Sunday's performance of Grease: Live will have everything: A live studio audience, Boyz II Men, High School Musical's Vanessa Hudgens, pop sensation Carly Rae Jepsen, and now,…
Stephen Karam's Chinatown apartment, which he moved into after the success of his 2011 play Sons of the Prophet, is a huge step up from his last place. Yes, the elevator is tetchy, and the d…
Every year, American Theatre magazine publishes a list of the country's most-produced playwrights. It makes sense that Ayad Akhtar topped the latest edition: His award-winning plays, many pe…
Whoopi Goldberg visited The Color Purple cast on Broadway, and the photo session that ensued was entirely adorable. Goldberg's visit to the show was one into familiar territory. In 1986, Who…
Joseph "Shakespeare in Love" Fiennes is set to play yet another creative genius: The Guardian reports that Fiennes has confirmed he'll play Michael Jackson " yes, that Michael Jackso…
Welcome to a game of Vulture mad libs! Olaf the snowman Josh Gad is going hard with the spectacle on Lip Sync Battle, a show already drunk with spectacle. He starts with an A-plus song choic…
If a scream caught halfway out of your throat just now while reading that headline, I'm genuinely very sorry. Also, join the club! According to The Hollywood Reporter, a West Coast productio…
If you're not already watching the CW's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (which you absolutely should be), you probably know that it snagged a Golden Globe for star (and co-creator) Rachel Bloom earlier …
Because it's filmed in the greatest city in the wooooooooorld, Law & Order: SVU is a handy way for Broadway stars to stretch their TV muscles in between shows, and the cast of Hamilton i…
Valentine's Day is nearly two weeks away, and George Takei took to Instagram to say he understands single folks' stress. Takei posted a picture of a milk carton with a February 14 expiration…
Shhh! Paul Giamatti hasn't seen Hamilton yet, and he's looking forward to seeing how the hit musical portrays John Adams, whom he won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for playing in the HBO mini-s…
Maybe I shouldn't make too much of this, but New York City Opera is attempting to resurrect itself with an opera about a botched resurrection. NYCO Renaissance, an entity created by the hedg…
Cats will no longer be just a memory: Deadline reports that Andrew Lloyd Webber's feline musical will return to Broadway this summer for the first time since 2000. Based on a tail by T.S. El…
Just like that classic parlor game Celebrity, Dakota Johnson has a fun new pastime you can think you invented with your friends in your parents' basement until you go to college and realize …
The history of the Ziegfeld " Manhattan's largest movie theater, whose leaseholders announced Wednesday that it would be closing in a few weeks " is one of really lousy timing. Opened in 196…
Anna Cantor, the title character of Our Mother's Brief Affair, is a suburban matron, a passive-aggressive parent, and, even in the throes of semi-dementia, a genius with a barb. (As long as …
Will we ever stop arguing about Mother Courage and Her Children? From the time Brecht wrote it, in 1939, as Fascism was approaching its orgasm in Europe, until three weeks ago, when Tonya Pi…
Brian d'Arcy James has been a fixture on Broadway since 1993, starring in productions as diverse as The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Shrek the Musical, and the Off Broadway run of Hamilton at th…
The play wasn't starting for another half-hour, and already someone was crying. The New York Theatre Workshop's downtown audience isn't prone to exuberant emotional displays " leave that to …
It's like John Laurens said: We'll never be truly free until there's a Hamilton documentary on public TV. To that end, then, PBS announced on Monday that it would premiere a Hamilt…
The boys (and girls) are back: the High School Musical gang (Zac Efron will appear via a pre-taped segment) is getting back together to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the original movie,…
Neil Patrick Harris " actor, magician, probably not evil " might just play Count Olaf, the actor, con artist, and villain in Netflix's upcoming adaptation of Lemony Sniket's A Seri…
Time really is fleeting. It's been over 40 years since Tim Curry donned his fishnets to play Dr. Frank N. Furter " first in the 1973 London stage production, and then in the film classic fro…
In 2007, Jeremy McCarter, at the time a theater critic for New York, wrote a glowing review of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Off Broadway production In the Heights, praising it as "a musical that owe…
The character of King George III appears in Hamilton for just nine minutes " and spends only six minutes and 45 seconds of that time actually singing. (The other two minutes and change are d…