Sometimes it's hard to let it go. That's what Idina Menzel's younger sister learned while growing up in the shadow of the future "Frozen" star " the Anna to her Elsa. As Cara Mentzel writes …
Elizabeth McGovern spent six years playing the ideal mother " the warm, wise and nurturing Lady Cora of "Downton Abbey." Clearly, she was ready for a change, and now she's found one. As the …
She’s sung her way through six beauty pageants. Now Angel Blue, 2005's Miss Hollywood, is ready for prime time: She'll make her Met Opera debut Monday in "La Bohème." Visually speakin…
Here’s everything to see and listen to on NYC’s stages this fall. Theater Even in a season when The Boss comes to town " "Springsteen on Broadway" (previews Oct. 3, Walter Kerr) …
If they gave an award Sunday night for Most Hilarious Emmy Campaign, Jackie Hoffman would win. Nominated for her role as Mamacita in "Feud: Bette and Joan," she made a video of herself calli…
Her Playbill bio is longer than that of some of her co-stars. Then again, she's had a helluva life, having narrowly escaped death row. Now, after three years on the road with "Annie," Macy, …
"All the world's a stage," said Shakespeare. And he was right: His own work's headed to four Hell's Kitchen bars and a Brooklyn recycling center. Theaters are so 16th century. In the next se…
It will take more than a solar eclipse to overshadow Tommy Tune, the 6-foot-6, 10-time Tony winner. Texas born and bred, his high-school graduation gift was a trip to New York: "I stayed at …
How long will it take for over 43,000 seats to disappear? We'll find out Aug. 30 " the first day tickets go on sale for Bruce Springsteen's solo show on Broadway. The Boss starts previews fo…
As it turns out, there really was a Rosie. Maurice Sendak found the spunky inspiration for "Really Rosie" " the musical he wrote with Carole King, in revival this week at City Center " right…
Bobby Goldman was 51 when she started dating again, on doctor's orders: "My shrink said, 'Go out and get laid!'" Easier said than done. It was 1999, and Goldman's husband, writer James Goldm…
Maybe it's her soft voice that gets Lili Taylor cast as a caregiver, even if those she looks after happen to be dead, as they were in 1999's "The Haunting." These days, the "Six Feet Under" …
They were sitting in Mary Tyler Moore's Manhattan apartment, discussing life and death issues, when they heard a crash. Bounding into the star's elegant living room were a golden retriever a…
Gregg Mozgala was born with cerebral palsy; Katy Sullivan, without lower legs. Yet there they are, delivering knockout performances in off-Broadway's "Cost of Living." In the play, the actor…
The Tony Awards are less of a fashion show than a night of song and dance and, if we're lucky, some heartfelt drama. Here's how a few of this year's nominees are gearing up for Sunday's 8 p.…
In 1998, a Texas theater student named Michael Urie discovered New York on a class trip. "It was the dead of summer, it was hot and stinky and we saw 13 shows in 10 days," the "Ugly Betty" s…
The tree was dead, chopped down with two dozen others for the set of Broadway's "Come From Away." But a few months ago, something odd happened: That tree began to sprout. From its bark emerg…
Nothing says power like a woman in a pantsuit. Look where it's gotten Elizabeth Marvel's characters: Heather Dunbar nearly toppled Frank Underwood in "House of Cards," while Elizabeth Keane …
You don't have to be Jewish to love Yiddish. It's the only language in the world that has as many words for "stupid" as Alaskans have for snow " a mitzvah in a city that doesn't suffer schmo…
When your famous actor father falls in love with a movie star, maybe the best thing your mom can do is move away. It worked for Kate Burton. When the Italian paparazzi descended on Richard B…
The Broadway play "Oslo" inspires many things: a deeper interest in the Mideast; admiration for two Norwegian peacemakers " and an uncontrollable craving for waffles. Palestinian and Israeli…
"I was sort of born in the East Village," says Harvey Fierstein, who actually hails from Brooklyn but came of age at La MaMa and other East Village haunts in the '70s. Now, after 30 years wr…
At last, an elephant act even PETA would applaud: Meet Queenie and her son, Karanga, the puppet pachyderms of "Circus 1903," now playing the Theater at Madison Square Garden. Not since "War …
Sitting on the floor of her dressing room, the light glinting off her scooter, Madison Ferris finishes her pre-show, quinoa-and-kale supper and smiles. "This is the dream!" she says. In 45 m…
Jessica Hecht plays complicated women: Ross' ex-wife's second wife on "Friends"; Golde, the sharp-tongued matriarch of "Fiddler on the Roof," and now, the devoted wife of Mark Ruffalo's poli…