Sufjan Stevens Drops Two New Songs for You to Cry to in Front of a Fireplace

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Per a release, Love Yourself is based on a sketch Stevens wrote 20 years ago. Listen to the songs below: Stevens also designed and released a Pride-themed T-shirt for sale on his platformSufjamz. You have two new songs to weep in front a fireplace to. Related Tags:

May 29, 2019 · 1 min · 62 words · Kristen Ramos

The Decadent, Visceral Pleasures ofKilling Eve

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. And at his wedding gift. His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat. Here, beauty and violence dance alongside each other. Its something the women ofKilling Eveknow all too well. Scarfing down pasta at a lavish restaurant acts as both come on and threat....

May 29, 2019 · 4 min · 742 words · Kenneth Jones

The Racial Wonderland ofAladdin’s Genie

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Back in December, whenEntertainment Weeklydropped the exclusivefirst photosof Disneys live-action movieAladdin, many people were confused. But Genie, the public decreed, was a problem. It borrows cultural symbols indiscriminately with the loose wonder folktales allow. Casting this reboot according to ethnic specificity was therefore a daunting, and somewhat improbable, task. Aladdin is a strange case since the 1992 movie is itself a white dream, Justin Charitywrotein 2017....

May 29, 2019 · 3 min · 496 words · Christine Boone

Theater Review: The Well-Scrubbed Drama ofSomething Clean

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Remember the food pyramid? With its big solid base layer made of bread, cereals, rice, and pasta? Usually theres a couch or a bed. Pop music and cell phones. People wear sensible shoes. Its solid and fluid, predictable but not monotonous. And the results are fine. Weve built our national theater on a foundation of fine....

May 29, 2019 · 1 min · 188 words · Heidi Martin

Which of Ansel Elgort’s 17 Shirtless Instagram Selfies Is Your Favorite?

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Posting one random shirtless Instagram selfie is an acceptable way to pander for attention. Two, also acceptable, but starts to look thirsty. Threes pushing the limit, but whatever. What exactly does it mean to post over 15? Was he just feeling himself? Is this promo for theGoldfinchtrailer, dropping today? Is he contemplating howTony fromWest Side Storywould act in a world with smartphones?...

May 29, 2019 · 1 min · 176 words · Janet Liu

Why Titus Andronicus Made Its Very Own Sitcom Pilot

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. If you cant make aGame of Thronesmeme out of something, who cares if it exists or not? ThatsSTACKS, a pilot episode written by and starring Stickles that he hopes will be the first of many. STACKSfollows a nightmarish day in the life for Stickless character as he wakes into semi-improvised scenes. IsSTACKSjust a promotional rollout stunt?...

May 29, 2019 · 1 min · 148 words · Natalie Smith

Apparently It Takes Three Jonas Brothers to Write One Memoir

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The triple threat we callthe Jonas Brothersare releasing a new memoir. Bloodwill be released on November 12, but preorders are already available. The JoBros have a busy summer ahead. Their tour to promote the new album begins in Miami in August. The only question left is: Will all three of them narrate the future audiobook?...

May 28, 2019 · 1 min · 78 words · Elizabeth Campbell

Chernobyland Pop Culture’s Long History of Irradiated Nightmares

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. In the course of saving Metropolis from an experiment gone out of control, hes become irradiated. No, it cant be! says one of the scientists hes just saved. Your whole body radioactive … forever! The day is saved! Its an almost unthinkably horrific fate, made all the more terrifying by radiations invisibility and its ubiquity....

May 28, 2019 · 2 min · 261 words · James Thompson

Ellen DeGeneres Says Her Stepfather Molested Her When She Was a Teenager

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. She remarried a very bad man, DeGeneres says. I should have protected myself. And then she stayed with him for 18 more years, she says. So I just kept taking care of her. I didnt really let it get to me. Until recently, I kind of went, I wish I would have been better taken care of....

May 28, 2019 · 1 min · 115 words · Daniel Reyes

Fosse/VerdonFinale Recap: And All … That … Jazz

Fosse/Verdon Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Take it back, from the same place … He was drawn to the seedier side of the entertainment business, and fascinated by controlling impresarios. And he repeatedly depicted libertine sexual situations bordering on the disturbing. Fosse also liked using death as the ultimate dramatic equipment. Thats howFosse/Verdoncouldve ended, too if not for Gwen Verdon....

May 28, 2019 · 1 min · 213 words · Stephanie Adams

How Beth Stelling Learned Where to Draw the Line Onstage

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Stand-up is an inherently personal form. Most often its you up there, using your real name, sharing real thoughts about your real life. Shes grown as a comedian partly by learning what she wants to withhold. We talked aboutone of Beths earliest storiesand how her comedy evolved from there. Read a short excerpt from the conversation or listen below....

May 28, 2019 · 2 min · 369 words · Dominique Bailey

How Michelle Williams Mastered (and Pretended to Lose) Gwen Verdon’s Voice

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Each week onFosse/Verdon, Michelle Williams is giving one of the most fascinating vocal performances on TV. While she had a dialect coach, Williams figured outhow to play Verdons vocal disintegration on her own. She had this very unusual breathy, raspy voice, but it was still resonant, Williams said. To get that to a point where it feels seamless just takes so much practice....

May 28, 2019 · 2 min · 291 words · Tara Martinez

Jessica Jones and Her Ripped Jeans Will Return Next Month

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Jessica Jones andher iconic jeanshave returned. Even after a mostly optimistic season-two finale, it seems Jessica still has some more troubles heading her way. The final season ofJessica Jonescomes on Netflix on June 14. Related Tags:

May 28, 2019 · 1 min · 51 words · Sabrina Robertson