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Intermission, all I ever wanted! The new musical "Head Over Heels," which opened Thursday on Broadway, takes the songs of '80s American girl group the Go-Go's, plops them in a British story …
“The Equalizer" should be locked in a room with "The Terminator." Then this lousy series would finally be killed off. Denzel Washington is back in the sequel to his 2014 action film, w…
Ten years ago, "Mamma Mia!" felt like the result of one too many shots of ouzo. Charming on Broadway, it was bonkers on-screen: a romantic comedy set on a Greek island told through ABBA song…
Want room to spread out? Head to the St. James Theatre on Broadway, where empty seats abound at the musical "Frozen." But isn't Disney's story of ice queen Elsa and sister Anna supposed to b…
The Tony Awards are not always as good as the Broadway season they’re celebrating " sometimes they’re much better! Take Sunday night’s ceremony honoring the best of New Yor…
"A Star Is Born"? More like "A Star Is Reincarnated." The trailer for the new remake of the 1937 classic romance, in which Lady Gaga plays the title character, dropped Wednesday. In it, Moth…
When John Cameron Mitchell wrote and starred in the drag musical "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" in 1998, his theater pals were stumped. "They didn't understand why I was doing it," Mitchell, 55…
Peter Dinklage has found the role of a lifetime " and its surname isn't Lannister. The "Game of Thrones" actor will play Cyrano de Bergerac, the famed fictional French poet with a long nose,…
The Plastics want their gold. The four main ladies of Broadway's "Mean Girls" " Erika Henningsen, Taylor Louderman, Ashley Park and Kate Rockwell " all have separate personal publicists wagi…
For her 90th birthday, cabaret singer Marilyn Maye is flying high " and often. Over the past two months alone, the in-demand performer has carried her four huge suitcases to theaters in West…
Jim Henson die-hards are still dancing the magic dance " 32 years later. The cult classic "Labyrinth" is headed back to select theaters on Sunday. And the film, which featured a cast of pupp…
“When I'm bad, I'm so, so bad," Donna Summer sang in "Last Dance," and that perfectly describes the new Broadway musical about her life. "Summer," which opened Monday, is borderline in…
Harry Potter has come to Broadway. But The Boy Who Lived is a boy no longer: He's 37 years old and going through a magical midlife crisis in J.K. Rowling and Jack Thorne's outstanding play, …
Broadway is looking more like Universal Studios than the epicenter of great theater these days. Mainstream brands are squeezing out scintillating art that once dominated the boards. Exeunt: …
What hath Zac wrought? Back in 2006, newcomer Zac Efron starred in an unassuming little Disney Channel movie called "High School Musical," about a peppy band of teen stereotypes who turn sch…
Winter's over, and theater in London is younger than springtime. Audiences are falling wig-over-heels for a teenage drag queen; the new Bridge Theatre's "Julius Caesar" has a mosh pit and "L…
For its new stage musical "Frozen," Disney should've heeded the sage advice of Queen Elsa: Let it go. Broadway should be the place to see what you can do, to test the limits and break throug…
Opera lovers may think they've heard it all, from the screams of Don Juan burning in hell to Brünnhilde's cries of triumph and the coughs of countless women keeling over from consumption. C…
Just five nights ago, Charlie Stemp was in London, taking his final bow in the holiday pantomime "Dick Whittington" at the Palladium next to West End royalty Elaine Paige. After the curtain …
The iconic Fox searchlights could soon be shut off for good. On Thursday, 21st Century Fox was purchased by Disney for $52.4 billion. One of the six major Hollywood studios " the one that ga…
Hollywood has finally gotten the memo. Awards season will kick off in earnest when the Golden Globes nominations are announced on Monday, but the main crop of contenders has already become c…
Bikini Bottom has arrived on Broadway. Opening Monday, "SpongeBob SquarePants" boasts songs by John Legend, Cyndi Lauper, David Bowie and other heavy hitters, plus a number by a writing team…
Frumpy and Denzel are two words you don't often see together " until now. The new thriller "Roman J. Israel, Esq." has Washington sporting a paunch, unkempt afro, huge specs and an oversize …
Jerry Zaks is back where he belongs: on Broadway, where no fewer than three of his shows " "Hello, Dolly!", "A Bronx Tale" and Steve Martin's "Meteor Shower" " are on the boards. "That I've …
Throwing a play onto the big screen is always risky. It can be the best choice a studio ever makes ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?") or the absolute worst ("August: Osage County"). Even wh…
