No other company went as full-Broadway as Skittles, which, in lieu of a commercial during the Super Bowl, staged on Super Bowl Sunday a one-day, 40-minute live “Skittles Commerc…
"My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black," says Keyonn Sheppard as Bayard Rustin, close adviser to Martin Luther King, Jr.,  main orga…
This month there are no Broadway openings, but ample glamour Off-Broadway. Freestyle Love Supreme, the improvisational hip-hop group that Lin-Manuel Miranda and Thomas Kail conceived  …
In the first Broadway revival of Sam Shepard's 1980 play, Ethan Hawke portrays Lee, a drifter, a drinker, and a thief who disrupts the life of his younger brother, Paul Dano's Austin, an Ivy…
In the first Broadway revival of Sam Shepard's 1980 play, Ethan Hawke portrays Lee, a drifter, a drinker, and a thief who disrupts the life of his younger brother, Paul Dano's Aust…
Most wouldn’t see a link between stone-cold killer Chris Partlow from HBO’s The Wire, flashy pimp-turned-porn-star Larry Brown on HBO’s The Deuce and Tom Robinson, a black …
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews in January? Answer these 11 questions and find out.
It was a good week to test your view of New York — the 1990s Bohemia  presented in Rent Live on Fox (which was largely Rent Recorded), or the grittier view expressed by the cityR…
To the seven young performers who tell the stories of their lives in "Generation NYZ," New York means subways and pizza and opportunity, but also cops and catcalling and homelessness. They a…
“Rent Live” was seen by just 3.574 million viewers, according to preliminary Nielsen ratings, and received mostly negative reviews, according to Rotten Tomato, which gave it a…
When at the age of 17 composer Richard Rodgers met 24-year-old lyricist Lorenz Hart in 1919, he instantly acquired “a career, a partner, a best friend and a source of permanent irritat…
In the month before Rent opened Off-Broadway in January, 1996, Idina Menzel was singing "The Wind Beneath My Wings" at a bar mitzvah at Leonard's of Great Neck for the thousandth time; Daphn…
I had worried that, in Rent Live, Fox television would ruin Jonathan Larson's musical about bohemian life in the East Village of the 1980s by bowdlerizing it. I felt it worth watc…
Below is a selection of the songs from the musical “Rent,” a version of which will be broadcast live on Fox tonight January 27, 2019, Â 8 to 11 p.m. The song titles are linked …
Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" gets a spin-off of sorts in the play "White Shoes" by York Walker, when Beneatha, Walter Younger's sister, is approached in school by the wealt…
Elizabeth Keathley moved to the United State from the Philippines, married an American, and three years later registered to vote, even though she was not yet a citizen. As a result, the gove…
Near the end of Colin Quinn's stand-up comedy, which promises to "lay bare the absurdities…on both sides of the political divide," the Saturday Night Live alumnus manages to insult every s…
The same week that Carol Channing died at the age of 97, Steven Spielberg announced that 17-year-old Rachel Zegler, a high school student in New Jersey, would be the new Maria in the film re…
Oscar nominations for the 91st annual Academy Awards, which will be broadcast February 24 on ABC. "Roma"(on Netflix!) and "The Favourite" each received 10 Oscar nominations. Best Picture: "B…
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, celebrating what would have been the civil rights leader's 90thbirthday, and it's easy to find articles that ask: What would he say about what's happenin…
James Earl Jones, 20-time Broadway veteran (most recently in The Gin Game in 2015) three-time Tony winner, was born in Arkabutla, Mississippi on January 17, 1931 – 88 years ago today.
Carol Channing, 12-time Broadway veteran, three-time Tony winner, who became a Broadway legend thanks to two roles — the gold-digging Lorelei Lee in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" an…
Xander wore a different costume each of the three days of BroadwayCon 2019: Lola from Kinky Boots on Friday, Aubrey II and Seymour from The Little Shop of Horrors on Saturday (left), and Gus…
Cast members from several forthcoming Broadway musicals performed at “First Look,” one of the last sessions at the last day of BroadwayCon 2019. From left to right (and top to bo…
"I, I, I took the blows, in my face, and my body," Marin Ireland as Alison says dramatically falling to the floor of the church-run halfway house in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolin…