"To Kill a Mockingbird" was snubbed for Best Play! Glenda Jackson is noticeably absent from Best Actress! But three of the five characters represented in the Featured Actor in a Play categor…
A celebrity roast of yours truly (benefiting the Callen-Lorde clinic) was organized by publicist Daniel DeMello and company last week at Actors Temple, where a host of notables gathered to r…
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One of the Broadway season's biggest hits, the seven-time Tony nominated Come From Away is a rousing, folksy show about the real-life incident where planes were d…
One of the Broadway season's biggest hits, the seven-time Tony nominated Come From Away is a rousing, folksy show about the real-life incident where planes were diverted to a small town in N…
All four nominated Best Plays for the Tony Awards (announced this morning) add up to Donald Trump's worst nightmare: There's “Sweat,” about workers of various colors responding t…
After seeing Bette Midler in Hello, Dolly! and then spending this past weekend in the rapture of Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross, I was hoarse from cheering, but stopped to think, "Where's L…
While Joan Rivers and Don Rickles (and Courtney Act's career) applaud from the afterlife, RuPaul's Drag Race season six winner Bianca Del Rio continues to be the funniest motormouth on the p…
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Kuba Ka has optioned the rights to Lesley-Ann Jones' book An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury, and it doesn't take a genius to see why; when made up properly, the Polish-born performer …
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Born Alex Michaels in Manhattan, Alexis Michelle is a talented figure on the Gotham bar scene, playing Boots & Saddle on Wednesdays, Therapy on Thursdays and the Ritz on Sundays, with pe…
Cheers to survival. Charlie Hides is the oldest contestant ever to appear on RuPaul's Drag Race, and he's in top form. I first became aware of the British performer--who's on season nine, pr…
Movie companies are always about 40 years late to the table with allegedly groundbreaking material, and then they always make sure to congratulate themselves on the incredible courage involv…
Amid a theater boom, bars in Hell's Kitchen and elsewhere are hosting colorful events with singalongs, drop-ins and drag queens doing musical numbers.
Yesterday, I got an email from a colleague, critic Brendan Lemon, who said, "I'm starting to think that Moonlight could pull off an upset tonight. As a friend of mine says: "Just like in '05…
If I were to literally stick to my title (above), this would be a very short column. In fact, it would be over already and I'd be off typing up an invoice. But let me use a little hyperbole …
Happy Black History Month! Happy NYC Fashion Week! In commemoration of both landmark events, stylist Christian Freedom and I picked the 10 most exciting black male models of all time, and th…
In 1973, I was a 17-year-old student who spent weekends with my parents in Brooklyn and looked forward to the wonders of The Mary Tyler Moore Show every Saturday night. Famous from The Dick …
The biggest Tony nomination surprise? No nod for six-time winner Audra McDonald for “Shuffle Along!” I blame it on the awful blue dress they put her in in Act Two! But despite…
The audience leaps to its feet at the end, thrilled to have at least seen an attempt at high art. With low farts.
In fact, there are times when you start wondering which is worse--the show they wrote or the show they wrote about the show they wrote.
At a rehearsal, Hearn joked to me that he would be trotting out his all-purpose accent for the play. ("I only have one accent—it's Spanish, Yiddish, German . . .")