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It's official -- Doogie's doing the Tony Awards again. Emmy winner and Broadway vet Neil Patrick Harris will host the Tonys on June 9, as the Daily News reported this week in Confidenti@l.
"The Good Wife" legal eagle Christine Baranski has flown back to the stage.
Beginning Wednesday, she stars in the Encores! concert revival of the 1936 tap- and ballet-happy musical …
The brutal economic crunch and widescale business downsizing has made corporate dog-eat-dog more feral than ever.
In his fast-paced, fanged and darkly funny play "Bull," at the Brit…
The unconventional musical "The Memory Show" taxes emotions and the ears.
Written by newcomers Sara Cooper (book and lyrics) and Zach Redler (music), the show concerns a mother (Cat…
"Kinky Boots," the homegrown feel-good musical by Queens girl Cyndi Lauper and Brooklyn boy Harvey Fierstein, danced away with 13 Tony nominations Tuesday, more than any other show.
Stars, schmars. The Tony Award nominations on Tuesday left a glittery who's who of Hollywood out in the cold. Jessica Chastain, Katie Holmes, Alec Baldwin, Jim Parsons, Scarlett Johansson…
Fourteen Broadway premieres in four weeks. That's a thumbnail sketch of a theater critic's life in April. Shows come fast and furiously in the mad dash to open in time for the cutoff for Ton…
Jane Lynch, now known as "Glee" sadist Sue Sylvester, makes her Broadway next month in "Annie." The Emmy-winning actress will play orphanage ogre Miss Hannigan May 16-July 14 at the Palace …
Maybe this time Emma Stone will be lucky - on Broadway. The "Easy A" star is in negotiations to play Sally Bowles in a Roundabout Theatre Company revival of "Cabaret," a source close to the …
At the 11th hour of the 2012-13 Broadway season, a musical miracle has landed at the Music Box Theatre.
The brilliant new production of "Pippin," a 1972 coming-of-age tale, boasts e…
Bette Midler didn't become the Divine Miss M by idling. She strutted, boogie-woogied and gunned it " at times on wheels in mermaid drag.
Horton Foote's gentle drama "The Trip to Bountiful" is a star vehicle that runs on charm.
At age 79, the wonderful Cicely Tyson packs plenty of that playing Carrie Watts, a homesi…
Finally " a new musical that's so exhilarating and such a great time that it's easy to recommend it without hesitation.
So let's hear it for "Here Lies Love," which opened Tuesday a…
Dr. Gwen Korovin has been called Broadway's throat doc and the keeper of high-profile pipes.
Just ask Nathan Lane, who credits Korovin for guiding him past a rough patch during prev…
The mother of Jesus doesn't smile beatifically in the solo drama "The Testament of Mary." She scowls and rolls her eyes in exasperation. She rails. And, as if to calm her jangled nerves, she…
"When shall we three meet again?
It's a show about duality, so Frank Wildhorn's dark and stormy pop-rock musical "Jekyll & Hyde" deserves two interpretations.
After seven seasons on "30 Rock" as TV exec Jack Donaghy, a controlling blowhard with parent issues, Alec Baldwin returns to Broadway in "Orphans." He plays aging crook Harold, a controlling…
Broadway just got 16 times more "Lucky"! Tom Hanks has extended his starring role in "Lucky Guy" as Daily News Pulitzer winner Mike McAlary.
"The Assembled Parties" follows a Jewish family through two Christmas Day gatherings, where sparkly one-liners are lobbed like strands of tinsel.
Take when happy-go-lucky hostess Ju…
Following Lincoln Center's sterling winter revival of Clifford Odets' sturdy 1937 boxing saga "Golden Boy," spring brings his 1949 Tinseltown potboiler "The Big Knife." In the Roundabout's r…
In his refreshingly original play "The Nance," Douglas Carter Beane reflects on the dying days of burlesque and a gay comic torn between a new love and old ways.
While he's at it, B…
"Breakfast" is toast on the Great White Way. The new Broadway play "Breakfast at Tiffany's" will play its final performance on Sunday, April 21.
New Yorker Ayad Akhtar's "Disgraced," about a well-off Pakistani-American lawyer whose upper East Side life takes unsettling turns, has won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Berry Gordy founded the Motown record empire in the '60s.
