Sean Grandillo is a singer-songwriter and actor from Cleveland, Ohio. He studied musical theater at Ithaca College and recently finished his fantastic run in Deaf West’s revival of Spring Awakening, where he played the voice of Otto. Pop Culturalist was lucky enough to chat with the triple threat about life on Broadway, his career, and what’s next. Let’s start with Spring Awakening… PC: You were part of the Deaf West Production in Los Angeles and on Broadway. How were the experiences similar and different? What was the transition like?
Who doesn’t love watching the Oscars? The glitz, the glam, the gowns… but there are a million other blogs covering those exact things. We here at the Pop Culturalist want to show you a whole new view of the Oscars: the weird view. Was it just me or was this year’s Oscars full of strange (and poorly produced) moments? Let’s take a moment to celebrate each and every one of them. 1. Patricia Arquette is… dead? Anyone else notice that Patricia Arquette sounded half-dead as she was reading the nominees
Tonight’s the highly-anticipated season finale of The Shannara Chronicles. Just a few weeks ago, we were watching Amberle make history in the gauntlet (still one of our favorite moments). To celebrate the show’s first season, we’ve put together moments that had our jaws dropping. Amberle’s Shocking Visions Who could forget the events that occurred after Amberle was selected as one of the Chosen? As they’re honored at a party, Amberle feels drawn to the Ellcrys. There she experiences a terrifying vision where she sees herself stabbing Lorin, only to be
Straight is a small play with big thoughts. Like a lot of recent plays on-and-off-Broadway, Straight features only a few actors and a lot of dialogue on various themes—all within a breezy 90 minutes. While the several themes touched upon in the play are wide-ranging–love, gender, career, infidelity—the main theme we see through the lens of the main character’s life is identity. In Straight, Ben (Jake Epstein) is a typical 26-year-old investment banker living in Boston. He has a longtime college girlfriend, Emily. Emily (Jenna Gavigan) is getting her PhD in genetics and