Actors Who Help Develop Hit Broadway Shows Will Share In Profits, Says New Union Agreement

After a strike lasting 33 days, Actors’ Equity has made a deal with producers trade association the Broadway League to give a fraction of successful Broadway shows’ profits to its performers and stage managers. The move is intended to acknowledge the vital role founding cast members play in the development

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RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Life’s Not Fair

So, Manila’s out of here and the girls are gagged. Gagged, and kind of living. Gagged, kind of living, and altogether keeping the atmosphere light. While Trinity is a little nonplussed, to say the least, even she is able to smile and crack jokes with the rest of the girls

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HBO’s Confederate Delay Allegedly Not Due to Controversy, But Rather Extreme Busyness

While it might seem like the controversy around HBO’s upcoming alternate history drama Confederate would be the natural explanation for why the show hasn’t seen much movement in the past two years, HBO chief Casey Bloys told TVLine on Friday that it’s actually a scheduling issue related to the series’s

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Kevin Spacey Demands Sex-Abuse Case Dismissal Due to Accuser’s Anonymity

Kevin Spacey was recently charged in a Massachusetts court for indecent assault and battery, to which he pleaded not guilty, but he’s also trying to fight a separate case from an incident in California. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Spacey’s lawyers filed a court brief Thursday attempting to dismiss a

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PEN15 Recap: Smoking in the Girls’ Room

One of the biggest flaws in media about teenage girls (and let’s be real, about women in general) is that it assumes they’re all one of two ways: young-acting or old-acting, prudish or slutty, mild or wild. What makes PEN15 so refreshing is that Maya and Anna are both, and

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One Day at a Time Recap: Pay Attention, Boys

One of the many reasons I was looking forward to the return of One Day at a Time was to see how it would approach the subject of sexual harassment in 2019. It’s a topical show by nature, featuring multiple outspoken feminist characters, so I (correctly) assumed season three would

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How the Lonely Island Changed the Internet, Comedy, and Especially Internet Comedy

This article originally ran in 2016; we’ve republished it in honor of the tenth anniversary of The Lonely Island’s Incredibad.Over their 15-year career, the comedy trio the Lonely Island has won an Emmy and a Peabody, earned three Grammy nominations, and released two top-ten albums and two platinum singles, and

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Conan O’Brien’s New Show Gives Him the Freedom to Be Fun Again

“It’s nicer without the desk,” Conan O’Brien told Jeff Goldblum Monday night. “I used to really feel like I was doing people’s taxes for them.” When Goldblum countered that the desk was a late-night tradition, O’Brien interrupted him to say, “But I did that for 25 years.”That’s what’s so great

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