Kicking off Vulture Festival L.A. to a packed house, Big Mouth star Nick Kroll sat down for a table read of scenes from the profane puberty cartoon, doing voices for each character on the pa…
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's biggest annoyance is that it crams way too much plot into some episodes, then twiddles its thumbs in others. This episode is a prime offender. Clearly an attempt to pai…
William Goldman, who passed away last night, adapted Stephen King's novel Misery for the 1990 movie, and then adapted it again for Broadway in 2015. We asked Will Frears, who directed that p…
The giddy, smart, big-hearted new musical The Prom has arrived on Broadway after a much-praised 2016 run at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, but really, it's always been here. Its story begi…
Even though new music releases arrive more unexpectedly than ever these days, it's still possible to plan ahead for when some of the biggest and most promising artists are planning to drop a…
Before the whimsical, poignant Wild Goose Dreams by Hansol Jung begins, soaking in Clint Ramos's design of the Public's Martinson Hall is a senses-tingling treat. The whole room is dressed u…
Great Brecht productions are rare beasts. His plays are about presentation more than they're about representation, and that makes them hard to crack. They draw on vaudeville, physical comedy…
Welcome, dear reader, to the very small center of the venn diagram of current day pop superstar Lady Gaga and '90s icons and current Toto cover band Weezer. It's a space in which we won't fo…
Jackson Maine might have been unimpressed with the "butt song" that Ally sings in A Star Is Born, but Bradley Cooper is willing to put some respeck on those sellout bops. When Variety asked …
This post has been updated throughout with even more Star Is Born compliments from Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, and me, Hunter Harris.If 2018 has given us one blessing, it is the knowledge tha…
In the breakup Olympics, Ariana Grande's going for gold. Or platinum. Or hell, even diamond if her fans have their way. Ari's splendid kiss-off to all the boys she's loved before, "Thank U, …
Those who read No. 1 theater teen competition fan site Vulture dot com might be familiar with Andrew Barth Feldman (winner of the Best Actor award at the Jimmy Awards this year) and will be …
Much hay has been made of Ally's sellout bops, the Star Is Born"loving internet's affectionate pet name for the pop songs that Ally (Lady Gaga) releases as a rising mainstream star (much to …
Ed. note: Mike Birbiglia's The New One, a standup performance opening on Broadway tonight, falls across the two fields covered by our theater critic, Sara Holdren, and our comedy critic, Jes…
It's been fourteen years since Thom Pain"a "cold, grave, somewhat angular person… a wounded, stray-dog type, but with an odd intellectual aspect, perhaps even a little frail… charismatic…
Ariana Grande, a Cancer queen, is handling her split from ex-fiancé Pete Davidson better than most people handle being ghosted after two dates. She has returned her ridiculously expen…
There are shows that are unafraid to dispose of cast members at will, and there are shows that desperately try to keep every last minor character in the fold. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend definitely …
I mean, the monkey's amazing. And we came for the monkey, right?Theatergoers and theater-makers often complain about criticism that doesn't "take a play on its own terms." They're talking ab…
It's happening again. A few days ago, I wrote about the tyranny of relevance in modern American theater, the way in which plays like American Son, whether cynically or earnestly, put hot-but…
Some days, things just take / way too much of my energy. The video for Ariana Grande's "breathin," released yesterday, begins with haze, a cerulean-tinged smoke blending into an empty bar. A…
Laura Benanti always wanted to play Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. To get there, she just had to give up on that dream first. Back when the Lincoln Center Theater's revival was first annou…
The popular live comedy show Celebrity Autobiography, in which performers read excerpts from popular celebrity tell-all books, is heading to Broadway with a bunch of big names attached. Acco…
Ari season continues! In addition to putting on a First Wives Club"themed performance on Ellen today, the tiny titan of pop just released the video for "Breathin" (the official video, not th…
Segueing firmly into the "watch rom-coms and pretend you are Diane Keaton" stage of a breakup, Ariana Grande staged a full-blown First Wives Club homage on Ellen while performing her new son…
Less than ten minutes into At Eternity's Gate, director Julian Schnabel's biographical reimagining of the final days of Vincent van Gogh (which premiered at the Venice International Film Fes…