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TICKET GIVEAWAY TO THE HEIRESS: Win two tickets to see “The Heiress” marking the Broadway debuts of Jessica Chastain (Academy Award nominee for The Help) and Dan StevensÂ�…
There were reasons to have faith in "Grace," a play about the downside of faith and the mystery of grace. Its stellar four-member cast includes Paul Rudd and Ed Asner, two performers w…
Here is the part of the transcript of the first 2012 presidential debate that concerns Big Bird. Debate moderator Jim Lehrer had asked: “What are the differences between the two of you…
Lilla Crawford, a veteran of Cool Whip commercial and Billie Elliot on Broadway, is the new Annie. She’s an old pro, which is clear from her interviews.Asked what she wants to do after…
Johnny Rabe will play Ralphie in A Christmas Story , The Musical, based on the 1983 movie, which is scheduled to play at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater on Broadway  from November Â�…
Rebecca will not open on Broadway this fall, its producers Ben Sprecher and Louise Forlenza announced yesterday. The bottom line reason: a lack of financing. But as I tweeted yesterday: �…
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September 18 Details of that invitation-only Marvin Hamlisch memorial tonight with Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin and Liza Minnelli ‪ Soshana Greenberg (@Vmarshmellow) I sang in the…
There were 39 TV season premieres this week, seven of them series premieres. A surprising number of these TV shows featured performers who established or embellished their reputations on Bro…
Should audiences applaud celebrities at the beginning of a show? I was struck recently at the response at two different plays, when a handful of people started to applaud David Schwimmer (in…
The last three plays that I have reviewed have been about suffering, or at least about falling apart: Most directly (and, in my view, least successfuly), Job, an adaptation of the Bibl…
A chat with the four-member cast of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, which is opening on Broadway at the Booth Theater on October 13, 2012 — exactly 50 years …
"The theater is not so much a profession as a disease, and my first look at Broadway was the beginning of a lifelong infection." So writes Moss Hart in "Act One," a memoir that, we're told, …
Lewis Black will be performing "Running on Empty," his stand-up act, at the Richard Rodgers Theater on Broadway from October 9 to October 20, 2012 not coincidentally right before the 2012 Pr…
Showtime has posted the first 25 minutes of the Season 2 premiere of Homeland — which is a little like inviting somebody to dinner and just serving them the soup. Homeland Season 2 Pre…
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In the dog days of August, we glance at the Broadway 2012-2013 season in formation; so far, there is a list of some two dozen shows with theaters and set opening dates. We also learn the…
Bring It On is not just about cheerleading acrobatics, as the last summer concert of Broadway in Bryant Park 2012 made clear. Here are 40 seconds of Nicolas Womack as Twig rapping in the mid…
Stay tuned for a detailed preview of the whole Broadway season Bring It On: The Musical (August 1) Chaplin (September 10th) An Enemy of the People (September 27th) Grace (October 4th) Cyrano…
A Christmas Story, the 1983 movie in which Ralphie has to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder BB gun really is the perfect gift for the 1940′s, has been made int…
Jeremy Jordan, who has played Jack in Newsies since its pre-Broadway try-out, is leaving to focus on his role in the NBC television series Smash. Replacing him starting on September 5, 2012 …
This week in New York theater began in sorrow, and ended in absurdity. Inbetween were openings and glimpses of what's to come In the week ahead:  Noël Coward in New York Festival with …
Maxim de Winter brings his new wife home to his estate, Manderley. There she learns of the mystery of his first wife, now dead… Rebecca. Based on the classic novel by Daphne du Maurier …
