While The Walking Dead fans might not know where Michonne is going to end up by the end of the tenth season, her real-life counterpart knows where she's setting up a creative home – at least for two years. ABC Studios announced on Thursday that Danai Gurira (Black Panther, Avengers: Endgame) had signed an overall […]
Arrow star Stephen Amell and STARZ have tapped Kelli Berglund (Now Apocalypse) for a lead role in their upcoming hour-long drama Heels. Set in the world of independent professional wrestling, the eight-episode series is written by Michael Waldron (Loki) and directed by Peter Segal (Shameless) – with Mike O'Malley serving as showrunner, and Alexander Ludwig (Vikings) […]
Remember the 1990's sitcom The Nanny? If you've never seen it, the show is fantastic. A late twenties (or early thirties) woman — Fran Fine — is hired to be a live in nanny for three children living with their widower father. The series is one of the best things to come out of the […]
There is something about Harry Potter that never fails to give me goosebumps and bring tears to my eyes. This time was no different. At NYCC, we had the chance to experience the magic behind the scenes of movement in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child with the cast and crew. Moderating the panel, we […]
We're all fans of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and her breakthrough BBC show Fleabag around here. Uberfans know that Fleabag began life as a one-woman play Waller-Bridge wrote and performed at the Edinburgh Festival back in 2013. Now Waller-Bridge is going back to perform the original play one last time in London's West End. Some fans are […]
With Netflix's Mindhunter set to premiere its second season on August 16, series star Jonathan Groff (Hamilton, Spring Awakening) is heading back to the stage this fall for an Off-Broadway run in a revival of Howard Ashman–Alan Menken musical Little Shop of Horrors. Directed by Michael Mayer and co-starring Tammy Blanchard (Life with Judy Garland, Gypsy) […]
Max Wright – best known as family patriarch Willie Tanner in the 80's NBC sitcom ALF – passed away this week at the age of 75, his family confirmed to TMZ. With over four decades on stage and screen, Wright's filmography showed his leanings more towards television than film. He landed featured roles on Buffalo Bill (1983-84), […]
A friend invited me to see the revival of Lanford Wilson's Burn This, I was more than happy to go. It's not only a proper play, but a New York play. The production with Keri Russell and Adam Driver got a lot of buzz, so how could I pass it up? I don't usually go […]
Creative power-house Ryan Murphy (American Horror Story, Pose, Glee) continues flexing his Netflix muscle and proving why we're rightly justified to have a professional obsession with him, announcing on Instagram that he will be reuniting the entire Broadway cast of 2018's The Boys in the Band for a feature film adaptation at Netflix. With Murphy producing alongside David […]
Creative power-house Ryan Murphy (American Horror Story, Pose, Glee) continues flexing his Netflix muscle, this time moving forward on a feature film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical The Prom. Prior to Tuesday night's charity performance of The Prom for the Hetrick-Martin Institute, GLAAD, and the Trevor Project at NYC's Longacre Theatre, Murphy made the […]
We've known there was a Broadway show based on Tim Burton's 1988 film Beetlejuice in the works for quite some time, and we've finally got an official tease of the show! Tony Nominee Alex Brightman will be playing the title role of the ghost with the most–Beetlejuice, and you can get your first look at […]
Carol Channing, whose signature voice propelled her to stardom on Broadway and Hollywood, died at the age of 97 at her home in Rancho Mirage, CA. Channing's best-known roles were in Hello Dolly! as Dolly Gallagher Levi and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as Lorelei Lee. According to Channing's publicist B. Harlan Boll, she died of natural […]
Aaron Sorkin is one of the undisputed KINGS of written dialog, and when word came down that he was adapting Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mocking Bird" (voted #1 in PBS's The Great American Read) for the stage, our interest was peaked. Wordsmith behind some of the best written [FIGHT. ME] tv series of modern times- The […]
Listen up, Broadway babies- the 2019 Tony Awards just got their venue and broadcast date for the 2019 ceremony celebrating the best and brightest of the Great White Way. The 2019 Tony Awards will take place at lManhattan's Radio City Music Hall (duh), and will be broadcast live via CBS on Sunday June 9th 2019. […]
Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous is one of those special movies that remains an important piece of cinema to those who love it. Not everyone does, but the ones who do REALLY love it. It's apparently also the most recent beloved flick to be getting a musical adaptation, joining the likes of Waitress, and Moulin Rouge. Tom Kitt (Tony-winning composer […]
AMC is doing its part to help The Walking Dead showrunner Angela Kang keep her promise that the series would be expanding its universe and cast of characters heading into the ninth season, adding Outer Critics Circle and Tony Award-nominated actress Lauren Ridloff. Nominated in 2018 for her role in Children of a Lesser God, Ridloff will […]
Executive producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have set 2019 for the dawning of the age of Hair Live!, NBC's live musical presentation of the counter-culture classic. Zadan and Meron have executive produced all of the network's live musicals since the current run began with The Sound of Music Live!; including this Easter's presentaton of Jesus […]
Yes, we know, the movie adaptation of the Monty Python musical Spamalot is *actually* Monty Python And The Holy Grail but, this is about a film version of the Broadway musical. Perhaps you'll recall the CLASSIC (FIGHT ME) 1975 film from the British comedy troupe about the trials and tribulations of Arthur King of the Britons (Graham Chapman) […]
Lin-Manuel Miranda isn't just "Hamilton Guy", even though many will know him soley for that. Before he was rapping about the nation's founding fathers and changing the face of Broadway, Miranda had another notable but less well known hit show called "In The Heights". That musical chronicles a mostly hispanic group of denizens of the Washington […]
Baz Luhrmann's 2001 technicolor musical feature film Moulin Rouge has been turned into a live stage musical, and we're pretty damn excited, to be honest. The film featured several non-period popular songs like David Bowie's "Diamond Dogs", Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit", Queen's "The Show Must Go On", and several medleys. Stars Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor delighted audiences with their […]
