EXCLUSIVE: I met Swoosie Kurtz for the first time in the brief lull between her first Tony nomination and her first win. Almost immediately I asked her to marry me. Didn’t matter that …
The one-time footballer will emcee the July 15 fundraiser, ESPN’s annual that-was-the-year-in-sports event to be broadcast live by ABC for the first time. Maura Mandt an…
The thing of it is, is this: Until the last two minutes or so — when the show suddenly built to a frenzy with a slide show that Don Draper’s Kodak Carousel could only hope to …
David Letterman took the stage at the Ed Sullivan Theater tonight to deliver his final monologue after 33 years as a late-night TV host. We’ll get the full transcript up when it’…
Here is David Letterman’s final Top 10 list and the folks who read them: Top 10 Things I've Always Wanted to Say to Dave 10. Alec Baldwin: “Of all the talk shows, yours is …
Stop the presses, Neil LaBute has a heart, possibly. In his new play, The Way We Get By, no women are humiliated, no gay men are beaten up, and the only abuse unleashed is directed at�…
EXCLUSIVE: While we’re all thanking David Letterman for tossing the genteel Tonight Show mold and recasting post-primetime comedy in his own rebellious image, here is a heresy worth co…
Annie Baker’s The Flick won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama two years ago after an off-Broadway run at Playwrights Horizons, so it may seem too soon for a reappraisal. But few plays in my…
The 2015 Tony Awards haven’t even been decided yet but next year’s best-musical race already has a strong contender. Hamilton, Lin-Manual Miranda’s history lesson rapped in…
Who says Times Square is godless? That hasn’t been the case at least since Disney came back to Broadway, though as usual the deity must co-exist, however uneasily, with Mammon. On t…
Was it just my imagination or were there more sketches and fewer videos on the season closer of Saturday Night Live last night? Yes, some were flat but still, there were more hits than misse…
In the Department Of So-How-Was-The-Play-Mrs. Lincoln?, Louis C.K.’s dive into the empty pool monologue was followed on last night’s season finale of Saturday Night Live with a s…
Holy moley. Oh, man. Louis C.K. launched the season finale of Saturday Night Live with a monologue that took no prisoners and is bound to go down in SNL history as either the most infamous o…
A June showcase of four short plays addressing the critical and growing incursion of censorship into arts and culture has been cancelled by the presenting venue, Greenwich Village’sÂ�…
MPI Media Group has acquired all domestic distribution rights to Uncle Nick, a comedy starring Brian Posehn (Mr. Show, The Sarah Silverman Program). The film is directed by Chris Kasick (Att…
The Drama League, a service group whose members are theatergoers from across the U.S., announced its 81st annual awards on Friday, providing a bit of chatter-worthy insight into how the wind…
EXCLUSIVE: Spring is bustin’ out all over Times Square (literally, if you count the body-painted double-breasted  Guaranteed-Female-Students-Working-Their-Way-Through-College slinki…
The Oscar-winning Chinatown scribe will receive the 2015 Screenwriters Tribute at an event on June 27 hosted by comedian David Steinberg, the Nantucket Film Festival announced Thursday. Town…
No voice in today’s theater cries out with such compelling pathos and beauty as that of Athol Fugard, a painter of stage stories that, even after more than five decades, continues to t…
EXCLUSIVE: A New York State Supreme Court judge ruled this morning that Broadway publicist Marc Thibodeau was in breach of contract when he sent out an email that caused an angel to pull …
EXCLUSIVE: Alani Nicole Anthony, aka La La, is joining the unkillable Unforgettable as a series regular. The formerly CBS, now A&E crime procedural produced by Sony TV has a 13-week orde…
The American Civil Liberties Union and its Southern California chapter today filed grievances with several federal and state agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission…
Turner Broadcasting and Live Nation Entertainment today announced the Live Nation Music Awards, a new television event that promises to celebrate the best live musical performances of the ye…
The Last Ship sailed months ago but Sting and his Tony-nominated score live on. Another chance to hear it — near, if not precisely on Broadway — comes up Tuesday, May 19, when it…
With six weeks of bragging rights for producers to tout their Tony nominations before the June 7 awards show (did IÂ mention it’s on CBS starting at 8 p.m.?), most in that select clu…