203 stories from Paper Mag
As Paper's resident Broadway baby, everyone is always asking me what shows their friends and family who are in town for the holidays should see. There is no theater recommendation that leave…
Here's your boyfriend Paul Rudd telling David Letterman about trying to break up a fight between two drag queens while wearing his Anchorman 2 costume.
In honor of Festivus, here's a super…
Six by Sondheim, a documentary directed by Stephen Sondheim's long-time collaborator James Lapine, premieres December 9th on HBO. The film uses six of the musical theater legend's songs ("So…
Painting from The Expatriate Parade.In 2010, the city of Detroit shut down John Dunivant's annual Halloween festival, Theatre Bizarre. For 10 years, the party had drawn crowds in the thousan…
Here's Orange Is the New Black's Taystee and Crazy Eyes (a.k.a. Danielle Brooks and Uzo Aduba) singing a medley of Christmas carols. Can we start hearing this on Lite FM, please? [via Jezebe…
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder is Broadway's latest offering for anglophiles seeking comedy. A certain multiply-guv'nered man had us guffawing in the aisle last season, does this gen…
On Sunday, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan's repertory productions of Waiting for Godot and No Man's Land will open on Broadway. To celebrate what's sure to be rave reviews for the two "sir…
Patrick wears a T-shirt by Scotch & Soda.
Patrick Wilson is in the middle of a story about a recent run-in with some screaming female fans in a Koreatown bar, when his phone cuts out. …
"I contemplated leaving the business 150 times," says Tracee Chimo. The actress had a rough start, taking the odds and ends roles that the East Village non-Equity world had to offer. There w…
Big Fish at Neil Simon Theatre
Broadway's latest musical spectacular, Big Fish, is a screen-to-stage transfer of the 2003 film based on the 1998 novel of the same name. The plot centers aro…
Anna Nicole at BAMOpera, some might say, is the highest of the high-brow; nudie magazines and reality TV, on the other hand, the lowest of the low. What happens then when the New York City O…
The Miracle Play, indeed. With a limited run and a far-flung, "secret" theater location in Long Island City, it may take miracle for your to see it. Will it change your life or can you wait …
Woo hoo! Awkward Black Girl creator and PAPER person Issa Rae is back with a new web series! The show is called The Choir and centers around a group of church singers whose gossipy, flirty, …
This video of a stoned Patrick Stewart teaching his girlfriend the secret to acting (it all relies on doing four takes) is weird and sweet and perfect. [Gawker]
Good news: More leaked Georg…
If anyone's in the mood for a drag-filled fairy tale update with a whole lotta lip synching, boy have we got something for you: YouTube Todrick Hall and his crew of performers masterfully re…
The terribly talented twosome behind the incredibly irreverent Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Alex Timber and Michael Friedman, are at it again. This time, they're putting a fresh spin on ano…
Turns out that Saturday is National Thrift Store Day! While most newly invented, oddly specific holidays are worthy of eye-rolls all around (we're looking at you, National Corn Dog Day) Reus…
(L-R) Colin Donnell, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe, Bryce Pinkham and Daniel Breaker. Photo: Joan Marcus. Daniel Breaker has played everything from a struggling artist in the avant-musical Passing S…
Witchy RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sharon Needles' new video is all about the occult -- but what else would we expect when the video's for a song called "Call Me on the Ouija Board"? The song …
Some strange, wonderful soul spliced and rearranged clips of the 1964 Mary Poppins to make it into a jaunty little trip hop song. Learn all your lessons from childhood while cutting a rug. […
The family resemblance goes beyond the mother/daughter/grandfather provenance that leads to Charlie Chaplin. What ties it all together is the artistry and originality that courses through th…
Nobody Loves You at Second Stage Theatre
An Off-Broadway musical about a contrarian ontologist on a dating reality show sounds like a thin premise geared for easy laughs. Does this odd litt…
Though the whole "twentysomething searching for the meaning of life" is a theme that's long been played out, our interest can't help but be a little piqued by the new trailer for The Lifegua…
Last week actor Zachary Quinto sat down with Broadway and Law & Order SVU actor BD Wong at Wong's NoHo apartment to chat about theater and their careers at a party to benefit Rosie O'Don…
In Will Ferrell's Nascar send-up Talledega Nights, Leslie Bibb plays Ricky Bobby's "red-hot smoking wife... a stone cold fox who if you were to rate her ass out of 100 it would easily be a 9…
