Don’t be surprised if almost everyone you know seems to disappear for a stretch—say, 13 hours or so. After all, today's the day that the second season of Orange is the New Black, Netflix’s much binge-watched series about the hilarious and harrowing happenings at a Connecticut women’s ... More

The appeal of a romantic comedy isn’t lost on Jenny Slate. “When I have a hangover, it always makes me feel better to watch You’ve Got Mail,” the comedian and actress says. “But I also think that people of my generation are hungry for a change in social norms.” Enter More

At the upcoming Tony Awards, Beautiful, the Broadway musical based on the life and work of beloved songstress Carole King, is nominated for a whopping seven awards. And while only one of those awards—Best Book of a Musical—names the show’s writer, Douglas McGrath, all of them are a ... More

Linda Woolverton is no stranger to creating over-the-top characters; after all she is the screenwriter responsible for such enduring hits as The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. Her latest creation, however, is in a class of its own. Maleficent, of course, is best ... More

Although AMC’s Halt & Catch Fire takes place about 30 years ago, the series (premiering June 1) is about a world that’s almost unrecognizable. It was a time before smartphones, social media or even graphing calculators, when personal computers—the big, desk-bound kind that used oversized floppy disks—were about to ... More

It's a warm spring afternoon and light is shining through the glass roof in Isabel and Ruben Toledo's studio. The midtown space houses a pair of ceiling-high cactus plants—one was a gift from Woody Allen—standing guard outside the fashion designer's workroom, office, and ever-fluctuating archive. Lately, the sketches and designs ... More

Although the action in X-Men: Days of Future Past rockets across the globe, the film itself—which hits theaters May 23—was shot in relatively low-key Montreal. And that was just fine with the cast. “When I was 20 years old, I was playing rugby for Canada and we did a tour ... More

It’s not every day that Ramon Rodriguez gets the chance to patrol the streets of Los Angeles with a squad team or train with some of the toughest LAPD officers on the force, but that’s just what the star of the upcoming Fox drama Gang Related had to do to ... More

When the miniseries Labyrinth airs on the CW Network on May 22 and May 23, viewers will be drawn into a suspenseful mystery set in two times, modern-day Carcassonne in southwest France and the exact same place, in the year 1209 AD. Starring Jessica Brown-Findlay (the beloved Lady ... More

Stepping into the title role of the Tony Award-winning production of Pippin—currently running on Broadway—has been a serious learning curve for Kyle Dean Massey. “I really love doing the show, but it’s hard work,” says Massey, an Arkansas native making his fourth turn on Broadway. “I'm used to working with ... More