Alyssa Vaughn 
Some movies feel too much like an imitation, a repetition of something that has come before. Movies that try to cash in on our love for something that already exists. But other movies entice you in with a surreal familiarity that you can’t quite explain, a feeling that this is a story you must have … Read more
Minor spoilers for Buddy (2026) As a kid growing up through the 90s and 2000s, I didn’t get shamed for liking TV shows that were “too young” for me. With one exception. Barney. Despite having pretty strong memories of the show, I have stronger memories of fervently denying that I liked it, and of the … Read more
My younger sister and I did not step foot into the world of musical theater physically until well into our adulthood. But we knew, without ever having seen a live performance, that the 2019 film adaptation of Cats was, in so many ways, not correct. How? Because we had a well-worn, well-loved VHS copy of … Read more
What do you know about the wives of Henry VIII? Their names, their eventual fates? Their solo numbers? SIX tells the story of Catharine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Catherine Parr in the form of a girl group’s pop concert, moving the six queens out of time and … Read more
Broadway devotees have been saying it for years: we don’t want million-dollar adaptations, we don’t want star-studded casts and so much CGI we can hardly see the choreography. We just want to see a professionally-shot stage production. And damn, if Hadestown didn’t deliver. Hadestown: The Musical is the live stage recording of the 2025 limited-engagement … Read more
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