Luis Fonsi brought down the house at Clive Davis ' Grammy party Saturday, performing his infectious hit "Despacito." I hear that among the VIPs impressed with Fonsi's vocal chops and stage c…
The Go-Go's are on the go-go! Reunited for the first time in years, the '80s girl group performed to a packed house Monday night at the Bowery Ballroom. It was a kickoff party for their new …
One of Broadway's juiciest, longest running feuds may have just ended. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Patti LuPone haven't spoken to each other since the composer fired the diva from "Sunset Boulev…
I have found the next Hugh Jackman. And he is . . . Jonathan Groff. Everybody " and I mean everybody on Broadway " is talking up his performance in "The Bobby Darin Story" at t…
CBS is wasting no time lining up a host for this year's Tony Awards. I hear the offer is out to James Corden, who hosted the telecast to great acclaim in 2016. Sources say the host of "The L…
Even in 2016, Garry Marshall knew that what worked for his 1990 hit film "Pretty Woman" wouldn't work in a musical. Times had changed, and Vivian and Edward " the characters played by Julia …
Bryan Cranston is winning raves as wild-eyed anchorman Howard Beale in the stage adaptation of "Network" at London's National Theatre. The "Breaking Bad" star was a major box-office draw in …
Sorry, Go-Go's: My lips are not sealed: "Head Over Heels," a new musical featuring songs by the '80s girl band, will open this summer at the Hudson Theatre. Gwyneth Paltrow is producing the …
Here’s a blast of heart-warming good cheer on a cold winter day " "Crazy for You" is headed back to Broadway. Susan Stroman, who directed "The Producers" and "The Scottsboro Boys," is …
Here are the people, shows and events sure to grab Broadway's attention in 2018. Abracadabra: The "Harry Potter" carnival is headed to town, and tickets are going fast: Every time a new bloc…
With a nod to Oscar Hammerstein II: Bette at the Shubert Bruce Springsteen on Broadway Garth Drabinsky starts yelling and Mandy says "No way" Michael Moore dances and even sings These are a …
Let’s salute a few showbiz folks who took their final bows this year. Several were Broadway fixtures, while others found fame on TV or in Hollywood but couldn't resist the lure of the …
Broadway musicals are getting more expensive every season, but there's still plenty of money to be made on a shoestring budget. One of the biggest hits so far this season is "The Band's Visi…
Twentieth Century Fox is shelling out $100 million to turn "The Greatest Showman" " the movie/musical starring Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum " into a three-ring media circus. Jackman and co-st…
Someone left the show out in the rain " but it's on its way to B'way. A giant disco ball called "Summer: The Donna Summer Musical" is headed to Broadway earlier than expected. The $12 millio…
The big event on Broadway this week is taking place on the Lower East Side, where "Moulin Rouge! The Musical" is having a no-expense-spared workshop. Heavy-hitters, including Broadway's powe…
The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus packed up for good this year " but P.T. Barnum is still the toast of the town, thanks largely to Hugh Jackman. You can't turn on the TV with…
“SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical" scrambled aboard a lifeboat Tuesday and it looks as if it could float " at least until the Tony Awards in June. The $20 million musical ab…
James Cameron's "Titanic" has been rereleased in movie theaters, and Broadway's getting out its lifeboats as well. A revival of "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," a 1960 musical about a plucky wo…
A few Broadway misfires, as Ken Mandelbaum called them in "Not Since Carrie: 40 Years of Broadway Musical Flops," can be called "heartbreakers and cream": These are shows that, while fatally…
Tina Fey celebrated the opening of "Mean Girls" in Washington, DC, Sunday night with an upbeat but politics-free party at the Atrium at Old Ebbitt Grill. Fey and her producers, "Saturday Nig…
"Marian," a documentary about Marian Seldes that upset many theater people because it shows the actress in the grip of dementia, will be screened on Saturday as part of the Williamsburg Inde…
Call it the battle of those dancing feet: Two acclaimed productions of "42nd Street" may soon go tap-to-tap for a shot at Broadway. The splashy revival that just ended at London's Theatre Ro…
In the 1970s, Hell's Kitchen was one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the city. Residents walked in the middle of the streets at night to avoid the muggers, junkies, hookers and drug d…
Jimmy Buffett says he was going to be on Broadway one way or another because of his mother. "She was the Southern version of Auntie Mame," Buffett says, "and she made me audition for 'South …