Michael MustoLily TomlinMichael MustoPhoto by Larry Busacca / Getty Images Lily Tomlin is totally cast against type as an old, gruff, misanthropic lesbian on a mission. Kidding! In fact, …
We rank the 30 top musicals that made the leap from movie screens to Broadway and Off Broadway stages
Annie Baker's follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Flick (also now playing) is built on a similar scale: John runs three hours and 15 minutes over three acts and two intermissions. I …
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What is left to say? After Founding Father Alexander Hamilton's prodigious quill scratched out 12 volumes of nation-building fiscal and military policy; after Lin-Manuel Miranda turned that …
Michael MustosnlMichael MustoWay before TV became a same-sex playground, Terry Sweeney paved the way by being an openly gay Saturday Night Live cast member in 1985, wearing dresses on camera…
Critics' pick: Evil little blond girls never get old. When Tina Denmark, a precocious song-and-dance sociopath who garrotes a rival for the lead in her grade-school play, made her debut in t…
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It's not exactly a golden age for ethnic jokes: gags about how black people are like this or Jewish folks always do that…and don't get me started on Asians! With homicidal cops and white s…
One of New York's greatest troupers is set to retire after she reprises a smashing role in Scenes from an Execution
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In 18th-century England, the scion of a slave-trading family works in the business for years, then has a crisis of conscience, repudiates the evil practice and becomes a man of God and an ar…
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Master illusionists Penn and Teller (whose act turns 40 this week!) do better than pull a rabbit out of a hat: They reach deep into our collective need to believe and extract skepticism. It'…
Lin-Manuel Miranda makes and remakes history with his astonishing new hip-hop musical on Broadway
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Michael MustoMoviesMichael MustoJohnny Hazzard has gone legit! At 37, the porn actor from films like When Bears Attack and London Spunked acquits himself very well in Tiger Orange, a dramati…
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Bruce Norris's new play is set at a swingers' party, which rather complicates the playwriting dictum: show, don't tell. Unless you have a game cast and an open-minded audience, it's tricky r…
Playwright Anne Washburn is America's bard of the peripherally glimpsed, the half-eavesdropped, the shakily grasped. Her plays immerse characters in baffling subcultures, and the audience mu…
Broadway icon Patti LuPone is back on top in Shows for Days. All hail the drama queen.
As we noted before, this was one of the most unpredictable Tony Awards in recent memory (and yet, predict we did). It was an unusually strong season, full of diverse, exciting play and music…
There aren't many lies you can tell about God that organized religion hasn't told already: He is loving; He rewards the faithful; He is a He; and the biggest crock of all"that He exists. And…
The Tony Awards will be broadcast on CBS on June 7, and as is often the case in Broadway-loving circles, much of the talk this year is about the race for Best Actress in a Musical. We are bl…