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 Marie Mullen has made only one stop on Broadway, but it won her the Tony for Best Actress in a Play. She played Maureen Folan, a 40-year-old plain Jane resigned to a life of terminal spi…
A wire hanger rattles against an air vent by the door ("a theater ghost we're trying to scare off," Pinkham jokes), vibrating with a tinny, percussiveness that makes it sound almost like Pin…
TV Ate My Wardrobe's Emma Fraser discusses trends in TV apparel. This week: Callbacks to the color blue on 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.'
What a marvelous idea it was to program the operetta Candide as the centerpiece of New York City Opera's current season. Leonard Bernstein's most inventive score for the theater, the partici…
It's nice to feel wanted. The Nitehawk Cinema certainly felt that way when, in 2011, New York literally changed the law to allow for its existence, overturning a Prohibition-era ban on drink…
During the past decade, Cate Blanchett from faraway Down Under has dazzlingly paraded some world-famed females before New York audiences"Hedda Gabler, one of The Maids, Blanche DuBois, Vanya…
James Jorden's review of the most recent Met production of 'Romeo and Juliet.'
David Oyelowo (pronounced "oh-yellow-oh") is a super-serious Shakespearean actor, Oxford-born to Nigerian parents of Yoruba ethnicity, raised a Baptist and schooled in the classics at LAMDA …
We skipped "Best of TV" lists and are taking things yearbook-style. Next: Biggest Heart, Most Musical and Cutest Couple That Never Was.
'The Secret Lives of Edward Gorey' Off Broadway is an intriguing lure into the unhinged world of an erratic queer potato.
After "amazing," "awesome" and "iconic""on the short list of the Most Overworked and Banishable Words in the English Language"is "immersive," but the Irish Rep's rich, jolly immersion into T…
In this particularly dreary year of second-rate everything, 'Fences' is something special.
Art world news for December 16.
It's Ben Platt who earns the affectionate audience responses, not the Evan Hansen created in the one-note, one-dimensional pop tunes.
When it comes to the overpraised, overrated and disappointingly mediocre 'La La Land', I'm out on a limb with a saw in my hand.
We're right around the corner from the Golden Globes: Hollywood's annual night of drunkenness and semi-offensive jokes that won't quite fly at the Oscars.
Newcomer crooner Betsy hails from a goose farm in Wales
Producing Broadway, says the music industry veteran, acknowledges is "overwhelming." But "I don't like it if it's not a challenge."
'A Bronx Tale' on Broadway, with take-home tunes, a first-rate cast and lively choreography, clicks like a new Rolex.
The first virtual realty movie theater chain is opening locations in France, Beijing, Shanghai and Los Angeles over the next few weeks.
'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' costume designer Melina Root uses cargo pants paired with croptops and arm bangles to create a girl anthem for 2016.
Her story also illustrates how the condition can affect civilians, according to a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania.
Harvey Fierstein discusses his musical Hairspray's journey from stage to small screen.
"Not another Tony Shalhoub musical, surely!"
The line cracks up Shalhoub, who tomorrow night tentatively sticks his big toe in the strange, shifting, uncertain sand of musical comedy when…
Annette Bening, one of the frontrunners for the 2016 Best Actress Oscar for her performance of an unconventional, hippie-out-of-her-time-zone mom in 20th Century Women, received a noncompeti…