga steal the (award) show spotlight at the Golden Globes and Oscars of late, fear not, she still knows how to command a music awards show's stage. Gaga appea…
Of course the home of Hamilton would turn out to be the room where it happened. The reignition of the culture wars, with the arts as the battlefield " a form of jousting so antiqua…
Triple threat Neil Patrick Harris, for one, doesn't think the Hamilton cast has anything to say sorry for. In an already-infamous controversy, the audience of Friday night's performance of H…
Probably the strangest and least revivable Broadway genre is the midcentury hooker musical comedy. Shows like Irma La Douce (first produced in 1956), New Girl in Town (1957), and House of Fl…
Donald Trump and Mike Pence's fun Hamilton-filled weekend just got another chapter in the Windy City. As reported by BroadwayWorld, during a Saturday evening performance of Hamilton at Chica…
Despite Donald Trump having lots (and lots) of thoughts and feelings on why the cast of Hamilton should apologize to Mike Pence, the Vice President-elect is now saying that he "wasn't o…
The saga of Mike Pence's boo-tastic visit to see Hamilton on Friday evening continues, with Donald Trump once again choosing to bash the Broadway musical for its supposed rudeness toward his…
Like the calm before the storm, we caught up with Hamilton's Brandon Victor Dixon (Aaron Burr) a few days before Mike Pence got booed by the Hamilton audience on Friday night, followed by Di…
From now on, it will be a little easier to make a living as a New York theater actor. After six months of negotiation, the Actors' Equity Association and the League of Off-Broadway League Th…
Mike Pence, let's just say, didn't have the best time attending a Hamilton performance in New York last night. He was the recipient of a copious amount of boos and jeers from his fellow atte…
You might've heard that Vice-President elect Mike Pence received a chorus of vicious boos by Richard Rogers Theatre patrons while attending a performance of Hamilton in New York last night. …
Vice-president elect Mike Pence, a man who has vocally supported his president's proposal to build a border wall between Mexico and the United States and who has also advocated for funding f…
When he was on the WTF podcast this week, Lin-Manuel Miranda brought up his childhood bully, rapper Immortal Technique. Apparently, the rapper " who, like LMM, was a gifted kid of color comi…
Throughout the length of our culture's brief, but potent, frenzy for all things Lin-Manuel Miranda, Miranda hasn't really stopped doing things long enough for anyone to miss him. As a tactic…
Though he has no prior professional theater credits, Jason Sudeikis holds the stage with confidence and verve as the inspiring prep school teacher John Keating in the adaptation of Dead Poet…
It was only a matter of time before Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone turned their continuous onscreen romance into a full-blown musical. At last, the moment has arrived with La La Land. You've se…
Nine years after the publication of Deathly Hallows, six years after the last Harry Potter movie, and four months after the publication of Harry Potter and the Cursed Chi…
Can you imagine the level of self-restraint a bunch of theater nerds must have exhibited to remain still for this long? The cast of Hairspray Live! did the mannequin challenge, and you can b…
Proving once again that the Obamas throw the best parties with the most desirable guests, the White House just released the list of this year's Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients, and …
John Legend finally has a piece of the pie, so he's going to get himself that deluxe apartment in the sky. More specifically, he's going to ride the elevator all the way up to the "Penthouse…
If you're vacationing in Milan or Florence in the coming weeks and have an urge to see the new Disney Polynesian princess film Moana, don't be alarmed if the local cinema is s…
A few months ago, I was sitting in the balcony at the Apollo Theater at the funeral of A Tribe Called Quest co-founder Malik "Phife Dawg" when I realized something I'd known all along but ne…
Sometimes, with a good-enough playwright, it's good to have no idea what's going on. That was the case for me with Suzan-Lori Parks's The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire Worl…
Throughout its three-season run, Broad City has weaved in some unforgettable musical moments. Whether it's a full-on music ensemble " a rousing rendition of a Sister Act 2 song, for instance…