289 stories by "MARC MALKIN"
Cole Escola, the 37-year-old star and writer of the hit Off Broadway farce "Oh, Mary!," isn't letting fame get to their head. (Escola identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns.) Wh…
"Drag: The Musical" has announced the dates of its off-Broadway run. The show, about two rival drag bars that go head-to-head amid financial troubles, was written by "RuPaul's Drag Race" sta…
After Tony Awards host Ariana DeBose closed the 77th ceremony at Lincoln Center by dropping her mic and announcing, "DeBose " out," this year's winners, nominees, presenters and Broadways br…
It's an early Friday morning in May and comedian Alex Edelman is on a Zoom video call from a Los Angeles hotel. He has a bit of a bed head and says that he had to borrow the socks he is wear…
John Kander may be close to 100 years old, but that didn't mean he wasn't involved with the upcoming film adaptation of the Broadway musical "Kiss of the Spider Woman." Kander and the late l…
Jay Marcus has been working in film and television for more than a decade, but he also has no problem boasting that he is a "theater nerd." "I could talk about theater more than anything els…
Cynthia Erivo attended her first Met Gala in 2017. "Walking on the Met Gala carpet that year was really fucking nerve-wracking," she told me Sunday night at UTA's pre-Met party at Nubeluz at…
Ask the stars of Disney+'s "Loki" if there's going to be a third season and all will insist they don't know. "I have no idea, honestly," Sophia Di Martino, who stars as Sylvie, told me Satur…
Though the Human Rights Campaign gala on Saturday night in Los Angeles contended with a brief interruption by protestors calling for a Gaza ceasefire, the annual stayed largely on course, se…
Talk about loyalty. Betty Buckley has been staying at the Chateau Marmont for about 50 years. She first checked in when she landed the role of Abby Bradford, Dick Van Patten's new wife and s…
Elton John's touring life may have come to an end last year with his five-year, 330-concert worldwide Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, but the work continues, including recording new music. …
Joe Locke, the breakout star of "Heartstopper," has always had dreams of being on Broadway. Now, at just 20 years old, the British actor has made his Broadway debut as Tobias Ragg in the Ton…
This year's Met Gala will be a garden party. Vogue announced Thursday that the 2024 gala " taking place May 6 " will coincide with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute's "Sleep…
Broadway is coming to Santa Monica. Jenna Ushkowitz ("Glee") and Merle Dandridge ("The Last of Us," "Station 19") are teaming up and gathering their singer friends to raise money for Harvest…
Riley Keough, Bob Odenkirk and Danny Ramirez will star in a live reading of the Oscar-nominated drama "Anatomy of a Fall," as will Jay Ellis, Kate Berlant, Quincy Isaiah and Olivia Wilde. Ke…
New Kids on the Block's Joey McIntyre is returning to the award-winning "Drag: The Musical." McIntyre reprises the role of Tom Hutchinson, which he originated in the 2022 launch of the show.…
"Smash" is about to take another major step in its march to Broadway. The cast and crew will gather for six weeks starting this month to mount a full stage and choreographed workshop, with a…
"And Just Like That …" actor Julie Halston is ready for her NSFW close-up. The Broadway veteran tells me it's time for her zany ladies-who-lunch character, Bitsy von Muffling, to have a se…
Zurin Villanueva was starring in the national tour of "Tina: The Tina Turner Musical" when news broke in May that the music icon had died at age 83. A week later, while performing the scene …
Power publicist Alla Plotkin is teaming up with Jillian Roscoe, becoming a partner in Birch Public Relations. Roscoe launched the firm in March 2023 after leaving ID PR. Plotkin also departe…
It's good to know that Ben Platt and Molly Gordon's failed childhood romance didn't keep them from remaining life-long friends. The actors star in "Theater Camp," a mockumentary about a perf…
I'm on the phone with J. Harrison Ghee when they walk into their dressing room at the Shubert Theatre before Tuesday night's performance of "Some Like It Hot." It's their first show since wi…
Is there going be a musical episode of "Only Murders in the Building" in Season 3?! While it hasn't been officially confirmed that Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez will be singing…
Sterling K. Brown could be on his way to Broadway. The three-time Emmy winner will star in a reading of a new stage production of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" on May 18 in New York City…
Peppermint wants back on "RuPaul's Drag Race." She famously was runner-up in Season 9 when Sasha Velour took the crown after her iconic rose petal-filled finale lip sync. "I would love to go…