Amazingness Tom Cruise, the Musical Remember back in the spring of 2020, when we were all shellshocked from lockdown? I don’t want to remember it either but this is about context, and at the time, with movies being pulled from theatres and everyone in Hollywood trying to figure out what the f-ck to By Lainey • Aug 09, 2022 12:56 pm
TV Updates Bridgerton boys out and about It’s a Bridgerton reunion at Milan fashion week, as the duke and the viscount themselves, Regé-Jean Page and Jonathan Bailey, ended up at the Giorgio Armani show. This is very summer, very yacht-casual, very “attorneys on vacation”. Bailey is a little bit of a scroll down surprise, By Sarah • Jun 21, 2022 11:31 am
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 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 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 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, 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
