TV Updates American Downton Abbey Back at the height Downton Abbey’s popularity, creator Julian Fellowes was developing a prequel series about the Gilded Age-era romance between Cora Levinson and a young Lord Grantham. As we learned during the series, Cora was one of the “dollar duchesses”—I guess in her case, a “coin countess” By Sarah • Nov 19, 2021 03:32 pm
Music What The World Needs Now… You know when something’s somehow better than you expected? The Broadway for Orlando charity single is exactly what they promised it would be –Broadway’s brightest and most legendary voices coming together to cover What the World Needs Now is Love. 100% of the sales go to the LGBT By Duana • Jun 21, 2016 12:34 pm
Clay Aiken Celebrities Holding The Mic I’ve been the first to say we should treat entertainers like entertainers, not role models. But in the wake of the Orlando massacre, there are reactions that make me think that, sometimes, I should revise my opinion – including my opinion on some of the stars having the reactions in By Duana • Jun 16, 2016 01:41 pm
Theatre Nerd The Tony Awards Measures In Love It would have been a great show regardless. These are show people, so they put on a show, they prepare their speeches, prepare to belt their performances. The energy of live theatre beats in the blood of people who do it every day, and somehow they reproduce that energy in By Duana • Jun 13, 2016 10:29 am
Jesse Tyler Ferguson Broadway-Themed Carpool Karaoke I’ve been resistant to Carpool Karaoke. I don’t know why, exactly, I like James Corden - it just seemed like the kind of viral thing you can ‘get’ without ever having to actually watch it. There were so many tweets and retweets and ‘ZOMG!’ that I felt like By Duana • Jun 07, 2016 01:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Little Beauty, Less Beast I hope you were not waiting on this. For lots of people, Beauty and The Beast went hand-in-hand with The Little Mermaid as the hallmarks of the renaissance of New Disney—headstrong heroines who love books and adventures and just happen to find romance along the way. Then for others, By Duana • May 24, 2016 11:42 am
