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Blame the coronavirus for this year’s drastically reduced roster of eligible Tony Award nominees, and Tony nominators for overlooking at least a few possibilities. Even with only 18 Broadway productions in the running for a 2020 award, feelings were bound to be hurt. Let’s start with the good news: The list of…

Broadway actor Aaron Tveit, star of Moulin Rouge! The Musical, announced today that he’s tested positive for COVID-19 and has been in quarantine since the March 12 Broadway shutdown. “I'm feeling much better,” Tveit reports on his Instagram account (see it below). “I consider myself extremely lucky that my symptoms…

Even the most wholly original works of art can, in the service of story or character or heart, summon the stray memory, the whispery chill of déjà vu. They’ll switch on the bittersweet recall of better times or drip-drop echoey little splashes of the worst. Most, though, remember to turn the damn spigot off. Watching B…

With her third narrative feature, the Patricia Clarkson-starring Out of Blue, Carol Morley brought Martin Amis's 1997 novel Night Trainto the screen, doing so entirely on her own terms. Early on, Morley's decision to do so left those close to her scratching their heads. "When I told people—before I did it, when I was…

Tony-winner Karen Olivo, Next to Normal‘s Aaron Tveit and six-time Tony nominee Danny Burstein have been set as the principal cast in the upcoming Moulin Rouge! The Musical, the world premiere engagement in Boston of the Broadway-bound production. Based on Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 movie, the stage version, produced by…

I suppose you could say they had me at the umbrellas. Over two years in the planning and threatened by heavy rains all day, Fox’s sprawling presentation of Grease Live went forward Sunday evening with nary a hitch and one last-minute change in the out-of-doors opening number that paid tribute to the greatest movie…

It’s taking all my willpower not to tell you more tell you more Grease puns than you need to set up these first-look images from Fox’s upcoming musical event Grease Live. There are worse things I could do, I suppose. Sorry. Anyway, below, see the first images of Julianne Hough as Sandy, Aaron Tveit as Danny Zuko, and V…

Graceland star Aaron Tveit is set as a male lead opposite Mary Elizabeth Winstead in BrainDead, CBS’ upcoming summer series from The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King. The comic-thriller, from CBS TV Studios, centers on Laurel (Winstead), a young, fresh-faced Hill staffer whose first job in Washington, D.C…

Aaron Tveit, who made hearts throb as the prodigal son who kept returning from the dead in Next To Normal, has been cast as the lead in Grease: Live, which Fox plans to broadcast in January. Taking on the role most closely identified with John Travolta in the 1978 film version of the 1972 Broadway ’50s rock hit…

Aaron Tveit has the lead role in Stereotypically You, a romantic comedy from writer-director Benjamin Cox. Tveit plays Charlie, who goes on a hallucination-fueled post-breakup quest in New York City to find new love — and himself. Kal Penn, Shane McRae, Lauren Miller, Abby Elliot, Chris Elliot, Annaleigh Ashford…