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…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 02:04AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 20, 2013
Even 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 they'…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:55PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 7, 2013
We'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 from "Mulan" to…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 23, 2013
Memories 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 w…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:29PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 17, 2013
She 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 then origina…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 17, 2013
Zosia 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 "Girls."
N…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:36AM[SHARE]Monday, February 11, 2013
Football 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 Bro…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 27, 2013
It'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 sinc…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 10, 2013
Buff, 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 and Sonia a…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:31AM[SHARE]Friday, December 28, 2012
Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" packs up its brushes next week. Happily, the Met's own barber " wig master Tom Watson " is staying put.
For the past 14 years, Watson's molded, made, tweake…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 26, 2012
It'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 return most o…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 11, 2012
The 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 c…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 8, 2012
Katie 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, since the show…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:29PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 11, 2012
That 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 Fonzarelli…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:04AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 3, 2012
Size 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 which …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:46PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 29, 2012
Ed 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 to a meal with the man…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:42PM[SHARE]Monday, September 24, 2012
It'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 Yet," which op…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:31AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 22, 2012
She'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 …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:47PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 12, 2012
This 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 couple of sub…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 30, 2012
There 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 the l…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:16AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 5, 2012
Titillating 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, the New Y…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:41PM[SHARE]Rudnick'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 terrorism o…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 03:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Before 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 of the Desert…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:22PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 22, 2012
Neither 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 m…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 5, 2012
So 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 fro…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:11PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 1, 2012
Dancers 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 deli…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:53PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 30, 2012
He 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 Lincoln Center Fes…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 9, 2012
It 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 came…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:53PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 28, 2012
It 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 no profanity or …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:31PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 22, 2012
Back 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 Stanleys " aske…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:41AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 15, 2012
Momma 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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