After a brief, sci-fi style opening of a comet hurtling through the atmosphere, Birdman begins with a through-the-door view of Michael Keaton, seen from the back sitting cross-legged in a…
As the 52nd New York Film Festival winds down this weekend, the sponsoring Film Society of Lincoln Center said that Robert Redford will receive the group's Chaplin Award at a gala next April…
Seamless and as darkly riveting as any John le Carre or Graham Greene thriller, Laura Poitras' Citizenfour puts an indelibly human face on NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, while ripping awa…
ISIS Â is overtaking the Middle East, ebola spreads death from Liberia to Texas, President Obama stops traffic from Malibu to La Jolla and Philip Roth still can't cop the Nobel Prize for L…
While San Diego's Comic-Con mostly dwarfs New York's confab, the latter has stepped up the star power as George Clooney just surprised fans by appearing onstage for Disney's Tomorro…
I hear that 54 Below, the Theater District nightclub that recently signed a multi-year pact with Broadway diva Patti LuPone, has stuck a deal with Shaiman, the musical polymath (com…
Just a few weeks after the Disney Company roared that The Lion King had become the highest-grossing entertainment of all time, NBCUniversal today announced that Robert Greenblatt, pres…
Five-time Tony nominee Seldes began her Broadway career at age 17 in 1947, performing in John Gielgud's staging of Medea with Dame Judith Anderson. She became an enduring stage legend throug…
Two newcomers entered Broadway's fall fray last week, which saw total box office jump almost 5%, to $23.2 million, from the week before. Sting's autobiographical musical The Last Ship …
Geoffrey Holder, the only theater man who, at 6'6″ could look Tommy Tune right in the eye and say "Abosolutely maaaaah-velous" died Sunday in New York City. He wqas 84. Charles M…
Call me reductive but if I were pitching a film version of Mark Haddon's 2003 best-seller, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, the headline above would do the trick. The prest…
After a primetime SNL revisit with host Steve Martin in a 1978 show that opened with a bit featuring audience plant Bill Murray, a performance by the Blues Brothers and Martin's own "King…
With a lot of help from host Sarah Silverman, SNL returned to old form with this bit, as Joan Rivers angles for a place in Heaven by roasting the likes of Richard Pryor, Steve Jobs, Lucille …
EXCLUSIVE: Norman Lear begins his memoir Even This I Get To Experience with a story he loves to tell that easily could have been a Mike Nichols and Elaine May routine: "Mother, I just got a …
EXCLUSIVE: Norman Lear never was one to be stifled with. When Fred Silverman turned to him for a show to upgrade the image of CBS " the Tiffany network that, through the enormous popul…
The cornerstone Chicago troupe, one of the most influential among the country's nonprofit theaters and one of the few true artistic ensembles, today announced a coming management changeov…
After eight years of development, director Des McAnuff and a creative team that includes playwright and screenwriter Michael Weller, composer Lucy Simon and lyricists Michael Korie and and A…
The New York Times reported today plans to eliminate 100 newsroom jobs through voluntary buyouts and, if necessary, staff layoffs. At the same time, the paper said it will eliminate or conso…
Actors Equity has given its OK for Brit thespians Geoffrey Beevers, Michael Elwyn, Richard McCabe, and Rufus Wright to accompany Olivier Award-winning Mirren's Queen Elizabeth II to Broad…
Finding Neverland has quickly become known in Broadway precincts as The Curious Incident Of The Blog In The Day-Time (with apologies to that other show opening this week). On Sunday, Deadlin…
With 30 shows on the boards (including six in previews up until Sunday's opening of You Can't Take It With You), Week 18 of the Broadway season was all but identical to the prior stand. Lond…
You might say she's going from Weeds to leaves, though not of grass. Mary-Louise Parker, best known to TV audiences as Nancy Botwin on the hit Showtime series, will publish what Scribner is …
What becomes a legendary comedy most? Laughs, of course. Oscar Madison saying "F.U. Took me three hours to figure out F.U. was Felix Ungar!" " why, I'll bet you laughed just remembering the …
The iceman cameth, Sunday, to Cambridge, Mass. "Â dumping a bucketful on New York Post Broadway columnist Michael Riedel. It was a positive outcome for all as Harvey Weinstein, tending his…
Following rapturous reviews for a Broadway revival and another one off-Broadway, A.R. Gurney is having a moment in the sun. It's only taken the veteran playwright " whose The Dining Ro…