American leaders usually don't come under theatrical scrutiny until decades after they leave office. The first serious mainstream plays about Presidents Johnson (All the Way) and Nixon (Fros…
Star Trek alum George Takei may be best known these days for his delightful online presence, but he's completely serious about his latest project: Allegiance, a new Broadway musica…
Keira Knightley says she has been approached at least three times to play Thérèse Raquin in one or another adaptation of the 1867 Zola novel. She finally succumbed when offered Hel…
In A.R. Gurney's play Sylvia, which opened on Broadway last week, Annaleigh Ashford plays the title role in what our critic Jesse Green calls a "comic-genius performance." Sylvia is a dog, s…
If, like me, you enjoyed Annaleigh Ashford as the daffy romantic factory worker in Kinky Boots (for which she won a Clarence Derwent award) and loved her as the talentless balletomane in You…
A musical based on pop icon and Twitter maven Cher is coming your way, Playbill reports. Rick Elice, Tony-nominated co-librettist of Jersey Boys, is writing the book for a musical based on C…
Last week saw the opening of Sion Sono's magnificently batty Japanese hip-hop musical Tokyo Tribe, as well as the Bollywood wedding comedy Shandaar. That's something: Two foreign-language mu…
Great plays are usually great in one of two ways. Either they are culminating examples of existing ideas, or groundbreaking examples of new things entirely. The Humans, by Stephen Karam, at …
Entertainment Weekly's first-ever EW Fest closed out Saturday night with a "Ryan Murphy and Friends" panel, with the seemingly indefatigable showrunner bringing out Scream Queens cas…
Romeo and Juliet might be dead, but who says you can't make good television out of a post-suicidal Verona? ABC has picked up yet another show from Shonda Rhimes's production company Shondala…
Mathematicians, or theater producers, have determined that the ideal interval separating the emergence of an entertainment genre from its recurrence as a musical spoof is 35 years " about th…
Mario Lopez has signed on for Grease: Live as Vince Fontaine, aka DJ Vince, aka that smooth-talking guy who creepily flirts with Marty sometimes, Vulture has learned. This means Lopez will g…
Nick Kroll announced Thursday that he and John Mulaney are working on an Off-Broadway, Oh, Hello-inspired show. The production reunites the comedians' Gil Faizon (Kroll) and George St. …
At ages 60 and 27, Bruce and Rumer Willis find themselves, oddly, experiencing the same career first: a Broadway debut. Rumer, Bruce's eldest daughter with Demi Moore, is strutting Chic…
Like the M34 bus, Michael John LaChiusa never disappoints for long: If you don't enjoy one show, another will come by soon. At 53, he remains probably the most prolific of his cohort of thea…
Ballerina Misty Copeland is co-producing a TV show alongside writer Tracy Oliver for Fox. And yes, it's about dance! Deadline reports that the gestating show is about a "young, hip and d…
Deadline reports that a reboot of The Rocky Horror Picture Show will air on Fox in fall 2016, celebrating the film's 40th anniversary. Laverne Cox is set to star as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, the r…
It has not been a good fall for elders onstage. A few weeks ago, the meddlesome 70ish character played by Marlo Thomas in Clever Little Lies nearly torpedoed her marriage while trying to sav…
Rap and show tunes don't make the most obvious of bedfellows. Fans of, say, Eric B & Rakim seem to have little in common with those of Rodgers and Hammerstein " and vice versa. But the o…
Lupita Nyong'o will be the latest Oscar winner to come to Broadway when her production of Eclipsed, a play by The Walking Dead's Danai Gurira, moves uptown from the Public Theater in Fe…
"It is not a new Mary Poppins," Marshall told Vulture last night at the National Arts Awards about his upcoming Disney musical about the iconic nanny. Instead, Marshall's projec…
To kick off Jimmy Kimmel's New York homecoming, he and Guillermo decided to impress their Brooklyn crowd with some (newfound) ballet skills. You'd think being super hairy and totally inflexi…
Bradley Cooper spent a lot of time on set with director Clint Eastwood for American Sniper " enough to prepare for his greatest acting challenge yet: doing an impression of the director feed…
About 20 minutes into the film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, an elevator door opens and the actor Tim Curry steps out. His face is heavily mascaraed, the portrait of a commedia de…
Bradley Cooper has played a sniper, a raccoon, a theater enthusiast, and a chef (twice!), but now he's about to face his greatest challenge yet: According to THR, Cooper is in final talks to…