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A comic’s comic as familiar to television audiences across the decades as he was to Vegas rollers and Broadway denizens, Jack Carter died at home in Beverly Hills on June 28 of respira…
As producers ramp up efforts to grow the international audience (the latest effort is aimed at Brazilians who prefer Bergdorf’s, Bendel’s and Bloomingdale’s to Broadway), s…
You’d think things would calm down on New York stages after the Tony Awards. You would be wrong. Let’s get down to business:
If you’re in the city this weekend and have onl…
Broadway’s twitterati over the sexual rainbow responded to news of this morning’s Supreme Court ruling with all the fervor of an 11 o’clock number that brings down the h…
Going Clear author Lawrence Wright’s Camp David, a day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David meeting where Jimmy Carter persuaded Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egypti…
EXCLUSIVE: It doesn’t go on sale until October, but I’ve read an advance copy of the New York Post Broadway columnist’s 400-page tale of Broadway, from the British invas…
After 12 tumultuous and frequently contentious years as chief television critic, Stanley will move to a new beat, covering how the wealthiest of the wealthy influence the rest of us (beca…
Jeremy Gerard has covered the evolving fortunes of Jujamcyn Theatres since it became a formidable competitor to the larger Shubert and Nederlander organizations in the late 1980s. In 2013 pr…
Alexander, who recently replaced star Larry David in the comedy, will continue with the production for two more weeks than planned, through August 1 at the Cort Theatre. Fish began performan…
Wicked, the Wizard Of Oz prequel that thumbed its nose at chin-scratching critics when it opened in 2003 and has gone on to be one of the biggest Broadway blockbusters of all time, is bri…
With Mamma Mia! set to end its Broadway run on Labor Day, the Broadhurst Theatre will go dark, but not for long. William Goldman’s stage adaptation of the ultimate trapped-by-a-fan thr…
Vanessa Hudgens departed quietly, after a game but losing run in the title role of Gigi, where even a $101K spike in the final week only lifted receipts at the Nederlander-owned Neil Simon T…
It seems all but inevitable that Bombshell, the Marilyn Monroe biotuner whose creation was the subject of NBC’s behind-the-cutrain series Smash, would transition from small scree…
Demonstrating that Jurassic World isn’t the only insatiable-monster hit of the new summer season, it only took four days for E.L. James's Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey As Told By Christia…
That’s the question everyone is not asking this morning, while focusing on Williams himself. I admit those words are hard to type, given the events in Charleston, SC, as if, in the lig…
Demonstrating once again that there is life after The New York Times, Carter ended his 15 minutes of retirement by announcing that he has joined the cable news channel as a contributor on th…
If there was a Jewish equivalent to the roundtable of vaunted wits who gathered at the Algonquin Hotel in the early decades of the last century, it was probably the deli where Jack Rollins, …
Now here’s an out-of-town tryout: Hal Prince’s long-gestating retrospective musical Prince Of Broadway will begin performances on October 23 at Theatre Orb. That’s not t…
Here is Caliban, malformed and brutish slave to Shakespeare’s word-drunk wizard Prospero, assuring his newfound friends that the mysterious island on which they’ve been shipwreck…
A tryout journey that began last year at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre will continue east to Broadway with its next stop now set: The Steve Martin/Edie Brickell-penned musical Brigh…
Composer Dave Malloy and director Rachel Chavkin share an affinity for big themes and bold gestures, preferably on Russian themes. Their collaboration Natasha, Pierre And The Great Comet …
The conventional wisdom says that Broadway relies on the Tony Awards broadcast to boost national exposure and ticket sales (though I’ve long argued that the Macy’s Thanksgi…
The long and remarkable career of actress Elizabeth Wilson, who died on May 9, will be marked on June 29 at an event sponsored by one of her New York home bases, off-Broadway company Primary…
Cates, vice-chairman of the prominent nonprofit theater founded in 1995 by his father, has been named executive director after leading in an interim capacity since February. "On behalf of th…
As HarperCollins primps for the July 14 release of Harper Lee’s recently re-discovered sequel to To Kill A Mockingbird, Go Set A Watchman, we can expect a flurry of media activit…
