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One reason we can all hope the Republicans-Got-Talent reality show continues for awhile is that it provides a whetstone for the SNL‘s “Weekend Update” team, who get sharper…
Like Godot, Jimmy Fallon never showed up for “A Sit-Down With The Tonight Show Writers,” a New York Comedy Festival event Saturday afternoon moderated by New York Times pop…
There was no cold open. Cecily Strong appeared alone and said “Paris is the City of Lights,” adding a moving, and movingly brief, tribute to the people of the city and of France.…
Astrophysicist and sometime Nightly Show guest Neil deGrasse Tyson led a panel Saturday afternoon with host Larry Wilmore and top staff from the Comedy Central program, leading off the discu…
What does it mean to be man? Call it reductive, but that’s the question at the heart of Arthur Miller’s plays (he conceded as much in his memoir Timebends) — and none more …
Call it the battle of the brands: A pair of Broadway stars will play two titans of the cosmetics industry in War Paint, a new musical that’s just been slated for its world premier earl…
There was a little event in Manhattan tonight with a few folks you might recognize. Performers at the ninth annual Stand Up for Heroes charity event at the Theater at Madison Square Garde…
Five days after Disney and Lucasfilms fulfilled his dying wish to see The Force Awakens, lifelong Star Wars fan Daniel Fleetwood has succumbed to cancer. Earlier today, his wife Ashley po…
Broadway’s autumn roller-coaster ride continues apace, with ticket sales rebounding at the box office as theatergoers continue to express their preferences for hits over misses. The…
UPDATE with more information:
The producers of David Mamet’s new play China Doll, starring Al Pacino, have moved the opening back two weeks, to December 4th from November 19th. That…
George Takei, who would grow up to play Lt. Hikaru Sulu on Star Trek, was five years old in 1942 when his family and some 120,000 other Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast were forci…
Here’s Donald Trump’s first sketch on yesterday’s Saturday Night Live, hosting for the first time since 2004. Doubtless you’ll be seeing a lot of it, possibly mist…
A pre-taped parody of Drake’s “Hotline Bling” video offered last night’s SNL audience something mostly absent from the rest of the show: Host Donald Trump looking loo…
Donald Trump met his two mini-me’s in the opening monologue of tonight’s Saturday Night Live (Taran Killam and Darrell Hammond), but the the best joke came from Larry David. Davi…
Protesters opposed to Donald Trump hosting tonight’s Saturday Night Live are proceeding down Fifth Avenue and 56th from Trump Tower toward 30 Rock. No official estimate of the crowd is…
A star is born with On Your Feet! — the latest Broadway jukebox musical and one that, opening on the eve of Donald Trump’s Saturday Night Live gig couldn’t be timelier. A b…
A goofy off-Broadway hit from 2012 that repurposes ear-worm music (“Alone Again (Naturally)” and cheesy plots from 1970s movies and TV, Seth Rudetsky’s Disas…
With the number 522,080 boldly emblazoned on the carton, about 100 demonstrators delivered a package to NBC Universal and Saturday Night Live executive producer Lorne Michaels Wednesday nigh…
Some of the country’s most prominent Hispanic and civil rights groups are heading to Rockefeller Center for a 6 PMÂ rally today to protest Donald Trump’s upcoming hosting dutie…
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first look at screenwriter/playwright William Goldman and director Will Frears discussing Misery, their Broadway adaptation of Stephen King’s thriller starrin…
EXCLUSIVE: In Spotlight, three Boston Globe reporters and their editor work doggedly to expose a terrible injustice: The widespread rape and sexual abuse of children by priests in the …
Bert Fink is, no doubt, a most happy fella. The one-time Broadway press agent spent 26 years in the brain trust of the New York-based Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, building a re…
Given the right dosage of care and encouragement, Rear Window could become the best old-fashioned thriller Broadway has seen since Ira Levin’s Deathtrap. And that was a very long ti…
Every so often dire predictions, like the weather forecast, prove correct, and that’s the story of Week 23 of the 2015-2016 Broadway season. Producers feared the triple whammy of th…
Mahershala Ali, who plays the suave lobbyist Remy Danton, Kevin Spacey’s sometime partner in political mayhem, on the Netflix series House Of Cards, will co-star with Joshua Jack…
