An oral history of Cats on Broadway, as told by its original cats. 25 Days of Cats 25 Days of Cats is exactly what it sounds like: 25 days of coverage dedicated to the pop culture phenomenon that is Cats. Six of the original cast members celebrate the 2,000th performance of the Broadway musical Cats. In honor of the occasion, the show’s producers sent a gift of 2,000 yellow roses. Pictured: Marlene Danielle (foreground), and (rear, L-R), Steven Hack, Susan Powers, Bonnie Simmons, Anna McNeely, and Joel Robertson.

On April 25, 2009, my phone began to blow up with texts: I’m so sorry for ur loss  RIP BEA :-( TYFBAF It happened. I’d sensed it before it was even confirmed, but the news was official: Bea Arthur had passed away. My favorite Golden Girl was gone. Almost a year later, I would get her face tattooed on my arm above a laurel wreath and the words “Thank you for being a friend.

Clearly, Netflix wants to be back on top of Vulture’s Streamer Power Rankings, and they know that the quickest route to our hearts is by adding vampires to stuff. Day Shift, Netflix’s upcoming film about some sick vampire killers, includes some kick-ass vampire killing by stars with various levels of kick-assery. The movie debuts on August 12 and is directed by J.J. Perry, who coordinated the stunts on John Wick 2, which Netflix helpfully refers to as “[teaching] John Wick how to kick ass” in this trailer.

It’s a central point of Glee’s rich mythology, established in the pilot, that Lea Michele’s Rachel Berry has a pair of gay fathers at home. Mid-season 3 — on Valentine’s Day, to be exact — those mystery dads will be revealed. One is Jeff Goldblum, the other is Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell, and their characters are called Hiram and LeRoy Berry. Go forth with the knowledge that Goldblum and Mitchell will definitely sing.

Jersey Shore Should We Just Break Up? Season 3 Episode 6 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » At times, tonight’s Jersey Shore seemed like an installment in the gory Saw franchise — not for the many references to blood, feces, and vomit, mind you — but because we’d have rather self-amputated our limbs than sit through another insufferable SamRon breakup. Seriously, enough. Please, MTV, you can send the rest of the cast to Italy for Season 4, but why not have SamRon see if they can work their issues out on the streets of Cairo?

Forget about Eras Tour. This is Pera’s Tour: a stand-up special based on comedian Joe Pera’s recent year-and-a-half-long tour of places like the upper Midwest, the lower Midwest, Buffalo, Scotland, and Phoenix, to say nothing of Seattle, Montana, Texas, and more. The creator of too-pure-for-this-world Adult Swim series Joe Pera Talks With You has made his very first hour-long special, called Joe Pera: Slow and Steady, and he’s independently financing, producing, and releasing it himself.

From left, Andersen, Elfman, Yazbeck.Photos: Patrick McMullan (Andersen), Getty Images Let’s face it, often when Broadway announces a forthcoming project, you get that ew-why-are-they-doing-that-and-who-are-these-people feeling? (We’ll admit such a feeling was driving us when we blew off the first performances of Rent thirteen years ago, then a few months later couldn’t sell our own mother for a press ticket.) But sometimes you get the opposite feeling — just a momentary burst of, Hey, this could be kind of cool.

In Netflix’s Living Undocumented, an immigration lawyer attempting to accompany her client, who was forced to enter an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Kansas City, is blocked by an agent who shoves her across the door’s threshold and causes her to fall. Later, the agent returns and allows her inside. The interaction intensifies later in the episode, “The World Is Watching,” when Kansas City lawyer Andrea Martinez exits the center on a stretcher with a fractured foot and lacerations on her knee and leg.

Malevolent forest spirits, cannibalism, Elijah Wood: Even citizen detectives can’t deny this kind of evidence. In the first episode of Yellowjackets season two, a new character enters the picture in the present-day timeline. He’s mysterious, goes by an alias, lurks in corners, is obsessed with murder, and we only hear his voice. No, he’s not another villainous spirit like the Man With No Eyes. He’s just Walter.

Kanye West. Thursday, Kanye West unveiled Yeezy Season 3 and debuted his long-awaited new album, now titled The Life of Pablo, at Madison Square Garden. As we await the album’s official release, Vulture music critic Lindsay Zoladz, New York writer-at-large Rembert Browne, and Vulture editors Dee Lockett and Kevin Lincoln discuss the spectacle, the controversy, and our first impressions of the album. Lindsay: MY PABLOS, what’s good? So, a new Kanye West album exists.