"I'm so nervous, but I'm at the same time so excited," said R. Kelly, in a black tuxedo jacket and sunglasses, holding an unlit cigar in his red-leather-gloved hand. Before a theater of jour…
The Heiress: The Heiress, now playing at The Walter Kerr Theatre, has an all-star cast plucked from super-successful period pieces from the screen, both big and small (Downton Abbey, The He…
Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf? at Booth Theatre Albee Damned! They changed Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?! How could they and, more importantly, is it better or worse for the edit? Find out…
Clémence Poésy is nervous. The 30-year-old actress, who hasn't done live theater in eight years, makes her Broadway debut this fall in Cyrano de Bergerac -- and the production isn't in …
Clémence Poésy is nervous. The 30-year-old actress, who hasn't done live theater in eight years, makes her Broadway debut this fall in Cyrano de Bergerac -- and the production isn't in her…
"Back To Brooklyn." That's what Barbra Streisand is calling her current US tour and she's entitled. Unlike the hundreds of singers and musicians that just arrived in Williamsbug -- no offe…
Paris Commune, now playing at BAM's brand new anything-but-"Black-Box"-theatre BAM Fisher, is like a child's book report. That is, a child's book report about the first successful socialist …
Alabama Shakes start our week with this new video for "I Ain't the Same," from their Boys & Girls album and then they wind it up with a show at Terminal 5 on Thursday, October 4…
How do you market a five-act play about spas tainted by run-off from a tannery written by a 19th century Norwegian as a rebuttal to the poor public reception of his previous play about syphi…
With Annie coming back to Broadway next week and Jay-Z launching Barclays Center tonight, what could be more appropriate for our oldie-but-goodie music video than "Hard Knock Life"? The s…
Granted, there are a lot of TV stars on stage in Lisa D'Amour's new play Detroit, now playing at Playwright Horizons, but does the celebrity power of Amy Ryan (The Office, The Wire), David …
Einstein On The Beach, currently at Brooklyn Academy of Music, is one of the most-referenced but least-often-seen spectacles of American avant garde theater. With the combined forces of comp…
Following the death of Phyllis Diller at the age of 95 yesterday, Paper's Kim Hastreiter and Mickey Boardman, who were friendly with Diller, share a few anecdotes and stories about the comed…
PAPER was saddened to hear about the death of comedy legend Phyllis Diller today. She was 95. In addition to her long and influential career, Diller was fabulously saucy, unapologetic and ha…
Ok, we admit it. It was a tremendous relief entering the St. James Theatre on a scorching-hot New-York-City-in-August afternoon in to be greeted by a blast of air conditioning and ice-cold a…
For children of the '70s and '80s, TV was our memorable introduction to bar culture, illuminating fictional watering holes like Sam Malone's Cheers and of course the Regal Beagle, essentiall…
A new gallery-cum-performance space will open its doors in Williamsburg this September 1st but unlike most of the galleries in the nabe, this one will also function as the home of artist-duo…
After splitting from husband Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes did what any celebrity fresh off the heels of a long relationship would do: got a sweet divorce settlement, moved to the other side of t…
While browsing Playbill.com the other day, I noticed that Jennifer Holliday, the original Effie in the 1981 Broadway production of Dreamgirls, is reprising her Tony Award-winning role at The…
FELA! is back on Broadway for a limited run at The Al Hirschfeld Theatre and this time it's... shorter? Better? More Relevant? More Tony-winnable? More deserving of that '!'? Watch the full …
When we wrote about Cheynne Jackson in our Summer Music Issue, we didn't realize that his songs would be quite this infectious, with a heaping dose of good ol' fashioned nostalgia thro…
1. NBC will team up with the producers of Smash on a live broadcast of The Sound of Music. Producer Craig Zadan said, "It isn't our intention to produce a remake of the movie version of 'The…
In honor of Katie Holmes, who filed for divorce from Tom Cruise today, we thought it was only appropriate that we share with you this clip of Holmes circa 1998 as Joey Potter singing "On My …
The Spice Girls are the '90s nostalgia gift that keeps on giving. A reunion tour, various reality TV show stints (R.I.P. Victoria Beckham: Coming to America), and now, Viva Forever…
1. Patrick Wilson will play Lena Dunham's love interest in the next season of Girls! [via Vulture] 2. Louis CK answered some questions on Twitter today. [via Pop Culture Brain]3. A Dairy Que…