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Whether you know her as the increasingly complicated serial murderer 'A' on ABC Family's PRETTY LITTLE LIARS, or as half of 'Jamko' on CBS crime drama BLUE BLOODS, chances are, unless you ar…
SLAPSHOT, CADDYSHACK, HAPPY GILMORE. Sports and comedy have gone hand-in-hand in American entertainment for decades, but on a daily basis, nearly all of the sports content on TV and on-line …
This fall, beloved Broadway internet personality, Annoying Actor Friend is releasing its second book, 'GRATEFUL Everything Happens for a Reason.' Described as a 'Choose Your Own Show Busines…
The SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Season 12 Top 10 are on a nationwide tour bringing this season's most popular routines, as well as original pieces, to cities around the country, and BroadwayW…
TV's newest superhero show is startlingly different than nearly everything else on the current comic book landscape, and it's not just because its hero wears a skirt instead of tights. No, C…
FUNNY OR DIE just posted a hilarious BYE BYE BIRDIE parody send-off for departing Speaker of the HouseJohn Boehner, wishing him 'nothing but the best.'
There are a few things that you can say about the new musical-comedy CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND's first two episodes they have been funny, and they have been crazy. However, as the show's resident …
The fall is a special time for Broadway fans, with new plays and musicals opening left and right. However, it is also a special time of year for sports fans, with the baseball playoffs in fu…
On Monday, October 26, the Theater People podcast welcomes Tony winner Lena Hall. Hall, who won her Tony Award for her gender bending performance as Yitzhak in the 2014 Broadway production o…
Over the past few decades, many have bemoaned the rash of movies adapted for the Broadway stage, claiming that the theatre had lost its sense of creativity and enginuity. Some of these movie…
Very little can shock American TV viewers anymore. From gore to profanity to nudity, we've more or less seen it all since cable became a leader in high quality, ground-breaking programming. …
You can take the writer out of the theatre, but you can't take the theatre out of the writer. For the past 20 years, Aaron Sorkin has been one of Hollywood's most successful scribes. From TH…
On the second episode of BroadwayWorld's 'Some Like it Pop' podcast, Jennifer McHugh and I discuss some of our favorite shows of the newfall TV season shows have debuted THE LEFTOVERS, FARGO…
It's been a busy year for triple-threat Gabrielle Ruiz. After being a part of the closing cast of Broadway's IFTHEN, she then starred opposite Justin Guarini in Bucks County Playhouse's prod…
The first season of HBO's drama THE LEFTOVERS was one of the most divisive 10 episodes in recent television history. Supporters hailed it as a dark and intelligent allegory for surviving tra…
In 1989, Disney revitalized both animation and musical theatre for generations to come with their Academy Award-winning film THE LITTLE MERMAID. They followed up that success with BEAUTY AND…
Theatre fans have had a tenuous relationship with television musicals over the past few years. Whether it was the casual dismissal of GLEE after its strong first season, the hate-watching of…
As popular culture continues to be fractured with the advent of new forms of media and even more forms of delivery, it is good to know that there are still some institutions that you can con…
The majority of Americans know Sarah Hyland as Haley, the super-hot oldest daughter of Phil and Claire Dunphey on ABC's hit comedy MODERN FAMILY. But, we theatre fans remember her as young J…
Despite being one of the most respected performers on Broadway, Canaan also has a passion for bringing his experiences to young theatre lovers around the country. Having taught with Kid's Ni…
It's approaching midnight. You walk down a narrow set of stairs into a dimly-lit, yet elegant space that is surprisingly more intimate than you imagined. The guys and dolls in the crowd are …
While it didn't receive quite the fanfare that some of the other new shows have this season, Steven Spielberg and Edward Burns have quietly brought one of the most unique and satisfying dram…
Recently, the creators of BroadwayWorld's web series partner THE RESIDUALS were guests on the Comcastro podcast. THE RESIDUALS husband and wife team of Michael Paul Smith and Gillian Pensava…
The goal of art is to make the viewer feel. While many didn't appreciate what the first season of HBO's THE LEFTOVERS made them feel, no one can argue that it did, in fact, make them feel so…
When you were a little kid, did you ever get separated from your parents in the mall or grocery store Can you remember how the all-consuming terror of being abandoned to fend for yourself be…