Ryan Murphy News

Oxygen Network's THE GLEE PROJECT will premiere its second season on June 5. In THE GLEE PROJECT, Ryan Murphy, creator and executive producer of GLEE presents a ten-episode documentary reality series that finds and trains a group of talented performers who will compete against each other to win a role on one of the hottest shows on television. From thousands of entries, and after a nationwide talent search, Robert Ulrich, the casting director for GLEE has uncovered a unique group of artists from both professional and amateur backgrounds. (more...)

On last night's season three finale of GLEE, graduation day arrived, as McKinley High’s class of 2012 looked to the past and present, all while contemplating the future. Check out behind-the-scenes photos from the episode below! (more...)

GLEE creator Ryan Murphy recently chatted with Vulture about many of his upcoming projects, which include a film version of THE NORMAL HEART, A NEW NORMAL (featuring theatre veterans Andrew Rannells and Justin Bartha), and more. Murphy revealed on THE NEW NORMAL: 'It’s a lot of different ways of looking at families and the way our society is different now, thus the title. But that was my way in, certainly, my own story. I love that experience of going into a writers' room and saying, “Oh my God, this happened to me last week, what do you think?” and then working on that experience. That show is very personal to me.' (more...)

On last night's season three finale of GLEE, graduation day arrived, as McKinley High’s class of 2012 looked to the past and present, all while contemplating the future. Check out all the performances from last night's episode below! (more...)

The Boss to the Beatles to Madonna to Rod Stewart, GLEE’s emotional and invigorating season finale was pretty much everything a gleek could have asked for in a grand send-off to the original crew of McKinley High’s New Directions - at least insofar as we have seen them thus far - as the musical dramedy series ends its third season and heads into uncertain new terrain with Season Four and the purportedly revolutionary new dual-show concept GLEE mastermind Ryan Murphy and company plan to incorporate while bringing in guest stars Sarah Jessica Parker and Kate Hudson and THE GLEE PROJECT winners. As seen in “Goodbye”, the future looks quite uncertain for many of the McKinley graduates - Rachel (Lea Michele) may have gotten into NYADA at the eleventh hour and arrived on Broadway to fulfill her theatre dreams, but Finn (Cory Monteith) and Kurt did not get into their performing arts academies of their choice. So, what now? So, too, will Quinn (Dianna Agron) assumedly head for the East Coast and Princeton, while Santana (Naya Rivera) will apparently be joining Rachel in New York - but, to do what? The future is evidently more promising for some than for others, but what we will see play out is infuriatingly indeterminable at this stage of the game. Anticipation is building, in any event - and GLEE continues to entice. What’s next for the rest of the glee club we will have to wait until next season to witness, but we can rest assured that Blaine (Darren Criss), Sam (Chord Overstreet), Joe (Samuel Larsen), Sugar (Vanessa Lengies) and Artie (Kevin McHale) will be around, with the fates of some of the original glee clubbers who graduated a little less cut and dry as far as their character’s trajectories are concerned - particularly Puck (Mark Salling), Mike (Harry Shum, Jr.), Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) and Mercedes (Amber Riley). And, as for Mr. Shu (Matt Morrison), Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch), Coach Beiste (Dot-Marie Jones) and Emma (Jayma Mays)? We will definitely be seeing much more of them in September. While we can always rely on GLEE to provide us with outrageous jokes, outlandish characterizations, unexpected dramatic and thematic twists and turns, shockingly touching domestic drama and many incredibly heartwarming moments and socially progressive messages, the music - more importantly, the musical numbers - is what makes GLEE stand out from every other serial television series before or since and why the show will unquestionably be remembered as something revolutionary and indisputably idiosyncratic in the scheme of TV history. (more...)

Today we continue the 2012 Tony Awards Clip Countdown - culminating in the final entry on June 10, aka Tony Sunday - with a focus on two tremendous theatrical talents who have crossed over from Broadway fame to international acclaim on Fox’s hit musical dramedy series GLEE, which ends its third season tonight: HAIRSPRAY’s Matthew Morrison and SPRING AWAKENING’s Lea Michele. (more...)

Created by Ryan Murphy, GLEE follows a group of teenagers at William McKinley High School in Ohio, who despite their differences, are brought together in a show choir, for their shared love of music and performing. Unlike other shows in the youth demographic, GLEE roots for the social outcasts and brings a positive message of accepting differences as what makes each individual special. In honor of the season finale tonight, May 22, BroadwayWorld brings you reflections from the cast and fans. (more...)

Tonight on the season finale of GLEE, graduation is finally here, as McKinley High’s class of 2012 looks to the past and present, all while contemplating the future in the all-new “Goodbye” season finale episode. Check out photos an audio tracks from the episode below, which will inclide 'Good Riddance (Time of Your Life),' 'I'll Remember,' 'You Get What You Give,' and more! (more...)

On the Glee season finale on Tuesday May 22, Gloria Estefan will play Maribel Lopez, Santana(Naya Rivera)'s mom. In this video, Estefan talks about what a Gleek she is, her favorite characters, and more. (more...)

