After attending a preview of Robert Askins's new play Permission the other night, I can report that the cast's padded undergarments, which got their own feature in the Times last week, are i…
When we walked into Blythe Danner's suite in the Waldorf Astoria last week, we were greeted by an unexpected sight: Danner dozing gracefully in the hotel's armchair, looking every inch a mem…
Baz Luhrmann breezed into the Standard High Line's Biergarten on Tuesday evening to attend a fund-raising gala for the Ghetto Film School. The program in the Bronx gives disadvanta…
In a Pottery Barned New York apartment, a postcoital couple awakens in the wee hours and stumbles through a discussion about their future. Have we not seen this before? Doug (an unrecognizab…
Note: Sam Gold's production of Annie Baker's play The Flick, produced at Playwrights Horizons in 2013 and subsequently awarded the Pulitzer Prize, returns tonight at the Barrow Street Theate…
Matt Czuchry currently appears on The Good Wife, but most fans know him for playing the annoying, pompous Logan Huntzberger on Gilmore Girls. His character was the last and " depending …
Taye Diggs will be Broadway's sixth Hedwig, following the high-octane runs of Neil Patrick Harris, Andrew Rannells, Michael C. Hall, OG John Cameron Mitchell, and the latest, Darren Criss. D…
A playwright is really asking for it when he creates, in a semiautobiographical work, a conflict whose glorious resolution is the writing of the play itself. This is what A.R. Gurney has don…
On The Late Late Show, host James Corden and Anna Kendrick had a musical face-off that was so much better, and shorter, than Pitch Perfect 2. Corden has been bragging that he's the best a ca…
There are three reasons to see I'll See You in My Dreams. Blythe Danner is Reason Number One. She also happens to be Reasons Number Two and Three. It's a tour de force of a performance, in p…
Deadline reports that Kevin Spacey's cat movie, Nine Lives, is still getting made and has finally received a release date. (They used a cat pun.) The day to mark on your calendars is Friday,…
To promote Pitch Perfect 2, Jimmy Fallon and Anna Kendrick played everybody's favorite let's-hit-our-heads-with-different-kinds-of-eggs game. There are really only two types of eggs (raw and…
Former Warbler Darren Criss is the fifth actor to strap on heels for Broadway's Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and he's continuing the show's tradition of enthusiastic audience participation " n…
Chris Noth and I are inside the China Club, a throwback, members-only restaurant atop a bank in Central Hong Kong. A platter of Peking duck sits between us. The early 1900s-era decor (brass …
Elisabeth Moss takes F, Marry, Kill very seriously. The Mad Men actress took a full minute to choose between Stan, Pete, and Stevie at the Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Ach…
Spike Lee's Chiraq movie will not just be a gritty look at violence in Illinois, but rather a musical comedy, Screen Daily reports. The movie will feature Kanye West, Jennifer Hudson, Samuel…
On a farm in South Africa, a large boulder stares down a local painter like a blank canvas. The painter " someone we would categorize today as an outsider artist " is Nukain Mabusa, an old b…
While we all eagerly await the new Muppets show and the impending deluge of great celebrity cameos it'll provide, this can tide us over for a bit: that velvet-voiced crooner Josh Groban join…
NBC will attempt to halt its recent ratings slide with a new fall schedule comprised of three new dramas, the long-touted revival of Heroes, a variety show from Neil Patrick Harris and what …
On this week's Saturday Night Live, host Reese Witherspoon brought out the cast members' mothers so that the performers could apologize to them for being so very awful. The cast shared their…
Last week Robert Askins's Hand to God garnered five Tony nominations, which has only served to fuel the already gigantic ego of one its stars, the foulmouthed puppet Tyrone. It's understanda…
Last year, Hugh Jackman was "99.9 percent sure" that Wolverine 3 would be his last go-round as the burly Canadian mutant, then promptly walked that claim back at a Days of Future Pas…
Should a critic recuse himself from reviewing a show because he loves it too much? I grew up wearing down the grooves of the 1968 cast album of the original Broadway production of Zorba, whi…
One of the big new tentpoles NBC will be touting at its upfront presentation to advertisers next week is its Neil Patrick Harris variety show, which until now has simply been referred to as …
Having hauled The Rake's Progress out of deep storage, the Metropolitan Opera is doing the showbiz equivalent of blinding your math teacher by bouncing sunlight off a watch face. A few quick…