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Busy 42nd Street Studios is where shows must go on
Fidel Castro walks into a Harlem bodega. A manic depressive lawyer checks into Bellevue. Frida Kahlo teaches a painting class.
If there's anything tying together the work in the fourth annual Songs From Coconut Hill Latino Playwrights Festival, it's definitely not the subject matter.
Kelly Osbourne got caught in a fib.
She claimed - on MTV no less - that she's about to make her Broadway debut in "Hairspray" as Tracy Turnblad.
Third item.
Thanks to PhilG on All That Chat for the link!
The legend voices robot, films new 'Producers' & preps 'Frankenstein' for B'way. Enough already!
Fresh off "The Exonerated," Bob Balaban opened this week as a prosecutor in David Mamet's "Romance."
It started last night with "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" and is expected to continue next month with "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
No, MGM isn't dusting off its hallowed 4,000-film library, but instead is creating what it hopes will be new hit Broadway musicals from its most popular vintage films.
There's nothing dramatic about the way it develops. There's never a moment when you sense there's something going on beneath the seductive surface. It's all on a single level.
A lot of the humor is politically incorrect, which might be effective if it were funny, which it seldom is.
When the critics reviewed writer Tyler Perry's new film, "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" on Friday, I think it's fair to say most of them weren't giving mad love.
If laughter is a form of salvation, my soul is clean.
Sitting bleary-eyed on the darkened stage of INTAR Theatre, Carmen Rivera and five other playwrights scattered around the building have barely five hours left to complete one-act plays.
Norbert Leo Butz isn't one of those actors who does reams of research or constructs detailed histories to create a character.
Scoring tickets to the much-ballyhooed "Monty Python's Spamalot" is hard.
Getting your hands on killer rabbit slippers at the Sam S. Schubert Theatre's merchandise stations is impossible.
"Diary of a Mad Black Woman," savaged by critics and playing in about half as many theaters as most new films, earned $22.7 million. It edged Will Smith's "Hitch" to become the weekend's top…
You still have five nights to get up to Le Jazz Au Bar and catch one of the most exhilarating events to come through New York this month: Ruth Brown, sitting down for an hour or so, just sin…
I haven't seen any of Perry's previous work, but "Diary" is an absolute mess with no coherent tone, story or point of view.
The play seems as flat and bland as Neil Patel's sets.
The Tony-nominated star of "Caroline, or Change" is shifting careers again.
Versatile actor Tom Selleck takes on the lead of Jesse Stone in the CBS film "Stone Cold" (tomorrow, 9 p.m.), adapted from Robert B. Parker's novel of the same name.
With Viola Davis, Jane Adams, and Reg Rogers.
A nonactor finds his inner Cyrano in director Al Corley's unlikely and lifeless valentine to community theater and the theater community.
Among the many virtues of "Beyond the Rainbow," the Performing Arts Library's centennial tribute to Harold Arlen, are two kiosks in which visitors can put on earphones and hear historic reco…
