The Criterion Collection announced this month that it is releasing restored versions of two of John Waters' films.
Criterion Channel’s April slate includes corporate thrillers, Mary Bronstein, Emile de Antonio, and Bi Gan’s ‘Resurrection.’ ...
As tensions with Iran and Ayatollah Khamenei escalate, a private White House dinner with U.S. governors took an unexpected turn when President Donald Trump launched into a bizarre rant about climate ...
John Travolta is the one that we want (whoo, whoo, whoo, yeah!) so to celebrate his 72nd birthday we're taking a look back through the actor's major roles, early career and some wonderfully nostalgic ...
A Tony winner and seven-time Oscar nominee recounts collaborations with Bette Midler and Rob Reiner, and the musical liberties he took at his bar mitzvah. Marc Shaiman likes to joke that for half a ...
As NASCAR descends on Daytona Beach for the start of the 2026 season, a photo from 2007 has started to snowball on social media. The image, snapped nearly two decades ago at the 2007 Daytona 500, ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Broadway, Hollywood and television have been kind to Marc Shaiman. But there’s a reason the subtitle of his new memoir is “Showbiz Stories From a Sore Winner.” Broadway, ...
Since its Broadway opening in 2002, Hairspray has been blowing the roof off of theaters with the exuberance, zeal, and unabashedly joyful hope that the show not only requires but inspires. For the ...
The best hairsprays are far from a thing of beauty routines past. Essential to ’60s mod bobs and ’80s gravity-defying crops à la Dynasty, the hairsprays of decades past were crunchy, locking hair into ...
Titusville Playhouse is staging the musical "Hairspray" from Jan. 16 through Feb. 15. The show follows a plus-sized teenager in the 1960s who uses her TV fame to advocate for social change. The family ...
The outdoor St. Louis theatre has revealed its summer 2026 lineup. Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific will play the venue July 6 through July 12, bringing cherished songs such as "Some Enchanted ...
We’ve been hearing the bells for 23 years! Marc Shaiman’s and Scott Wittman’s larger-than-life musical Hairspray is celebrating its Broadway anniversary this week. This “Big, Blonde and Beautiful” ...