Anne Meara, the stage and film actress who forged a surprisingly durable career, both on her own and, more famously, as half of a comedy and acting duo with her longtime husband, Jerry Still…
We roost at the upstairs bar of the famous theatre restaurant to talk to producer and theatre owner Daryl Roth, whose projects include Broadway's Driving Miss Daisy and Off-Broadway's Throug…
Evelyn Page, an actress with several Broadway credits, died Feb. 6 in Manhattan, Variety reported. She was 90.
Mary Cleere Haran, a pure and ebullient stylist of the American songbook who became an important member of the cabaret circuit during the 1990s and early years of this century, died on Feb. …
There's no stopping the ascent of actor John Gallagher, Jr. these days. The veteran of Rabbit Hole, Spring Awakening and American Idiot, will be among cast members populating Jerusalem on Br…
Jane Russell, a starlet of Hollywood westerns and musicals in the 1940s and 1950s who was as famous for her physique as she was for any of her films, died Feb. 28 at her home in Santa Maria,…
For the contemporary theatre buff, there's a double excitement in the announcement that The Normal Heart will play Broadway in April.
Milton Babbitt, a leading American composer of modernist classic music, and an early teacher of theatre composer Stephen Sondheim, died Jan. 29 in Princeton, NJ, where he lived. He was 94.
Michael Tolan, a stage and television actor who helped found the important Off-Broadway forum American Place Theatre, died on Jan. 31 in Hudson, NY. He was 85. The cause was heart disease an…
A Drink with Michael Mayer
Things were cooking this week Off-Broadway.
Jay Landesman, a semi-notorious, frenetically ambitious fringe figure of New York and London's Bohemian scenes whose unpublished novel "The Nervous Set" inspired the short-lived 1959 musical…
A question concerning the unusual interior design of Brooklyn's Harvey Theater.
A question concerning the unusual interior design of Brooklyn's Harvey Theater.
Betty Garrett, a comedic musical comedy actress whose brief film career, though curtailed by the McCarthy-era blacklist, nonetheless left a lasting impression on movie-musical fans, died in …
Hugh Martin, the songwriter who enlivened the Judy Garland movie musical "Meet Me in St. Louis" with an indelibly melodic trio of evergreen songs "The Trolley Song," "The Boy Next Door" and …
The replacement of Julie Taymor as director of the $65 million musical monster known as Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark was perhaps inevitable. Aside from a rather fawning profile in New York m…
In Brooklyn, B.H. Barry and Broadway vets introduce Treasure Island to a new generation.
This week, Spider-Man finally came face to face with the Daily Bugle.
Harry Connick, Jr., who scored a hit with his Broadway debut performance in The Pajama Game, is finally returning to Broadway, and the project is a far riskier venture this time around.
Three bold imaginations give wing to a new theatrical chapter in the legend of Peter Pan in Off-Broadway's Peter and the Starcatcher.
Haila Stoddard, an unusual Broadway artist who transitioned from actress to producer during a lengthy theatre career, died at her home in Weston, CT. The cause was cardiopulmonary arrest. Sh…
An unusual Civil War story drew André Braugher to The Whipping Man, Matthew Lopez's three-character Off-Broadway play.
Living participants in the original productions of She Loves Me, Fiddler on the Roof and The Rothschilds -- as well as prominent Broadway revivals of those shows -- gathered at the American …
Actress Nina Arianda is currently entertaining the theatre world with the neatest Cinderella story to come along since Sutton Foster was pulled out of the chorus to star in Thoroughly Modern…