musicals
The Best Musical of the Year Is a Hip-Hop Show About Alexander Hamilton
Lin-Manuel Miranda's new Broadway play 'Hamilton: An American Musical' is inventive, educational, and also really, really good.
First Hollywood, Now Theater Land Is Recycling the Stories of Our Teenage Years
It looks like we're about to get musical remakes of Mean Girls, Clueless, and The OC. It's a lazy, cynical cash-grab, but we're just as much to blame as those behind the shows.
Friends, How Great Is The Social Experiment's "Sunday Candy" Video?
In which Chance the Rapper's bop-infused form of musical theater is also an act of radical positivity.
From Gilman Street to Broadway: NOFX’s Fat Mike Is Selling Punk Rock to Your Mom
How do you make middle America see a musical about blowjobs and street punks?
How the Sausage Gets Laid: 'Pretty Filthy' Is a New Musical About Porn
'Pretty Filthy' looks at porn as a business first and a fuck fest second, with lots of humor in between.
Why Is This Harmless-Looking Bollywood Movie Triggering a Huge Free Speech Debate in India?
"MSG: The Messenger of God" is a Bollywood film that critics claim is trying to proselytize on behalf of a bizarre and controversial religious sect.
The New 'Annie' Movie Broke My Heart
Turns out you can't replace Carol Burnett with Cameron Diaz.
Photos of Friday Night in Times Square
The first in our new series about the depravity and beauty at the end of every week.
Legendary Publishing-World Terror Judith Regan Is Back in Business
If you've read a literary novel, listened to conservative radio, or jacked off to your mom's favorite erotica in the past 30 years, you've consumed media that's passed through Regan's hands.
We Talked to Belle & Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch About His Directorial Debut, 'God Help The Girl'
He wanted to make something beautiful and honest.