355 stories by "Barbara Hoffman"
It was nominated for 53 awards and won 40, including eight Oscars, one for Best Picture. So it's high time "Amadeus" " the 1984 (fictionalized) bio of Mozart and the man who may have murdere…
Those smoldering eyes, haunting voice and chameleonlike ability to change from hero to villain and back again have kept Jeremy Irons working steadily since 1969. Now, an Academy Award, a Ton…
Moviegoers of a certain age may remember the '70s as the Glenda Jackson era when it seemed she starred in every British film that came out. Among the most memorable: "The Music Lovers," in w…
In case you lost count, those were 15 pushups Bernadette Peters pumped out the other week on "The View." And she did them in heels! Exercise is just one way the 70-year-old trouper prepares …
If Disney's taught us anything, it's that parents die " and often in the most undelightful ways. Hunters, stampedes, shipwrecks and barricudas have orphaned many a beauty and quite a few bea…
Long before Lindsay Lohan burst onto the screen, Disney's biggest child star had moviegoers seeing double. The film was 1961's "The Parent Trap," in which 15-year-old Hayley Mills played twi…
Cheaper than a week at Club Med and just as mentally stimulating, "Escape to Margaritaville" opened Thursday on Broadway to a sea of Jimmy Buffett fans and a few souls who never guessed chee…
The leads of Broadway's "Frozen" would prefer not to use the "P" word. " 'Princess' is such a weighted word," says Patti Murin. "People automatically think 'pretty,' 'not necessarily intelli…
It’s so hard not to call her Carla. But Rhea Perlman doesn't mind. "Why should I?" she says. "Why would I want to shake that amazing lady I played for 11 years?" Well, "Cheers" to that…
"Marilyn Monroe used to come in at lunchtime and get a Beefeater martini," says Michael Colby, striding past the bar in the Algonquin Hotel on West 44th Street. And it was just down the stre…
When you're doing Shakespeare, Anna Chlumsky says, you talk in iambic pentameter even when you're offstage. If you're on HBO's "Veep" " one of the most profane shows on TV " you curse. Which…
SpongeBob loves Scrub Daddy. And before Nickelodeon flips out over that unauthorized endorsement, please note that it's Ethan Slater " Broadway's SpongeBob " who's doing the endorsing. "Scru…
When Broadway's "Jersey Boys" closed up shop last January after a nearly 12-year run, fans were thrilled to hear it would soon return " off-Broadway. But with a smaller stage and budget, wou…
No one suffered more for their art than the castrati, the men whose heavenly high voices cost them part of their manhood. Among the most famous of their ranks was the 18th-century Italian kn…
Blair Brown moved here in 1976, just in time to see the tall ships come in. "I lived on 72nd Street and the West End, stuck my head out of the window and there was this huge black sailing sh…
One hundred and fifty years ago, Charles Dickens came to America to give the people what they wanted: "A Christmas Carol," read by the British writer himself. Some 2,500 people at a time clu…
As The Post first reported, there’s going to be a lot more Springsteen on Broadway: The Boss has extended his hit one man show at the Walter Kerr until June 30, 2018. “Springstee…
Like one of the characters in her off-Broadway play, "Stuffed," Lisa Lampanelli jokes that during her dieting days " all three decades of them " she lost and regained some 300 pounds: "that'…
"Wikipedia is wrong!" Lucy DeVito says. "I was born in Los Angeles, not New York, but my parents and I would come here a lot, so I feel like a New Yorker." The oldest of Danny DeVito and Rhe…
Christopher Plummer wasn't expecting to go to Europe next week, but he will " when he reshoots Kevin Spacey's scenes in "All the Money in the World." The Ridley Scott film, due to open Dec. …
Tonys, Shmonys: Your musical's only as good as your kid says it is. Luckily, Lin-Manuel Miranda's son just gave "Hamilton" a big (little) thumbs up. From his perch atop two booster seats, Se…
Once, sometimes twice a day, says Mercedes Ruehl, she's "the most unloved woman in New York." It happens during "Torch Song," when her character, Mrs. Beckoff, tells her gay son she wishes h…
Amy Schumer's about to make her Broadway debut in Steve Martin's "Meteor Shower," which has its first preview on Wednesday. She's already box-office gold " but can the 36-year-old comedia…
Pico Alexander's leading lady came to his dressing room the other day with a suggestion. "It would be better the way we did it before," Sherie Rene Scott told him, "when you were f -Å
To the exalted roster of artists who've performed at Carnegie Hall " Tchaikovsky, Leonard Bernstein, the Beatles " add Bill Murray. Decades after he crooned "Star Wars" on "SNL", the 67-year…
