355 stories by "Barbara Hoffman"
There are two kinds of people: those who want to leave a classic movie alone " Harper Lee and the 1962 film of her "To Kill a Mockingbird" spring to mind " and those who want to turn it into…
Life, as Adam Pascal knows it, can be neatly divided into two: before "Rent" and after. As Roger Davis, the HIV-positive rock guitarist and romantic, Pascal was part of the original cast of …
Let Britain have its Hamlets and Lears. Here, there's no role more iconic than Willy Loman, the doomed American dreamer
of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman."
Philip Seymour Hoffman head…
Gone are the oinking pigs, leather-clad jocks and aerobic prom dancers. "Carrie," the 1988 fiasco dismissed as the world's first menstruation musical, has gotten a reboot.
Opening off-Broadw…
Space isn't the final frontier " not while there's Broadway. A half-century after his stage debut, in 1959's "The World of Suzie Wong," William Shatner is back on the boards. The former Capt…
The No. 1 dish at Joe Allen is the sauteed calf's liver " yes, liver! " but no one goes to Joe Allen for the food. The eatery on West 46th Street's Restaurant Row is less a hash house than i…
OH, swami " gaze into your crystal ball and tell us: Whither Broadway?
Shall London simply teleport its productions, stages and all? Can we expect wrapper-free candy? Silent cellphones? And …
The Christmas trees are hitting the curb, the temperature's plummeting " and so are our spirits. Happily, there are some hot tickets on the horizon! Here's what I and The Post's other theate…
Jerry O'Connell would like you to know that he is nothing " at all! " like the pretentious preppy he plays in Broadway's "Seminar," the Theresa Rebeck comedy now at the Golden Theatre. "We a…
And you thought he was an only child who grew up under a roller coaster. Alas, "Annie Hall"-ics, it's not true. Tumultuous as his life has been, the former Allen Konigsberg, a k a Woody Alle…
Last fall, Broadway gave us funny guys " Chris Rock, Robin Williams, Ben Stiller " in serious plays.
This season, it's just bringing the funny.
Comedies, old and new, rule the boards. Grante…
When we last saw Sloan, she was driving away after a bout of breakup sex, bidding her ex-fiancé, E, a tearful goodbye before leaving LA for New York City.
And here she is! Well, not precise…
Phantoms have been coming and going for 23 years, but one thing never changes: Usher Sylvia Bailey has been seating people at "The Phantom of the Opera" since Day One.
Together, they've run 86 years, netted 22 Tonys " and their box-office grosses could put a dent in the national debt.
We speak of "The Lion King," "Mamma Mia!," "Wicked," "Chicago," "The Pha…
Death has never seemed so delicious. In the Roundabout's new musical, "Death Takes a Holiday," the Grim Reaper takes human form " and he's to die for. Eager to taste life, he shows up at a f…
If it hadn't been for YouTube, sand painter Erika Chen might never have left her job with Deutsche Bank to run away with the circus.
And for that, the 27-year-old is grateful.
"I've al…
Three decades have come between Brooke Shields and her Calvins " and no one's more aware of that than she is.
"I bought beer for the crew after rehearsal last night, and everyone's like, 'I …
Speak no more. And, while we're at it, please don't steal the props, grope the performers or canoodle in dark corners.
So asks the cast of "Sleep No More," the sleeper hit of the season. …
The crooked grin, the crinkly eyes: For three decades and in 40-odd films, Ellen Barkin's helped redefine beauty.
So it's unsettling to meet her and find a waif in Woody Allen-ish glasses, a…
They come to Broadway's "Born Yesterday" for its TV royalty: Jim Belushi ("According to Jim"), Robert Sean Leonard ("House"). They leave buzzing about a ditzy blonde named Billie Dawn. Billi…
You'd think at this point, Frank Abagnale Jr. would tire of seeing his life flash before his eyes.
But no: One Leonardo DiCaprio film and a Broadway musical later, the Liberace of fraud f…
OR a show that's a hit parade in itself " "You're the Top," "I Get a Kick Out of You," "It's De-Lovely" and the title song " "Anything Goes" nearly didn't.
Set aboard a London-bound oceanlin…
The face (and body) that graced 500 magazine covers is about to sing and dance: Christie Brinkley steps into "Chicago" Friday as Roxie, the killer floozy.
To which we ask, Why? And why now, …
Sunday's opening of "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" kicked off a Broadway season bursting with musicals " an eclectic lineup of Mormons, nuns, drag queens . . . and Frank Abagnale Jr.
Remem…
Five-hundred cos tumes, 200 hats, 150 pairs of shoes, 72 wigs . . . Broadway's "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" doesn't travel light.
Everything about this disco-driven, drag-queen odysse…
