26 stories by "Sarah Larson"
Strolling through Hell's Kitchen, the actress recalls old celeb sightings (Jane Fonda! Donald Sutherland!) on her way to playing the swaggering Mr. Zero in "The Adding Machine," Off Broadway.
When the two lead actresses in Shawn's play called in sick, their understudies scrambled to prep in the dressing room. The stand-ins? Deborah Eisenberg and Shawn himself.
The Police front man's 2014 musical, "The Last Ship," was inspired by his gritty working-class childhood in England. Now a revamped production"featuring Shaggy"is docking at the Metropolitan…
Now starring in her fourteenth Broadway production, the "Sex and the City" actress reflects on Mike Nichols, F. Murray Abraham, and Times Square sleaze.
Jad Abumrad's new podcast, "Fela Kuti: Fear No Man," shows how one musician created both a genre and a way of challenging those in power.
The late actor's son, Chris Candy, reflects on his father's drives and demons in the Hall of Ocean Life with Colin Hanks, the director of the new documentary "John Candy: I Like Me."
The eighties pop princess returns to the Metropolitan Opera, where she sang in the Children's Chorus, and shows off her new memoir, "Eternally Electric."
The actor who became famous as Luke Skywalker now plays a math-obsessed grandfather in "The Life of Chuck." At MoMath, he studied fractals and rode a square-wheeled tricycle.
Jim Parsons, Katie Holmes, Zoey Deutch, and the rest of the Broadway-revival cast meet up in Peterborough, New Hampshire, where Thornton Wilder wrote the original play.
Beyond the amber marble that sheathes PAC NYC are three maximally transformable theatre spaces and a Marcus Samuelsson restaurant.
Blake Lively and Seth Meyers came out to salute the première of "The Music Man"; so did forty-five New York teen-agers armed with clarinets and sousaphones.
Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano star in Sam Shepard's legendary play about fathers, competition, and male angst, Sarah Larson writes.
Mark Mulcahy is the kind of musician that people proselytize about; several years ago, I started doing it myself. He's has had a long and varied career"with his band Miracle Legion, begin…
On a Monday night this winter, at a gala in a Beaux-Arts former bank downtown, the young playwright Rachel Bonds, whose luminous "Sundown, Yellow Moon" is currently onstage uptown, made a sh…
The network-TV pop musical, usually performed live, has picked up steam in recent years, with unnerving results. Watching Christopher Walken fop sleepily through "Hook's Tango" or Carrie Und…
On a Friday night in June at Joe's Pub, at the Public Theatre, as the writer and performer Isaac Oliver's show began, an announcement came over the P.A. system: "Isaac Oliver will be perform…
One of the pleasures of the portrait-in-greatness podcast""WTF with Marc Maron" and many dozens of others, multiplying all the time"is the dual presentation of culture and character, the ins…
The idea of most pop artists performing at the Café Carlyle"the intimate, elegant cabaret space at the Carlyle Hotel"wouldn't make intuitive sense, but the idea of Debbie Harry singing ther…
In a week when flying off to Neverland held some appeal but lovely thoughts were hard to come by, NBC, at long last, aired "Peter Pan Live!," a three-hour performance, months in the hyping, …
You might be a bigger Mary Rodgers fan than you realize.
James Franco and Chris O’Dowd discuss their roles in “Of Mice and Men” with a team of Steinbeck experts.
The composer Barry Mann and the lyricist Cynthia Weil were in town to see “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical on Broadway.”
Last Thursday evening, twenty members of Elevator Repair Service, the downtown theatre company, met at a multiplex in Times Square, collected twenty pairs of 3-D glasses, took escalators to …
Last Tuesday night was the opening of “The Rascals: Once Upon a Dream,” a Broadway reunion of the New Jersey rock band that broke up in 1970.
On Friday evening at the Café Carlyle, before the second-to-last performance of “Elaine Stritch at the Carlyle: Movin’ Over and Out,” Stritch’s farewell show, th…
