44 stories by "Jesse David Fox"
Rachel Bloom seems so natural in her role on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, both on camera and behind it, that it's hard to imagine that there was a time when she wasn't combining her musical-theater …
"I know … I'm in the future also" are seven words that represented both a creative breakthrough and directive for Mike Birbiglia, when he riffed it, working on a story about a charity set …
For about a decade, Chris Gethard, whose new self-help book/memoir, Lose Well, is in stores now, was not only one of the best improvisers at the UCB Theatre in New York, but he was one of th…
When you've been doing comedy together for as long as Nick Kroll and John Mulaney have " nearly 20 years now " there comes a time when you write scenes where you talk dirty to each other and…
In 2008, Nathan Lane introduced a young comedian with a funny name (well, a funny last name; his first name is Mike) and his one-person show to the New York theater world. Today, ten years a…
Earlier today, it was announced that Hamilton received 13 Olivier nominations, becoming the most-nominated show in the history of London's biggest theater award. Which, we would be lying if …
I didn't watch Fergie's rendition of the national anthem when it aired live, for the same reason I didn't watch it when the clip of it first started circulating " I have heard the national a…
Bruce Springsteen is a Jersey Boy at heart, but is he also a Broadway Baby? Apparently! Starting October 3 through February, Bruce Springsteen will be the titular Springsteen in Springsteen …
Thirty years ago, as of this week, Dirty Dancing premiered in theaters; ever since, no one has legally been allowed to put Baby in a corner. However, what they were allowed to put was Dirty …
In a show as jam-packed with memorable moments as The Simpsons, it's hard to say with any certainty where any one bit ranks. What I do know is when you mention anything about Planet of the A…
For over a year and half, Chris Gethard has been performing Career Suicide, a comedic one-man show about mental illness, and he's not stopping anytime soon. After wrapping a three-month…
As the globe made of water and dirt turns, another Golden Globes moves into our collective rearview. And it was, well, all over the place. Still, high were highs and lows low, winners won, s…
While Comedy Bang! Bang!'s Scott Aukerman had previously told Vulture there was much debate over who would be the guests for the show's series finale (Ben Affleck, Jon Hamm, and Tatiana Masl…
The stars were out Monday at the opening night of Oh, Hello on Broadway, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney's latest version of their stage show about two Upper West Side schmucks " Gil Faizon and …
The first thing I noticed when I took my seat in the Upper West Side's Triad cabaret theater was Rachael Ray. She, her husband, and a group of friends were sitting at a table right up a…
Oooooooh, promo. Half, or at least a third, of the fun of the Oh, Hello show is watching John Mulaney and Nick Kroll crack each other up as these two miserable jerks, Gil Faizon and Geo…
How do two bastard, old friends, son of a Jew and a Dutchman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot on the UPPER WEST SIDE OF MANHATTAN by providence, impoverished, in squalor, grow up t…
Laura Benanti, with her uncanny resemblance and musical-theater-trained ear, was definitely the right person to do a Melania Trump impression, and the night after the potential future First …
On an afternoon in late May, Mike Birbiglia sits in his dressing room at Manhattan's Lynn Redgrave Theater, where he's about to perform his one-man show Thank God for Jokes for the 109th and…
Two. Two-two two thousand. Two-two two thousand " 2016. A cast of wildly talented singers/rappers/actors, seemingly born to play the Founding Fathers and Mothers, in an unlikely Broadwa…
High School Musical's Corbin Bleu will guest on The Fosters this coming March, so I guess I owe everyone an apology for trying to shut down that high school. It was a high school devoted sol…
Remember when you first listened to the Hamilton cast recording? I'm sure you do. You were hooked by the opening, pumped up by "My Shot," smiling widely at "You'll Be Back," …
"I'm the one who types and maybe thinks socialism sounds pretty good in theory." Also, prepare yourself to see Louis C.K. as an old-timey dude. ... More »
It's actually surprising Seinfeld never had an episode in which Jerry finds a second George (played by Larry David, or Jason Alexander in a mustache), and the Georges first love each other b…
Mad Men ended weeks ago, but there are still images from the final season that linger in the brain. Arguably, none has stuck with us more than the one of Peggy strutting into McCann Erickson…
