Thursday, April 24, 2014
Not everyone respects the key rule of theatergoing: Don't screw with the performers! This was driven home last week when a misguided Neil Patrick Harris fan nearly hijacked Broadway's "Hedwi…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:40PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 19, 2014
The setting: Germany, between world wars " a time of sexual ambiguity, slippery loyalties and swastikas. Nothing to sing about, surely, but when "Cabaret" burst onto Broadway Nov. 20, 1966,.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 10, 2014
Theater has gone to the dogs " and they're proving themselves the highlights of the season. In fact, no other member of off-Broadway's newly revived "The Threepenny Opera" received warmer...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:51PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 30, 2014
'Rocky" has a boxing ring. "Aladdin," a flying carpet. And Broadway's new staging of "Les Misérables" has its own special effect: the leading man's chest. When Jean Valjean rips open...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:31AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 16, 2014
But Trixie isn't just any dog " she's Ziemba's co-star in "Bullets Over Broadway," which just kicked off previews at the St. James Theatre. It's Woody Allen's first Broadway musical, and it …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 15, 2014
Sylvester Stallone had what seemed a pretty bad idea, at least to Tom Meehan: How 'bout we make a musical out of 'Rocky'? "My first thought was, 'Oh no,' "...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 19, 2014
“We have the best babka in town!" cries Bebe Neuwirth, which seems odd on several counts: She calls sugar "the devil," she's probably a size zero " and her giggly...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:39AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 5, 2014
How ironic to find a Kennedy doing Greek tragedy " what this clan's been through could make Sophocles weep. And yet, while the fabled American family's given us politicians, philanthropists.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 24, 2013
When you've been in show business for as long as Dan Lauria has, "home for the holidays" means many things: carving up a turkey with Fred Savage and Danica McKellar,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:02PM[SHARE]They’re the closest thing we have to the Von Trapp family " three blue-eyed, singing siblings, now appearing on three New York stages. There's Jessie Mueller, who stars in Broadway's...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Christmas came early for Colin Critchley: At the ripe old age of 10, he's sharing a stage with his heroes " Gandalf, the wise wizard of "The Lord of the...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:47PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 16, 2013
In a Broadway season long on luscious leading men " Orlando Bloom, Daniel Craig, Zachary Quinto, Ethan Hawke " Brian J. Smith's a standout. His fans knew that long before...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:28PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 26, 2013
Don’t whistle in the wings, steer clear of peacock feathers " and never, ever say "Macbeth." The theater is rife with superstitions, some of which actually spring from common sense:...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:39PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 5, 2013
She starred in "Kitten with a Whip" " but these days, actress Ann-Margret's the woman with the daredevil pussycat.
"Hold on a moment, please," she tells The Post. "My cat Harley knows how to…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 3, 2013
One of off-Broadway's best special effects is on Tracee Chimo's head: the wild mass of hair she brushes and tosses in "Bad Jews."
Not that Chimo is Jewish " for the record, she's Albanian/It…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:50PM[SHARE]Monday, September 23, 2013
“I was the loudest baby in the nursery," says Mary Bridget Davies. "My parents have pictures and, literally, the whole photo is a mouth!"
Who better to star in "A Night with Janis Jopl…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:24PM[SHARE]Friday, August 30, 2013
Everything old is new again " at least it is this fall, when Broadway's hottest tickets are plays by Pinter, Williams, Beckett and the Bard.
Just look who's performing in them: Daniel Craig,…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 15, 2013
There are many ways to get to Broadway. For Amber Iman, who's making her debut tonight in "Soul Doctor," it took a kick in the butt from her boyfriend back in Atlanta.
"He said, 'If you don'…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:27AM[SHARE]Monday, August 12, 2013
Long before "Saturday Night Live" and "The Colbert Report" found them, Seth Meyers and Peter Grosz were cracking each other up at Northwestern University, where they pledged the same fratern…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:05AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 10, 2013
Every summer, like a relative with too much luggage, it arrives on our doorstep: the New York International Fringe Festival, the ungainly cousin to the Edinburgh original. By the time Fringe…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 1, 2013
Those who loved the sweetly nerdy lead of TV's "Chuck" will be happy to find its star, Zachary Levi, on Broadway, doing what he does best: singing, dancing . . . cringing.
In "First Date," o…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 24, 2013
At Broadway Bares, last month's parade of the most ripped bods on the Great White Way, the audience was asked to hold its applause until every sponsor's name was read aloud. Silent they stay…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 21, 2013
Why sing in the shower when you can do it in a concert hall?
That's one of the draws of Summer Sing. Now in its 53rd year, it's the ultimate one-night stand: no auditions, no rehearsal, no …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:25PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 29, 2013
This whole thing is fake," Michael Urie declares in the opening minutes of "Buyer & Cellar" at the Barrow Street Theatre.
"I don't exist. What does exist . . . is
this book."
And with that…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:38PM[SHARE]Monday, June 24, 2013
Where do old costumes go when their shows die? If we're lucky, to TDF's Costume Collection, where they'll surface again in regional productions, high schools, Vogue magazine spreads and the …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 9, 2013
He's always made us laugh " now he's making us cry. Or, at the very least, squirm. Nathan Lane, the bigger-than-life star of "The Producers," "Guys and Dolls," "The Odd Couple," "The Addams …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:23AM[SHARE]Not since Harvey Fierstein's Tony-winning turn in "Hairspray" have Broadway's leading men gotten so much mileage from a dress.
This time around, it's Bertie Carvel and Billy Porter, whose cr…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 30, 2013
That blond hair and pearls, those pumps and poise. When the curtain rises on "Far From Heaven," it's hard not to think, OMG, it's Betty Draper!
But the setting is 1957 Connecticut, and the w…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 29, 2013
How many times " and how many ways " can they tell you to turn off your cellphone?
As it turns out, plenty, often to no avail. Since the onslaught of mobile devices " and Laurence Fishburne'…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:33PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 11, 2013
Some girls dream of playing brave, beautiful, young heroines.
Jane Lynch wasn't one of them. She'd rather play the shrew.
"I used to have a list of things I wanted to do and Miss Hannigan wa…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 1, 2013
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 audience burst…
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