What is Smash? If All About Eve and The Producers had a love child carried by Marilyn Monroe, it would be NBC’s Broadway backstage soap opera, which managed to excite and infuriate audiences when it premiered last February. For every delicious one-liner and Megan Hilty musical moment, there was a peanut allergy or eavesdropping douchebag daring the audience to ...

On the season finale of NBC's Smash, aptly titled “Bombshell,” the show is almost ready as Tom (Christian Borle) and Julia (Debra Messing) literally race against time to write a new ending. What else happens? Confessions are made, hopes are dashed, and director Derek (Jack Davenport) finally lets Karen (Katherine McPhee) be a star. Aaaaand no one is surprised ...

One week before the season finale, Bombshell has finally reached “Previews,” the title of this week’s episode of Smash, and things are blowing up in the faces of the cast and crew working on the Marilyn Monroe musical. On the 14th episode of NBC’s musical drama, Ivy (Megan Hilty) wakes up on the wrong side of the bed ...

The 13th installment of NBC’s Broadway drama Smash seems to be unlucky for all in matters of the heart. In this week’s episode, entitled “Tech,” Bombshell heads to Boston for out-of-town tryouts, and it seems everyone is stepping out on their relationships: Derek (Jack Davenport) gets blinded by the glow of Rebecca (Uma Thurman), Dev (Raza Jaffrey) gets ...

NBC’s theater-loving Smash explores our media-crazed world, where there's no such thing as bad publicity. In this week’s episode, aptly titled “Publicity,” Karen (Katharine McPhee) gets seduced into being a Page Six regular. The Bombshell understudy blows off her boyfriend Dev (Raza Jaffrey) to hang with her new BFF, movie star Rebecca Duvall (Uma Thurman). But when ...

Can a Hollywood headliner hack it on the Great White Way? That's the question on this week's episode of NBC’s Broadway drama, Smash, entitled “The Movie Star.” Actress extraordinaire Rebecca Duvall (Uma Thurman) arrives for rehearsals and quickly establishes that she might have star power but that doesn't mean her singing is electric. Meanwhile, with things ...

Since the very beginning of NBC’s Broadway-loving Smash, Marilyn Monroe wannabes Ivy (Megan Hilty) and Karen (Katharine McPhee) have both been hoping, praying and conniving to be the star of the new musical about the blonde icon. In the tenth episode, entitled “Understudy,” Karen finally gets her chance, sort of. While newly cast leading lady Rebecca Duvall (Uma Thurman ...

Burn baby burn! In the ninth episode of Smash, entitled “Hell On Earth," NBC’s musical theater-loving drama the characters start to feel the heat as relationships reach a boiling point. Julia (Debra Messing) pens her own swan song, Ivy (Megan Hilty) gets high at Heaven on Earth, two-time Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz simmers onstage, Michael Riedel sniffs around ...

In the eighth episode of NBC’s sparkly Broadway-dusted primetime soap Smash, entitled “The Coup,” the workshop for the Marilyn musical may be over but the drama is just beginning. As Ivy (Megan Hilty) waits for word that she landed her dream gig, her lover/director Derek (Jack Davenport) goes behind her back, recruiting Karen (Katharine McPhee) to help give ...

Light the lights, Smashers! "The Workshop" episode of NBC's Broadway-loving drama is finally here. Yes, the Marilyn musical by Julia (Debra Messing) and Tom (Christian Borle) is ready to sing and dance for potential investors. Will Ivy (Megan Hilty) set the world on fire? Will her mother (Bernadette Peters) steal the show? Find out with this week’s ...