Possibly marking the end of Stephen Sondheim‘s 80th-birthday celebrations comes word of the Royal Albert Hall’s April 28 Follies: In Concert honoring the composer-lyricist’…
EXCLUSIVE: The British thesp currently appearing as U.S. Secretary Of State in Netflix’ House Of Cards and alumna of 24, will play the wife of the prolific French sci-fi writer in Jule…
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The high-profile union actors have lent their support to a rally and march slated for Monday afternoon to protest a plan by Actors’ Equity that would force L.A.’s 99-seat theater…
I think Elisabeth Moss was born to play Heidi Holland on Broadway. She couldn't possibly have had better preparation than her role as Peggy Olson, the Mad Men character who entered the 1960s…
EXCLUSIVE: Dough-Re-Mi: Mary Martin’s 1960 Tony Award for The Sound of Music sold at auction today for $35,000. It was part of a trove of entertainment-related memorabilia sold b…
The Mazda hawking, magic debunking Las Vegas regulars will play a six-week engagement at Broadway’s Nederlander-operated Marquis Theatre, beginning July 7 and wrapping August 16. The r…
Building on the ever-expanding incursion of rap music into Broadway, hip-hop pioneer, entrepreneur and Tony Award-winning producer Simmons is developing a new musical that will be driven …
With the sold-out run of Constellations starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson having just closed at its Broadway mainstage, the nonprofit Manhattan Theatre Club says it’s re-uppi…
Addressing speculation last night about his post-Daily Show plans, Jon Stewart dismissed various scenarios (including “modeling” and rock-stardom) before unveiling the first segm…
Where’s Andrew Jarecki? The director of HBO’s The Jinx: The Life And Deaths Of Robert Durst canceled scheduled appearances on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, MSNBC’s…
And we’re off to the races, folks, with six new Broadway shows in previews and more to come before the April 23 deadline for 2014-15 season Tony Awards eligibility. Stars rule, with…
Erivo will reprise her performance as Celie when director (and this time designer, as well) John Doyle brings his scaled-down Menier Chocolate Factory production to Broadway’s Berna…
Robert Durst’s apparent confession to the murders of his wife, neighbor and best friend wasn’t discovered until “many months” after it was recorded through an open…
Whether you’re a student of the Broadway musical or just a sailor looking for a darned good time, you could do worse than spend a matinee and evening in Times Square with Betty Comd…
Robert Falls, the gifted stage director who also runs Chicago’s Goodman Theater, had one crazy week. As his remarkable 5-hour production of Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Come…
EXCLUSIVE: As Team de Blasio considers ways to plug loopholes in the various federal and local tax laws that cost New York City millions in revenue, let’s revisit a couple of sacred…
Queenie Pie was the talk of the town and Duke Ellington was the reason. When the great jazz composer died in 1974, he left behind an unfinished “street opera” that offered …
Sometimes I think we Americans worship the Royal Family as much as our British cousins do. Or maybe, as I say in my video review above, we Yanks just love watching the unsurpassable Helen Mi…
EXCLUSIVE: Millions of untaxed dollars from the sale of the air above landmarked theaters—money that might be playing a starring role on Broadway—are going instead to buy fast…
EXCLUSIVE: After gleaming, Tony-nominated performances on Broadway in Stick Fly and The Trip To Bountiful, (plus a run as Juliet opposite Orlando Bloom’s Romeo, and a career-making rol…
One of the many salutary after-effects of Ava DuVernay’s Selma has been renewed interest in that city’s Edmund Pettus Bridge, site of a violent confrontation between people march…
The iceman cometh in spades last week, making it a field day for walk-ins (or sleigh-ins) even at some of Broadway’s biggest hits, as reflected in the week’s box office rep…
Shtick is to Larry David as location is to real estate: everything, everything and everything. As I say in my video review above, David is making his first stage appearance since grade schoo…
A filmed bit on Saturday Night Live last night promoting Fox’s Empire posed the question: “Empire has already taken black America by storm. But what about white America?”…