Sam Shepard had already been writing for the theater for 14 years when Buried Child won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979. The play"his 23rd or so, depending on how you count"was both a distillatio…
"That's the thing about corsets," Keira Knightley mumbles to her agent. "Just when you thought you were out, they pull you back in." Knightley, who recently appeared as 19th …
"The whole point of a play is that it's not on TV," says Daveed Diggs, who plays both Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette in Hamilton. "It's live, and it's really hard to create that a…
Hamilton is good. Very, very good. And now everyone who watched the Grammys knows it (and if you didn't know that already, well, we have to have a serious talk). The cast performed the music…
The cast recording of Hamilton nabbed a Grammy tonight, but Lin-Manuel Miranda's ensuing acceptance speech is the real treat. After Colbert hands over the golden gramophone, the musical's ma…
Four Harvard graduates walk into a scene: Valerie, a young African-American actor; Jackson, an African-American surgical intern; Ginny, a Chinese-Japanese-American psychology professor; and …
One of the many useful and fascinating things the Encores! series has done over the years " last night's opening of Cabin in the Sky marks the start of its 23rd season " is to highlight, and…
Sutton Foster, who basically played a mirror universe Lorelai Gilmore on Amy Sherman-Palladino's late, lamented Bunheads, has joined the cast of Netflix's Gilmore Girls revival. Foster'…
Aaron Sorkin is returning to Broadway with a stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, producer Scott Rudin announced on Wednesday. The production will be directed by The King and I's …
A playwright enters dangerous territory when he attempts to dramatize his struggle to become an artist: a struggle that is supposedly resolved, or at least justified, by the artistry he now …
Do you have a kid yet? If not, better get to work on that " Disney announced Tuesday that the Frozen musical will make its way to Broadway in 2018, with a preview run in another city sl…
It is a truth rarely acknowledged that some of the world's most fervent Hamilton fans have not actually seen Hamilton. (Those ticket prices!) To help us poor souls, the Grammys today announc…
How does a comedian, View woman, scene-stealer in Now and Then, sitting at the side of Tony host James Corden, end up spitting bars about a dead white man named Hamilton? Well, tha…
How low can you dip it, and how slow can you play it, in a French maid uniform? Singer, actress, and Dancing With the Stars contestant Christina Milian will answer that very specific qu…
My Kindle tells me that it takes an average reader some ten hours to get through Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. The delightful Bedlam stage version, which had a successful run in 2014 …
Carly Rae Jepsen made one of 2015's standout pop albums, Emotion, on her own terms, and she's back with more bold choices for 2016. On Sunday night, Jepsen starred in Fox's megasuccessful…
You're right. Why don't they give out Tonys for YouTube videos? We're close to that inevitability, right? God, you are prescient. As a reward, here is six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald sin…
If theater is a hot medium, musical theater burns, making it a particularly bad match for the coolness of television. The three recent live musicals on NBC (The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, Th…
In less than 18 months, James Corden has gone from "who?" to America's favorite karaoke singer, and now he's capped his ascent with a gig hosting this year's Tony Awards, which, like…
The ratings for Grease: Live are in, and Fox execs could be forgiven for busting out the hand jive this morning. Sunday's spectacular small-screen reinvention of the 1978 movie (which itself…
This a banner year for Donizetti at the Metropolitan Opera, propelled by soprano Sondra Radvanovsky's ambition to perform all three of his Tudor queens (Anne Boleyn; Mary, Queen of Scots; an…
Before the live show aired, Fox announced that Didi Conn, a.k.a. the Original Frenchy in the 1978 Grease, would be appearing in a bit part. But when she appeared onscreen to console Carly Ra…
Before the live broadcast of Grease: Live Sunday, the Pink Ladies cast sent out all their excitement through the social media channels.In true style of the trendiest gals in school, Vanessa …
Hamilton's Lin-Manuel Miranda is obviously a huge supporter of those who can get up and belt out the songs to a classic musical onstage. So, when the cast of Grease: Live performed Sunday, h…
Vanessa Hudgens's father, Greg, died this weekend after battling stage 4 cancer. He was 65. "I am so sad to say that last night my daddy, Greg passed away from stage 4 cancer," …