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Byline: Alexis Soloski Alex Moffat, an actor and comedian best known for his work on 'Saturday Night Live,' rarely shouts at deer. But during a tense scene in the new [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski The actress Cailee Spaeny, the seventh of nine children born to committed Southern Baptists, left school in Missouri at 13. She had found work at a theme [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski and Hiroko Masuike What's the going rate for a soul these days? A little more than $200 on weekends, less on weekdays, handling fees included. That's the [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski In an interview, the actor discusses his new series, humble origins and the freedom age brings. 'That gives me a tremendous amount of energy to move forward,' [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski The acclaimed kitchen hit has allowed Elliott, a comic actor from a famously funny family, to embrace her dramatic side. Abby Elliott knows her way around a [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski Described by its showrunner as 'definitely a fantasy,' the hit series relies on a team of historical consultants. Does the show take their advice? Mostly. When the [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski The actor's versatility has allowed her to stay relatively anonymous, but that may change with her new docudrama about an N.B.A. scandal. Cleopatra Coleman began with red, [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski Why have podcasters emerged as the rumpled protagonists of numerous television shows? We'll discuss after the break. Gilbert Power, a public radio veteran and the host of [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski Jessica Lange stars as a ferocious matriarch alongside Celia Keenan-Bolger and Jim Parsons in Vogel's latest family drama. In the first scene of 'Mother Play: A Play [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski She's sold more than 25 million copies, but isn't slowing down. An Amazon series and a film getting wide distribution mark a new phase. In the early [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski A new musical aims to restore the reputation, in life and art, of the ambitious yet undervalued painter Tamara de Lempicka. The playwright Carson Kreitzer specializes in [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski The first time that Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead shot a scene together, they were in a bathtub, mostly naked. McGregor, in a maximally unflattering wig, [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski Currently in two series, 'The Regime' and 'Alice & Jack,' this versatile actress has played dozens of characters. What connects them? Not even she knows. 'I really [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski The British actor excels at playing reserve, and what roils beneath, on 'The Crown.' And now he brings that stoicism to 'The Hunt,' onstage in Brooklyn. On [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski 'She saved my career,' Patti LuPone said of this indispensable vocal therapist and coach whose clients include Madonna and Billy Porter. For 41 years, Joan Lader has [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski With 'Mean Girls,' 'Wonka' and 'The Color Purple,' why have studios spent much of their marketing budget downplaying and disguising their movie musicals? Regina George has a [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski There were times, a year ago, in Iceland, on a glacier, in the dark, in temperatures well below freezing, when Issa López thought to herself: 'Who wrote [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski Streamers and networks are creating live experiences to promote series like 'Squid Game' and 'Only Murders in the Building.' But do they amount to anything more than [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski Once told he would never be a leading man if he came out, Bomer defied such predictions and, in projects like 'Fellow Travelers' and 'Maestro,' is getting [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski With the publication of a new book about their influential teen drama, which debuted in 2003, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage have learned to love 'The O.C.' [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski In 'The Crown,' the story of Diana, Princess of Wales, could only ever end one way. For Elizabeth Debicki, who played Diana in Seasons 5 and 6 [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski The actor has worked steadily since breaking out as a young Princess Diana in 'The Crown.' Corrin's latest role is as an amateur sleuth in 'A Murder [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski In an interview, the 'Succession' creator looked back on the end of the show and discussed Marxism, extreme wealth and whether any of his characters were remotely [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski The extraordinary within the everyday: A holiday season rite returns with aerialists, trapeze acts, funny clowns (really!) and cotton candy too. If confetti supplies have plummeted, if [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski 'Dead Letter No. 9,' 'Cocktail Magique' and 'Hypnotique' are offering theatergoers a taste of nightlife. A funny thing happened at Dead Letter No. 9, a new performance [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski Though a tour de force for its actors, an Off Broadway adaptation of Philip Roth's willfully obscene 1995 novel is too faithful to its source. John Turturro [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski Over nearly five decades, Burrows has directed a thousand sitcom episodes. Next up: the new Paramount+ series, which follows Frasier Crane's return to Boston. 'You can't learn [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski In her debut on Wednesday night, Kardashian seemed to treat the series with the same unblinking resolve she applies to any business venture. Kim Kardashian is a [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski Twelve years after opening 'The Book of Mormon,' the two actors - and good friends - return with 'Gutenberg! The Musical!' Josh Gad still remembers the first [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski What ever happened to the live-action adventures and G-rated titles adults and children could watch together in the theater? My son's first movie was 'La La Land,' [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski In the formerly deserted ballroom of a Midtown Manhattan hotel, on a morning in early May, work lights shone on piles of tile and metal debris. A [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski The actor's first substantial TV role since the Soviet spy drama 'The Americans' finds her switching sides, starring as a savvy civil servant tasked with upholding America's [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski Anthony Carrigan was 7 the first time he stepped onstage. And he was terrified. Debilitating stage fright, which he would struggle with for decades, would have led [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski The one-woman show, coming to Broadway, is the 'Killing Eve' star's first stage role. She dared herself to do it. Until last year, the actress Jodie Comer [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski On a recent afternoon, the actor Greg Tannahill sat perched atop a London rooftop, one leg extended, one arm outthrust. A pair of carpenters would then whisk [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski LOS ANGELES - John Owen Lowe was 11 or 12 when he first realized that his father wasn't quite like the other dads. So what was it [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski Keith Bunin's gentle, rueful play at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater settles down among six passengers traveling from Los Angeles to Seattle. A northbound trip on [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski Billy Crudup's father, Thomas Henry Crudup III, was a gambler, a hustler, an occasional loan shark and a bookie of questionable gift. Sometimes on the way to [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski The first major New York revival of 'The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window,' Lorraine Hansberry's 1964 Broadway play, comes to BAM this month. What took so long? [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski Jason Segel knows that you like him. It's the sad eyes. The pained smile. The shambling 6-foot-4-inch frame that he diminishes by caving in his chest. It's [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski Jefferson Mays stars in a Broadway adaptation of the Dickens classic, a one-man production that was originally live-captured for streaming. Has Jefferson Mays ever met a role [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski Maria Schrader directs this adaptation of the book about reporters' efforts to document sexual harassment by Harvey Weinstein. In February 2020, a New York jury found Harvey [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski A Broadway revival of 'Death of a Salesman' has a Black lead for the first time, giving Pierce a chance to step into a role he was [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski The new Elton John-Shaina Taub musical, based on the popular film about a fashion-world ingénue and her demanding boss, isn't yet ready-to-wear. CHICAGO - A movie-to-musical that [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski The actor described the Netflix comedy as an alternate vision of his life: 'I got to live this other version of, what if I was single in [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski Piety is just a pose in Ashley Tata's gender-swapped production of Molière's tragicomedy at Bard's SummerScape festival. It's a funny feeling and not always a welcome one [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski Target Margin Theater stages an enchanting riff on 'One Thousand and One Nights' inside an old Brooklyn garage. Tea and pastries included, blankets welcome. The inspiration for [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski The actress (don't call her an actor, please) reflects on her seven-decade career, predatory Hollywood and why sometimes it's better not to relive the past. LOS ANGELES [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski Even at a time when naked men have become more commonplace on TV, a scene in the pilot of this HBO Max comedy stands out for its [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski A few years ago, Nicola Coughlan was working in an optician's office in Ireland. Now, with 'Bridgerton' and 'Derry Girls,' she's starring in two of the most [...]