Theatre Nerd Intro for June 9, 2025 Dear Gossips, For a few years there in the second half of the last decade, Hamilton was Duana’s entire personality. She managed to somehow work it into every conversation we had, especially when we were doing the Show Your Work podcast. So I texted her after the Tony Awards By Lainey • Jun 09, 2025 09:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Carter Movie Credits Nobody’s in the mood to talk about the holidays since we’re just about to start May and the summer blockbuster season in North America but there is a movie coming out for the holiday season that’s expected to be a huge blockbuster and the first trailer dropped By Lainey • Apr 29, 2024 10:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Andrew Garfield in tick, tick...BOOM! Based on a musical by Jonathan Larson, the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of Rent, tick, tick...BOOM! is an autobiography self-aware of its subject’s death. The stage version of BOOM was also written by Larson and was first performed as a workshop Off-Off Broadway in 1990, and then By Sarah • Nov 23, 2021 01:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Please just stop with the musicals Please…please I am begging you…no more musicals…no more. The Greatest Showman, The Prom, Dear Evan Hansen, CATS… I don’t think I can take anymore. Are all these musicals punishment for liking La La Land? I take it back! I hate La La Land! I will do By Sarah • Oct 05, 2021 01:55 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: In The Heights of Work and Summer Headlines about the colourism in In The Heights have dominated all week. Both Cody and Violeta wrote about it yesterday. This week on Show Your Work, Duana and I discuss how Lin-Manuel Miranda, who’s been like an unofficial patron saint of Show Your Work (Hamilton is many things, among By Lainey • Jun 18, 2021 12:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews In The Heights Colourism and Rita Moreno’s Foot-in-Mouth Defence (Lainey: please note, this is the first of two back-to-back posts about In The Heights and the colourism conversation that’s been happening about representation in the film. Cody will start and Violeta’s perspective will follow.) The highly anticipated film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical, In The By Cody • Jun 17, 2021 01:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tick, Tick… Boom! There’s timing, and then there’s timing. There’s striking while the iron is hot, and there’s throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks. Opportunity vs. cashing in (creatively), and where tick, tick… Boom! is concerned, I’m not sure which is which. At least not By Duana • Jun 11, 2021 02:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews In The Heights Is No Sueñito Maybe it was a big ask of a movie, to help me heal some of the hurt of the past year and a few months, to let it help me escape the discomfort, inadequacy, and exhaustion I’ve been feeling, if only for a few hours. But I was hopeful, By Violeta • Jun 10, 2021 10:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for May 27, 2021 Dear Gossips, I squealed this morning when I checked The Hollywood Reporter and saw that their top story, and their new cover story, is a feature on Anthony Ramos. Who, of course, I love because of Hamilton but who I now am OBSESSED with because of In The Heights. I By Lainey • May 27, 2021 09:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews In the Heights is (also) a college story I have tried to stay away from any In the Heights content because I want to be surprised when I finally see it on my screen, but when Lainey sent me this Variety piece detailing the challenges of turning this Broadway hit into a film, I couldn’t help myself. By Violeta • Apr 09, 2021 01:52 pm
Emmy Awards 2020 Gabrielle Union-Wade: Best Emmys Spot From Home It’s beyond debate that the people at home had a better time than the people who were in studio, right? Once you’re there, even if you have a gag to do (more on those later) it’s basically business as usual. But the people at home really seemed By Duana • Sep 21, 2020 07:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Show Your Work: Hamilton: How They Told The Story Ahead of the release of the Hamilton film on Disney+ tomorrow (this is pretty much why I’m subscribing), this week’s episode is about Hamilton, not only why it’s a modern masterpiece but the work that went into it behind the scenes to make it as iconic and By Lainey • Jul 02, 2020 02:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews #Hamilfilm Teaser Delivers On The Promise If you don’t know by now that Hamilton will drop on Disney+ on Friday, July 3rd, I assume it’s because you don’t need that information – which is fine, I get it. For those who do know, who have known, though… The anticipation for the #Hamilfilm is intense, By Duana • Jun 29, 2020 01:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Andrew and Lin are still working We’ve heard a lot about delayed released and suspended productions over the last few days. Riverdale production has halted temporarily because of coronavirus and so has shooting on The Morning Show season two. As I mentioned yesterday, daytime and late night talk shows are no longer taping in front By Lainey • Mar 13, 2020 01:23 pm
Oscars 2020 Lin-Manuel’s Oscar Mission: Usnavi Awareness The following account of Block… let’s say six, of the Oscars, reads like one of those brain-teaser riddles in logic puzzles, where you have to extract one piece of verifiably true information and use it to determine the rest can or can’t be true. (I think it’s By Duana • Feb 10, 2020 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews ‘In The Heights’ Trailer Goosebump Count Look, I’m not going to bury the lede – between 1:46 and 2:26 I broke out in goosebumps no fewer than six times. But the dreamy strings at the beginning meant I was primed for it from the very first frame: I don’t know if any recent By Duana • Dec 13, 2019 02:59 pm
