Some recent Broadway arrivals added both star power and box office receipts to the weekly grosses reports, with both Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Parade selling out (the latter despite some loudmouthed neo-Nazi protesters), and A Doll’s House starring Jessica Chastain and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bad Cinderella coming close. The musical
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The movie adaptation of Tony-winning Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen will hit theaters on September 24, Universal Pictures said Friday. Ben Platt is reprising his Tony-winning title role alongside Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, Kaitlyn Dever, Amandla Stenberg, Colton Ryan, Nik Dodani, DeMarius Copes and Danny Pino. The story follows Evan Hansen (Platt), a high schooler
[Caution: this post contains mild spoilers about The Politician; read at your own risk.] By now, people who watch Ryan Murphy dramas know to expect some hallmarks: heightened reality, visual decadence, poignant commentary, juicy drama, juicy melodrama, sick humor, and wicked fun. To describe shows from Murphy and his gang of cool-kid producers — Alexis