‘POTUS’ Broadway Review: Julie White, Rachel Dratch, Julianne Hough & All-Star Cast Corral Chaos In New Political Farce

Broadway’s “POTUS” —a role she’s been gathering material for her entire life. “I’ve met five first ladies in my lifetime, which has been pretty extraordinary, so I’ve got some great history to pull from,” the 59-year-old told The Post via Zoom on Friday.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorEugenio Derbez has been working on getting “The Valet” made for quite some time.“When we started writing this, Barack Obama was the president. Then Trump came in and we decided to change everything, because it was a different country,” the actor told me at the film’s premiere on Wednesday night at The Montalbán in Hollywood. “So it took us like, seven years to get the final draft.

Darren Criss and Julianne Hough are set to host, a one-hour special streaming live on Paramount+ on Sunday, June 12 ahead of the 75th annual Tony Awards on CBS.The two performers will kick off a four-hour evening celebrating the best of Broadway’s 2021-2022 season by handing out multiple awards and introducing several special performances on the streaming platform before Ariana DeBose takes over as host of CBS’s live broadcast of the Tony Awards.  Criss, meanwhile, is currently starring in the Tony-nominated production of, which is up for Best Revival of a Play.

Darren Criss and Julianne Hough – both currently starring on Broadway, he in American Buffalo, she in POTUS -will co-host the pre-Tony Awards livestream special on Paramount+ next month.

Julianne Hough rocked a stunning vintage YSL dress on Monday to attend the annual Robin Hood ball - the same day her Broaway musical received three Tony nominations.MORE: HELLO! launches Jubilee T-shirt collection to celebrate Queen Elizabeth in styleThe actress and dancer wore the strapless black polka dot gown that featured a ruched chest and fabulous A-line sheer skirt that flared out from the hips.

Nipsey Hussle – has shown her support for Kendrick Lamar‘s new video for ‘The Heart Part 5’, which includes a tribute to Hussle.Using deepfake technology, Lamar changes his face several times throughout the video, reflecting the people he is referencing or portraying when the transformations take place. Amongst those that Lamar turns into are Kanye West, Will Smith and OJ Simpson.

Barack Obama is showing off his beautiful family in celebration of Mother’s Day.On Sunday, May 8, the former President of the United States took to social media to wish his beloved wife, Michelle Obama, a Happy Mother’s Day. In the post, he honored the mother of his children--Malia Obama, 23, and Sasha Obama, 20, complimenting her skills as a mother while and praised her undeniable impact on the world.

Trouble in Mind” was big news last season. Her “Wedding Band” is even bigger news this theater season.

The latest guest list for David Letterman’s Netflix show “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction” has been unveiled.Letterman is welcoming Billie Eilish and Ryan Reynolds to the stage in the upcoming fourth season.Also joining Letterman for interviews are Cardi B, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Kevin Durant.Will Smith also sat for an interview, however the talk will not address the Oscars incident as it was recorded prior to March 2022.Past guest on Letterman’s Netflix show have included Kim Kardashian, Dave Chappelle, former President Barack Obama and George Clooney.Netflix first ordered the series in 2017, and it premiered the following year.David Letterman is host. The show is executive produced by Tom Keaney and Mary Barclay for Worldwide Pants; Tony Hernandez and Lilly Burns, Brooke Posch, and John Skidmore for Jax Media.

Julianne Hough steps out in a bright yellow dress for the opening night party for POTUS held at The Shubert Theater on Sunday (May 1) in New York City.

Amber Heard has switched to a new PR team ahead of her testimony this week amid her ongoing defamation trial against ex-husband Johnny Depp, ET Canada can confirm.

SportsCenter co-anchor Sage Steele has sued ESPN and corporate parent The Walt Disney Co. for allegedly violating both her contract and her free speech rights, according to multiple reports.

Marilyn Stasio Theater CriticI am woman, hear me roar — with laughter, at “POTUS: or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive,” playwright Selina Fillinger’s delicious feminist farce about the all-female staff that keeps the country out of war and other sticky situations while babysitting the dullard who holds the highest office in our beleaguered land. Playing characters largely unknown to the public within the world of the play are actors Lilli Cooper, Lea DeLaria, Rachel Dratch, Julianne Hough, Suzy Nakamura, Julie White and Vanessa Williams.

If “The West Wing” was made into a live stage show, banned all men and snorted a line of coke before the curtain went up, it might look something like “POTUS,” the hyperactive new farce that opened Wednesday on Broadway.One hour and 45 minutes, with one intermission. At the Shubert Theatre, 225 W 44th Street.Selina Fillinger’s weird and wired comedy imagines a White House fiasco, in which the president — we never meet him or anyone else with a Y chromosome — publicly makes a crass remark about the first lady (Vanessa Williams) and leaves a crew of panicked women staffers to clean up his PR mess.And what a mess it is.

A Brontosaurus and a Woolly Mammoth taking up residence among the mid-century modern trappings of a middle-class New Jersey household will now and forever make a theatrical impact – that, at least, hasn’t changed since playwright Thornton Wilder’s days – but so much else has, not least of all the ability of The Skin of Our Teeth, a seminal post-modern avant-garde winner of the 1943 Pulitzer Prize, to beguile merely on the strength of the post-modern avant-gardeness of it all.

Viola Davis’ transformation into Michelle Obama in ‘ The First Lady’ relied on extensive “research” by her hair and makeup team. Hair stylist Louisa Anthony “did a lot of Google searches” to get to grips with how to “recreate” the 58-year-old wife of President Barack Obama's hair with “accuracy” on the 56-year-old actress. Louisa told Harper’s Bazaar: “The scene where Viola is at a photo shoot with the now historic black-and-white dress—Ms.