New York’s pre-Tony theater awards blitz is in spring bloom. Last week there were the N.Y. Drama Critics Circle tips, limited to plays and musicals. Yesterday were the Lortels, hono…
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway-bound musical is heading uptown for a summer opening after a sold-out run at the Public Theater, while Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Pulitzer Prize winner, …
If you can picture Dustin Hoffman’s mother in The Graduate, or Ralph Fiennes’ in Quiz Show, or, in her best known, if least characteristic film role as the treacherous foil to Ja…
You had to cool your heels for nearly two minutes, but the “Picture Perfect” game-show sketch on last night’s Saturday Night Live hit a live target: fear of retribution by …
Momma said there’d be nights like this: Reese Witherspoon hosted an SNL edition packed with more lame jokes than this story’s headline. Decked out in a bizarre lace dress that mi…
With the UK's General Election last night ending in a surprise victory for Prime Minister David Cameron and his Conservative Party, Audience playwright Peter Morgan has quickly updated the s…
It’s probably not the best moment in time for a show that soft-peddles an “honor” killing. And yet here is Zorba! — that manic-depressive musical that provedÂ�…
Even before taking over its just-purchased Broadway flagship, the Helen Hayes Theatre, the estimable off-Broadway company Second Stage has lined up major talent for its upcoming 37th season,…
Ever the provocateur, Norman Lear has been beating the drum for a series that takes aging comically. I mean seriously. Or as serious fodder for a sitcom. Netflix ups the stakes with Grace…
EXCLUSIVE: One of the busiest dance-makers on the world stage, Christopher Wheeldon just earned a pair of Tony nominations for his Broadway debut directing and choreographing An American In …
Accepting the PEN American Center’s version of a Lifetime Achievement Award, writer Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare In Love, Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead) voiced support on Tuesd…
The critically lambasted musical from composer Lucy Simon, lyricists Michael Korie and Amy Powers and book writer Michael Weller, will shutter Sunday, May 10 at the Shubert-owned Broadway Th…
The New York Drama Critics’ Circle this afternoon named Lin-Manuel Miranda’s exuberant, rap-inflected show Hamilton as the best musical of the season. The show recently ended …
Spring was finally in the air this week. That, combined with two closings (The Heidi Chronicles and Living On Love), a curtailed run (just six performances for Hedwig And The Angry Inch, ret…
After a run of about 15 minutes, Duck Commander Musical has announced a quick closing at the Rio Hotel. Based on Willie and Korie Robertson’s 2012 book about the Louisiana fam…
In a generally weak SNL outing, the expected plug for host Scarlett Johansson’s latest romp as Black Widow in The Avengers: Age Of Ultron was delivered in the evening’s best vid…
Hat-tipping anticipated competition from the championship fight, Saturday Night Live returned after a brief hiatus and cold-opened with a screen-roll touting a “pirated” feed of …
Kicking off her fourth tour as host of SNL, Scarjo told Kenan Thompson and Tarran Killam that the best thing that’s happened to her in the past year was the birth of her daughter, maki…
Enough talk (for the moment at least) about who and what didn't get Tony nominations earlier this week. Let's turn to some who did. Each year, the announcement of nominees is accompanied by …
The day after the announcement of the Tony Awards nominations is always emotional in the Broadway precincts, as the selected few begin to enjoy their five weeks of glory ahead of th…
At its Newfront (or Upfront) presentation this morning, Hulu announced an exclusive deal with AMCÂ productions for future content. Hulu also announced Difficult People, a new series set to…
The 20th edition of the Nantucket Film Festival will show A24's The End Of The Tour with Jason Segel as the late David Foster Wallace, also starring Jesse Eisenberg, on opening night, Jun…
Contrary to what you might have read elsewhere this morning, Harvey Weinstein never threw in the towel on Finding Neverland, and has no plan to now. He charged into the end-of-season with gu…
Joe DiPietro’s revision of Garson Kanin’s valedictory comedy Peccadillo, which marked the Broadway debut of diva Renée Fleming, will close on Sunday. Staged by Kathleen Marsh…
Reacting to the snub this morning by the Tony nominating committee, which declined to give Finding Neverland any love at all, producer Harvey Weinstein took the high road: "With 27 nominatio…