Jane Lynch’s characters are often hard-edged, overbearing and even a little scary, but Lynch herself is known for showing up early, working hard and being nice to everybody—not exactly the reputation you would expect from Glee’s Sue Sylvester or Steve Carell’s icky boss in The 40-Year-Old Virgin. This
Last year Jon Stewart suggested that Twitter is too wordy and he prefers the new social media app “Grunter.” Meanwhile, in real life, newspapers have given way to blogs; the long-form has given way to punchy pith. The age of fast-food journalism is upon us.
If history is written by the winners, the songs are sung by the people. This week, performance artist Taylor Mac embarks on a tremendous feat of physical, mental and artistic endurance in a marathon-length show of gargantuan scope. “A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music”
Interview Javier Muñoz: adding sex and steel to Hamilton Erika Milvy Stepping into Lin-Manuel Miranda’s shoes was daunting – but having coped with two life-threatening illnesses, Hamilton’s new star was up to the challenge Javier Muñoz backstage at the Richard Rodgers Theater on Broadway. Photograph: Walter
When the audience cheers for the landing helicopter in ”Miss Saigon” or the careening chandelier in ”Phantom of the Opera,” it’s applauding eye candy. When the awkward, bookish schoolgirl Elphaba mounts her broom and takes to the sky in ”Wicked,” our rush of emotion is
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ENTERTAINMENT & ARTS ‘Mean Girls’ was a movie before Twitter even existed. How did creators update it to be a modern musical? “Mean Girls” tied for the most Tony nominations with 12. Here Cady (Erika Henningsen) faces the lunch trio of Gretchen (Ashley Park), left,
ENTERTAINMENT & ARTS https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-mean-girls-broadway-20180502-story.html “Mean Girls” tied for the most Tony nominations with 12. Here Cady (Erika Henningsen) faces the lunch trio of Gretchen (Ashley Park), left, Regina (Tony nominee Taylor Louderman) and Karen (Kate Rockwell). (Joan Marcus) BY ERIKA MILVY MAY 2, 2018 5
San Jose novelist Khaled Hosseini talks about adapting his work for the stage and dealing with Trump’s America. Source: ‘I See Art As a Way for People to Not Think of Each Other in Broad Strokes’
Khaled Hosseini’s bestseller following two women from strikingly different classes will begin its run Feb. 1 at ACT in San Francisco. By ERIKA MILVY JAN. 19, 2017 6 AM PT In a much retweeted curtain-call speech from the Broadway stage in November, “Hamilton” actor Brandon Dixon conveyed