Tammy Blanchard (Tallulah, Into the Woods, Moneyball) has been cast in the upcoming Broadway revival of Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh, starring Denzel Washington and staged …
With the three-day Martin Luther King holiday weekend as a spur, the Broadway box office defied the January trend, pole-vaulting 27% over the same week in 2017 and even surpassing the previo…
Lanere Holmes Rollins, a Parking Production Assistant who has cleared New York’s streets for film and TV crews for more than two decades, waited more than three hours to claim Marti…
How well we know John Lithgow’s satisfying face, his agreeable body: The eyes narrowed quizzically above a smile slimmed by secrets (or is it menace?); the frame softly hulking, lackin…
Rory O’Malley, a Tony nominee for The Book of Mormon who’s now playing the crowd-pleasing comic role of King George III in the national tour of Hamilton, has signed with The Rose…
Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff’s publisher today called any attempt to interfere with publication of the incendiary tell-all “flagrantly unconstitutional.” Backed by hi…
Predictable as white sales and BOGO promos, Broadway made a hard landing after the Christmas-to-New Year’s high-flying, record-breaking stand. The Boss dodged the winter drafts and too…
Reese Witherspoon brought the Golden Globes audience to its feet with her introduction of Cecil B. DeMille Award winner Oprah Winfrey. Maybe the crowd was looking for some release during a f…
UPDATED with video: “Oprah!” Brown said, not the first to acknowledge her presence in the front row as he accepted his Globe. Brown made history as the first African American …
When Toronto’s celebrated theater company, Soulpepper, was preparing to spend a monthlong summer residency in New York, I warned artistic director Albert Schultz that he was playing ag…
The surprises at the annual New York Film Critics Circle dinner bash aren’t in the awards; they were announced last month. The appeal of this gathering – which in its raffishness…
Broadway offered something for everyone last week, as long as everyone was loaded with dough. Face-value ducats topped out at $1,150 for blockbuster Hamilton, but that was Monopoly money con…
Author James Anthony Tyler has won the third annual Dramatists Guild of America’s Horton Foote Playwriting Award, which carries $25K purse underwritten by the Richenthal Foundation. Th…
In case there was any doubt about how the New York Times feels about Steven Spielberg’s The Post – not to mention the Washington Post – here’s a look at today̵…
Even with Christmas falling on a Sunday and many Broadway shows going to a seven-performance week, non one’s complaining of coal in Times Square, as ticket sales added up to $35.8 mill…
Pussy Sludge, Gracie Gardner’s play about a young woman who also is an oil well, has earned the writer $45,000 and extensive development opportunities, courtesy of the American Playwri…
For years, Harvey Weinstein was seen as one of the country’s most prominent donors and fund-raisers for causes ranging from the Democratic Party to AmFAR, the American Foundation fo…
If you’re looking for a Champagne date you and your Revolutionary honey can share in the coming week, how about $2,300 for a pair to Hamilton? The concert-slash-show, at the Richard…
Chicago tech billionaire Michael Ferro, the largest shareholder of Tronc (owners of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and, most recently, the New York Daily News) has entered into…
In a repeat of its Broadway opening two years ago, Lin Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton opened Thursday night at London’s newly restored Victoria Palace Theatre, sending critics into pa…
Ari’el Stachel, whose plaintive rendering of “Haled’s Song About Love” is one of the only great numbers in The Band’s Visit that’s not sung by Katrina…
New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush, who was suspended last month in the wake of allegations that he had behaved inappropriately with female colleagues, will be allowed to return in late Ja…
SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical will open on Broadway at the Nederlander Organization’s Lunt Fontanne Theatre on April 23, following previews slated to begin March 28. A developmental…
The Broadway box office took a slight dip last week, off by $900K or about 2.5 per cent from the week before, but there probably won’t be much complaining as Christmas and the New Year…
Remember that time Donald Trump was the blood-spurting bulls-eye of thrusting daggers and wounding imprecations in Central Park? It was only a few months ago, and, well it was in all the pap…