For High School Musical's 20th anniversary, a queer writer looks back at the franchise and determines which songs had overt ...

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So there was no official song of summer. So let’s move beyond the biggest hits and check out the 10 songs we kept coming back to this year. The singer-songwriter who has worked with Miley Cyrus, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Pop music was not at all safe this year from the encroachments of an AI industry determined to slop-ify everything ...

The year 1988 was one of the best years in country music. The year had so many great hits that it’s hard to remember all of them. The following four country songs were released in 1988, and in spite ...

In the late 1980s, a lot of great music hit the airwaves. Many of those songs climbed the charts, with some even hitting No. 1 on major Billboard charts. However, there are some really good (and once ...

The production utilizes a large cast to fill the Scherr's compact stage, with a hyperkinetic cast directed by Marissa Jaret Winokur, who won a Tony playing zaftig teenager and social activist Tracy ...

The friend mailed vintage ‘Hairspray’ and ‘Cry-Baby’ shirts to the star after her collection was destroyed in the January fires Ricki Lake/Instagram Ricki Lake is grateful for her old friends. In ...

In the first-ever installment of Variety‘s new video series, “Variety Crossword,” Brittany Snow — the star of Netflix’s “The Hunting Wives” and a puzzle enthusiast — completed a crossword puzzle about ...

Ricki Lake is thinking about one of her most iconic roles, as Hairspray’s Tracy Turnblad. In a TikTok video posted April 28, Lake, 56, shed some light on what she thinks Tracy — the plus-size, ...