GLEE's season three finale is coming up on Tuesday, May 22, and fans are still buzzing about which characters will be back after graduation. Creator Ryan Murphy told Vulture: "A lot of people have been writing Dianna's off the show, Amber's off the show — they're not off the show. I think Amber was talking about that bittersweet feeling of, 'I'll never be in the choir room with that exact group of people.' At least that's what she told me ... When I read that [tweet,] I said, 'I think people will misconstrue that.' She's excited about where her character is going. They all are. I wanted to do the right thing by all of them." (more...)

Next week on the season finale of GLEE, graduation is finally here, as McKinley High’s class of 2012 looks to the past and present, all while contemplating the future in the all-new “Goodbye” season finale episode. In the show, Tina, after bumping her head, imagines she is Rachel singing "Because You Loved Me." Watch a video of Jenna Ushkowitz's full performance below! (more...)

Next week on the season finale of GLEE, graduation is finally here, as McKinley High’s class of 2012 looks to the past and present, all while contemplating the future in the all-new “Goodbye” season finale episode. Go behind the scenes with the cast as Lea Michele, Dianna Agron, Cory Monteith, Jenna Ushkowitz, Maya Rivera, Amber Riley, Harry Shum Jr., Darren Criss and more talk about filming the emotional episode in the video below! (more...)

Next week on the season finale of GLEE, graduation is finally here, as McKinley High’s class of 2012 looks to the past and present, all while contemplating the future in the all-new “Goodbye” season finale episode. Check out photos from the episode below! (more...)

On the edge of glory, GLEE momentarily brought back the ecstatic excitement and indescribably infectious joy which made the musical dramedy series a huge hit in its first and second seasons, then commanding upwards of twelve million viewers a week. Now sixty-plus episodes into the series, in a two-hour episode helmed by co-creator Ian Brennan, last night’s two-episode gorge-worthy and gorgeous feast - “Props” and “Nationals”, by the hour - was a reminder of everything that cynics have cited as lacking from episodes in Season Three, as flagging ratings and a general media lull plagues the once seemingly indomitable mega-show despite its continued inventiveness and dramatic daringness. It was fresh and sassy and outrageous, but touching and heartfelt - attributes ascribed to the best episodes of the show. Yet, it was so much more, too - and then there’s the music! Both hours were a totally over-the-top tribute to all things big and wow-worthy, coming at just the right moment to pump some energizing lifeblood into the audience base - passing references to Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Marvin Hamlisch and Elton John as well as multiple winks at DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES songwriter and BAT OUT OF HELL mastermind Jim Steinman collectively pushing the theatre insider reference quotient into the stratosphere; and appreciably so. Yes, indeed, last night’s double-dose of GLEE was an OD-worthy escapade worthy of returning to time and time again - Lea Michele’s solo spots of Jason Mraz’s “I Won’t Give Up” and Celine Dion’s Grammy-winning “It’s All Coming Back To Me Now” alone were standouts of not only this or any season, but the series itself. With more than fifteen songs performed - everything from Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj and The Who to STARLIGHT EXPRESS, TOMMY, FLASHDANCE and KISS ME, KATE - there was something for everyone in the two-hour GLEE extravaganza overflowing with the witty one-liners, out-of-this-world twists, outlandish characterizations, as well as the idiosyncratic theatrical reality that only GLEE can create. It was a true return to form to prove any and all naysayers wrong, and, this, coming after last week’s Ryan Murphy-penned “Prom-asaurus” season highlight, no less. (more...)

Gleeks rejoice! Oxygen today revealed that the broadcast premiere of THE GLEE PROJECT season two's "Edge of Glory" music video, a song made famous by Lady Gaga, will air during the network's fourth "Glee" marathon on Saturday, May 19 from 12PM-12AM ET/PT. (more...)

On May 15, FOX will air two back-to-back GLEE episodes, entitled 'Props' and 'Nationals.' Then, New Directions faces off against Wade (Alex Newell) and Vocal Adrenaline at Nationals in Chicago, where they perform in front of celebrity judge Lindsay Lohan (guest-starring as herself). At Nationals, a rival glee club performs an amazing rendition of Nicki Minaj's "Starships" but the McKinley High kids refuse to let that shake their confidence. (more...)

On May 15, FOX will air two back-to-back GLEE episodes, entitled 'Props' and 'Nationals'. As the countdown to graduation continues, the kids of New Directions prepare a high-concept routine for Nationals. Meanwhile, Mercedes (Amber Riley) becomes ill and everyone begins to wonder how they will ever get to Nationals. (more...)

Tonight, May 15, FOX will air two back-to-back GLEE episodes, entitled 'Props' and 'Nationals'. As the countdown to graduation continues, the kids of New Directions prepare a high-concept routine for Nationals. When Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) bumps her head, the world of New Directions is turned upside down in her eyes. Then, New Directions face off against Wade (Alex Newell) and Vocal Adrenaline at Nationals in Chicago, where they perform in front of celebrity judge Lindsay Lohan (guest-starring as herself). (more...)

NBC announced today an ambitious new primetime lineup for the 2012-13 primetime season that combines one of the top-quality returning lineups on television with a new fall edition of the red-hot musical competition "The Voice" and a crop of six new scripted series in the fall and four at mid-season. (more...)

NBC's upcoming comedy series THE NEW NORMAL, starring THE BOOK OF MORMON's Andrew Rannells and also Justin Bartha, has just released new sneak-peek clips from the show. Check out the videos below! (more...)