How did drab New Jersey soundstages become as bright and bold as the Technicolor movie musicals of Hollywood’s Golden Age? And how did industrial buildings on the banks of the Hackensack River become ...

Jennifer Lopez, triumphant as actor, dancer, singer and celebrity, finally has in Friday’s audacious musical “Kiss of the Spider Woman” the opportunity to do all of that and more. “I’ve always wanted ...

Bill Condon knows how to bring a musical to the big screen. His screenplay for the 2002 Oscar-winning “Chicago” helped reinvigorate the genre after a long fallow period. He then stepped behind the ...

One of modern cinema’s foremost champions of stage-to-screen musicals, Bill Condon has enjoyed enviable success as the writer-director of Dreamgirls, director of Disney’s live-action Beauty and the ...

For a group that performed in garish makeup and costumes amid explosions and fire-breathing, it’s perhaps not surprising that Kiss did not often get much respect as musicians. Yet the band’s ...

As the films of 2024 alone have demonstrated, there's still a good amount of confusion about how a movie musical should function in our modern age. Even 2016's "La La Land," the film that ended up ...