Question: Could the utterly hilarious and gorgeous actress Emma Stone get any more likeable? The answer, my friends, is yes. Yes she can. Why? Because this star is headed for Broooaaadway! Stone will take over the lead in the revival of Cabaret, replacing Michelle Williams as Sally Bowles this November. It’s Stone’s first Broadway role, […]
You know the sculpture: A young girl in a tutu stands in an open fourth position, gazing up in awe as if she’s watching a prima ballerina leap before her. But you probably don’t know the story behind the sculpture—the story of ballet student Marie von Goethem, who, at age 14, became the muse of […]
Around here, we can’t get enough of Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” video. And as if we needed another reason to keep the song on repeat, the Broadway cast of Mamma Mia! just gave us one. Not only are the Mamma Mia! triple-threats super-hilarious, the video gives us an exclusive backstage tour of the show’s […]
Can you think of anything you’ve done 7,000 times? OK, maybe brushing your teeth—if you do it twice a day for 10 years, you get roughly 7,000 cleanings. But my point is that 7,000 is a lot. And on Wednesday, September 3, The Lion King on Broadway will mark its 7,000th performance. Also a ginormous […]
Well, the moment we’ve been dreading has arrived: Yesterday, Newsies ended its Broadway run, after its 1,005th show. Of course, this isn’t the show’s true ending(!), Newsies kicks off its national tour this October. Still, the closing was an incredible event. I was fortunate enough to be in the audience at the Nederlander Theater, and […]
We’re already incredibly excited about the fact that New York City Ballet principal Robert Fairchild has a starring role in Christopher Wheeldon‘s new stage production of An American in Paris—which debuts this November à Paris. But a new set of photos is getting us even more revved up. Opposite Fairchild’s Jerry Mulligan (the role played by […]
meeeeeow Cats fanatics, book those plane tickets now. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1981 dance musical masterpiece is returning to London this December, and news has dropped that at least one cat is getting a makeover: Rum Tug Tugger—the rock ‘n’ roll bad boy of Jellicle cats—is going to rap. Why, you ask? Lloyd Webber has apparently […]
I’ll admit it: I’m addicted to the radio show “This American Life.” I’ve listened to almost every one of its hour-long episodes (that’s a little under 530 hours of my life); I’ve read countless books written by its contributors; I’ve watched its short-lived TV series on Showtime; and I’ve attended live events related to the […]