"Shailene Woodley arrested on set of Stranger Things."

Is that when you start talking Bulbasaur talk instead of human words?

Starring Rami Malek as a terrifying, bug-eyed Aladdin, talking to an "Abu" no one can see.

The Rat Pack inspired stage show is based less on the Disney movie and more on the late Howard Ashman's initial ideas for the Disney movie. He wanted to recreate the silliness, jazzy swing and "vintage randomness" of the Rat Pack and Road to Morocco movies, complete with Sammy Davis, Jr. as the Genie.

A well-written remake of "Song of the South" as a prestige film has been something I've been saying is a no-brainer for years. Strong PG or light PG-13, get some great actors, some folk art influenced animation for the parables, and really dig into the complicated relationship where this guy who's "a part of the…

Madonna seems to me like if Lady Gaga was actually Lady Gaga and not Stefani Germanotta when off camera. Like she never stops being her own version of The Diva.

Well, he DID cameo on Broadway as "Genie Junior" for one night only…

NAHT AS GOOD AS DA RIVUH, BUT EHHHHH, NUTTIN'S AS GOOD AS DA RIVUH! FUCKIN' SHERRY DARLIN'…

I was watching this year's "American Horror Story," and couldn't help but think that the chameleonic Denis O'Hare (who has played a transwoman, a mute servant, a cheerful disfigured man and several other roles in the past) seemed to be playing "psychological thriller era Robin Williams" this year.

People seem to by-and-large dislike Stephen King's "feminist period," but "Dolores Claiborne" is a masterpiece of real-time monologue, and one of the best character studies King ever wrote.

Angela Anaconda is a show that could never be made for kids today- an autistic grade schooler having murder fantasies about her classmates wouldn't really fly, like "Heathers" gets a free pass for being old.

Tommy, and this is something I say as a big Who fan, is an incredible collection of demo recordings. It was recorded at the wrong time by the band, as it has them applying their lighter mod sound, and Roger Daltrey's airy tenor era voice, to songs that would attain their stronger, meatier sound in the 1970s on live…

Rain Dogs
Closing Time
Alice
Heart of Saturday Night
Swordfishtrombones

Anyone in Pittsburgh: there's a play about to open at the City Theatre called "Feeding the Dragon," about the experience of a young girl who grew up in a NYPL custodial family, living in the library and having to "feed the dragon" at night to keep the place heated.

I have a very thin, tenuous connection to the Team Starkid musical comedy group out of the Midwest (my most frequent writing partner is a friend and former performing partner of group founder Darren Criss, and my good friend is sort of part of their management team). They did a show called "Starship," which pretty…

Look up the version by The Protomen. It's pretty faithful overall but has a touch more retrofuturism and menace. I suppose it pairs away some of the Phil Collinsisms of the first half of the song.

I had a similar reaction when I saw the stage show- you don't really know when the show proper is beginning, as the hour or so beforehand is a jam session at the onstage bar. Only when Guy begins his playing "Leave," and everyone else falls silent, do you know for sure that you've moved beyond atmosphere into…

I saw a one-woman show in NYC called "You Must Now Worship Me" probably over a decade ago, about a Mennonite girl who ran away to the city, got into theatre, became a minor success and developed an intensely troubling relationship with a gay tween stalker on the internet.

Backstreets is the first moment when "Born to Run" really reveals it's a long suicide note.

Listen to the version helmed by Elton John at the concert for Freddie Mercury; it changes the meaning in a fascinating way. Mercury's swan song was a flamboyant, tragic last triumph: "I am doing this even though it's gonna kill me." Elton, on the other hand, was still getting used to his surgically altered new…