Celebrity Life

Kathryn Hahn's casting as Joan Rivers in an upcoming Showtime series is the latest in an ongoing trend that sees few Jewish women get opportunities to play an already scant number of Jewish female roles.

Dear Evan Hansen, the film adaptation of Steven Levenson’s multiple-award-winning stage musical, is ostensibly a nice little movie about a teen trying to overcome Social Anxiety disorder, about learning that it’s OK to be anxious and depressed and that being medicated for those things, if necessary, is normal and healthy. But it’s really a monster…

The pulse of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, about a man so in love with an illusion he can’t see the reality before him, thrums inside every person who’s obsessed with movies, but the Pygmalion dreams it’s drawn from are universal. In its subterranean way, Vertigo speaks to anyone who has tried to sculpt a relationship into…

'Dear Evan Hansen' has divided fans and critics. Are they right to be so critical, and what makes a musical work onscreen to begin with?

In his follow-up to "Faces, Places," the photographer and street artist films in Rio, in a California prison and on the U.S.-Mexico border

Tabitha Brown was struck with a familiar wave of nausea. She’d grown used to this feeling, a warning her body sent her when she had a vision of the future and was called to share the message. This time, she’d had a dream that her co-worker Miss Stella had sliced off two fingers at the…

In March 2019, I sat in a hotel room in Houston waiting for a conversation that was nearly 28 years in the making. The apology that in December 2017 Joe Biden told a journalist he owed me was about to happen—maybe. For more than a year, as other journalists asked Biden whether he had reached…

After a slow first two episodes, the show’s alchemy of spectacle, suspense and storytelling starts working. A binge becomes not just inevitable, but also unexpectedly satisfying.

The 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards were live, in-person and as gloriously awkward and frustratingly imperfect as ever. Host Cedric the Entertainer opened the show with a montage of some favorite TV moments from the last year. Then Cedric, Lil Dicky, LL Cool J and Rita Wilson rap-sang a TV-themed version of the late Biz Markie’s…

Listening to a good breakup album is a dangerous act: if consumed at the wrong time, it can kill your joy, resurrect painful flashbacks, re-break your heart, reduce you to a puddle of misery. But breakup songs also make up a huge portion of the most beautiful songs ever written. They help us process our…

The broadcast sitcom is more than just a casualty of the streaming wars. Its death is a sign of a fragmented society

Mehdi Rajabian has been warned repeatedly by Iranian authorities not to release an album with female singers—he did anyway