With the country obsessing about Melania Trump's Republican National Convention speech (did she plagiarize Michelle Obama's speech or did she, as an RNC official insists, channel My Little P…
Guess who wants to start "haaling" in some Tonys (it's not Maggie, at least not right now). Jake Gyllenhaal, who previously appeared in Constellations on Broadway, has signed …
Mike Birbiglia's second feature, Don't Think Twice, is a bleak ensemble drama that charts the dissolution of a warm improv-comedy ensemble. It's funny and inspiring and harsh and depressing.…
On an afternoon in late May, Mike Birbiglia sits in his dressing room at Manhattan's Lynn Redgrave Theater, where he's about to perform his one-man show Thank God for Jokes for the 109th and…
Abstract-noun titles are usually deceptive, or at least under-determined; Doubt, Democracy, and Plenty, good plays though they are, might each just as easily have been named s…
Excuse us, but Daveed Diggs' last Hamilton performance is going to send us headfirst, into the abyss with sadness. Diggs ended his Tony-winning tenure in the dual role of Marquis de Lafayett…
Hamilton stans were no doubt a little emotional on Friday as Daveed Diggs (Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette) and Renée Elise Goldsberry (Angelica Schuyler) departed the jugge…
Pro tip for anyone who's been bummed about the absence of Jon Stewart during this election cycle: Make sure to watch Monday's edition of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The former host o…
Aside from an occasional unicorn like The Humans, Off and Off"Off Broadway plays almost never dare transfer to Broadway anymore, which means that New Yorkers who miss them in their original …
If the video of Rory O'Malley's Ham4Ham hosting debut is any indication, he's going to make a fine, fine emcee. But this week's Ham4Ham was overshadowed by some somber news " Daveed Diggs, H…
Renée Elise Goldsberry is getting ready to work, work for Netflix. Goldsberry, known for her Tony Award"winning role as Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton, will be leaving the mu…
With a cast this good, maybe Chicago audiences will forgive Hamilton for calling New York "the greatest city in the world." Miguel Cervantes, whose credits include Broadway ap…
Every action has an equal opposite reaction: Now that co-stars Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., and Philippa Soo have said goodbye to Hamilton, Daveed Diggs will leave the record-breakin…
It's not often I think a three-hour play could profitably be longer, but J. T. Rogers's gripping, big-boned Oslo, which opened tonight at Lincoln Center Theater, needs all the meat and muscl…
Loving received major Oscar buzz when it played at Cannes earlier this year, and Tuesday brings the first trailer for Jeff Nichols's interracial-marriage period piece. Joel Edgerton and Ruth…
A Meowth on 46th and 6th almost made me miss a historic night on Broadway, the last performance of Hamilton for star/creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, as well as Tony winner Leslie Odom …
After taking a whole 24 hours off to decompress after his final Hamilton performance, a newly shorn Lin-Manuel Miranda stopped by Today Monday morning alongside Jennifer Lopez to perfor…
Good news for Arrowheads, your boy John Barrowman just got a major promotion. Barrowman, who plays Malcolm Merlyn/Dark Archer on Arrow, has just been promoted to series regular across all Gr…
They teased us with a sample earlier this week, and now Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jennifer Lopez's "Love Make the World Go Round" is here, honoring those lost during the mass shooting…
Leslie Odom Jr. is edging painfully close to the end of his time in Hamilton, and " life-changing, hugely fulfilling artistic experience aside " the senioritis is getting to him. For th…
That Tavi Gevinson, why does she always seem to be Russian ahead of the rest of us? Gevinson is returning to Broadway to play Anya in the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Anton Che…
The room where it happens just lost a core trio. Leads Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, and Leslie Odom Jr. ended their exceptional Hamilton tenures last night, taking their final curtain c…
You might get a little weepy watching Hamilton's original Schuyler Sisters " Phillipa Soo, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and Jasmine Cephas Jones " perform one last song before the departur…
Have you heard the news? Alexander Hamilton, Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, and Aaron Burr " commonly referred to their given names of Lin Manuel-Miranda, Phillipa Soo, and Leslie Odom Jr. " …
You're probably well aware by now that three of Hamilton's stars " Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, and Leslie Odom " performed their last show at the Richard Rodgers Theatre last night. Tr…