355 stories by "Barbara Hoffman"
We've seen him in pearls and a prayer shawl " happily, not at the same time, but in "Hairspray" and "Fiddler on the Roof" " and his trademark growl has surfaced in everything from "Mulan" to…
Memories are one thing, theater's another. For two hours a night, Alice McAlary can relive the 20 or so years she spent with the hard-driving newsman who was the love of her life.
His name w…
She may be 4-foot-11, but Kristin Chenoweth casts a big shadow, on Broadway and off. Since blowing everyone else off the stage in 1999's "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" " and then origina…
Zosia Mamet arrived at the Bowery Hotel the other afternoon alone, on time and tattooed " proof, if anyone needed it, that she's no Shoshanna, the frilly little filly she plays on "Girls."
N…
Football has its bands of brothers: the Mannings, Barbers and Harbaughs. Broadway has a singular sister act: the Boggess girls.
For the 25th anniversary of "The Phantom of the Opera" on Bro…
It's been called summer stock for the A team: Find a fine but forgotten musical, recruit ace actors and musicians, and put on some shows!
City Center's Encores! has been doing just that sinc…
Buff, blond Billy Magnussen says he has the best job in town: "They're paying me to make out with Sigourney Weaver and pinch David Hyde Pierce's nipples!"
He does both in "Vanya and Sonia a…
Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" packs up its brushes next week. Happily, the Met's own barber " wig master Tom Watson " is staying put.
For the past 14 years, Watson's molded, made, tweake…
The Clive Barnes Foundation, which perpetuates the late, great Post critic's penchant for supporting young artists, recognized seven actors and dancers yesterday at its third annual awards c…
Katie Holmes has one for "Dead Accounts," Ricky Martin has two for "Evita," and even Sunny, the Sandy of "Annie," has one: an understudy or standby ready to take their places, since the show…
That fountain of hair is still there, though it's gone from dark to silver, and the nose has gotten larger with time. But there's no mistaking Henry Winkler, a.k.a. Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli…
Size matters. At least it does on city stages, home to a 600-pound man, a nose that dwarfs Jimmy Durante's and the biggest knockers outside of Las Vegas.
Unlike "The Elephant Man," in which …
Ed Asner doesn't mince words: "I'm waiting for an affair," he growls.
"Got any leads?"
"I'm asking you, you idiot!"
Why, Mr. Grant " you're hitting on me!
Sitting down to a meal with the man…
It's a job any woman " and many a man " would love to have: hugging Jake Gyllenhaal eight times a week.
And lucky Annie Funke's got the gig.
In "If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet," which op…
She's been nominated for a Tony (twice), an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a SAG award. And she's won . . . nothing.
But Amy Ryan insists she's fine with that.
"I think not winning …
This fall, you won't need a telescope to see the stars " they're scattered all over town.
We've got Jake Gyllenhaal making his NY stage debut, Amy Ryan and David Schwimmer as a couple of sub…
Rudnick's ripped-from-the-headlines new play, "Cabin Pressure," starting today as part of "Summer Shorts 2012" at 59E59 Theaters, concerns "a valiant flight attendant who battles terrorism o…
Before he was Agent Smith in the "Matrix" trilogy and Elrond in "The Lord of the Rings" saga " even before his timid, cross-dressing Tick in "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert…
Neither rain nor raccoons, bugs or helicopters have deterred our best actors from the Delacorte. Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, James Earl Jones, Christopher Walken, Denzel Washington " pretty m…
So you think you can dance " great! But do you have any idea how to audition?
About 1,500 bright-eyed Broadway wannabes rolled into town this week to find out. Ages 7 to 18, they'd come fro…
Dancers from Paris, opera singers from China, Chekhov from Down Under " and star turns by Cate Blanchett, Alan Cumming and Mikhail Baryshnikov.
This year's Lincoln Center Festival will deli…
He wore pasties in "Cabaret" and skintight leathers for "The Threepenny Opera." But you'll see even more of Alan Cumming on Thursday, when his bold new "Macbeth" opens the Lincoln Center Fes…
It began as the season of hunky men in T-shirts, with Ricky Martin and Blair Underwood leading a pack of six-packs. But when all was said and sung, Broadway's most powerful performances came…
Back when Marlon Brando brayed "Stel-llla!" in "A Streetcar Named Desire," chances are no one in the audience yelled, "I'm over here!" And when he " and a succession of other Stanleys " aske…
Momma Rose and Tevye . . . Marty McFly and Bluto?
Yes, "Back to the Future" and "Animal House" " the musicals " are in the making, bound for Broadway. In a season filled with "…
