355 stories by "BARBARA HOFFMAN"
"I don't dance!" Corbin Bleu sang in "High School Musical 2," even as he hoofed it up. A dozen years later, Bleu's still dancing " this time in Broadway's "Kiss Me, Kate," where he hangs ups…
Chico the Chihuahua, the perky, 7-pound star of Broadway's 2007 "Legally Blonde " The Musical," said his final bowwow on Monday. As Bruiser, Chico spent more than a decade in touring and reg…
At last: a play that lets the actors have their cake and eat it, too. Off-Broadway's "The Cake" is set in a North Carolina pastry shop where the baker balks at baking for a lesbian wedding. …
Rosemary Harris played Peter Parker's Aunt May and now she's Henry Higgins' mother " eight times a week " in Broadway's "My Fair Lady." Harris is 91. Even she can't believe it. "The years go…
Andrea Martin, who safely flew through the air in Broadway's "Pippin" revival six years ago, broke four ribs rehearsing her new Broadway show. That said, Nathan Lane will have a new co-star …
Obviously, it wasn't enough to take Westminster's "Best in Show" award: This top dog walked off with a Broadway show the next day. On Wednesday night, fewer than 24 hours after being crowned…
LaTanya Richardson Jackson makes Calpurnia a force to be reckoned with in Aaron Sorkin's adaptation of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird."
Some 20 years ago, when he was a New Kid on the Block living in Tribeca, Joey McIntyre considered Riverside Drive "no man's land." But last summer, after 15 years in Los Angeles, the 46-year…
"West Side Story" director Steven Spielberg finally found his Maria " on the very far west side of Manhattan. Make that New Jersey. Rachel Zegler, a 17-year-old high-school student from Clif…
Yep Carole came " and conquered. It was a "Beautiful" Broadway moment: Who better to perform the title song of her life story than Carole King herself? That's what happened Saturday night at…
After their widowed father died in 1995, jazz pianist Ted Rosenthal and his sister packed up the family home in Great Neck, LI. They didn't know what that box of letters, all written in Germ…
"I graduated from Georgetown in 2000 and started off sleeping on my sister Gina's couch in Carroll Gardens," says comedian Mike Birbiglia. "And 18 years later, I live in Carroll Gardens agai…
For nearly a decade, Rachel Dratch has read aloud from the musings of Madonna, Ethel Merman and Burt Reynolds' secretary. Lately, the "SNL" alum and others have shared all that and more at t…
One of this season's funniest musicals got its start from . . . Mario Kart. So say David Rossmer and Steve Rosen, the writers and stars of off-Broadway's "The Other Josh Cohen.…
Christmas in the city: Rockefeller Center's tree, Radio City's Rockettes, New York City Ballet's "Nutcracker." But let's say you've already been there, seen that: Are you acting the Scrooge …
"When I first came here, the city was wonderful and scary at the same time," recalls Robert Battle, artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. The Florida native was 17 and…
She's gone from a "Little House on the Prairie" to a pied-Ã -terre in the city, and Melissa Gilbert couldn't be happier. "Everything's here " grocery shopping, the park, amazing restaurant…
Forget the falling chandelier of "Phantom" or the 20-foot-tall ape puppet of "King Kong." The single greatest special effect on Broadway these days is the real live baby in "The Ferryman." A…
He can't dance, can't sing or even talk, yet he's the biggest musical star of the season. Meet King Kong, the 2,000-pound gorilla of Broadway. The Great White Way has never seen anything qui…
"As a singer," says Al Roker, "I'm a great weatherman." That hasn't stopped the 64-year-old "Today" show veteran from performing in the Broadway musical "Waitress," through Nov. 18, as diner…
"I grew up with my legendary parents in the Chelsea brownstone that had 'Torn Page' as the nameplate on our buzzer," says Angelica Page. These days, the 54-year-old actress daughter of Rip T…
Before he became Saul on TV's "Homeland" " even before his Inigo Montoya pledged vengeance in "The Princess Bride" " Mandy Patinkin was a creature of the theater. With a tenor voice that tee…
Audra McDonald didn't get to Carnegie Hall until she was at Juilliard, when she saw Ella Fitzgerald sing there. "A friend of mine calls it an upside-down wedding cake," she recalls of that f…
Never mind that Sarah Bernhardt " the towering actress of her day " was scarcely more than 5 feet tall. Janet McTeer stands nearly 6-feet-1, but that hasn't stopped her from playing Bernhard…
He was the go-getter police detective of Spike Lee's "BlacKkKlansman." Now John David Washington, 34, is back in blue as the conflicted cop of "Monsters and Men." Out Friday, the Sundance Aw…
