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NBC's live version of The Wiz managed to do what The Sound of Music and Peter Pan certainly did not: It was fantastic. Where the others felt unintentionally campy and ridiculous, or downrigh…
The opening number of Gigantic, a new musical set at a summer camp for hefty teens, is actually called "The Weight Is Over." That's about the high tide of wit in this chore of a show, which …
For the first time in nearly two decades, singer, actress, filmmaker impressive star Barbra Streisand will return to directing, according to the trades. The three-time feature helmer will re…
Al Pacino is not an actor of much breadth but he stakes a narrow territory deeply, and that can be brilliant to watch onstage. China Doll, his shaky new Broadway vehicle, by David Mamet, off…
When the star-studded cast for Disney's upcoming Beauty and the Beast was announced, it included some expected song-and-dance men (see: Ewan MacGregor) and also Ian McKellen, …
There is no such thing as a wholly true play. The nature of the theater distorts reality, finding all sorts of holes in the historical record and inexorably filling them in. (Actors have to …
"For the first quarter of an hour, I was thinking, Here I am, this boy from Belgium, sitting opposite David Bowie," director Ivo van Hove recalls of his initial meeting with the ro…
On Monday night's Tonight Show, J.J. Abrams revealed the total accident that led to him picking up Lin-Manuel Miranda to write the new Star Wars cantina song.This morning, the internet found…
How does a Nuyorican Genius who sells out arenas with his keenness end up writing music for intergalactic cantinas? J.J. Abrams told the story on Tonight: The director was seeing Hamilton wi…
Just before the final preview of New York Animals last night, Eric Tucker, the show's director, warned the audience that the "glamorous and exacting" play about to begin was still being rewr…
When Carey Mulligan first heard of the movie Suffragette, she dismissed it. Speaking with Deadline, she said, "I naively had this idea it was tea-drinking ladies chatting, but by page th…
After retiring from playing Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe is really excited to watch the next schmuck who signs up to take on the iconic role in J.K. Rowling's planned sort-of-not-really se…
"Satire is what closes on Saturday night," said George S. Kaufman, but that was 90 years ago. Today most satire closes " that is, shuts down internally " before it ever hits the stage. Have …
Just when you thought 2015 had already met its long-lost literature quota, along comes a new William Faulkner play. The New York Times reports that a never-before-published Faulkner play has…
Can you hear the helicopters in the distance? Miss Saigon, the 1989 musical from Les Misérables creators Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, is headed back to Broadway …
How many Steves does it take to screw up a marriage? Steven and Stephen are a long-term couple with an 8-year-old son and intimacy issues. Steven's old friend Matt, and Matt's partner, Brian…
One of the many pleasures of the current MoMA PS1 "Greater New York" show is its sense of uncovering artifacts, of showing various sedimentary layers of this city. Not that everything in the…
Early in HBO's The Latin Explosion documentary, which premiered earlier this week, there's a vintage clip of Desi Arnaz onstage during Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town, recalling his humble b…
In early December 1948, Patricia Highsmith took a Christmas-season temp job as a shopgirl in the children's toy department at Bloomingdale's. Highsmith, a 27-year-old native of Fort Wor…
Last night, high atop the great black glass Hearst Tower, Sting played a short acoustic set of songs from The Last Ship, his grand industrial lament of a musical, which, despite its beautifu…
If the saying "It's not what you know, it's who you know" is true, then there are a slew of New Yorkers right now banking on the fact that they "knew" Andrew Rannells way back in middle scho…
Taking a break from filming the Looking movie, which will wrap up the canceled HBO series, Jonathan Groff spoke about his career at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco and divulged a few sec…
At 74, choreographer Twyla Tharp is overdue for a breather. Over a 50-year career, she's continually evolved, making dances that blend the rigor and technique of ballet, the loose insoucianc…
After releasing a trailer for the three-hour spectacular that is The Wiz Live!, NBC has released a few promo shots of its stars. Let us pore over them in preparation for the event.Uzo A…
On Monday, Daniel Radcliffe appeared on Marc Maron's "WTF" podcast to talk about the magical curse that continues to haunt his life: the unbreakable hex Aspecto Lignum, which makes e…
