Presumably, after being stunned by that high-school performance of Merrily in Lady Bird, the legendary Elaine May has decided to come back to Broadway to do a play with Lucas Hedges. Well, t…
Patti LuPone, never one to hold back about anything (and especially her thoughts on movie stars), has arrived at a new opinion. Speaking at an event for Marianne Elliott's upcoming gender-fl…
Performers of the kind whose names run above the title on Broadway musicals often have a signature " an idiosyncrasy, some way of essentially playing themselves. Jessie Mueller's performance…
Billy Bigelow says he does not beat his wife. "I wouldn't beat a little thing like that " I hit her," he explains to the Starkeeper, head man in heaven's waiting room. But I've gotten ahead …
I really wanted to like Miss You Like Hell. Maybe that's a risky thing to admit, since it acknowledges that we"critics, humans"don't show up to plays in pristine states of impartiality. Then…
Have you ever met anyone who hasn't seen Grease, the movie? I've been aware of the movie for more than three of the four decades since it was first released in theaters (and only because the…
It's a lonely experience to sit in a theater feeling out of sync with the responses around you. Contrary to the popular mythology about critics, it's not fun to dislike things. It can leave …
Will Hailey pursue her conducting career? What will happen to Malcolm McDowell and Bernadette Peters, er, Thomas and Gloria? WHEN WILL JOSH BELL CAMEO NEXT? Unless another company steps in a…
It's been long enough for even that ol' United Kingdom to agree: there's a little something for everyone in the Revolutionary War. At least, that seems to be the take away from Sunday night'…
Less than two minutes into the smart, splashy new musical of Tina Fey's 2004 teen comedy Mean Girls, my friend leaned over and whispered delightedly, "This is the most postmodern thing I've …
Nothing left to sing about this time " it's over now. The word is out. It hit the polls, claimed a place among the rest of today's new things and last night's shows, the have you heards and …
Sometimes, good things do still happen. As Deadline reports, we won't have to live in a world with an In the Heights movie made by the Weinstein Company. The former production company of Har…
Liza with a Z is doing a "purge with a capital P" of her belongings, The New York Times reports. Star of stage and screen Liza Minnelli will be selling more than 1,900 items ranging from ico…
Moulin Rouge! The Musical, the stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's movie musical about love, tuberculosis, and exclamation points has cast its very dreamy stars. Karen Olivo (West Side Story,…
For decades, filmmakers have turned to Al Pacino when they've wanted a galvanic leading man " a declaimer, a pop-top. But as the title character in the HBO movie Paterno, the actor barely sp…
Chloë Sevigny is all over the place, and yet she feels like she's nowhere. We meet on a cold March morning at boutique studio A24's offices in midtown Manhattan to discuss her role in t…
Emily Yoshida: "If I'm playing cultural-appropriation cop (a terrible job, please don't make me do it), I'd file it under benign. Maybe too benign! The exception is the film's use of Japanes…
NBC's live production of Jesus Christ Superstar was pitched to audiences as a "Live in Concert" version, which led some to expect a straightforward performance of the son…
If Al Pacino had announced in, say, 1980 that he was retiring " deciding that the strenuous demands of Method acting had become too much for him " he'd have already done enough incredible wo…
Outside In is a love story featuring a great variety of loves. It's the story of an ex-con (Jay Duplass) who returns to his small Washington hometown after 20 years in prison, bringing back …
This is a fun interview with a true New York actor: "What's been the biggest surprise? "Becoming a successful actress. Never in my wildest dreams. I waitressed for a gazillion years and then…
To celebrate the resurrection of Christ, NBC continued its annual TV musical tradition with Jesus Christ Superstar: Live in Concert, a spirited staging that involved lots of guitar shreds, g…
Well, this certainly gives new meaning to The Room where it happens. (Do whatever it takes to get his adaptation on the Richard Rogers Theater floor, hey!) For a few glorious minutes before …
Editor's note: New York's regular theater critic, Sara Holdren, is on a brief medical leave. She'll be back shortly.Even before those ubiquitous ads in your Facebook feed ruined the phrase "…
Someone in some theater development office must have sung "Beetlejuice" three times, and lo, a Beetlejuice musical appeared. Warner Bros.'s theater department announced today that the Beetle…