Style Tonys Fashion Understated is never the theme of the Tonys, especially not when Broadway was celebrating its return after two years of COVID shutdowns. So there were a lot of great looks last night and we’ll showcase some of them here, starting with Cynthia Erivo, my personal favourite. Because I’ve By Lainey • Jun 13, 2022 11:25 am
Theatre Nerd JHud EGOT Michael R Jackson’s A Strange Loop won two Tony Awards last night, including Best Musical, as Broadway toasted its return after two years of pandemic shutdown. A Strange Loop is already a Pulitzer winner, an acclaimed original production that Michael worked on for 20 years. As he said last By Lainey • Jun 13, 2022 09:52 am
Equality Issues Jesse Williams: Nominated and Viral I don’t know about your feed but mine has been blowing up over Jesse Williams the last 12 hours or so. The reason – nude photos and video of him have leaked from his performance on Broadway in Take Me Out in which he plays a baseball player who is By Lainey • May 10, 2022 01:16 pm
Theatre Nerd Opening Night with Daniel and Ruth Big night on Broadway last night as Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga headline Macbeth and I’m pretty sure no one has to explain who they’re playing. The show also brought out Danai Gurira (in an amazing yellow and black jacket dress) and Oscar Isaac and his wife Elvira By Lainey • Apr 29, 2022 01:32 pm
Top Reads Pamela Anderson… to Broadway! Pamela Anderson has been in the headlines this year because of Pam & Tommy, a series she did not endorse and refused to cooperate with, despite the fact that it presents a sympathetic portrait of what she went through during the sex tape scandal. Yes, for sure, the dirtbags who By Lainey • Mar 07, 2022 01:27 pm
Theatre Nerd Outfit of the Week: Saoirse Ronan’s First Time Saoirse Ronan has served us a lot of great looks over the years, so obviously this is not her first time in a great outfit. The first time here refers to her West End debut in The Tragedy of Macbeth opposite James McArdle. Here she is at press night last By Lainey • Oct 15, 2021 03:33 pm
Theatre Nerd Daniel Craig after Bond Macbeth is having a moment. Joel Coen’s filmed version of the Scottish play is sitting at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes after premiering at the New York Film Festival, and now there is a new version coming to Broadway starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga as the ill-fated power couple. By Sarah • Oct 01, 2021 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews West Side Story Trailer VS. In The Heights Trailer I went to the kind of high school where the annual musical was a huge deal involving literally hundreds of students and staff, and where all seven performances filled the 1,200 seat auditorium. Which, aside from being a humbleflex, makes sense – musicals are crowd-pleasers, and people who never attend By Duana • Apr 27, 2021 02:21 pm
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
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
Theatre Nerd Emilia Clarke & Jessica Chastain remain committed To the stage, that is. Both women were to front revivals on London’s West End this summer, but the theater season was, of course, cut short by COVID-19. Emilia Clarke is to star in an adaption of The Seagull from Anya Reiss, and Jessica Chastain will lead Frank McGuiness’ By Sarah • May 29, 2020 11:49 am
Theatre Nerd SMASH, as it was meant to be I have no emotional reserves anymore so it could be that I’m just extra in general, but I got absolute goosebumps when I discovered that SMASH, the ridiculous, inexplicable television spectacle of 2012 which I and everyone else wrote about ad nauseum, which confounded an entire television-watching generation, like By Duana • May 22, 2020 03:25 pm
Game of Thrones Emilia after Westeros A year ago today we were all still anticipating the return and the eventual end of Game of Thrones. Do you kind of wish we could go back to that time? To a time when you didn’t know and therefore weren’t disappointed? People were DISAPPOINTED. There were petitions! By Lainey • Mar 03, 2020 12:35 pm
Maple Leaf Finally, Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale get the J-Rod treatment! We talk often about great cutaways in awards show history, and yada yada Taylor Swift dancing, but one that often goes overlooked involves my favourite celebrity couple, Bobby Cannavale and Rose Byrne. When Bobby was accepting his Emmy for Boardwalk Empire in 2013, he gave an endearingly rambly list of By Joanna • Dec 06, 2019 12:22 pm
BFFs Marvel’s Betrayal If you play a superhero, is it gauche to dress as that superhero for Halloween? I think so. I would think less of Chris Hemsworth if he showed up at a party as Thor. Tom Hiddleston and the cast of Betrayal on Broadway have been teasing a Halloween surprise, telling By Lainey • Oct 31, 2019 12:06 pm
