12 stories by "Lindsay Putnam"
Making your Broadway debut is downright miserable. Grumpy Cat became the first feline to ever appear in a production of "Cats" Friday evening at the Neil Simon Theatre in Midtown. The unimpr…
Cynthia Erivo doesn't just run the show on "The Color Purple" " she runs New York, too. The actress " who stars as Celie in the show's Broadway revival " ran the Brooklyn Half Marathon Satur…
The Village People may not have been as vocally blessed as we thought: Victor Willis, best known as the cop in the disco band, is accusing some of his fellow group members of lip-syncing, a …
As the new musical "Mrs. Smith's Broadway Cat-tacular!" proves, it's amazing what you can do with a little imagination and a lot of cardboard. This old-fashioned goof isn't on Broadway...
Step aside, Allison Williams. While the "Girls" actress may have landed the coveted role of Peter Pan for NBC's "Peter Pan Live!" television special airing Thursday night, she wasn't the...
Kevin Spacey is no stranger to political domination. As US President Frank Underwood in the Netflix original series "House of Cards," Spacey has come to represent power, strength, determinat…
Canadian director Robert Lepage has been in the news a lot here in the past three years — though maybe he didn’t get the kind of coverage he wanted. Mostly...
There hasn’t been this much talk about chemistry since the start of “Breaking Bad” — but what better way to measure our Romeos and Juliets? This fall, we’re get…
Muhammad Ali — “the Greatest” — went from athlete to global star. Stepin Fetchit forged a career playing a stereotypically lazy servant, and was considered a joke …
Not a season goes by without a Horton Foote play or three. Like clockwork, “The Old Friends” opens at Signature just as “The Trip to Bountiful” enters the last stretc…
Nicholas Hytner, the head of Britain’s National Theatre, has corralled quite a group of thespians to celebrate the theater’s 50th anniversary Nov. 2. Judi Dench will re-create a …
Do you happen to be free every night for the next few weeks? Because that’s the only way you can catch all of “All the Faces of the Moon,” monologuist...