Thursday, January 10, 2019
After their widowed father died in 1995, jazz pianist Ted Rosenthal and his sister packed up the family home in Great Neck, LI. They didn't know what that box of letters, all written in Germ…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:47PM[SHARE]Friday, January 4, 2019
"I graduated from Georgetown in 2000 and started off sleeping on my sister Gina's couch in Carroll Gardens," says comedian Mike Birbiglia. "And 18 years later, I live in Carroll Gardens agai…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:55PM[SHARE]Friday, December 14, 2018
For nearly a decade, Rachel Dratch has read aloud from the musings of Madonna, Ethel Merman and Burt Reynolds' secretary. Lately, the "SNL" alum and others have shared all that and more at t…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:18PM[SHARE]One of this season's funniest musicals got its start from . . . Mario Kart. So say David Rossmer and Steve Rosen, the writers and stars of off-Broadway's "The Other Josh Cohen.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:42AM[SHARE]Friday, December 7, 2018
Christmas in the city: Rockefeller Center's tree, Radio City's Rockettes, New York City Ballet's "Nutcracker." But let's say you've already been there, seen that: Are you acting the Scrooge …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:18PM[SHARE]Friday, November 30, 2018
"When I first came here, the city was wonderful and scary at the same time," recalls Robert Battle, artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. The Florida native was 17 and…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:18PM[SHARE]Monday, November 26, 2018
She's gone from a "Little House on the Prairie" to a pied-Ã -terre in the city, and Melissa Gilbert couldn't be happier. "Everything's here " grocery shopping, the park, amazing restaurant…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:15PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 11, 2018
Forget the falling chandelier of "Phantom" or the 20-foot-tall ape puppet of "King Kong." The single greatest special effect on Broadway these days is the real live baby in "The Ferryman." A…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 1, 2018
He can't dance, can't sing or even talk, yet he's the biggest musical star of the season. Meet King Kong, the 2,000-pound gorilla of Broadway. The Great White Way has never seen anything qui…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:21PM[SHARE]Friday, October 26, 2018
"As a singer," says Al Roker, "I'm a great weatherman." That hasn't stopped the 64-year-old "Today" show veteran from performing in the Broadway musical "Waitress," through Nov. 18, as diner…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:19PM[SHARE]Friday, October 12, 2018
"I grew up with my legendary parents in the Chelsea brownstone that had 'Torn Page' as the nameplate on our buzzer," says Angelica Page. These days, the 54-year-old actress daughter of Rip T…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 4, 2018
Before he became Saul on TV's "Homeland" " even before his Inigo Montoya pledged vengeance in "The Princess Bride" " Mandy Patinkin was a creature of the theater. With a tenor voice that tee…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:54PM[SHARE]Friday, September 28, 2018
Audra McDonald didn't get to Carnegie Hall until she was at Juilliard, when she saw Ella Fitzgerald sing there. "A friend of mine calls it an upside-down wedding cake," she recalls of that f…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 27, 2018
Never mind that Sarah Bernhardt " the towering actress of her day " was scarcely more than 5 feet tall. Janet McTeer stands nearly 6-feet-1, but that hasn't stopped her from playing Bernhard…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:32PM[SHARE]He was the go-getter police detective of Spike Lee's "BlacKkKlansman." Now John David Washington, 34, is back in blue as the conflicted cop of "Monsters and Men." Out Friday, the Sundance Aw…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Broadway will dim its lights Wednesday night for Carole Shelley, the Tony-winning actress who " despite playing dozens of roles in her storied career " will probably be remembered best as a …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:53PM[SHARE]The forecast for Broadway this fall: Al Roker with a sprinkling of pie. The venerable "Today" weatherman is the latest to join the cast of Sara Bareilles' "Waitress." From Oct. 5 through Nov…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 23, 2018
It’s not every woman who could pull on Julia Roberts' thigh-high, vinyl boots night after night (and some afternoons), but Samantha Barks is doing just that in Broadway's "Pretty Woman…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:06PM[SHARE]Friday, August 3, 2018
Opera great Renée Fleming has four Grammys and the distinction of inspiring a dessert: a chocolate confection Daniel Boulud dubbed La Diva Renée. These days, the 59-year-old soprano's been…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:07PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 28, 2018
It's a legend that even now, 20 years after Jerome Robbins' death, threatens to define him: While berating his actors, he stepped farther and farther back on stage until he toppled into the …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 19, 2018
Hard to believe that it's been two years since Daveed Diggs pulled off his "Hamilton" boots and headed for Hollywood. Now, several commercials, albums, voice-overs and TV series later " incl…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 12, 2018
Imagine doing a big, beloved Broadway musical … in Yiddish. Sounds crazy, no? Not when that show is "Fiddler on the Roof." Since its 1964 debut, the story of Tevye and his daughters an…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 10, 2018
For as long as she can remember, Renée Taylor has been on a diet. We're talking seven decades, because Taylor " who among other things played Fran Drescher's mom on "The Nanny" " is 85. "I …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 5, 2018
Off-Broadway's long been the place to discover fresh faces. Now and then, along comes something cheekier: a dashing derrière. That last belongs to Trey, the young hottie of the Roundabout T…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:20PM[SHARE]Since 1972, when Mummenschanz began, the troupe's been making masks and costumes from just about anything: plastic, toilet paper, foam rubber, Slinkys … pastry dough! That last figured…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 28, 2018
At the Tony Awards this month, when Nathan Lane collected his third statuette, he gave an emotional shoutout to Andrew Garfield, his "Angels in America" co-star, to Devlin Elliott, his husba…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:24PM[SHARE]If you missed her as a woman, you can catch her as a man: Glenda Jackson, hot off a Tony Award for "Three Tall Women," will return to Broadway next spring as the title character of a gender-…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:51AM[SHARE]Monday, June 11, 2018
They met in 1999 at a musical-theater workshop and haven't let go of each other since. Now the Oscar-winning "Let It Go" songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez are up for a Tony…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:48PM[SHARE]She played a bouncy Czech in "Once: The Musical" and a Polish lesbian in "Indecent." Now Katrina Lenk is up for a Tony as a world-weary Israeli in "The Band's Visit." And to think: This woma…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:48PM[SHARE]How much does Vivian Carlson love "Come From Away"? Let's just say she's seen it more than 25 times. The office manager/photographer, who goes by the name Viv Jean, buys $25 to $50 rush and …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:48PM[SHARE]"There are some days I feel 102 years old, and other days, like I'm 14," says Gina Gershon, who falls somewhere in between. "I just think we'd be a much happier society if there weren't any …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:48PM[SHARE] 
