Noah Galvin and Taylor Trensch Are the Next Evan Hansens

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  153 words  |  Zora Stowers

Imagine them quivering in polo shirts. Dear Evan Hansen has found not one but two actors who will follow Tony-winner Ben Platt when he steps out of that striped-blue polo shirt this November. The musical announced today that Noah Galvin, an actor on ABC’s The Real O’Neals and a haver of many opinions, will play the title role in the musical about a socially awkward teen, from November 21 to January 2018, after which he’ll be replaced by Taylor Trensch, who currently plays Barnaby in Hello, Dolly! [Read More]

None of Uss Jump Scares Compare to the Evil Familys Sandals

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1018 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Jordan Peele’s Us has more jump scares than Get Out, which means more of me hiding behind my hands and gripping my armrest. And most of the movie’s unnerving moments come before all its typical horror sequences: Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong’o) teaches her son Jason to snap off rhythm to “I Got 5 on It.” Elisabeth Moss, that white friend, announces the current time as “vodka o’clock.” (A dubious proposition, and I’m speaking from experience. [Read More]

Nore Davis Will Be Your Stand-up Superhero

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1304 words  |  Elina Uphoff

This week, we’re highlighting 24 talented writers and performers for Vulture’s annual list “Comedians You Should and Will Know.” Our goal is to introduce a wider audience to the talent that has the comedy community and industry buzzing. (You can read more about our methodology at the link above.) We asked the comedians on the list to answer a series of questions about their work, performing, goals for the future, and more. [Read More]

Not Even the Rock Hall Can Get Kate Bush Out of the House

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  274 words  |  Janel Helmers

Yes, Kate Bush is an icon when it comes to music, but she’s also an icon when it comes to doing whatever you want. After her first tour, in 1979, she didn’t perform another concert until 2014. She’s produced most of her own music, has long handled her publishing and management in-house, and these days doesn’t get out of bed for anyone but herself. So when you hear that Kate Bush isn’t attending her own overdue Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction on November 3, you can’t be too surprised — you almost have to admire it. [Read More]

Not In My San Diego: How NTSF:SD:SUV:: Has Perfectly Captured My Hometown

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1656 words  |  Zora Stowers

Like a lot of San Diegans, I’m originally from somewhere else. My family moved here when I was but a slip of a lad, however, and I’ve definitely lived here longer than anywhere else. When I first moved here at the age of 12, I hated it intensely, bristling at the intense cultural differences between suburban Los Angeles and suburban San Diego in the way only a seventh grader can. But that hatred blossomed into a weird love/hate relationship that can only be justified by the glowing eye of my television set. [Read More]

Novelist Colum McCann on Let the Great World Spin and the 9/11 Grief Machine

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  792 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Colum McCann — an Irish-born, Manhattan-dwelling novelist you should know a lot more about — is one of those restless authors constantly in search of new territory (Dancer fictionalized the life of Nureyev, Zoli the story of an itinerant Romani singer). He hadn’t set a novel in New York since 1998’s This Side of Brightness, about homeless people living in subway tunnels, until September 11 made him go back. But his sprawling, lyrical new book, Let the Great World Spin, takes place almost entirely in 1974, hardly a banner year for the city, around the time of Philippe Petit’s tightrope walk between the Twin Towers. [Read More]

Novelist Megan Abbott on How Twin Peaks Cast a Rich Shadow Over All of Her Books

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1325 words  |  Janel Helmers

I was a freshman in college when the first episode of Twin Peaks aired. I remember watching it in my dorm room on my tiny portable black-and-white TV. And surely it’s a trick of memory, but I recall it as if a portal opened up before me, into a place not just dark but intimate, jarring, erotic, troubling. I remember feeling like I wasn’t watching the show so much as the show was watching me. [Read More]

Offset Denies Rumors From the Peanut Gallery

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  519 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Offset Update, February 7: Despite Offset’s apparent denial that a fight between him and Quavo occurred at the Grammys, new reports suggest there may have been words exchanged. Cardi B, the “Money” rapper and Offset’s wife, was caught on-camera scolding people backstage, per iPhone footage obtained by ET. “Both of y’all wrong. Both of y’all! This is not right,” Cardi yelled in the clip, though it’s unclear whom she’s telling off. [Read More]

Omens, Ranked

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1776 words  |  Sherie Connelly

There’s a pretty basic horror-movie hook to The Omen, the 1976 classic about a couple who inadvertently adopt the Antichrist. What if your seemingly innocent young child was actually evil incarnate? That taps into many parents’ primal fears, and it provides for plenty of disturbing moments, connecting a pure, helpless child to heinous acts of violence. It’s no surprise that The Omen was a hit, capitalizing on the popularity of horror movies like its obvious influences The Exorcist and Rosemary’s Baby, as well as paranoid political thrillers like Three Days of the Condor and The Parallax View. [Read More]

Opera Review: Anna Netrebko, One of the Last Old-Style Divas, in Aida

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  601 words  |  Zora Stowers

Netrebko as Aida, at the Met. If you’re curious about what the 2018 edition of the Opera Diva™ looks and sounds like, go on safari to the Metropolitan Opera where she can be observed romping, left wrist to forehead and right palm to chest, in Verdi’s Aida. Anna Netrebko, one of the only sopranos who can still make a box office hum, sings the title role with a rich, Amarone-hued voice and consummate control — and watches herself nail every tricky passage as if she were her own coach. [Read More]