Following what is now considered the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, the producers of the 2016 Tony Awards have issued a statement, saying that this year's ceremony will be dedicate…
Hamilton, that show you can't afford to see, is losing its progenitor Lin-Manuel Miranda this summer as he embarks on other projects. Now Phillipa Soo, who plays Hamilton's wife, Eliza, and …
Late intelligence suggests that many of my Tony predictions, as analyzed over the past week in a series of deep dives"see installments one, two, three, four, and fiv…
What do Grease Live! and the 1974 abduction of Patty Hearst have in common? Jonathan Tolins. The Grease scribe is working on a drama concerning Hearst (granddaughter of publishing magistrate…
During his Broadway edition of Carpool Karaoke, James Corden asked his car full of theater luminaries for "advice" on how to win over the audience at the Tonys, which he'll host th…
The Tony Awards and the Tony Awards telecast are not the same thing. The former has flaws; the latter usually has little else. One prediction I feel confident in making is that this year's b…
Now you see him 2, soon you'll see him everywhere. Jon M. Chu, who recently directed Now You See Me 2, is in talks to direct the film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical In the H…
Before Lin-Manuel Miranda became a Pulitzer Prize"winning Star Wars composer with official Genius swagger and (finally!) got his portrait at Sardi's, before Jonathan Groff ascended the thron…
In part due to Hamilton's dominance, the musical performance categories have been fairly straightforward; the Tony nominators hit their marks and the voters are likely to do so as well. Not …
Patricia Clarkson, your chosen spirit guide and an all-around indelible delight, has some keen advice for the white men out there feeling ornery about Hollywood's infinitesimal degree of pro…
In an effort to cut down on online ticket scalping, Hamilton is changing its pricing structure: The show's producers tell the New York Times that they're doubling the number of tickets avail…
The 2016 Emmy race has begun, and Vulture will take a close look at the contenders until voting closes on June 27. Noah Galvin is smoking a cigarette next to a bodega on the corner of 97th a…
Now that we've reached the performance categories " musicals today, plays tomorrow " the time has come to discuss snubs and splits, none of which exist. Snubs are nominations that didn't hap…
Oh, look, it's that TV pilot you willed into existence: FX has ordered a comedy pilot written by and starring Cristin Milioti (Fargo, How I Met Your Mother) and Nina Pedrad (a writer and sup…
Barring Aaron Burr rising from the grave and tackling Lin-Manuel Miranda to the ground, Hamilton is going to sweep the Tony Awards this weekend. But that doesn't mean the cast is resting on …
When Orange Is the New Black's Danielle Brooks takes the stage at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, where she currently stars as the fearless feminist inspiration Sofia in Broadway's The Color …
Hamilton has been nominated for an astounding 16 Tony Award nominations this year, and in the spirit of awards season, is bestowing a special treat upon theater enthusiasts. The musical…
Jeez, he's already doing so much. Is it really fair for us to sit back and let Lin-Manuel Miranda conquer the robots for us too? The Hamilton creator wrote an impassioned New York Times op-e…
After years of waiting, a new Harry Potter tale has finally made its public debut, as the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child " which picks up 19 years after the …
Twenty nonmusical plays " nine new ones and eleven revivals " were produced on Broadway this season. Only three in each group were complete duds: Misery, China Doll, and Our M…
Well, if there was ever a person to get Shakespeare right, it's Meryl Streep. The Academy Award goddess, recent foodstagram star, and Hamilton belter, performed at Monday's annual Shakespear…
The Tony Awards, which " plug!" James Corden is hosting, is a time for the masters of one of our most exacting arts to celebrate the meticulous professionalism of their craft. Carpool Karaok…
Twenty plays and 16 musicals opened during the 2015"2016 Broadway season. Most of the plays were pretty good or better; most of the musicals were not. Despite this, the musicals, as always, …
A new Glass Menagerie is making its way to Broadway " wait, wasn't there just a Glass Menagerie on Broadway? Or was that in the past, back when we were just Southern belles, gentle…
As subversions go, you could hardly trump David Javerbaum's An Act of God, which plays like a lay-'em-in-the-aisles one-man comedy despite being (as I wrote in my review of its limited run l…