355 stories by "Barbara Hoffman"
“We have the best babka in town!" cries Bebe Neuwirth, which seems odd on several counts: She calls sugar "the devil," she's probably a size zero " and her giggly...
How ironic to find a Kennedy doing Greek tragedy " what this clan's been through could make Sophocles weep. And yet, while the fabled American family's given us politicians, philanthropists.…
When you've been in show business for as long as Dan Lauria has, "home for the holidays" means many things: carving up a turkey with Fred Savage and Danica McKellar,...
They’re the closest thing we have to the Von Trapp family " three blue-eyed, singing siblings, now appearing on three New York stages. There's Jessie Mueller, who stars in Broadway's...
Christmas came early for Colin Critchley: At the ripe old age of 10, he's sharing a stage with his heroes " Gandalf, the wise wizard of "The Lord of the...
In a Broadway season long on luscious leading men " Orlando Bloom, Daniel Craig, Zachary Quinto, Ethan Hawke " Brian J. Smith's a standout. His fans knew that long before...
Don’t whistle in the wings, steer clear of peacock feathers " and never, ever say "Macbeth." The theater is rife with superstitions, some of which actually spring from common sense:...
She starred in "Kitten with a Whip" " but these days, actress Ann-Margret's the woman with the daredevil pussycat.
"Hold on a moment, please," she tells The Post. "My cat Harley knows how to…
One of off-Broadway's best special effects is on Tracee Chimo's head: the wild mass of hair she brushes and tosses in "Bad Jews."
Not that Chimo is Jewish " for the record, she's Albanian/It…
“I was the loudest baby in the nursery," says Mary Bridget Davies. "My parents have pictures and, literally, the whole photo is a mouth!"
Who better to star in "A Night with Janis Jopl…
Everything old is new again " at least it is this fall, when Broadway's hottest tickets are plays by Pinter, Williams, Beckett and the Bard.
Just look who's performing in them: Daniel Craig,…
There are many ways to get to Broadway. For Amber Iman, who's making her debut tonight in "Soul Doctor," it took a kick in the butt from her boyfriend back in Atlanta.
"He said, 'If you don'…
Long before "Saturday Night Live" and "The Colbert Report" found them, Seth Meyers and Peter Grosz were cracking each other up at Northwestern University, where they pledged the same fratern…
Those who loved the sweetly nerdy lead of TV's "Chuck" will be happy to find its star, Zachary Levi, on Broadway, doing what he does best: singing, dancing . . . cringing.
In "First Date," o…
At Broadway Bares, last month's parade of the most ripped bods on the Great White Way, the audience was asked to hold its applause until every sponsor's name was read aloud. Silent they stay…
Why sing in the shower when you can do it in a concert hall?
That's one of the draws of Summer Sing. Now in its 53rd year, it's the ultimate one-night stand: no auditions, no rehearsal, no …
This whole thing is fake," Michael Urie declares in the opening minutes of "Buyer & Cellar" at the Barrow Street Theatre.
"I don't exist. What does exist . . . is
this book."
And with that…
Where do old costumes go when their shows die? If we're lucky, to TDF's Costume Collection, where they'll surface again in regional productions, high schools, Vogue magazine spreads and the …
He's always made us laugh " now he's making us cry. Or, at the very least, squirm. Nathan Lane, the bigger-than-life star of "The Producers," "Guys and Dolls," "The Odd Couple," "The Addams …
Not since Harvey Fierstein's Tony-winning turn in "Hairspray" have Broadway's leading men gotten so much mileage from a dress.
This time around, it's Bertie Carvel and Billy Porter, whose cr…
That blond hair and pearls, those pumps and poise. When the curtain rises on "Far From Heaven," it's hard not to think, OMG, it's Betty Draper!
But the setting is 1957 Connecticut, and the w…
How many times " and how many ways " can they tell you to turn off your cellphone?
As it turns out, plenty, often to no avail. Since the onslaught of mobile devices " and Laurence Fishburne'…
Some girls dream of playing brave, beautiful, young heroines.
Jane Lynch wasn't one of them. She'd rather play the shrew.
"I used to have a list of things I wanted to do and Miss Hannigan wa…
He's probably Broadway's best-kept secret. At least, you won't find his name in Playbill. But when Porridge takes the stage in the new, Tony-nominated revival of "Pippin," the audience burst…
Even before the show begins, she's onstage, sitting still as a statue in a see-through box. Invited to come up and see her, theatergoers gawk and sometimes kneel in front of her before they'…
