Photo: Bleecker Street Boy meets boy. Girl meets girl. Boy and boy and girl and girl are all friends, but when boy needs a green card, boy proposes to … girl? That’s the plot of the upcoming adaptation of the Taiwanese classic The Wedding Banquet, directed by Fire Island’s Andrew Ahn, who collaborated on …
Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images Just how prestigious can a jukebox musical get? That seems to be the question posed by Fire & Rain, the jukebox musical using the stylings of singer-songwriter James Taylor. Typically jukebox musicals are the “light fare” of the theater world. Think Mamma Mia! or Jersey Boys, with their megamix endings. …
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Photo: Cole Burston/Getty Images Nearly a year after the rap battle between Kendrick Lamar and Drake first kicked off, Drake’s still catching strays. Now, they’re from his own label, in a motion to dismiss his defamation lawsuit over Lamar’s hit diss, “Not Like Us.” Drake “lost a rap battle that he provoked and in …
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: TikTok (@martinifeeny, @acquiredstyle) “All right, guys, I’m just gonna say it, I hate all of the New York influencers, I think they’re all boring as fuck and they’re all carbon copies of one another,” begins the TikTok heard round the five boroughs — and by now, the whole internet. If you’re …
Photo: John Shearer/Getty Images Bruno Mars is one of the few figures in pop nearly everyone can agree on. He’s mastered mass appeal with easy-to-enjoy songs, undisputed vocal talent, and overflowing charisma. His four-quadrant, feel-good R&B hits — among them “Just the Way You Are,” “Uptown Funk!”, “That’s What I Like,” and Silk Sonic’s …
Photo: Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images South by Southwest may have begun as an independent music festival, but in the past few years, movies and tech have definitively overtaken the convention’s original focus. But, contrary to reports, SXSW won’t be cutting music entirely from its schedule. The Austin festival is paring back its schedule for 2026, …
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Funimation, CrunchyRoll, Hulu and Amazon Prime From the moment Astro Boy first aired on NBC in 1963, anime has been a part of American TV-watching habits, whether audiences knew they were watching anime, or thought it was just another cartoon. But we’re long past the times where anime shows were …
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Barry Brecheisen/WireImage Neil Young actually did take a look at his life and he’s a lot like … Robert Smith. Encouraged by the loud advocacy of the Cure’s front man, Young will no longer be selling Ticketmaster “platinum tickets” to fans. Writing about the decision on his website, Young …
Photo: Michael Tran/AFP via Getty Images To quote Future, “Mask off.” Orville Peck will debut as the Emcee in the current Broadway production of Cabaret on March 31, answering the question amateur dramaturges everywhere want to know: Does the mask stay on? “The mask is part of my expression personally as an artist and …
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Photo: Benny Harps/Strand Bookstore It’s been four years since Torrey Peters published her critically acclaimed debut, Detransition, Baby. That book was, by design, a conventional literary novel, one that explored questions of transition through a clever, and ultimately brutal, reimagining of the marriage plot. Peters’s new book, Stag Dance, feels like a radical departure …
