Broadway Gets a Grand Theater Back
There are several ways to define a Broadway theater, all tautological. It's a theater that uses a Broadway contract. It's a theater in the Broadway district " Sixth Avenue to Eighth Avenue, …
There are several ways to define a Broadway theater, all tautological. It's a theater that uses a Broadway contract. It's a theater in the Broadway district " Sixth Avenue to Eighth Avenue, …
John Mulaney and Nick Kroll's George St. Geegland and Gil Faizon stopped by Late Night to promote their new Oh, Hello Off Broadway show, and based on his nonstop chuckle fest, Seth Meyers is…
High School Musical's Corbin Bleu will guest on The Fosters this coming March, so I guess I owe everyone an apology for trying to shut down that high school. It was a high school devoted sol…
King George's heavy crown is back on Jonathan Groff's head in Hamilton, where the actor took a break to shoot the Looking movie. Which means theatergoers fortunate enough to sell t…
Best Time Ever With Neil Patrick Harris is no more, according to Variety, which reports the madcap show has been scrapped for another NPH project. The actor's live variety sho…
Whether you will like These Paper Bullets! " the new Bard"on"Carnaby Street confection at the Atlantic " will probably depend on how much you like Much Ado About Nothing. Depend inversely, I…
Did you like all the jumping, exploding, and Beastie Boys-ing in the new Star Trek Beyond trailer? Well, George thought it was pretty meh, because he likes current events more than clif…
There's something slightly off about Walter, one of four (or is it six?) characters in Marjorie Prime, the startling and profound new drama by Jordan Harrison now at Playwrights Horizons. Wa…
Usually, the call goes out on Twitter before lunch. On the feed from @lin_manuel " that is, of course, Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator-songwriter-star-certified-MacArthur-genius behind the…
Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is busier than George R.R. Martin, but somehow more productive, stopped by The Late Show last night to gab it up with Stephen Colbert and to try out a sample of …
How can deprivation become joy? That's not only the animating question of The Color Purple, the 1982 Alice Walker novel made into a musical in 2005, but also the operating principle behind J…
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical School of Rock opened this week on Broadway to some of his best notices in years. Many critics expressed mild relief that he hasn't totally lost his ability…
The actors have spoken. The largest nominating body within the Academy Awards has issued its nominees for the Screen Actors Guild Awards in television and film. There are a lot of pleasant s…
This week Vulture will be publishing our critics' year-end lists. Monday we ran TV and movies. Tuesday covered albums, songs, and books. Today, look for theater, art, and classical performan…
After making their mark on national television by pranking people with "Too Much Tuna" on three seasons of Kroll Show, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney's Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland are tr…
Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda's sold-out Broadway musical that you've only ever seen through your friends uploading Instagrams of their Playbills, is coming to Chicago. The Chicago Tribune re…
Last week, fans of Star Wars and musical theater were very excited to learn that J.J. Abrams and Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and star of Hamilton and presumptive winner of every Tony Award i…
Here's a sampling of things you'll experience at Lazarus, the illustrated concept album disguised as a musical now playing at New York Theatre Workshop: one alien, two serial killers, three …
A disreputable charmer brings the joy of music to a staid community while stirring up romance with an uptight lady: If the plot of School of Rock sounds like a great musical, that's because …
Nicholas Hytner's twee film of Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van is the final injury to what was, in its original form, a perfect thing: Bennett's diary entries recounting the appearance of…
A fight between two women patrons at Art Basel Miami Beach last night escalated when one of them pulled an X-Acto knife and stabbed the other in the arms and neck, The Miami Herald Reports. …
Viewers eased on down to NBC Thursday, turning The Wiz Live! into a ratings hit. Thursday's live (to the East Coast, anyway) musical event brought in 11.5 million viewers and a 3.4 rating am…
On The Wiz Live! Suzanne finally became her own dandelion. During a pivotal moment on Orange Is the New Black, Uzo Aduba's character Suzanne Warren goes silent at her high-school graduation.…
Only in a weak Broadway field could The Wiz have won seven Tony awards, as it did in 1975. Its competition included Mack & Mabel, Shenandoah, and The Lieutenant (which ran for two weeks)…
After last year's curiosity, NBC rebounded with a live event that was hard to find fault with " we were too busy feeling every damn moment of the The Wiz. Shanice Williams's debut! Mary J.'s…