If you’ve ever dreamt about hosting your own talk show, director Shira Piven’s newest film, Welcome to Me, is for you. In it, Kristen Wiig plays Alice, a woman with borderline personality disorder who wins the lottery and decides to blow it all on her own Oprah-style daytime television ... More

No one ever called Róisín Murphy a shrinking violet, and luckily, she’s only grown bolder with age. The UK disco queen and fashion icon, who got her start in the mid-nineties as one half of the electro-pop duo Moloko, is returning to the stage with her anticipated third solo album,  More

If you’ve been roped in by Jane the Virgin—the CW show that won leading lady Gina Rodriguez a Golden Globe halfway through its first season—you will know Mexican actor Jaime Camil as Rogelio, the impeccably groomed, egocentric but warm-hearted telenovela star who turns out to be Jane’s long-estranged ... More

In the new comedy Hot Pursuit, Reese Witherspoon plays a cop desperate to get one thing right, and Sofia Vergara stars opposite her as a mob informant’s wife intent on staying alive. Here, director Anne Fletcher explains what makes the two stars work so well together and how her ... More

Jason Isaacs is hard to pin down. Tune in to one channel and you’ll find him on Dig, the international conspiracy series on which he plays an FBI agent stationed in Israel. Turn the dial and he’s in Stockholm, Pennsylvania as Ben McKay, an inmate whose sentence stems from ... More

It’s no surprise that what happens on-camera during Pitch Perfect 2 is exceedingly musical—after all, the movie does follow the exploits of a college a capella team—but according to Ester Dean, things were never particularly quiet behind the scenes either. And much to her delight, what was often playing was her very ... More

Musician Van Hunt might have won a Grammy Award for his work on the tribute to Sly & The Family Stone, but it’s his original work that’s currently getting all of his attention. Specifically it’s his fifth album (and the second he’s released on his own label), The Fun Rises, The ... More

Mackenzie Scott’s been waiting for this moment. Two years after Scott, who performs as Torres, released her first, eponymous album, the 24-year-old rocker is ready to unleash her next creation, the smart, rollicking Sprinter.  Here, Scott explains how the album came to be, what she learned by recording it in ... More

The just-opened Broadway musical Fun Home might be based on a graphic novel, but there’s no discounting the role sound plays in the production. The show grew out of illustrator Alison Bechdel’s titular comic, which delves into her life growing up as the lesbian daughter of a closeted gay man ... More

Lucy Simon’s earliest musical work was truly a family affair; she played alongside her sister Carly—yes, that Carly—in the 1960s folk duo The Simon Sisters. These days music is still Lucy Simon’s preferred creative outlet, but she’s striking out on her own. Dr. Zhivago, the latest project from the Tony-nominated composer ... More