281 stories by "Daniel Montgomery"
“La La Land” is the top nominee at the 2017 Golden Globe Awards with seven nominations. The musical romance about the love between an aspiring actress (Emma Stone) and a struggli…
At the 2016 Critics’ Choice Awards held on Sunday, December 11, “La La Land” entered with the most nominations (12), and it dominated the field with eight victories: Best P…
“La La Land” opened December 9, just three days before the announcement of the Golden Globe nominations, and we think the cast and crew are likely to wake up to good news. We exp…
After months of anticipation following its debut at the Venice Film Festival on August 31, Damien Chazelle‘s movie musical “La La Land” opened in theaters on December 9 to …
“It took me a very long time to find it — lots of bad ideas, lots of good but not good enough ideas … it took many tries to get there,” said “La La Land” …
“Hairspray Live!” aired on Wednesday Night, December 7, on NBC. Will this live TV event bring awards glory for its creators and all-star cast, who include Ariana Grande, Jenni…
Viola Davis may have won a 2010 Tony for “Fences” on Broadway, but as far as she was concerned there was room for improvement. As she told the audience after an NYC screening of …
The 2016 American Music Awards were held on Sunday night, November 20. The ceremony aired live on ABC and was hosted by Gigi Hadid and Jay Pharoah. But while many prizes were handed out, …
Ariana Grande pulled off a surprise victory for Artist of the Year at the 2016 American Music Awards — all the more surprising because it was her only nomination. Though perhaps we sho…
“There’s a dress that Judy Garland wears in ‘A Star is Born’ — it’s this beautiful green dress, and that’s the hue we were going for because it was …
It’s tough to pin down Lady Gaga. Over less than a decade she has made chart-topping dance-pop but also jazz standards with Tony Bennett. She performed a tribute to David Bowi…
Miley Cyrus keeps expanding her repertoire. The actress and singer recently debuted as a mentor on NBC’s Emmy-winning singing competition “The Voice,” and on September 29 s…
NBC announced on Wednesday, September 28, that “Hamilton” star Lin-Manuel Miranda will host “Saturday Night Live” on October 8. That will be the second episode of the…
“The Lion King” is on its way back to theaters, but not as we once knew it. Disney has announced that it is developing a live-action version of the 1994 animated classic. It will…
“The Magnificent Seven” opened on Friday, September 23, telling the story of a group of outlaws enlisted to protect the town of Rose Creek from a industrialist after the Civil Wa…
Want to understand why James Corden is an Emmy-winner? Then attend a taping of “The Late Late Show” at CBS Television City. That’s what Chris Beachum, Marcus James Di…
“I, like many of you, experienced this live on Twitter and freaked out in real time as the bar for what can be done with a movie musical live on screen was raised overnight,” sai…
Steven Spielberg‘s latest fantasy film, “The BFG,” opened July 1, just a few months after “Bridge of Spies” became the director’s 10th film nominated for …
The 70th Annual Tony Awards were held on Sunday, June 12, at the Beacon Theater in New York City. The winners came backstage to dish their awards with the press, and as you might have gue…
On Sunday night Jessica Lange won Best Actress in a Play for playing Mary Tyrone in Eugene O’Neill‘s classic drama “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” and that&…
The 2016 Tony Awards, honoring the best in Broadway theater, were handed out on Sunday night, June 12. That was just a few hours before Emmy voters started casting their ballots for th…
When a reporter compared Lin-Manuel Miranda to Stephen Sondheim and William Shakespeare in the 2016 Tony Awards press room, the actor-composer explained, “I spent seven years writing t…
The Tony Awards were held at the Beacon Theater on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on Sunday, June 12, but the press gathered around the corner at the Jewish Community Center on Amsterdam A…
“I was really inspired by the amount of people who watched this and said, ‘This is an amazing piece of history. I appreciate it being told,'” reveals Anika Noni Rose as we …
Our 13 Tony Awards experts have weighed in with their predictions in all 24 categories. These journalists, who cover the Broadway beat year-round, are all lined up behind “HamiltonR…
