Bill Carter, Ex-NYTimesman On TV Beat, Joins CNN
Demonstrating once again that there is life after The New York Times, Carter ended his 15 minutes of retirement by announcing that he has joined the cable news channel as a contributor on th…
Demonstrating once again that there is life after The New York Times, Carter ended his 15 minutes of retirement by announcing that he has joined the cable news channel as a contributor on th…
If there was a Jewish equivalent to the roundtable of vaunted wits who gathered at the Algonquin Hotel in the early decades of the last century, it was probably the deli where Jack Rollins, …
EXCLUSIVE: Dan Halsted's company Manage-ment has hired former CAA theater agent Corinne Hayoun to run its New York based headquarters. Hayoun spent eight years at CAA repping stage talent, a…
Now here’s an out-of-town tryout: Hal Prince’s long-gestating retrospective musical Prince Of Broadway will begin performances on October 23 at Theatre Orb. That’s not t…
Here is Caliban, malformed and brutish slave to Shakespeare’s word-drunk wizard Prospero, assuring his newfound friends that the mysterious island on which they’ve been shipwreck…
A tryout journey that began last year at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre will continue east to Broadway with its next stop now set: The Steve Martin/Edie Brickell-penned musical Brigh…
Composer Dave Malloy and director Rachel Chavkin share an affinity for big themes and bold gestures, preferably on Russian themes. Their collaboration Natasha, Pierre And The Great Comet …
The conventional wisdom says that Broadway relies on the Tony Awards broadcast to boost national exposure and ticket sales (though I’ve long argued that the Macy’s Thanksgi…
The long and remarkable career of actress Elizabeth Wilson, who died on May 9, will be marked on June 29 at an event sponsored by one of her New York home bases, off-Broadway company Primary…
Cates, vice-chairman of the prominent nonprofit theater founded in 1995 by his father, has been named executive director after leading in an interim capacity since February. "On behalf of th…
As HarperCollins primps for the July 14 release of Harper Lee’s recently re-discovered sequel to To Kill A Mockingbird, Go Set A Watchman, we can expect a flurry of media activit…
EXCLUSIVE: Thanks to the success of its Tony-winning revival of The King And I — and the failure of The Visit — a hit London revival of A View From The Bridge will land on …
Returning to the New York stage this summer following successful runs of Colin Quinn Unconstitutional and the HBO-transferred Long Story Short, the slouchy satirist will bring his new sho…
The Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical will play its final performance on Sunday, June 21 at the Neil Simon Theatre. The show began previews on March 19 and opened April 8 to mostl…
He’s the man who came up with “HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR” on deadline at the New York Post, back in the days when there were deadlines and newspapers carried actual news…
East End denizen and talk-show host Baldwin, a key backer of the series, will chat with Dick Cavett and public radio’s Studio 360 ringleader Kurt Andersen after the July 11 opening …
Lord Lloyd Webber’s fall show, School of Rock — The Musical is doing some test marketing with “pre-previews” at New York’s Gramercy Theatre. Although the shows …
The once mild-mannered young Los Angeles prosecutor whose dogged investigation put mass-murderer Charles Manson and several members of his “family” behind bars, died Saturday of …
Well, Buffalo in the metaphoric sense. Week 2 of the 2015-2016 Broadway season included the 69th Annual Tony Awards (congrats to the winners, hankies to the losers) and saw the curtain fall …
It’s always so tempting to throw our hats into the Tony Awards races — no matter how thankless the task proves to be, year after year. Well, with odds-on favorite American Pharoa…
As surely as Monday follows Sunday, closing notices go up for struggling shows that leave the Tony Awards empty-handed. First to go dark in the wake of last night’s awards will be T…
EXCLUSIVE: There wasn’t a bad apple in the bunch. Every winner at Sunday night’s Tony Awards — the 69th time they’ve been handed out — was inarguably at the top…
Refresh for latest …. Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron won for best score for Fun Home (Tesori for music, Kron for lyrics). It’s the first time an all-woman team won for score. ̶…
It might seem somewhat counter-intuitive to open the Tony broadcast with a number from a show called Something Rotten! But this Best Musical nominee is a goofy, high-energy love letter to…
The 69th annual Tony Awards are being handed out tonight at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan, and here is the full list of winners so far. Be sure to check out Jeremy Gerard’s live b…