Monday, October 28, 2024
Forget “meet-cute,” the winning rom-com trope that made writer Delia Ephron’s career. In “Left on Tenth,” Ephron’s play based on her memoir at the James Earl Jones Theater about …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:42PMSunday, July 28, 2024
Last night in the Hamptons: The great character actor and director Bob Balaban assembled a group of star actors to perform a collection of post-pandemic short plays to consider “The Pursui…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:42PMMonday, June 3, 2024
The subject was families Saturday night in Sag Harbor, where John Slattery, his wife Talia Balsam, and and their son Harry opened the Bay Street Theater’s news season in “The Subject Was…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:48PMSaturday, May 11, 2024
Amy Herzog’s tender play, “Mary Jane,” about a mother raising an ill child, demands that we slow down, take in the drama of the day-to-day. Oscar nominee Rachel McAdams, a movie star �…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:24PMFriday, May 5, 2023
“Mazel tov.” You could hear Ben Platt in the Sofitel Hotel corridor congratulate Jessica Hecht, both nominated for Tony Awards. She was
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:12PMFriday, April 28, 2023
Looking mild-mannered, even Evan Hanson-ish, Ben Platt plays the real-life historic figure Leo Frank, a Jew who was lynched in the early
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:54PMWednesday, February 15, 2023
Julie Benko: she’s not a marquee name unless you’re a fan of “Funny Girl” since it opened on Broadway almost a year
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:29PMMonday, May 16, 2022
Celebrating the Tony nominations this year held special excitement: it’s the 75th anniversary, the first in-person comeback after Covid, a year of
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:03PMTuesday, April 26, 2022
Ewwww! That’s not my critique of Paula Vogel’s tight memory play, “How I Learned to Drive”– rather the play, now having a
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:24PMMonday, February 7, 2022
Is there a new “Hamilton” brewing out there, off Broadway? Some say “Black No More,” a musical adaptation of George S. Schuyler’s
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:42AMSaturday, August 28, 2021
Mel Brooks may be 95 years young but that didn’t stop him from Zooming into East Hampton’s Guild Hall celebration of his
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:03PMWednesday, July 21, 2021
Begging the question: is it too soon to laugh about the pandemic year, 2020? A collection of short plays by masterful playwrights,
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:32PMFriday, June 11, 2021
Celebrity sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer turned 93 last weekend, and after decades on television and in the public eye, it is
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:32PMFriday, April 9, 2021
If I have to ease into live theater, “Blindness” is a great conduit, and an event. At the Daryl Roth Theater, temperature
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:18PMTuesday, March 23, 2021
“All families are the same, but like snowflakes, they are different,” said actor Bob Balaban recently by phone, explaining the rich detail
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 08:18PMSaturday, August 15, 2020
The Hamptons season would not be eh, “The Season” without all-star comedy from Eugene Pack. He’s the guy who created the hilarious
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:18PMWednesday, July 8, 2020
If you thought “Hamilton” was the only big theater experience of the summer, guess again. Julianne Moore and Alec Baldwin are starring
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:06PMThursday, February 13, 2020
At the Greenwich House Theater for a memorial for Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Rip Torn, awesome clips revealed the evolution of
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:36PMSaturday, December 28, 2019
“Welcome to Kremlin West!” Aglitter in a sequined sheath, Sandra Bernhard took the Joe’s Pub stage like a bat outta hell, that
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:18PMWednesday, November 6, 2019
Stephen Daldry, known for directing such films as “Billy Elliot,” “The Hours,” and “The Reader,” and Netflix’s “The Crown,” seems most proud
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:03PMSunday, March 17, 2019
Petite and pretty, Isabelle Huppert plays it edgy. In the 2016 “Elle” — for which she was Oscar nominated and winner of
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 08:51PMFriday, October 26, 2018
In Northern Ireland in 1981 The Troubles pit Irish against Irish, resulting in a great deal of anguished, epic drama. Think Martin Categories:
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SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:06PMSaturday, September 29, 2018
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The McKittrick Hotel is well known for unusual theatrical events—cue the long-running immersive Sleep No More. Now fresh from Edinburgh’s International Arts Categories:
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SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:19PMFriday, August 11, 2017
Michael Moore scored an all star audience for his opening night on Broadway. His one man show, “The Terms of My Surrender” Categories:
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SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:42AMMonday, March 27, 2017
Monday, August 29, 2016
THE HAMPTONS— Barbra Streisand is here. Coming off her hit tour and now having a hit album, Streisand has made her annual Categories:
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