It's the 73rd Annual Sloooowny Awards! Sunday night's trophy ceremony for a Broadway season suffering from a lack of must-see shows and real star power suffered from, well, a lack of must-se…
LONDON " David Mamet has done it again! By which I mean that the out-of-his-mind playwright has appalled, offended and perplexed a packed house of hundreds of people " this time with his com…
And here I thought "Mean Girls" opened last season! The 2019 Tony Award nominations were announced Tuesday morning, and instead of its usual Celebration of Theater mood, we were treated to a…
If we say his name three times, will he go away? I'm not talking about the title character of "Beetlejuice," which opened Thursday night, but Eddie Perfect. Fresh off his heinous music for "…
"Sexy" is not a word you'd use to describe the founding of most newspapers. More accurate descriptors might include: "formal," "dusty" and "self-important." The Sun, however, is not like mos…
Meet Dorothy Michaels: Renowned stage actress and chanteuse. A brutally honest feminist who's built like a Hummer, she lives in New York, and " oh, right " she's really a he. Dorothy is the …
For a show about hell, "Hadestown" doesn't have much heat. Yes, composer Anaïs Mitchell's musical retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, which opened Wednesday on Broadway, sounds pl…
Stage productions are filmed for the cinema all the time " The Met: Live in HD, National Theatre Live and the recent West End musical "Everybody's Talking About Jamie," among countless other…
The corn is as high as an elephant's eye, and so is my blood pressure, thanks to the revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!" In director Daniel Fish's pretentious production " which…
Even before watching "Shazam!," the new DC superhero movie starring Zachary Levi, you already know it won't take itself too seriously. Why? There's an exclamation point in the title. Such ma…
Disney kicks off another crop of live-action remakes of cartoon classics with "Dumbo." Thankfully before slapping us with realistic singing lions and an indigo Will Smith later this year, th…
A slasher is on the loose, whipping out a razor blade and slicing helpless bystanders without motive or provocation. Flames shoot out of manholes on one of the city's busiest streets just st…
Imagine that you're at the Times Square TKTS booth looking for a Broadway show to see. You glance up at the board and notice four conspicuous titles: "The Office: The Musical," "Cubicle!," "…
Five months ago, it would have been a practical move to redub the Oscars the Bradleys. "A Star Is Born," Bradley Cooper's freshman directorial effort, scored smashing reviews out of the Veni…
PARK CITY, Utah " When Zac Efron sang "Breaking Free" in 2006's "High School Musical," little did we know he meant out of police custody. But 13 years later the actor has gone from playing a…
“The Upside" has a downside: We've seen it a million times before. Onstage and on-screen, crotchety rich people are changed forever by fun-but-flawed poor people. It's become a genre, …
American holiday activities are worse than coal in a stocking. Each year, we schlep to super malls and force crying children to pose with creeper Santas. We trudge to local productions of "T…
Broadway fans love to whine about movie adaptations overtaking their beloved theaters. But can't movie buffs also complain about their favorite films getting ruined by the stage? I will " be…
Director Orson Welles' latest movie hits theaters Friday " 33 years after he died. "The Other Side of the Wind," the famed filmmaker's final picture, has been in post-production for nearly 5…
Lucas Hedges and Michael Cera play allies in Broadway's "The Waverly Gallery," but offstage, they're practically a vaudeville act. And while they've both been around " Hedges was an Oscar no…
What a haul-o-ween! The latest "Halloween" sequel, starring a returning Jamie Lee Curtis, is set to break a franchise box-office record, taking in a projected $50 million this weekend. (It's…
They’re Brexiting all the way to New York. "The Nap," "Girl From the North Country" and "The Ferryman" are just a few of the shows that have leaped across the pond and landed on or off…
Lady Gaga has traveled by egg, donned skirt steak and taken part in a TV blood orgy. But her biggest transformation occurs in the new film "A Star Is Born." In it, she becomes an Oscar-worth…
Rescue me, Elmo! That's what you'll shout if you're trapped in a movie theater playing "The Happytime Murders," the wretched puppets-behaving-badly comedy directed by Brian Henson. The son o…
Don’t be fooled by its awful title. "The Spy Who Dumped Me" is the rare secret-agent spoof that doesn't double-O-suck. You can thank the awesome fights for that. During the first five …