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One of five showcases in New York devoted to "new and experimental works" produced by the Roundabout Theatre Company in its "underground" program, the tiny Black Box Theatre, Sixth Avenue an…
Roundabout's Laura Pels Theater, former home of The Humans and Bad Jews, is now housing a potent blend of both in Steven Levenson's play, If I Forget, bowing February 22.
The video, made by CineFix, retells the story of the Oscar favorite using classic 8-bit effects.
Terrence McNally recently stumbled into the perfect compliment for Santino Fontana. "I don't think of you as a singer," he told him. "Are you singing a lot now?"
After her Grammys performance it's clear Lady Gaga has the chops to take on metal.
It's fascinating how so few in this country have any capacity for satire, and it's a little bit troubling, too.
The demented Norma remains pretty much the sole ownership of Glenn Close. People just can't get enough of her, or 'Sunset Boulevard.'
Potts, who also appeared in 'The Book of Mormon,' decided to become an actor after seeing Wilson's Fences.
"We knew we were making a different kind of a film...It was unlike any set I've ever been on. We knew we were taking a big leap of faith."
"Glenn," Lloyd Webber still insists, "is the best Norma Desmond that I've ever seen."
Could I have made a difference in the presidential election? Some people think I'm one of the few people who actually could have.
Isherwood specialized in spotlighting Off Broadway hits like In the Heights and Spring Awakening before they came to Broadway.
Season two of 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' was heralded in with a new theme song: a Follies-style Old-Hollywood throwback with Rebecca Bunch in a 1920's hairstyle and a short flouncy dress adorned …
The Lure, a Polish horror musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, wherein twin mermaids come ashore, join a New Wave band, fall in love, and occasionally tear out…
Trump family's security is more than NEA budget, Beyonce's photo taken by this Bronx-born artist, and more art world news.
Lucas Hedges, Oscar-nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Manchester by the Sea, makes his New York stage debut a must-see experience.
"I notice this eagerness to attach the word provocateur to me," says Jacob-Jenkins. "My feeling is: you can really only provoke once. After that, you're attracting people who want to be prov…
Not only is the pop star performing the halftime show, but she's also new face of Tiffany & Co.'s latest ad campaign, premiering during the game
The Santa Ana Winds Guy is all four members of the Four Seasons combined with all four actors playing the Four Season in Jersey Boys and multiplied by ten.
Ann Hamilton's latest work centers on a series of photographs taken through a substance called Duraflex.
One doesn't, of course, set out to become a character actor. That's just something that happens over the long haul of an evolving career"through age or theatrical seasoning or maybe even a s…
'La La Land' nabs a historic 14 Oscar nominations, while Scorsese's 'Silence' and Amy Adams' 'Arrival' performance go unnoticed.
The first attempts at playwriting of two of the greats are currently nestled together in neighboring theaters on West 47th Street: At the Barrymore at present is The Present, the latest latt…
I do not know how they turned on the projector, nor do I know how they flew all over the planetarium. That was pretty amazing, tbh.
'The Present' is a relentless three-hour pile of noisy, pointless and pretentious junk starring Cate Blanchett.