For the first time, newly annointed front-runner Elizabeth Warren took the hot seat at the latest Democratic presidential debate. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook, click here.

Tony Award winners David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori collaborate on Soft Power, a new "musical-within-a-play" satirizing Chinese-American relations and featuring a post-election Hillary Clinton as a major character. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck