Broadway producer Gwyneth Paltrow skipped Thursday night's opening of her show, "Head Over Heels," the Go-Go's musical, at the Hudson Theatre. Word is she stayed in Montauk, making wedding p…
How bad was the rehearsal that some say caused Jeff Loeffelholz, the longtime standby at "Chicago," to kill himself? The actor's handwritten notes, which friends spearheading a "Justice for …
What in the world is going on with Broadway's "Straight White Men?" Young Jean Lee's dark comedy, opening this month at Second Stage's Hayes Theater, lost two of its leading men in the last …
Lauren Ambrose, the Tony-nominated star of Lincoln Center Theater's hit revival of "My Fair Lady," finds the role of Eliza Doolittle too taxing to perform eight times a week. So she's skippi…
Most of the top titles from Broadway's Golden Age were revived over the past decade or so, with one exception: "Camelot." Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's 1960 musical about King Arthur…
The era of the jukebox musical, epitomized by the sensational "Jersey Boys," is winding down. Now it's time to bow down to the diva musical. Critics threw rocks at "Summer: The Donna Summer …
Broadway thumbed its nose at Tina Fey and touristy musicals Sunday night by showering "The Band's Visit," a lovely, human show, with 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Its sweep of the …
Here’s the gossip coming out of Radio City Music Hall about Sunday night's Tony telecast on CBS: If you want to see the Boss but can't afford those thousand-dollar seats for "Springste…
It took them 20 years to get here, but Jeff Richmond and his wife, Tina Fey, are finally where they've always wanted to be: Broadway. "We're theater people who got detoured," says Richmond. …
David Mamet hasn't written a hit play in years, but the one he's just finished has the potential to be a blockbuster. It's about Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul who's expected to…
Theater owners and producers from around the country came to town this week for their annual convention " and the big get is a selfie with Tina Fey. The "Mean Girls" creator has been happy t…
The comedy in "musical comedy" started to go missing in the 1980s as shows about felines seeking redemption ("Cats") and students manning the barricades ("Les Misérables") steamrolled Broad…
An all-star cast began previews this week in "The Boys in the Band," Mart Crowley's 1968 play about a group of gay men who throw a party " and plenty of bitchy zingers. So it seemed fitting …
The Tony Award nominators are like Regina in "Mean Girls." And while they don't all wear pink, their power is absolute " which is why they've got the theater world on edge until Tuesday morn…
They’re not going to sing and dance like Hugh Jackman or get big laughs like James Corden, but Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban just might expand the Tony telecast demographic beyond the…
“Carousel" is a great American musical. But it doesn't come without baggage. A first-class revival starring Jessie Mueller and Joshua Henry opened on Broadway Thursday night trailed by…
The most depressing place in American drama may well be Harry Hope's Saloon, where "The Iceman Cometh," Eugene O'Neill's descent into dipsomania, takes place. "It's the No Chance Saloon," on…
In his engaging new memoir "Unmasked," Andrew Lloyd Webber resurrects a mogul who dominated showbiz in the 1960s and '70s " and then vanished. Robert Stigwood, an impresario from Australia, …
Martin McDonagh may well win an Oscar Sunday night for his screenplay for "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri." But his chance at a Tony will have to wait. The transfer of McDonagh's …
Frosty the Snowman has a corncob pipe, a button nose and two eyes made of coal. Olaf " the big-hearted sidekick of Disney's "Frozen" " is made out of different stuff: carbon fiber, foam, yar…
I don't know if the Russians have infiltrated the White House yet, but they were all over the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, last weekend for "Chess." So what did they think of that madde…
It took Jimmy Buffett just six minutes to write the song on which he built an empire " and a Broadway musical. He was in Austin, Texas, some 40 years ago, visiting a woman he was dating, and…
It’s no mean feat replacing Bette Midler in "Hello, Dolly!" Midler was the No. 1 attraction on Broadway in 2017, racking up weekly grosses of $2.5 million and winning the Tony Award fo…
Martin McDonagh may well win the Oscar for his screenplay for "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri." And now he may also be a contender for a Tony for Best Play " though he'll have to …
It’s hard to outfox a movie studio, but Broadway's Douglas Carter Beane seems to have done just that. The Tony-nominated playwright has long wanted to turn his 1995 cult movie "To Wong…