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USC's Media, Diversity, and Social Change Initiative has released its latest report on diversity and representation in the film industry, and the results are as disappointing as they are pre…
Want a convincing case for the value of a postgraduate education? Meryl Streep finished her MFA from Yale in 1975 at the age of 26 (she paid her way through school by waitressing and typing)…
NBC has finally found a Dorothy for its live production of The Wiz: 18-year-old New Jersey native Shanice Williams snagged the part a million girls would kill for through an open casting cal…
Coincidentally, two films currently in theaters are about journalists writing magazine profiles. In one of them, the writer and subject have stimulating and sometimes antagonistic philosophi…
Recently, The Good Wife co-showrunner Robert King said he regrets that Oliver Platt's arc was so short, and it turns out Christine Baranski feels the same way. "My favorite episode that…
In Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical Hamilton (which opens on Broadway on August 6 after a much-praised run this past winter at the Public Theater), the founding father emerges as an immigrant st…
Beware short plays bearing long titles; they are usually not short enough. Such is the case with The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, a 75-minute one-man show in which James Lecesne, w…
Dave Malloy has a thing for the Russian romantics. His recent electropop opera Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 " presented in a big tent fabulously tricked out as a Czarist nigh…
As fans of Mad Men have no doubt realized since the show's May finale, Elisabeth Moss withdrawal is a real and very painful thing. Fans of this terrific actress may have perked up this week …
James Corden might be finding his late-night niche. Sure, the other Jimmys have more established comedic followings, but Corden can do classic song-and-dance numbers. So last night he had ve…
Remember that limited-run TV series that saw a talented filmmaker reconstitute our image of a beloved star by casting them in the story of a detective investigating a mysterious string of vi…
This article appeared in the April 8, 2013 issue of New York Magazine. In the dark Bronx days of the Great Depression, I lived on a street named after the brook or burn that once flowed…
E.L. Doctorow, the award-winning New York author who was renowned for his historical fiction and who penned such unique works as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, City of God, and The Waterworks, die…
"I was obsessed with Eminem," Daniel Radcliffe told Jimmy Fallon last year before showing off his rapping skills. "I think I was the first kid in my class to learn all the words …
You know who's a glaring omission from Taylor Swift's glamorous friend circle? BFFs Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart, obviously! This week the two decided to audition for Tay's crew …
There's a scene in Fun Home " both the book and the musical " in which a 9-year-old girl shows her father a fanciful map she's drawn for school. As the father grows more agitated t…
Are you Team Lippa or Team LaChiusa? For theater types, the dueling musicals of The Wild Party " one by Andrew Lippa, one by Michael John LaChiusa, both somehow given their premieres in the …
Jane Krakowski teamed up again with Tina Fey to play the comically tragic Upper East Side housewife Jacqueline Voorhees on Netflix's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and it paid off with another E…
Today's Emmy nominations had a few snubs and a few high points, too. To round it out your Emmys analysis diet, here are some lesser-heralded nominations and trivia items that may have escape…
Trusted fart connoisseur, serial open-letter author, and Bob's Burgers comedian Eugene Mirman had to get creative when he was slammed with injustice on a recent trip to New Hampshire. Visiti…
Women in Hollywood are still getting paid less than their male counterparts, but at least they're speaking out about it. Amanda Seyfried followed in the badass steps of Patricia Arquette and…
You used to have to enter the Marquis Theatre, that abattoir of an auditorium inside the Marriott Marquis hotel, via a series of Plexiglas-encased escalators and cattle chutes that primed yo…
An anonymous donor has offered a $1 million reward for any "credible information" that leads to the return of Dorothy's ruby slippers, which she lifted off the carcass of the Wicked Witch of…
It's the scandal of the summer! Bad phone etiquette is running rampant in theaters everywhere, and the performers aren't going to let it go " not even if you're Madonna. First there was the …
Aaron Tveit will play Danny Zuko in Fox's upcoming live performance of Grease, the network announced Thursday. What's that, you say? Tell you more, tell you more? Well-ah, well-ah, well-ah: …
