SEE IT The new off-Broadway musical "Gigantic" was originally titled "Fat Camp," which is where it takes place. This feisty show will please fans of "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling B…
This must be some kind of cynical Broadway-producer experiment: Will people pony up $150 to see Al Pacino in any old garbage? The answer is a resounding yes. "China Doll" is clearing upward …
Sex appeal is alive and well on Broadway, where a new generation of heartthrobs is making many ladies and quite a few gents go weak in the knees " good thing everybody's sitting down, right?…
After last year's "Peter Pan Live" crashed and burned, NBC changed course for its broadcast of "The Wiz Live": Bring on the stars! Gone were the Allison Williamses and Christopher Walkens of…
Lin-Manuel Miranda's popularity now extends into a galaxy far, far away: The author and star of the Broadway smash "Hamilton" co-wrote the music for a cantina scene in "Star Wars: The Force …
Only time will tell if "A Very Murray Christmas" will join the ranks of seasonal classics like "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and "Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special." But in the here a…
To quote Deanna's immortal words: "Well… sh-t." This would serve as a spoiler warning if there was much to be spoiled in the mid-season finale of "The Walking Dead" " the episode, "Start t…
On Thanksgiving eve, let's congratulate the lucky idiot who paid $2 million for the biggest turkey of them all. That would be the editor who fought off a dozen similarly deluded rivals for G…
This season, "The Walking Dead" put itself in a lose-lose situation re: Glenn (Steven Yeun). Last we'd seen Glenn, four episodes ago, he and his frenemy Nicholas (Michael Traynor) were surro…
In the late '70s, "New York was dangerous, dead and dirty," recalls Fred Schneider, frontman of new-wave band the B-52's. But places like the Mudd Club, where Schneider was a regular, made i…
Sorry, haters, but Bruce Willis doesn't embarrass himself in "Misery." Admittedly, his Broadway debut does find him looking a little stiff " then again, his character spends the entire time …
Few actors have a monster Broadway hit on their résumés " but Andrew Rannells has two: After co-starring in "The Book of Mormon," he's filling in for Jonathan Groff in "Hamilton" until Nov…
SEE IT Nothing feels newer than a pair of brilliantly retooled classics. An all-female cast adds dynamite to Shakespeare's "Henry IV" at St. Ann's Warehouse. The concept is that we're in a w…
Rumor has it that "The Walking Dead" is as wobbly as a zombie that's been left in the water too long. The premiere of the AMC blockbuster's sixth season snared 14.6 million viewers " certain…
The nature vs. nurture debate just got hotter with Deepak Chopra and Rudolph E. Tanzi's "Super Genes" (out Tuesday from Harmony Books), which looks like it'll do just as well as their best-s…
When will people realize Anthony Mackie's the new Will Smith " only, you know, with range? "The Hurt Locker" should have made him as big as co-star Jeremy Renner back in 2008, but no vehicle…
Let Hollywood worship its young: The stage is heaven for gray-haired actors " and audiences love them. James Earl Jones, 84, and Cicely Tyson, 90, command the stage for all two hours of Broa…
“On Your Feet!" is bringing fun back to Broadway " finally! Miserable affairs, angsty German teens and sad-sack British royals " in shows like "Thérèse Raquin," "Spring Awakening" an…
If you've ever watched "Grey's Anatomy," you know the long-running show's trademark isn't just hot doctors getting it on, but Meredith Grey's voice-over wryly detailing her feelings " so man…
“The Great British Baking Show" is to reality TV what "Murder: She Wrote" is to crime shows: an oasis of calm and serenity that quietly and humorously subverts its genre's clichés. Th…
Broadway loves movie stars " and some of them even love it back! Here, following the opening of Keira Knightley's "Thérèse Raquin," is a roundup of some high-profile debuts. James Franco T…
Two shows this week deserve a look " and both hail from the Roundabout, albeit at very different price points. An orchestra seat for Broadway's "Thérèse Raquin" costs $137, but this gets y…
You’ve got to hand it to Matthew Broderick: He's a reliable actor. You can always count on him being either wooden or downright lifeless. When his performance is merely serviceable " a…
Sunday night's "Walking Dead" episode featured some of the series' best action scenes ever. Pulse-pounding, heart-in-mouth, can-barely-look scenes. It was fantastic. Oh, and someone major di…
Peaches paved the way for the Miley Cyruses and Nicki Minajes of this world to be as crude as they want to be. Even now, at 46, the Canadian singer...