As if The Color Purple didn't have a ridiculously gifted vocal cast already, Jennifer Holliday, who famously originated the role of Effie White in Dreamgirls, is returning to Broad…
MoviesDavid Edelstein has his eye on the heavy stuff. SnowdenSept. 16Oliver Stone takes on the multi-tentacled story of the multi-tentacled surveillance state and the alleged traitor (played…
Perhaps mixing up her late-night hosts, Britney Spears appears to be Lip Sync Battling while James Corden croons in the teaser trailer for Thursday night's Carpool Karaoke. Although past not…
When you've accessed a different spiritual dimension with another person, you're kind of bound for life. So of course Conjuring 2 co-stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga will be r…
Is beatboxing an innate skill or one that can be learned? Actress Danielle Brooks, known for her work in Orange is the New Black and Broadway's The Color Purple, made a case for th…
Most of us non-famous people spend our birthdays with a couple handfuls of people, on a good year. But James Corden, friend to all, does nothing low-key. He spent his 38th birthday eve with …
Barbra Streisand, the owner of two Oscars, 10 Grammys, Five Emmys, a Tony and a basement that is a goddamn mall (really), has a problem that many of us non-celebrated plebeians have encounte…
As it prepares to premiere Hairspray Live!, NBC would like remind everyone that it started this whole live TV-musical revival " excuse you, Fox. It also wants to point out that the…
The higher powers behind Stranger Things have said that they aren't totally sure as to what shape a prospective season two of the Netflix series would take. Well, we've got a suggestion for …
*Clears throat* Anne Elk has a new theory " but good luck getting her to tell you about it. The Monty Python character, played by John Cleese, made a notable and, until now, singular appeara…
The only thing Lauren Graham loves more than dropping obscure film references is a revival series. She's already bringing back Lorelai Gilmore with Netflix's upcoming Gilmore Girls: A Y…
Run and tell that to your friends. Andrea Martin has joined the ever-expanding cast of NBC's Hairspray Live! as Prudy Pingleton, the devoutly religious, progressive-society hating, bigoted m…
Appropriately choosing yet another project with a plot that's centered around a major act of violence, Hamilton's Leslie Odom Jr. is reportedly in talks to join Kenneth Branagh's remake…
The big news about Drunk History season four is that Lin-Manuel Miranda will narrate the show's upcoming re-enactment of the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, starring Alia Sha…
How do two bastard, old friends, son of a Jew and a Dutchman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot on the UPPER WEST SIDE OF MANHATTAN by providence, impoverished, in squalor, grow up t…
Keira Knightley has joined Disney's live-action Nutcracker movie, Variety reports, joining a cast that also includes Interstellar's Mackenzie Foy, ballerina Misty Copeland, an…
Jason Sudeikis is here to sound his barbaric yawp over the roofs of New York. The SNL vet has taken the role of prep-school teacher John Keating in a production of Dead Poets Society, w…
Remember when you had never heard the name Lin-Manuel Miranda before? Of course you don't, because that time does not exist. Lin-Manuel Miranda is an ancient being who came before all those …
In nearly every interview he gives, Daniel Radcliffe swears that he is not actually that good of a guy. This is a lie. Daniel Radcliffe is a very good guy, who also happens to be very into f…
First off, the important stuff: Here for your convenience is a definitive ranking of the alt-theater posters on the wall at the Fringe offices. They are ranked from Least to Most Perfectly, …
It's 2016, and one of the hottest commodities on Broadway is still Arthur Miller. The Roundabout Theater Company will revive the playwright's 1968 drama The Price, and the production has jus…
Man's battle with machine is nonstop. Even though he's stepped away from Hamilton and is busy with about 15 million other projects, Lin-Manuel Miranda continues his valiant crusade…
Business is booming for Jill Soloway. Last summer she signed an exclusive production deal with Amazon Studios. In February, she got the green light to develop a new comedy called I Love Dick…
Disney's Mary Poppins sequel just got even more genteel. According to The Hollywood Reporter, British actor Ben Whishaw, who plays the most recent incarnation of Q in the new Bond films, is …
Character actor Philip "Fyvush" Finkel, whose acting career started over 80 years ago, is dead at 93, his son confirmed to the New York Times. Finkel is best known for his late-in-life …