When she accepted the Golden Globe for "Les Misérables," Anne Hathaway thanked her mother. The star was 8 when she saw Kate McCauley Hathaway play Fantine in the musical's national tour " a…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:57PM[SHARE]There go the pies. The Sara Bareilles musical "Waitress" will end its Broadway run on Jan. 5, the Hollywood Reporter announced, after nearly four years and countless turns by many guest acto…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:21PM[SHARE]Having been "bored s - - tless" the first time he saw "The Magic Flute," Barrie Kosky hoped never to suffer through it again. Granted, he was only 11 at the time but, th…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:03PM[SHARE]Rare is the play whose title tells you exactly what to expect. "The Ferryman"? There's not even a ferry. "To Kill a Mockingbird"? No bird. But "Dropping Gumballs on Luke Wilson" delivers eve…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:16PM[SHARE]Hao Jiang Tian saw his first opera in 1983. It was the day he arrived from China with four words of English (hello, OK, bye, yes) and $35 in his pocket. An aspiring singer, he spent $8 of it…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:10PM[SHARE]Given her six Tony Awards, two Grammys, an Emmy and a National Medal of Arts, Audra McDonald has nothing left to prove. Yet there she is in "Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune," havin…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:36PM[SHARE]Long before "Mad About You," Helen Hunt was mad about a musical. She was 8 years old when her father, the late director and acting coach Gordon Hunt, took her to "Godspell" off-Broadway. Tha…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:36PM[SHARE]Theatergoers can watch Debra Messing age before their eyes next spring. In Noah Haidle's new play, "Birthday Candles," the star of "Will & Grace" " both past and rebooted " starts off as…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:21PM[SHARE]Broadway's next Atticus Finch has blue eyes. Ed Harris, a four-time Oscar nominee and star of TV's "Westworld," will take over from Jeff Daniels in Broadway's "To Kill a Mockingbird" this fa…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:14PM[SHARE]She got expelled from school after punching another kid " and wound up moving to New York.
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:42PM[SHARE]Disney's new "Lion King" won't roar into movie theaters until July 19 " but the Broadway musical's still feeling the love: Wednesday it plays its 9,000th performance at the Minskoff Theater.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:54PM[SHARE]Fake it till you make it. And Derrick Baskin ain't too proud to admit he did just that: submitting a résumé of nonexistent theater credits two decades before landing the lead in "Ain't Too…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:57PM[SHARE]Santino Fontana is no stranger to competition. He's been up for plenty of awards, including a Tony this year for his starring role in "Tootsie." But he didn't expect his wife, actress Jessic…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:12PM[SHARE]The name is Fleming. Lucy Fleming " and as Ian Fleming's niece, she's had a front-row view of the creation and continuation of Bond, James Bond, the most fantastic fictitious spy ever. For n…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:18PM[SHARE]When you want to be an actor and your last name's Uranowitz, well " you might want to change it. Brandon Uranowitz's father thought so. Just before he left for college, his dad suggested he …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:18PM[SHARE]Never mind where the bodies are buried: Let's talk about the mountain of corpses onstage these days at the Booth Theatre. As soon as that blood-red curtain parts and theatergoers get a gande…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:53PM[SHARE]"I wanted a real life as a dancer, so of course I came to New York," says Mark Morris, who at 19 left Seattle for this city in 1976, and " except for the six months a year he's on tour " has…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:51PM[SHARE]Soon after the killing started, Immaculée Ilibagiza's parents and brothers begged her to save herself. The 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda had begun, and a friend of her father's,…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:21PM[SHARE]Soon after the killing started, Immaculée Ilibagiza's parents and brothers begged her to save herself. The 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda had begun, and a friend of her father's,…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:11PM[SHARE]He was the green meanie of Broadway's "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" and the Green Goblin of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark." Now Patrick Page has gone to hell " as the overlor…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:31PM[SHARE]"I don't dance!" Corbin Bleu sang in "High School Musical 2," even as he hoofed it up. A dozen years later, Bleu's still dancing " this time in Broadway's "Kiss Me, Kate," where he hangs ups…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:48PM[SHARE]Chico the Chihuahua, the perky, 7-pound star of Broadway's 2007 "Legally Blonde " The Musical," said his final bowwow on Monday. As Bruiser, Chico spent more than a decade in touring and reg…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:16PM[SHARE]At last: a play that lets the actors have their cake and eat it, too. Off-Broadway's "The Cake" is set in a North Carolina pastry shop where the baker balks at baking for a lesbian wedding. …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:13PM[SHARE]Rosemary Harris played Peter Parker's Aunt May and now she's Henry Higgins' mother " eight times a week " in Broadway's "My Fair Lady." Harris is 91. Even she can't believe it. "The years go…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:20PM[SHARE]Andrea Martin, who safely flew through the air in Broadway's "Pippin" revival six years ago, broke four ribs rehearsing her new Broadway show. That said, Nathan Lane will have a new co-star …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:37PM[SHARE]Obviously, it wasn't enough to take Westminster's "Best in Show" award: This top dog walked off with a Broadway show the next day. On Wednesday night, fewer than 24 hours after being crowned…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:19PM[SHARE]LaTanya Richardson Jackson makes Calpurnia a force to be reckoned with in Aaron Sorkin's adaptation of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird."
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:23PM[SHARE]Some 20 years ago, when he was a New Kid on the Block living in Tribeca, Joey McIntyre considered Riverside Drive "no man's land." But last summer, after 15 years in Los Angeles, the 46-year…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:36PM[SHARE]"West Side Story" director Steven Spielberg finally found his Maria " on the very far west side of Manhattan. Make that New Jersey. Rachel Zegler, a 17-year-old high-school student from Clif…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:42PM[SHARE]Yep Carole came " and conquered. It was a "Beautiful" Broadway moment: Who better to perform the title song of her life story than Carole King herself? That's what happened Saturday night at…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:06PM[SHARE]After their widowed father died in 1995, jazz pianist Ted Rosenthal and his sister packed up the family home in Great Neck, LI. They didn't know what that box of letters, all written in Germ…
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