Tuesday, October 29, 2019
The stage lights go up and there, standing against a shower door holding a big red hat, is … Bella Abzug? Actually, it’s Harvey Fierstein, the writer and also the star — Patti LuPone a…
Linked From The New York Post at 03:12PMThursday, October 24, 2019
For nearly six years, Carole King has watched her life — the early years, anyway — flash before her eyes at “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” which ends its Broadway run Sunday. …
Linked From The New York Post at 04:01PMMonday, October 21, 2019
Those who remember him as TV’s John-Boy Walton are often shocked to find that Richard Thomas is a lifelong Manhattanite. “It confuses people all the time,” says Thomas, 68, who spent m…
Linked From The New York Post at 10:09AMTuesday, October 15, 2019
As a wise frog observed, it’s not easy being green. But, boy, Kermit — it’s sure fun to play a man-eating plant. So say the puppeteers behind Audrey II, the star — with Jonathan Grof…
Linked From The New York Post at 02:01PMThursday, October 3, 2019
What do the Man in Black of “Westworld,” a former Evan Hansen and a recurring “Fargo” figure have in common? Starting Nov. 5, they’ll all be in Broadway’s “To Kill a Mockingbir…
Linked From The New York Post at 03:49PMWant some fries with that murder? The fragrance of fast food is all over “Scotland, Pa.,” the Roundabout Theatre Company’s riff on “Macbeth.” Like the quirky, 2001 film of the same…
Linked From The New York Post at 12:11PMThursday, September 5, 2019
Midway through Broadway’s “Betrayal,” Zawe Ashton has her eye on Tom Hiddleston’s melon. The “Avengers” star plays Robert, a man who’s just discovered that his best friend, Jer…
Linked From The New York Post at 03:18PMFriday, August 16, 2019
André De Shields, the Tony-winning star of “Hadestown,” is no stranger to hell: He’s been living in Hell’s Kitchen since 1983. Back then, the 73-year-old says, it was a frightening …
Linked From The New York Post at 02:48PMWednesday, August 14, 2019
It started seven years ago, with a favor: One of Robyn Lynne Norris’ friends had signed up with OkCupid and asked her to review her online dating profile. Back then, Norris, a 20-something…
Linked From The New York Post at 05:24PMThursday, August 8, 2019
Before Jake Gyllenhaal appears in “Sea Wall/A Life” — even before the house lights dim — co-star Tom Sturridge is onstage for a pre-show that consists mainly of him drinking beer. Th…
Linked From The New York Post at 01:34PMWednesday, July 31, 2019
Dim all the marquee lights on Broadway — Harold Prince, the producer and director behind many of the American theater’s greatest musicals, died Wednesday at 91, after a brief illness. In…
Linked From The New York Post at 12:23PMThursday, July 25, 2019
Annie Golden plays a mute on “Orange Is the New Black,” but over a recent lunch, the show’s Norma Romano is a regular chatterbox. How, after a breathless talking tour through her child…
Linked From The New York Post at 04:47PMThursday, July 18, 2019
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 to…
Linked From The New York Post at 08:57PMTuesday, July 16, 2019
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 …
Linked From The New York Post at 05:21PMThursday, July 11, 2019
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, thanks to…
Linked From The New York Post at 08:03PMThursday, June 27, 2019
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…
Linked From The New York Post at 06:16PMThursday, June 20, 2019
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…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:10PMGiven 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,” h…
Linked From The New York Post at 05:36PMLong 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-Broad…
Linked From The New York Post at 05:36PMMonday, June 17, 2019
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 —…
Linked From The New York Post at 04:21PMFriday, June 14, 2019
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 Mockingb…
Linked From The New York Post at 01:14PMThursday, June 13, 2019
She got expelled from school after punching another kid — and wound up moving to New York.
Linked From The New York Post at 08:42PMWednesday, June 5, 2019
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 Minsk…
Linked From The New York Post at 12:54PMThursday, May 30, 2019
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…
Linked From The New York Post at 08:57PMSantino 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, actres…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:12PMThursday, May 16, 2019
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.…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:18PMWhen 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 suggest…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:18PMThursday, May 9, 2019
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 gan…
Linked From The New York Post at 05:53PMFriday, May 3, 2019
“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 to…
Linked From The New York Post at 01:51PMThursday, May 2, 2019
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…
Linked From The New York Post at 06:21PMWednesday, May 1, 2019
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…
Linked From The New York Post at 04:11PM 
