817 stories by "DAVE ITZKOFF"
"No person should be subjected to such a senseless, humorless comment masquerading as satire," Steve Hannah, the chief executive of The Onion, wrote in an apology to Quvenzhané Wallis, the …
This summer, Williamstown Theater Festival will present a revival of "Animal Crackers," the Marx Brothers farce, and a new musical based on "The Bridges of Madison County," the best-selling …
For Laura Osnes, who has portrayed some of Broadway's best-known ingénue characters and now plays the title role in "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella," niceness is no act.
Mr. LaBeouf, a star of films like "Transformers," "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" and "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," was to have made his Broadway debut in the play …
Banana Joe, the affenpinscher who was named Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, will appear in Wednesday evening's performance of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood."
Mr. Clinton, a longtime fan of Ms. Streisand's, will present the Chaplin Award to her at a gala held by the Film Society of Lincoln Center on April 22.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Hamish Linklater will star in "The Comedy of Errors," while a new musical of "Love's Labour's Lost" will reunite Michael Friedman and Alex Timbers, the team behind "…
Edward Watts, who played the dual roles of Robert Semple and David Hutton in the recent Broadway musical "Scandalous," will portray Superman and Clark Kent in the Encores! revival of "It's a…
The musical satire about reality television and its shameless contestants is set at a dating competition show also called "Nobody Loves You."
Ms. Midler will star in the one-character play "I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers," about the powerful Hollywood agent whose clients included Barbra Streisand, Steve McQueen, Faye D…
The theaters of Broadway will dim their lights at 8 p.m. on Thursday in honor of Charles Durning, and again at 8 p.m. on Friday in honor of Jack Klugman.
As with past programs presented by the Ars Nova Play Group -- see "The Wikipedia Plays," "The Urban Dictionary Plays" and "The Wii Plays" -- "The Netflix Plays" takes inspiration from anothe…
This latest revival of David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross" is the first production of the current Broadway season to recoup its investment.
Other movies the Library of Congress has chosen to preserve include "Born Yesterday," "Dirty Harry," "A League of Their Own," "A Christmas Story" and "Slacker," citing them as "works of endu…
The husband-and-wife team talk about their collaboration on Mr. Apatow's new comedy, "This Is 40," in which Ms. Mann and Paul Rudd reprise their roles as a married couple not unlike Mr. Apat…
Liza Minnelli will play herself in a coming episode of "Smash," the NBC comedy-drama about the making of a Broadway musical.
Nathan Gunn and Kelli O'Hara will play the lovers Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan in a new staged production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical for the New York Philharmonic. The cast wil…
John Malkovich, who played the Vicomte de Valmont in Stephen Frears's 1988 film version of "Dangerous Liaisons," will have his French-language production of the play - which adds some modern…
Audra McDonald, Kelli O'Hara, Josh Groban and Michael Feinstein are among the performers who will participate in the Philharmonic's New Year's Eve concert, which was originally scheduled to …
A video from Disney Parks imagines what might happen if the Dark Lord of the Sith paid a visit to the self-styled Happiest Place on Earth.
Kristin Chenoweth, Valerie Simpson, Mavis Staples and Tom Morello are among the musicians who will participate in the 2013 season, which will expand to use Lincoln Center's Stanley H. Kaplan…
Neil Patrick Harris, the Emmy Award-winning star of "How I Met Your Mother," will direct a magic show called "Nothing to Hide" that will feature the sleight-of-hand artists Derek DelGaudio a…
Lincoln Center Theater will present Mr. Lane in Douglas Carter Beane's new play, "The Nance," about a gay performer portraying a camp gay character in 1930s New York burlesque.
Maggie Grace (of the hit "Taken" thrillers) and Sebastian Stan (of "Captain America: The First Avenger) will play the young lovers Madge Owens and Hal Carter in Roundabout Theater Company's …
The Monty Python co-founder and star of "Fawlty Towers" and "A Fish Called Wanda" will write "the inside story of how a shy child from Weston-super-Mare, who dabbled briefly with teaching an…
