Dan Rosales was waiting tables at Isabella’s three years ago when a man and a pregnant woman sat down in his section. It didn’t take long for the Boston Conservatory grad to recognize th…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:49AMSome cats love dogs — at least, many actors in Broadway’s “Cats” do. After shows they leave their feline personas in the Neil Simon Theatre dressing room and cuddle at home with thei…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:36AMNever has a “Tempest” touched off such a tempest. The all-female, bare-bodied Bard production that played Central Park in May was both warmly reviewed (“Liberating,” trilled the Huff…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:53AMPsyched for fall? Josh Groban and Robert Morse are. At 35 and 85, respectively, they can’t wait to get to Broadway. “I’m working harder than I ever have in my life and I’m loving eve…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:14PM“Hamilton” has a new Mr. Burr, sir! Brandon Victor Dixon stepped into Leslie Odom Jr.’s boots this week, but he’s no Broadway newbie: The 34-year-old Maryland native helped creat…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:03AMHe worked on “Sleeping Beauty,” “Mary Poppins” and “The Jungle Book.” But while those Disney films are ageless, their animators are not — which is why Floyd Norman found himsel…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:32PMThe 20th annual New York International Fringe Festival rolls into town Friday, and for the next two weeks, you and sundry hungry off-Broadway producers are invited to look for the next “Ur…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:45AMDecades before she soared with “The Lion King” — even longer before she crashed with “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” — Julie Taymor saw her first Shakespeare play. It was 1960, a…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:11AMWhen Chilina Kennedy, the star of Broadway’s “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” decided to adopt, she thought she was doing it for Molly. That was six years ago. Kennedy was living …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:27PMYou can’t always get what you want. But if you try sometime, you just might find … you’re singing backup for Mick Jagger. Hey, it happened to Matthew Ciuffitelli. Three years ago h…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:43AMRobert Cenedella may be an “art bastard,” but he comes by it legitimately: Not only did his parents never marry, but he’s an art-world pariah, and proud of it. You can see his work on-…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:46AM“I wish I was more of a go-getter,” Michelle Williams says, laughing. “I just sort of sit and wait for things to come my way.” So far, plenty’s come her way, from “Dawson’s…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:02AMDining with Jesse Tyler Ferguson at Momofuku and Eleven Madison Park on someone else’s dime? For most of us, that’s priceless. For “Fully Committed” playwright Becky Mode, that was r…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:39AMNo, there isn’t a shower in there. But anyone who’s seen “Psycho” will recognize that rickety Victorian on the Met’s roof: Norman Bates, are you in there? Not a chance. Like the ho…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:37PMSomewhere under the massive beard he sports in “The Crucible” lies Ben Whishaw. The fine-boned British star of “London Spy” and the last two James Bond flicks hasn’t been this furr…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AMWhen it comes to making theatrical magic, Broadway often relies on specialists, such as dialect coaches, fight directors — and even actual magicians. But a number of current shows require …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:32PMOh, what a difference a da Vinci makes — and a Rembrandt, a Michelangelo and a van Gogh. A whole who’s who of old masters and impressionists is hanging on the walls of the old Whitney. T…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:37AMIt’s the rare star who covers for his own understudy. But Lin-Manuel Miranda did just that when Javier Muñoz, his alternate in “Hamilton,” missed a Sunday matinee. Considering Sun…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:55AMWhat’s it like beating up Bruce Willis? Laurie Metcalf — whose character does it eight times a week in “Misery” — says it’s “a lot of fun,” though both have the bruises t…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:13AMFor years he starred with Mary Tyler Moore. Now Ed Asner’s coming to New York to star in “A Man and His Prostate,” in which the former Lou Grant enacts the tale of an American abroad, …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:14AMWhat better way to chase all that sickly sweet holiday cheer than with a bracing dose of bitters? Enter Lypsinka, the acidic, lip-syncing alias of John Epperson. For now, Epperson, 60, is in…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:33PMManspreading is spreading. That scourge of park benches and subways is coming to a theater near you. Hell, it’s probably already there. And on Broadway, no less — where the seat you spen…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:03PMRandy Blair is 5-foot-8 and weighs 300 pounds — and says he’s OK with that. Years of struggling with his weight inspired his off-Broadway musical “Gigantic,” based on his recollectio…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:30AMTo audiences, they’re a precision dance troupe — a line of sky-high legs and synchronized smiles. But as any Rockette will tell you, theirs isn’t just a job. It’s a legacy. Some 200 …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:50PMShe may be playing Dorothy, but Shanice Williams is feeling like Cinderella at the ball. The 19-year-old star of “The Wiz Live!” — airing live on NBC Thursday — is still getting her …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:13AMIT’S got heart, passion, killer choreography – and the best Elton John score ever. When all is said and sung, “Billy Elliot: The Musical” promises to be the biggest L…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:45PMTHAT bearded man muttering Shakespeare on the subway? It might have been Mandy Patin kin. Eight years since he last played a New York stage, the Tony-winning, concertizing TV star (“Ch…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:45PMTWO giants get their due in the weeks ahead as the opera and classical worlds hail Luciano Pavarotti and Leonard Bernstein. The Lenny love-in – a citywide festival marking what would h…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:45PMTHERE is no “Godspell” – but a raft of other revivals are headed our way. Virtually everything old is new again this fall, thanks to some starry casting. And there’s …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:45PMWhat happens when you mix “Orange” and “Purple”? Danielle Brooks is about to find out. The “Orange Is the New Black” star — she plays Tasha “Taystee” Jefferson — is makin…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:38AMIf Annaleigh Ashford wins another Tony, she may thank Los Angeles’ Zoom Room. No, it’s not an acting academy: It’s a dog school. It was there, while shooting “Masters of...
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