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Welcome to Trailer Trash, highlighting the best, worst and so-so in new movie trailers. We showed you the cryptic first trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's simultaneously intriguing and…
1. Whoa: Mike Tyson is doing a one-man show on Broadway. Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth for run for a limited six-night run, July 31 through August 5 at the Longacre Theatre. Spike Lee w…
If you didn't overdose on Broadway stars after this past Sunday's Tony Awards, and the season finale of Smash, then you're in luck. HBO is continuing its habit of plucking Broadway actresses…
On Friday I shared my favorite Tony Awards moments of the past. Now after Andrew Andrew provided a play-by-play of last night's red carpet arrivals and telecast on @papermagazine, I wanted t…
Check out a stunning Cindy Crawford on the cover of Spain's S Moda, clad in Alexander Wang. [via Fashion Gone Rogue]H&M's latest collaboration will be with Maison Martin Margiela. …
The Tony-Awards is upon us, with the promise of "more performances than ever" at this Sunday's ceremony on CBS (hosted by the pride of Broadway: Neil Patrick Harris). We hear The Book of Mor…
It's a sad week backstage at the The Book of Mormon on Broadway. The two leading Elders are leaving the clan and going on a mission to Hollywood. Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells, who play Elder…
Like many people who were lucky to know the late, great performance artist, playwright and downtown theater pioneer Tom Murrin, we were heartbroken when he passed away in March. Tom was a lo…
Cock, the award winning play by British playwright Mike Bartlett now playing at The Duke on 42nd Street, takes a fresh look at the old "boy meets girl" story. In this 90-minute intermission-…
Welcome to Trailer Trash, highlighting the best, worst and so-so in new movie trailers. We can almost feel the collective cringe coming from the millions of fans of the Broadway musical vers…
One wonders how such a bizarre show made it so far uptown. Will Eno's Title and Deed, now playing at the brand new Pershing Square Signature Center, is what you might get if Eugène Ionesco …
Here's some fun morning news: Loretta Lynn has asked Zooey Deschanel to play her in the Broadway version of Coal Miner's Daughter and everyone's favorite adorkable indie girl (sorry -- had t…
Broadway was a-buzz this morning as the 2012 Tony Award nominations were announced. The new musical Once, (pictured here) topped the nominations list with a total of 11. Here are our thought…
Broadway Sings Adele at (le) Poisson RougeSo you haven't had the spine-tingling other-worldly experience of seeing the world's most talented singer Adele live? Sad clown. Second best? Watchi…
Star Wars, Robot Wars, Storage Wars, Parking Wars, Border Wars, Whale Wars. Does the world need another "Wars?" Of course! Bowery Wars, Part 2 is a new rock musical that opens th…
April has been a huge month for Broadway, as many shows are making sure to open by the 26th in order be eligible for a 2012 Tony Award. This past week alone we saw three shows open on Broadw…
If you thought dads were the original hipsters, well, you thought wrong. It was Barbra Streisand, whose 70th birthday is today. From floppy knit hats to oversized fur to cat eyes to pi…
For reasons unknown, R&B superstar and mentor to the Biebs, Usher, will be joining the cast of the Argentine-multi-sensory-anti-theater production, Fuerza Bruta, for two performances on …
New York's Public Theater plans to stage the David Byrne and Fatboy Slim (nee Norman Cook) musical "Here Lies Love" next year. It will be directed by Alex Timbers ("Bloody Bloody Andrew Jack…
Early adopters take note: the Athens, Alabama-based quartet will be bringing their rollicking blues-rock to New York tonight on the heels of the release of their debut album, Boys & Girls, w…
Alabama Shakes perform at Bowery BallroomEarly adopters take note: the Athens, Alabama-based quartet will be bringing their rollicking blues-rock to New York tonight on the heels of the rele…
Bayside! The UnMusical!, an unauthorized parody of beloved nineties Saturday morning mainstay, Saved By the Bell, returns to the East Village's Kraine Theatre from May 9th-19th. From w…
We
went into the new production of Evita only familiar with the
Madonna version. After what happened
the last time we reviewed an Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical
(Jesus Christ S…
In preparation to review Newsies, the new Disney Broadway musical now playing at The Nederlander Theater, we watched the 1992 movie that it's based on. Rather we should say we tried to watch…
The original Broadway musical version of Stephen King's 1974 novel Carrie was the most expensive flop of its time. The show premiered in 1988, starring Betty Buckley as Carrie's God-fearing …