He’s probably Broadway’s best-kept secret. At least, you won’t find his name in Playbill. But when Porridge takes the stage in the new, Tony-nominated revival of “Pippin,” the audi…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 02:04AMEven before the show begins, she’s onstage, sitting still as a statue in a see-through box. Invited to come up and see her, theatergoers gawk and sometimes kneel in front of her before the…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:55PMWe've seen him in pearls and a prayer shawl — happily, not at the same time, but in “Hairspray” and “Fiddler on the Roof” — and his trademark growl has surfaced in everything fro…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:12AMMemories are one thing, theater’s another. For two hours a night, Alice McAlary can relive the 20 or so years she spent with the hard-driving newsman who was the love of her life. His name…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:29PMShe may be 4-foot-11, but Kristin Chenoweth casts a big shadow, on Broadway and off. Since blowing everyone else off the stage in 1999’s “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” — and th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:12AMZosia Mamet arrived at the Bowery Hotel the other afternoon alone, on time and tattooed — proof, if anyone needed it, that she’s no Shoshanna, the frilly little filly she plays on “Gir…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:36AMFootball has its bands of brothers: the Mannings, Barbers and Harbaughs. Broadway has a singular sister act: the Boggess girls. For the 25th anniversary of “The Phantom of the Opera” on…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:35AMIt's been called summer stock for the A team: Find a fine but forgotten musical, recruit ace actors and musicians, and put on some shows! City Center’s Encores! has been doing just that si…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:40AMBuff, blond Billy Magnussen says he has the best job in town: “They’re paying me to make out with Sigourney Weaver and pinch David Hyde Pierce’s nipples!” He does both in “Vanya a…
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SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:01AMIt’s Boxing Day, when one typically returns the gifts you don’t want for things you do. Isn’t it a shame you can’t get the same deal at the theater? If that were the case, we’d ret…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:35AMThe Clive Barnes Foundation, which perpetuates the late, great Post critic’s penchant for supporting young artists, recognized seven actors and dancers yesterday at its third annual awards…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:26PMKatie Holmes has one for “Dead Accounts,” Ricky Martin has two for “Evita,” and even Sunny, the Sandy of “Annie,” has one: an understudy or standby ready to take their places, si…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:29PMThat fountain of hair is still there, though it’s gone from dark to silver, and the nose has gotten larger with time. But there’s no mistaking Henry Winkler, a.k.a. Arthur Herbert Fonzar…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:04AMSize matters. At least it does on city stages, home to a 600-pound man, a nose that dwarfs Jimmy Durante’s and the biggest knockers outside of Las Vegas. Unlike “The Elephant Man,” in …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:46PMEd Asner doesn’t mince words: “I’m waiting for an affair,” he growls. “Got any leads?” “I’m asking you, you idiot!” Why, Mr. Grant — you’re hitting on me! Sitting down …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:42PMIt’s a job any woman — and many a man — would love to have: hugging Jake Gyllenhaal eight times a week. And lucky Annie Funke’s got the gig. In “If There Is I Haven’t Found It Ye…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:31AMShe’s been nominated for a Tony (twice), an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a SAG award. And she’s won . . . nothing. But Amy Ryan insists she’s fine with that. “I think not winning ke…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:47PMThis fall, you won’t need a telescope to see the stars — they’re scattered all over town. We’ve got Jake Gyllenhaal making his NY stage debut, Amy Ryan and David Schwimmer as a coupl…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:10AMThere was a small revolution recently at the Shubert Theatre, during the waning days of “Memphis.” Nearly 15 minutes into intermission, several women on the long, slow-moving line into t…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:16AMTitillating titles, madcap musicals and Shakespeare, either straight up (another “Twelfth Night”) or twisted (“Pulp Shakespeare,” a mash-up of the Bard and Quentin Tarantino): Yes, t…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:41PMRudnick’s ripped-from-the-headlines new play, “Cabin Pressure,” starting today as part of “Summer Shorts 2012” at 59E59 Theaters, concerns “a valiant flight attendant who battles…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 03:23PMBefore he was Agent Smith in the “Matrix” trilogy and Elrond in “The Lord of the Rings” saga — even before his timid, cross-dressing Tick in “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen o…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:22PMNeither rain nor raccoons, bugs or helicopters have deterred our best actors from the Delacorte. Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, James Earl Jones, Christopher Walken, Denzel Washington — pretty…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:32AMSo you think you can dance — great! But do you have any idea how to audition? About 1,500 bright-eyed Broadway wannabes rolled into town this week to find out. Ages 7 to 18, they’d come…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:11PMDancers from Paris, opera singers from China, Chekhov from Down Under — and star turns by Cate Blanchett, Alan Cumming and Mikhail Baryshnikov. This year’s Lincoln Center Festival will …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:53PMHe wore pasties in “Cabaret” and skintight leathers for “The Threepenny Opera.” But you’ll see even more of Alan Cumming on Thursday, when his bold new “Macbeth” opens the Linc…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:03PMIt began as the season of hunky men in T-shirts, with Ricky Martin and Blair Underwood leading a pack of six-packs. But when all was said and sung, Broadway’s most powerful performances ca…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:53PMIt may look and sound likes a kids’ show — and fake-barf, fart and spit like one, too — but Broadway’s “Peter and the Starcatcher” isn’t for the sippy-cup set. While there’s …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:31PMBack when Marlon Brando brayed “Stel-llla!” in “A Streetcar Named Desire,” chances are no one in the audience yelled, “I’m over here!” And when he — and a succession of other…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:41AMMomma Rose and Tevye . . . Marty McFly and Bluto? Yes, “Back to the Future” and “Animal House” — the musicals — are in the making, bound for Broadway. In a season filled with…
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