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Apr 12 2013 01:30 PM ET

Love is on the air: The winner of the Greatest TV Couple of All Time bracket game is...

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We asked, and you answered, PopWatchers. More than 150,000 passionate EW.com readers voted in the final contest that resulted in Glee‘s Kurt Hummel and Blaine Anderson defeating Doctor Who‘s most beloved romantic pairing to be named your Greatest TV Couple of All Time. In celebration of Klaine, who bested Marshall and Lily, Buffy and Spike, and Carrie and Big on their way to the crown — see the entire bracket here — we’ve rounded up the most essential songs (plus a bonus non-Klaine duet that, if we left it out, you would certainly savage us).

Below, a timeless, groundbreaking TV love story in six songs.

ALSO: EW.com’s Greatest TV Romances package READ FULL STORY »

Mar 18 2013 12:02 PM ET

'A Very Potter Senior Year': Darren Criss & Team StarKid's last Potter parody hits YouTube

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In the beginning, God and Darren Criss created Harry Potter: The Musical, a madcap Harry Potter parody originally performed at the University of Michigan in 2009. The musical, cowritten by Matt Lang, Nick Lang, and Brian Holden and produced by StarKid Productions, arrived on YouTube that summer and quickly went viral, inspiring a 2010 sequel that helped to launch Criss into mainstream stardom. (Its popularity also inspired a name change meant to stave off the litigious Warner Bros; that’s why you now know the show as A Very Potter Musical.)

Potter‘s Harry soon joined the cast of Glee, and StarKid’s other members moved on to other projects as well. Still, though, the story didn’t seem quite finished — which is why a whole passel of StarKids (including Criss) reunited for a one-night-only performance of a second Potter sequel at Chicago’s LeakyCon convention last summer. Though the gang released the show’s cast recording in December, the full musical itself remained absent from YouTube… until this past Friday.

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Sep 27 2012 02:22 PM ET

Darren Criss, Jane Lynch, Neil Patrick Harris in new NSFW Rock the Vote ad -- VIDEO

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“This election, there are a lot of really important decisions being made that affect marginalized groups in big ways,” Jesse Tyler Ferguson declares in a new Rock The Vote ad.

“Thank you, Jesse. Which is why, as an openly straight man, I implore you to think about people like me as you cast your ballot,” Ferguson’s co-star on Modern Family and recent Emmy-winner Eric Stonestreet continues.

What follows is a whole host of celebrities giving you their best reasons to vote on Nov. 6. Kathy Griffin reminds us that everyone at a polling place is over 18, which means they’re legal. Joel McHale votes because he’s not “a motherf***ing communist” and Jane Lynch tells us that casting a ballot is the best decision you can make. A close second? Getting a One Direction tattoo, like Lynch did.

Want to know who’s proud to be an American because of Ryan Gosling (even though he’s Canadian)? Check out the full NSFW ad below: READ FULL STORY »

Sep 19 2012 05:35 PM ET

Rock The Vote commercial stars Darren Criss, Neil Patrick Harris, a ton of other people -- VIDEO

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You know what’s important? Voting.

You know who appears in a PSA telling you to vote? Nearly every celebrity I can think of.

In the “We Will” commercial for Rock the Vote, celebs such as Darren Criss, Neil Patrick Harris, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet, Jane Lynch, Kathy Griffin and Miley Cyrus (with her new hairdo!) come together to write on a whiteboard and also break into some choreographed dance formations…all in the name of making your voice heard!

Check out the commercial below: READ FULL STORY »

Aug 21 2012 02:06 PM ET

Darren Criss and Team Starkid return to Hogwarts -- VIDEO

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Before Darren Criss was a star of the Broadway stage and the small screen, he was just a wizard, standing in front of Ginny Weasley, asking her to love him.

