Celebrating this year’s honorees at the trendy Meat Packing District restaurant Tao, the New York Film Critics Circle offered starry salutes to Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, do…
The combination of premium ticket prices, extra performances, last-chance opportunities and loads of ticket buyers from out of town let Broadway ring out 2014 with its biggest-ever b.o. tall…
EXCLUSIVE: In November I began these conversations with artists who have deep roots on both coasts with Bradley Cooper, receiving parallel plaudits for his leading roles in American…
Riding a wave of rapturous reviews and an invigorated box office at Studio 54, the Roundabout Theatre Company announced Sunday that Emma Stone has extended her Cabaret run by two weeks…
Stars, revivals, and musicals conjured from films will continue to dominate Broadway in the coming months, as sure as rising ticket prices and limited runs. The resulting high expectat…
UPDATE 1:20 p.m. with more information: With three blockbuster musicals " Disney's Aladdin and The Lion King, along with Wicked " adding a ninth sold-out performance, and tourists p…
Milos Forman was looking for the best writer to adapt the hippie anti-war musical Hair for the big screen. The Czech filmmaker already had a growing U.S. following in the wake…
To: Amy/So how far do we let the boys go with the Kim-has-no-butthole business??//ml To: Michael/I don't know, six jokes max? The test auds loved it! did you remember to get the rights to th…
The Oscar-winning director remains a fugitive from American justice despite a 133-page petition filed last week in Los Angeles Superior Court by famed defense attorney Alan Dershowitz. …
Artistic directors of some 60 of the country's most prominent nonprofit theaters responded swiftly and forcefully to the firing last Thursday of Ari Roth, a playwright and a.d. of Theater J,…
Disney's duo of The Lion King and Aladdin rang up respective sales of $2.2 million and $1.6 million in Week 30 of the Broadway season, which ended Sunday. Wicked ($2 million) and The Book Of…
Chalk up one more Broadway transfer for the Williamstown Theatre Festival, following the current Bradley Cooper starrer The Elephant Man and last season's The Bridges Of Madison County. Flem…
EXCLUSIVE: Two of Hollywood's favorite concepts -- mash-up and reboot -- converge with the Christmas Eve opening of Into The Woods, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's big-screen, bold-face …
Sonia Friedman, the producer who brought Jez Butterworth's oddball one-acter to Broadway's intimate Circle In The Square Theater with arena-size star Hugh Jackman, announced today that the $…
EXCLUSIVE: Broadway's latest venture in freaky puppetry has been making a virtue of its un-Broadway vices: No stars, not a British import, not a remake of an old movie. Not surprising, given…
Cuba-U.S. detente has nothing on the hotly competitive Shubert and Nederlander organizations. Broadway's two biggest landlords are suddenly looking like BFF's as co-producers on hoped-for bl…
UPDATE 12:03 p.m., adding more information below. The surprise hit of the new Broadway season, a revival of Terrence McNally's opening-night comedy of bad manners It's Only A Play, has recou…
The ex-Police man stepped in to help his ailing show and the results were pretty instantaneous: Last week, the box office spiked to $818K -- a jump of $326K over the previous week, for its b…
EXCLUSIVE: Something Chris Rock recently said to Frank Rich in New York magazine has been haunting me for the past few weeks. "The thing about comedians is that you're the only ones who prac…
At 11 a.m. New York time, New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet posted the following on Times Insider, a blog that goes to the paper's subscribers, in response to attorney David Boies'…
EXCLUSIVE: It's impossible to ignore Emma Stone's eyes. At least until she begins speaking, but we'll get to that. First, not to be reductive, but jeepers, creepers. Even, or especially, on …
In his first outing as host, Martin Freeman took Saturday Night Live to Middle Earth and The Office, as well as Fargo, North Dakota in an amiable if standard-issue show that featured a We…
The cold open on last night's Martin Freeman-hosted SNL featured a Charlie Rose interview bit with James E. Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, psychologists whose company was  paid $82 million, a…
The best item on last night's Saturday Night Live menu wasn't live at all. It was a filmed bit in which freshman host Martin Freeman and Team Michaels mashed up Bilbo Baggins, from The…
New Yorker magazine critic David Denby, whose erudite and often contrarian film reviews have been essential reading for New York cineastes since he began as the film critic for New …