The Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles staged a very limited production of Disney's The Little Mermaid this weekend, choosing to do a stripped-down version of the film backed by a full, live orch…
Jon Hamm is really enjoying his post-Mad Men years. Like David Letterman basking in the drunken glory of retirement, Hamm has been going HAM with his free time. Appearing on Fusion's The Chr…
Simpsons sophisticate Sideshow Bob speaks with a distinctive, articulate sibilance, which, if you didn't already know, was based on Kelsey Grammer's former employer, theater direct…
The idea of turning Oscar Wilde's meringue-like comedy The Importance of Being Earnest into an opera is the sort of thunderclap that comes to you late at night over a bottle of bourbon and t…
I'm sure plenty of people have screamed the Hercules Mulligan rap from "Yorktown" while driving, but only Hamilton superfan James Corden will get to scream the Hercules Mulligan ra…
If the announcement of The Hills' ten-year anniversary special wasn't enough to fill your nostalgia tank, the potential for something even bigger and better is on the horizon. Sources tell&n…
After winning a Pulitzer, being named a genius, and potentially winning a record number of Tonys next week, Lin-Manuel Miranda will bid adieu to Hamilton. Sources close to the production tel…
Julie Andrews, everyone's favorite nanny/nun-in-training/perfect mother figure, is getting a Netflix show. It's called Julie's Greenroom, and it stars Andrews as Mrs. Julie, a Mr. Rodgers-li…
It only took two decades for a generation to be born with no memory of 1993's Super Mario Bros., but video-game movies are back, baby! According to Variety, Jake Gyllenhaal will star in…
In the wake of last week's deadly shooting at New York's Irving Plaza during a T.I. concert, other artists are already paying the price. Rolling Stone reports that concert promoter Live Nati…
So there's good news and there's bad news. The best news is that Lin-Manuel Miranda is on the cover of Rolling Stone, and inside, he's granted the magazine a 5,000-word interview. The bad ne…
With the celebrated productions of Hamilton, Shuffle Along, and Eclipsed, actors of color are having a moment on Broadway, but it's still not enough. In a roundtable for The Hollywood Report…
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Pulitzer-winning progenitor of a little show called Hamilton, first came to prominence almost ten years ago with In the Heights, a story about a Washington Heights bodega…
Kristen Bell is best known for playing impossibly cheery characters, but she would like to make it clear that no one should expect her to be as sunny in real life. In an essay for Motto, Bel…
The tumultuous casting of a new James Bond aside, Ian Fleming's universe just lost one prime asset: director Sam Mendes. Appearing at the Hay Festival of literature in Wales on Saturday…
Hello Art Garfunkel, my old friend. I've come to talk with you again about theater etiquette. If you're lucky enough to score a ticket to Hamilton " in the VIP section, no less " don't you d…
Amazon has announced its summer slate of pilots, set to debut June 17, most of which are shows to keep your children occupied. But there's a little something there for the 11+ crowd, too. We…
Best way to get revenge on the person who stole your Steve Jobs part? Well, as James Corden finds out above, making your rival (a.k.a. Seth Rogen) play "various scenery and stuff" …
Which would you rather experience in the theater: too many ideas or too few? The Total Bent, at the Public, is in the maximalist camp, offering in less than two hours a dense sociological hi…
We here at Vulture have been intensely and uncommonly invested in the career and hair conditioner brand of Connie Britton. So when we heard that ABC had canceled Nashville, we were torn: It …
How would the world have reacted to a Christina Aguilera and holographic Whitney Houston duet on The Voice finale? Well, we'll never know because Whitney's estate scrapped the whole stunt, f…
In this heated rap battle, Corden brings up Catwoman, bad accents, the 2011 Oscars, and The Intern. Hathaway counters with disses about poor ratings, ill-fitting suits, One Direction, and &q…
On a special live edition of the Vulture TV Podcast, Gazelle and Matt are joined by Crazy Ex-Girlfriend co-creators Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna at the third annual Vulture Festival …
Time to break out your easel and brush up on your color theory. Jake Gyllenhaal, for a special performance on October 24 to raise money for the New York City Center, will be portraying post-…
When the very first lyric of a sung-through show like Hadestown attempts to rhyme "flames" with "hurricanes," you know you're in for a crossover experience. And though I doubt that the songw…