The musical that poignantly poses the question "Who will love me as I am?" got its answer last night: Very few. Tough business. Side Show, the $8 million reboot of  a 1997 flop about frea…
More than a year after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Disgraced -- Ayad Akhtar's scorching play about identity politics in post-9/11 New York -- made it to Broadway this season, if…
"Is my crime that I do it, or that I 'fessed up?" the writer asks me. "I mean, whose dog did I poison?" I'm speaking with journalist Joanne Kaufman, who prompted conniptions among the drama …
Matthew Winkler, the founding editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News and one of the most skilled survivors in a tumultuous and ever-shifting media environment, has been kicked upstairs by the bos…
EXCLUSIVE: Vogel, a prolific and engaging writer, won the prize in 1998 for her drama How I Learned To Drive, which co-starred Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse in a time-spanning pla…
A few weeks go, Bradley Cooper told me that seeing John Hurt's Oscar-nominated performance in the film The Elephant Man inspired him to become an actor. And so the back end of 2014 finds …
Smarty-pants Matilda and her nasty crew had some good news and some bad news over the last few days. First the bad news: In a tough week for Broadway musicals, Matilda was off a bit over …
EXCLUSIVE: " 'Eff You!' " I answered. Garry Marshall already knew when he asked me, but he wanted see whether I knew what I was talking about. We were discussing Neil Simon, who I s…
Bradley Cooper says that John Hurt's portrayal of John Merrick in the 1980 film The Elephant Man made him decide to become an actor. It's not hard to figure out why: Here's the true st…
It went on too long, per usual, but Saturday Night Live's spoofy Star Wars teaser landed a few good blows, including an almost poignant vision of its aging hero. Here's the clip. No, it's…
With host James Franco as a deadpan Captain Hook very much in the epicene vein of Christopher Walken's Thursday night outing, and Cecily Strong as a self-proclaimed "gorgeous, womanly boy…
Hosting Saturday Night Live for the third time and landing directly on the news of the week, James Franco hauled in his The Interview co-star Seth Rogen to take a few swipes at Sony's hackin…
Worthy probably isn't the word one wants to associate with a first-class production of Peter Pan, the enduring musical about that blithe spirit of eternal youth. But NBC -- attempting to …
Tell Mama, tell Papa, tell the kinder: Emma Stone, sensational onscreen as Michael Keaton's naughty Broadway baby in Birdman, makes her real Broadway debut as a smashing Sally Bowles oppo…
Here's a Broadway oddball: Side Show, a musical about conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton, who became a 1920s freak-show sensation and then top draw on the vaudeville circuit. The ori…
Playing ex-lovers and semi-siblings in the emotional shootout of a lifetime, Sam Rockwell and Nina Arianda will reprise their summer vacation performances in Sam Shepard's intense, int…
August Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman both came in for some bruising comments Tuesday night courtesy of Liv Ullmann, the actress-turned-writer and director with intimate knowledge of bo…
Sunday marked the end of the highest-grossing and best-attended Thanksgiving week on Broadway ever. The total gross was $34.1 million, $2.6 million more than the same week in 2013. Att…
Today is the deadline for New York Times staffers to apply for an above-normal buyout offer from the paper, which is looking to eliminate 100 positions in its latest cost-saving measur…
EXCLUSIVE: Neil Meron and Craig Zadan's temporary command center at the Grumman Studios on Long Island has all the charm and none of the warmth of a military bunker. Down the hall, a vast…
John Lithgow's "complete triumph" of a performance dominates this all-star revival of Edward Albee's 'A Delicate Balance,' I say in my video review (watch it above) of the Broadway pla…
Jonathan Larson's groundbreaking musical about artists, squatters and AIDS in New York's Alphabet City in the 1990s will open on Christmas Eve in Havana for a three-month run. The Spanish…
Jason Robert Brown is back on Broadway, in a much lighter vein than his ill-fated Bridges Of Madison County a year ago, as Honeymoon In Vegas began eight weeks (!) of previews at the Nederla…
You would be hard-pressed to find two more unalike human beings, not to say heroes, than Chris Kyle--dubbed "Legend" by his fellow Navy SEALS--and Joseph Merrick, known throughout late 19th-…
UPDATE 7:44 p.m. with more details throughout. In the wake of middling reviews and a dozy box office, Sting has agreed to join the cast of his first Broadway musical as composer/lyricist. Fr…