Maybe Motown: The Musical would have been best off not as part reality-show Dreamgirls but as a straight-out Motortown Revue 2013, which it almost is anyway.
It's very nice that Oscars made a special tribute to movie musicals. The only problem is that not a single one of the musicals honored (Chicago, Dreamgirls, Les Miz) was ever eligible for Oscar's own category of "Best Original Musical."
LOS ANGELES -- Beyonce will be the halftime performer at next year's Super Bowl, we learned this week when the AP broke the news. This got me thinking...
When I met Vanessa Bell Calloway, I wanted to give her a standing ovation. She is an extraordinary actress, dancer, philanthropist, motivator, mentor, wife, and mother.
On last night's "American Idol" finale, Idol finalist Jessica Sanchez performed a duet with singer Jennifer Holiday that was so good, it may very well...
Last night The 84th Academy Awards once again brought sparkle to Los Angeles as the 2012 Oscars celebrated talent across the film industry.
The Koda...
Tony Award-winning actress Jennifer Holliday is set to make her Apollo debut on February 1 during the opening night of the theater's 78th season of Am...
Chester Gregory has that ability of the truly talented to repeatedly eclipse his own success. The award-winning stage actor has appeared in some of th...
After winning Best Musical at the Tony Awards this past Sunday, the cast album for "The Book of Mormon," Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Robert Lopez's m...
Aretha says she wants Halle for the part. Aretha now says she has Halle for the part. Halle's public remarks indicate she's reticent to play the rol...
She is the the Tony Award and Grammy Award-winnng Broadway legend who started Hollywood's obsession with "big girls". Before Jennifer Hudson, before Q...
This is the first week the show's new 90-minute format actually worked for me, perhaps because there were so many delicious moments -- including an extended sequence of Tim Gunn's workroom pep talks.
There's something intrinsically, irrefutably wonderful about the "Broadway Rising Stars" evening but predicting which of these kids will make it here and, by extrapolation, anywhere is a fool's game.
Neil Labute's remake of Death at a Funeral is virtually a photocopy, in terms of the story it tells and the comedy beats it hits. Yet everything in this version is coarser and more obvious, aimed at a lowest-common-denominator audience.
After all these years I am shocked at how little we in America talk about "it" and how the silence surrounding "it" is killing us quicker than the disease.