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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Dolly Parton‘s highly anticipated new musical about her life finally opens in Nashville on Aug. 8 following a run of previews. Dolly: A True Original Musical plays through …

Michelle Williams is handling her stay in the snow-scattered, negative-windchill New York City the same way many choose to endure winter: “I don’t do anything.” But unlike most of the hibernating human population, Williams’ calendar hold for inactivity makes space for the former Destiny’s Child member to show up eight …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. As the highly-anticipated Wicked movie prepares to premiere in just a few weeks, fans can still experience the Tony Award-winning musical, based on the bestselling novel that started …

More than 800 Black women — including Lashana Lynch and Sheila Atim — and non-binary actors signed an open letter in support of Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, who has been the target of online racial abuse following the announcement of her casting as Juliet in a London West End production of Romeo …

Five months before Paapa Essiedu took the stage as a flirty clinical-trial participant in The Effect, he attempted to run a half marathon in southwest England. After going “too high and too fast,” Essiedu says he collapsed due to extreme hydration and low blood sugar levels. He remembers waking up …

Actress and standup comedian Kate Berlant is always sure to remind people she didn’t get where she is by taking classes. “I was rejected from acting school,” she tells Rolling Stone. “I have no formal training.” But her one-woman show, Kate, which came to Los Angeles last month (well, technically …

I t’s a chilly Sunday nightin Manhattan’s West Village and somehow the hottest ticket in town involves a sexually repressed Abraham Lincoln, hoop skirts, and comedian Cole Escola in a wildly convincing nineteenth-century wig. There’s a line down the block outside the Lucille Lortel Theatre, and inside, the energy builds …

“You know what you’re getting into when you come to one of our shows,” offers Joseph Martin, one half of queer British theater duo Awkward Productions. “But you’re still going to leave thinking: ‘I’ve never seen anything like that. What the hell was that?!’” We’re talking about Gwyneth Goes Skiing, …

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: A man goes to make a movie about a shark. He decides to shoot on the ocean instead of a tank on a soundstage, to give it that extra sense of realism. Virtually everything that can go wrong does go wrong, including …

Actors have now taken to the streets, walking shoulder to shoulder on picket lines with members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) after failing to secure an equitable contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). We are one week into the SAG-AFTRA strike, and, as …