What Our Critics Are Really Looking Forward to This Fall
MoviesThe films David Edelstein can't wait to see. Experimenter Oct. 9Peter Sarsgaard as Stanley Milgram, the Yale researcher who ordered test subjects to deliver shocks to a stranger, their…
MoviesThe films David Edelstein can't wait to see. Experimenter Oct. 9Peter Sarsgaard as Stanley Milgram, the Yale researcher who ordered test subjects to deliver shocks to a stranger, their…
Hopefully, you've had a few minutes to play around with our Fall Entertainment Generator. But if you're looking for straight and simple lists of things to look out for by medium, we'll …
Hopefully, you've had a few minutes to play around with our Fall Entertainment Generator. But if you're looking for straight and simple lists of things to look out for by medium, we'll …
The One Who Knocks and the One Who Plays Britney Spears on Piano are about to face off onscreen: Brian Cranston and James Franco will star in John Hamburg's comedy Why Him? "The comedy …
Bruce Willis has exited Woody Allen's newest film, though the reasons why remain ambiguous. Deadline reported that Willis left due to a scheduling conflict, as he's set to star in a Broadway…
Elisabeth Moss ran the emotional gamut as Peggy over seven stellar seasons of Mad Men, but from the very first frame of Alex Ross Perry's Queen of Earth, you'll get to see the actress as you…
What used to be called the straw-hat circuit is long gone, as is the customary summer haberdashery that gave it its name. Stars no longer caravan their Broadway hits, in stripped-down versio…
TheWrap reports that Forest Whitaker will take his first turn on a Broadway stage as one of the stars in Hughie, a revival of a two-character Eugene O'Neill drama. In the short play, accordi…
The Hedwig and the Angry Inch revival that has graced Broadway for the last year and a half is closing next month, Variety reports. The last performance will be September 13, 3 p.m., at the …
As Tracking Board first reported and The Wrap confirmed, Jennifer Hudson is in talks to star in an Aretha Franklin biopic from Straight Outta Compton producer Scott Bernstein. The biopic, wh…
Boom! Sir Not-a-One-Man-Guy Patrick Stewart discusses a famous pic, his dream kisses, and the importance of connection. Also, behold, a momentous decree from the Not-Quite-Yet-a-Sir-but-Stil…
Much has happened since The Lion King (and the other things), apparently. Namely, Simba and Nala have a kid named Kion, who has a mohawk and a tattoo. He also has a bad-influence friend name…
Over the weekend, Disney showed off some of the most-anticipated movies of the near-future at its mammoth D23 convention, and the studio's announcement of Star Wars"themed additions to two o…
For her role in Ricki and The Flash, Meryl Streep met up with Neil Young at the Jacob Burns Film Center in New York for a brief, impromptu guitar lesson. What followed was really more a how-…
Last night, talk-show savant Kevin Spacey told Jimmy Fallon about accompanying Billy Joel on stage when the Long Island legend was awarded the Gershwin Prize last November and Spac…
The classic story Jack and the Beanstalk has gotten the cinematic treatment a whole lot lately " Bryan Singer gave the tale a try with the bomb Jack the Giant Slayer, while Jack himself figu…
In a sign that fan-theory disease is even infecting creators now, Frozen's directors told Reddit last year that Anna and Elsa's parents survived that film's shipwreck and went on to give bir…
"I'm the one who types and maybe thinks socialism sounds pretty good in theory." Also, prepare yourself to see Louis C.K. as an old-timey dude. ... More »
What interest could Annie Baker possibly have in kitsch? This was the question bothering me as I headed into her new play, John, which takes place in a Gettysburg bed and breakfast so encrus…
Three years after its world premiere, George Benjamin's Written on Skin has already tattooed itself indelibly onto the story of opera. In a saner world, a piece this good would make its Amer…
The sequel to The Lion King will kick off with The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar, a movie on the Disney Channel, followed by a series (simply The Lion Guard) on Disney Junior, with Rob…
In the Shakespeare canon, Cymbeline is a late play and a long play: by line count, the third longest, with 3,753. (The Comedy of Errors has less than half as many.) Some of those lines are g…
Benedict Cumberbatch is starring in Hamlet at London's Barbican Centre for a few more weeks, but before he leaves, he wants to welcome you to a phone-less future. Why? The actor (unders…
A typical musical might list 18 numbers in its program; Hamilton, with 34, is more in the range of operatic works like Porgy and Bess. Ambition is part of it, no less for Lin-Manuel Miranda …
After finding their Dorothy, NBC's The Wiz Live! has its two Good Witches: Both Orange Is the New Black's Uzo Aduba and Glee's Amber Riley have signed on to co-star in the show, reports E! A…