Criss shot to fame in 2009, when a Harry Potter parody he co-wrote went viral on YouTube. A Very Potter Musical‘s various parts have since been viewed millions of times, allowing Criss and his comrades — collectively, they’re known as Team StarKid — to create a similarly popular sequel in 2010, as well as a variety of other productions. But when Hollywood beckoned that same year, Criss moved on to bigger things, and plans for a third Potter parody — A Very Potter 3D: A Very Potter Senior Year — had to be put on hold. Until now.

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Jul 18 2012 11:13 AM ET

LeakyCon to debut 'A Very Potter 3D' with Darren Criss

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While we’re still pretty psyched at the opportunity to do morning yoga led by Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood), the Harry Potter fan convention LeakyCon now boasts an even bigger event: The debut of A Very Potter 3D: A Very Potter Senior Year. Team StarKid will present a one-time only staged reading of the third installment in the Very Potter Musical franchise that made Glee‘s Darren Criss, who’ll be in Chicago on August 11 to participate, famous. Check out the full LeakyCon schedule here. And revisit A Very Potter Musical and A Very Potter Sequel in their entirety on YouTube. Below, a refresher of where we left off… READ FULL STORY »

May 14 2012 06:30 PM ET

Darren Criss charms at Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards, talks stage pranks and 'Newsies'

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Darren Criss may have only been on Broadway for three weeks, but he’s already solidified his place in the Broadway community and earned an enviable résumé credit: host of Broadway.com’s 13th-annual Audience Choice Awards.

EW attended the theatrical get-together last night at the Time-Warner Center in New York, where the festivities were merry and the presenters (including Adam Pascal, Brian D’Arcy James, Judith Light and Tammy Blanchard) were even more so. While other theater awards ceremonies can be stuffy affairs, Criss’s self-referential shtick got things off to a lively start. Armed with a guitar and a piano, Criss made his way through the program with musical interludes that poked fun at his short-lived stint in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and skewered some of his Broadway contemporaries — which he was known to do during his prank-filled run as J. Pierrepont Finch. READ FULL STORY »

May 9 2012 11:20 AM ET

Nick Jonas-led 'How to Succeed…' will go out of business on Broadway on May 20

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Want to know how to succeed in musical theater? Look no further than the walloping success of the Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, which will end its fruitful run on Sunday, May 20 after 30 previews, 473 regular performances and — count ‘em — three headlining young sensations.

Although closing is a bittersweet announcement for any production, the well-received revival of H2$ recouped its initial $9 million investment in December, meaning that everything else — including the $4 million Darren Criss brought in during his three-week run in January, as well as the moderate success of current star Nick Jonas — is just gravy (after production costs, of course). READ FULL STORY »

May 7 2012 05:53 PM ET

Darren Criss to host Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards

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He may have been a late addition to the Glee cast, but Darren Criss is proving to be the most successful actor to emerge from the show choir soiree. After a successful run run on Broadway in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Glee’s golden boy has been tapped to host the 13th-annual Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards in New York on May 13.

Even though Criss was only on the Great White Way for a grand total of three weeks, he’s since become a household name, and certainly a respected one in the theater community. It’s fitting that he host an awards show driven by audience votes, considering his massive appeal with the crowds and his demonstrated ability to pull legions of teenage girls into the theater collective.

Broadway.com’s Audience Choice Awards are traditionally a favorite among both the voting public and the performers picked to win. Although they don’t bear much statistical foreshadowing for the actual results of the Tony Awards in June (categories like Favorite Diva Performance and Favorite Onstage Pair don’t have Tony equivalents), the awards are a festive way to celebrate the best in Broadway — and more than likely, a fun way to get the nominees’ minds off the Tonys. At least for a little while.

Read more:
Darren Criss and Cleveland, Jr. sing with Fergie on ‘The Cleveland Show’ — EXCLUSIVE VIDEO
‘Glee’ scoop: Darren Criss talks working with Matt Bomer in tonight’s episode and what’s in store for the rest of the season
This Week on Stage: Nick Jonas versus Darren Criss; Janeane Garofalo off-Broadway

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