“Well, this is all insane. Very few people are at work. I want to hear it.” Cindy Ord/Getty Images Scroll through the replies to see tons of talented high school musical performances to brighten your day. And Benanti isn’t the only celebrity using her platform to help others during the coronavirus pandemic. Miranda shared a never-before-heard cut song fromHamiltonto help pass the time in social distanced isolation. Rita Wilson shared a “quarantunes” playlist while in quarantine with her husband Tom Hanks....

Laura Carmichaelhas a knack for playing put-upon women. #PoorEdith, now its going to be #PoorLadyPole, she jokes. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: This is the latest series inspired by the novels of Philippa Gregory. Credit: Nick Briggs/Starz I hadnt read the books. Id known the series. [Id] known of her, of course, because shes prolific. Is there something you particularly enjoy about that work? Why do you think its a good fit for you?...

A few attendees at Fridays star-studded AFI Awards, however, had some tough decisions to make. And, of course,Laura Dern. (Shes expected to contend for the equivalent Oscar forMarriage Story.) Wilson Webb/Columbia; Wilson Webb/Netflix In the mingling that preceded the program, Dern caught up with fellow attendees includingBrad PittandPhoebe Waller-Bridge. As with every movie, a clip was shown, and it featured Dern front and center. The moment it ended, the very next winner was announced:Marriage Story....

Its just crazy amazing. But let me just say, Ive never cried so hard as when I first read the script. It wasnt just the emotion of reading the story, it was the perfection of the screenplay. Credit: Andrea Raffin/Shutterstock [And] being a parent, I understood this unbelievably sad, broken moment. But then you pretty quickly start to see that theyre really not the same at all.Yes! Renatas all about being liked, and thats what I love about her....

The Talewill be told this summer. ET on the subscription connection. It also debuted a short trailer for the project teasing roughly 15 seconds of footage. Kyle Kaplan/HBO Watch the first teaser trailer forThe Taleabove. The Taledebuts on HBO on May 26 at 8 p.m. HBO Kyle Kaplan/HBO Kyle Kaplan/HBO Kyle Kaplan/HBO Kyle Kaplan/HBO Kyle Kaplan/HBO

At long last,Laura Dernhas an Oscar. In her acceptance speech, Dern thanked her legendary parents, actors Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern. Some people say, Never meet your heroes, she said. Kevin Winter/Getty Images But sometimes if youre blessed, you get them as your parents. This is Derns first Oscar win, on her third nomination. (She received a Best Actress nod for 1991sRambling Roseand a Best Supporting Actress nomination for 2014sWild.)...

My Name Is Lucy Barton could win Linney a Tony Award. And maybe a Grammy, too. Lucy Barton is a woman of many lives. Credit: Matthew Murphy Shortly before beginning performances, EW spoke to Linney about reprising the part for both projects. Then I read it again, and I read it again. When something is adapted [for theater], it has to come up and off the page. You have to give yourself permission to let that happen....

At least two of those appear on stage. Weak, thin, tired, Lucy is comforted by her mother’s presence. “I asked for stories,” she tells us. Credit: Matthew Murphy “I don’t know why.” She starts this way: “Kathie Nicely. Goodness she came to a bad end.” She will enrage Lucy with casual revelations of envy. She will also get angry herself, and put her sick daughter in her place. And then she will go....

Watch the full episode ofCouch Surfingstreaming now onPeopleTV.com, or download the PeopleTV app on your favorite gadget. Talk about emotional whiplash. “This scene was really tough. It was right after finishing those scenes that Prepon says she found out she was pregnant. “I was pregnant with my daughter this whole time and I had no idea. “This particular morning, I was so nauseous. And I thought to myself, ‘I’m pregnant,'” she says....

Watch the full episode ofCouch Surfingstreaming now onPeopleTV.com, or download the PeopleTV app on your favorite machine. Laura Prepon’saudition for Donna onThat ’70s Showwas all alright. “They said, ‘First of all, when you came in, you just were Donna. You were Donna Pinciotti; you were perfect for her.’ And at the end of the audition, I looked at them and I said, ‘We good?’ And I put my hands on the table and I pushed off like a total tomboy....

Laura van den Berg is returning to the short-story collection. Not that readers were complaining. Van den Berg has shared an exclusive preview of her new book with EW. Credit: Paul Yoon; FSG I Hold the Wolf by the Earspublishes June 9, 2020, and isavailable for pre-order. I was eighteen and flunking out of college. I felt utterly lost. FSG I enrolled in a fiction workshop hoping for an easy A....

And at the top of the list was the return ofLauren Cohan’s Maggie. “Lauren and I have always bonded,“showrunner Angela Kang told EW. “She’s so lovely and so fun to work with. Jackson Lee Davis/AMC She just brings such energy and optimism and positivity to our set. So we’d been trying to work out, ‘How and when can you come back?’ And then she just stepped on set and it was like no time had passed at all....

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So, we pick things up 18 months later. Instead of, I believe in Rick Grimes. It was going to become I believe in Maggie. Victoria Will/AMC They occasionally use emotional blackmail to get the other one to see their way. Or, Youre making decisions based on you, so Im gonna make decisions based on me. What works for Rick and his people isnt going to work for me and my people....