Tonys, Shmonys: Your musical’s only as good as your kid says it is. Luckily, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s son just gave “Hamilton” a big (little) thumbs up. From his perch atop two booster s…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:17PMOnce, sometimes twice a day, says Mercedes Ruehl, she’s “the most unloved woman in New York.” It happens during “Torch Song,” when her character, Mrs. Beckoff, tells her gay son sh…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:12PMAmy Schumer’s about to make her Broadway debut in Steve Martin’s “Meteor Shower,” which has its first preview on Wednesday. She’s already box-office gold — but can the 36-year-o…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:18PMPico Alexander’s leading lady came to his dressing room the other day with a suggestion. “It would be better the way we did it before,” Sherie Rene Scott told him, “when you were f�…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:42PMTo the exalted roster of artists who’ve performed at Carnegie Hall — Tchaikovsky, Leonard Bernstein, the Beatles — add Bill Murray. Decades after he crooned “Star Wars” on “SNL�…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:01PMSometimes it’s hard to let it go. That’s what Idina Menzel’s younger sister learned while growing up in the shadow of the future “Frozen” star — the Anna to her Elsa. As Cara Men…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:09PMElizabeth McGovern spent six years playing the ideal mother — the warm, wise and nurturing Lady Cora of “Downton Abbey.” Clearly, she was ready for a change, and now she’s found one.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:42PMShe’s sung her way through six beauty pageants. Now Angel Blue, 2005’s Miss Hollywood, is ready for prime time: She’ll make her Met Opera debut Monday in “La Bohème.” Visually…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:06PMHere’s everything to see and listen to on NYC’s stages this fall. Theater Even in a season when The Boss comes to town — “Springsteen on Broadway” (previews Oct. 3, Walter …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:54PMIf they gave an award Sunday night for Most Hilarious Emmy Campaign, Jackie Hoffman would win. Nominated for her role as Mamacita in “Feud: Bette and Joan,” she made a video of herself c…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:35PMHer Playbill bio is longer than that of some of her co-stars. Then again, she’s had a helluva life, having narrowly escaped death row. Now, after three years on the road with “Annie,” …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:31PM“All the world’s a stage,” said Shakespeare. And he was right: His own work’s headed to four Hell’s Kitchen bars and a Brooklyn recycling center. Theaters are so 16th century. In t…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:48PMIt will take more than a solar eclipse to overshadow Tommy Tune, the 6-foot-6, 10-time Tony winner. Texas born and bred, his high-school graduation gift was a trip to New York: “I stayed a…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:33PMHow long will it take for over 43,000 seats to disappear? We’ll find out Aug. 30 — the first day tickets go on sale for Bruce Springsteen’s solo show on Broadway. The Boss starts previ…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:18AMAs it turns out, there really was a Rosie. Maurice Sendak found the spunky inspiration for “Really Rosie” — the musical he wrote with Carole King, in revival this week at City Center �…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:04PMBobby Goldman was 51 when she started dating again, on doctor’s orders: “My shrink said, ‘Go out and get laid!’” Easier said than done. It was 1999, and Goldman’s husband, writer…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:50PMMaybe it’s her soft voice that gets Lili Taylor cast as a caregiver, even if those she looks after happen to be dead, as they were in 1999’s “The Haunting.” These days, the “Six Fe…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:34PMThey were sitting in Mary Tyler Moore’s Manhattan apartment, discussing life and death issues, when they heard a crash. Bounding into the star’s elegant living room were a golden retriev…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:06PMGregg Mozgala was born with cerebral palsy; Katy Sullivan, without lower legs. Yet there they are, delivering knockout performances in off-Broadway’s “Cost of Living.” In the play, the…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:42PMThe Tony Awards are less of a fashion show than a night of song and dance and, if we’re lucky, some heartfelt drama. Here’s how a few of this year’s nominees are gearing up for Sunday�…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:28PMIn 1998, a Texas theater student named Michael Urie discovered New York on a class trip. “It was the dead of summer, it was hot and stinky and we saw 13 shows in 10 days,” the “Ugly Be…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:15PMThe tree was dead, chopped down with two dozen others for the set of Broadway’s “Come From Away.” But a few months ago, something odd happened: That tree began to sprout. From its bark…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:33PMNothing says power like a woman in a pantsuit. Look where it’s gotten Elizabeth Marvel’s characters: Heather Dunbar nearly toppled Frank Underwood in “House of Cards,” while Elizabet…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:40PMYou don’t have to be Jewish to love Yiddish. It’s the only language in the world that has as many words for “stupid” as Alaskans have for snow — a mitzvah in a city that doesn’t …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:24PMWhen your famous actor father falls in love with a movie star, maybe the best thing your mom can do is move away. It worked for Kate Burton. When the Italian paparazzi descended on Richard B…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:02PMThe Broadway play “Oslo” inspires many things: a deeper interest in the Mideast; admiration for two Norwegian peacemakers — and an uncontrollable craving for waffles. Palestinian and I…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:53PM“I was sort of born in the East Village,” says Harvey Fierstein, who actually hails from Brooklyn but came of age at La MaMa and other East Village haunts in the ’70s. Now, after 30 ye…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:06PMAt last, an elephant act even PETA would applaud: Meet Queenie and her son, Karanga, the puppet pachyderms of “Circus 1903,” now playing the Theater at Madison Square Garden. Not since �…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:54PMSitting on the floor of her dressing room, the light glinting off her scooter, Madison Ferris finishes her pre-show, quinoa-and-kale supper and smiles. “This is the dream!” she says. In …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:47PMJessica Hecht plays complicated women: Ross’ ex-wife’s second wife on “Friends”; Golde, the sharp-tongued matriarch of “Fiddler on the Roof,” and now, the devoted wife of Mark Ru…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:21PMAny doubts Danny Rubin had about his dream project were vanquished by Stephen Sondheim, who said “Groundhog Day” would make a good musical. That was in 2003. By then, Rubin and Harold Ra…
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