A number from Tituss's all-black production of Oklahoma!, Alabama!, might have been the obvious choice, but Tituss Burgess and Tina Fey wisely went with "You're Nothing Without Me" for their…
How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean, by providence impoverished in squalor, make a rich man of Lin-Manuel Mi…
Lin-Manuel Miranda may be trying to distract you from his inflamed vocal cords on the screen behind him by posing with his hot doc, Dr. Pitman (Gotta be an actor pretending to be a doctor, r…
Saturday night's Hamilton performance reportedly had to be paused after a driver left his truck idling on 46th Street near the Richard Rodgers Theater. Police feared that the white box truck…
Celebrity memoirs are wonderful things: great gifts for people whose reading tastes you don't know very well, good audiobooks to listen to at the gym, excellent for feeding our need for the …
Alexander Hamilton, Jesus Christ, the Phantom of the Opera: When is a lady going to get her turn at the center of a eponymous musical? Oh, right now? Cool. Sorry to get overheated like that.…
Faced with that eternal question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to play the Stars and Wars to outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of theater critics and perform Ham…
Judi Dench now has enough Olivier awards to hold a respectable tea party of metal Laurence Oliviers, if that's what she decides she wants to with her trophies. Dench won a record eighth Oliv…
You know, for a professional wildlife expert, Corbin Maxey sure shouts "oh no!" a lot. Maxey brought a menagerie of cute, scaly, and rat-like buddies to Late Night last night and And…
According to one survey of high school lit teachers, The Crucible by Arthur Miller is the most widely taught play, outside of Shakespeare, in American classrooms. (A Raisin in the Sun and De…
Word to the wise: When you're bringing sexy back, make sure that you reimburse its previous owners properly. Cirque du Soleil, which, yes, released an album called Quidam in 1997, is suing J…
Don't worry! No one has stolen your screenplay idea about a man made entirely of Manwich-brand original sloppy joe sauce just yet. Not just yet. Instead, Big Bang Theory's Jim Parsons has be…
Like the thirteen colonies awkwardly hammered into a union, the musical 1776, which is about that hammering, is a bizarre construction that should not work. The idea for the show was outr…
After a career spent writing about people who make live television (Sports Night, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Newsroom), Aaron Sorkin is taking on the honored rite himself, writing an…
Besties Jonathan Groff and Lea Michele are the stars of Wednesday's digital Ham4Ham, that consolation prize for those who tried unsuccessfully to sell their firstborn for Hamilton tickets. &…
Hamilton's first fake scandal has gone as quickly as it came, stamped out with a statement so effective, it's like a Founding Father himself wrote it. Responding
It's easy to understand why playwrights as diverse as Archibald MacLeish (in the verse epic J.B.) and Neil Simon (in the shticky God's Favorite) have been drawn to the Book of Job.…
Jonathan Groff will be hanging up his crown as King George in Hamilton. We all knew it would be coming: Groff will play the lead in David Fincher's Netflix drama, Mindhunter, based on a book…
Shakespeare, fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy, has been dead for almost 400 years, and for the last 200 his skull has been missing. As a Channel 4 (U.K.) documentary explains…
Hugh Jackman is a man of many talents. He sings, he dances, he acts, he sprouts adamantium claws from his hands and chops up bad guys, and he rescues drowning swimmers from the clutches of v…
A skeletal statue with a nasty-looking scythe presides over an opera that begins with a capital crime and ends with an execution. From the opening ax-chop chords and doleful answer in the ov…
The impending finale of The Good Wife has been cause for mourning for its many fans, but at least one of its stars has found a silver lining. Alan Cumming, who plays the wily political strat…
At some point between its San Diego premiere in September 2014 and its pre-Broadway tryout at the Kennedy Center earlier this winter, the musical Bright Star, which bows at the Cort tonight,…
After news broke of Phife Dawg's death Wednesday morning, several artists, including Lin-Manuel Miranda, memorialized the hip-hop pioneer via social media. In a new interview with Billboard,…
The West Wing is adored for its sonorously rhythmic dialogue, so it makes a sick kind of sense that combining the show's rat-a-tat banter with Hamilton's hip-hop broke a sound barrier, bring…