'Almost Famous' musical is almost ready to rock Broadway
It's going to be Cameron Crowe vs. Alanis Morissette at the Tonys next year. Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill" begins previews in the fall at the Broadhurst Theatre. But it could be upstaged…
It's going to be Cameron Crowe vs. Alanis Morissette at the Tonys next year. Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill" begins previews in the fall at the Broadhurst Theatre. But it could be upstaged…
Fosse/Verdon | Tuesday, 10 p.m., FX The remaining episodes of "Fosse/Verdon" focus on the backstage drama while the show "Chicago" was in rehearsal. While Gwen Verdon (Michelle Williams) che…
When you want to be an actor and your last name's Uranowitz, well " you might want to change it. Brandon Uranowitz's father thought so. Just before he left for college, his dad suggested he …
The name is Fleming. Lucy Fleming " and as Ian Fleming's niece, she's had a front-row view of the creation and continuation of Bond, James Bond, the most fantastic fictitious spy ever. For n…
Broadway's power brokers took time out from Tony season this week to fly to London to see "Cinderella," the new musical from Andrew Lloyd Webber. The heat is intense on this one, not only be…
President Trump on Wednesday declared a "national emergency" to protect American communications networks " a move that gives the feds broad powers to ban US companies from doing business wit…
Bridget Everett likes to say that she's from Manhattan " Manhattan, Kan., that is, or what she calls "the Little Apple" in her cabaret show, "Bridget Everett & The Tender Moments," throu…
Seventy-two years ago a bright-eyed brunette named Gloria Casper sang and danced in the original cast of High Button Shoes " and on Saturday, she'll be back on stage for the latest Broadway …
Never mind where the bodies are buried: Let's talk about the mountain of corpses onstage these days at the Booth Theatre. As soon as that blood-red curtain parts and theatergoers get a gande…
Critics are always sniping at something, but the real fun begins when they start sniping at one another. The members of the New York Drama Critics' Circle got into a heated exchange last wee…
And as hard as it is to get on the list, it's just as easy to get pushed off of it.
"I wanted a real life as a dancer, so of course I came to New York," says Mark Morris, who at 19 left Seattle for this city in 1976, and " except for the six months a year he's on tour " has…
When it started pouring rain as a line down the block full of Moz fans awaited the opening of Morrissey's seven-show Broadway mini-residency on Thursday night, it only heightened the mopines…
Soon after the killing started, Immaculée Ilibagiza's parents and brothers begged her to save herself. The 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda had begun, and a friend of her father's,…
Robert Horn, Tony-nominated for his snappy book to "Tootsie," knows all too well what it's like to scrape out a living in New York while trying to break into the theater. He never played a t…
Soon after the killing started, Immaculée Ilibagiza's parents and brothers begged her to save herself. The 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda had begun, and a friend of her father's,…
And here I thought "Mean Girls" opened last season! The 2019 Tony Award nominations were announced Tuesday morning, and instead of its usual Celebration of Theater mood, we were treated to a…
Fosse/Verdon | Tuesday, 10 p.m., FX The bleaker side of the Broadway footlights has been one of the ongoing themes of the FX miniseries "Fosse/Verdon," now at the midpoint of its eight-week …
The first thing you need to know about Bruce Springsteen's newest song, "Hello Sunshine," is that it's all Bruce and no E Street Band. There's no signature wailing sax or frantic rock 'n' ro…
If we say his name three times, will he go away? I'm not talking about the title character of "Beetlejuice," which opened Thursday night, but Eddie Perfect. Fresh off his heinous music for "…
"Tootsie" and "Ink" scurried in this week to make the Tony deadline and have upset everyone's brackets. The nominations come out Tuesday, and you can bet both shows will be uncorking the Veu…
Tell me somethin,' world. Are you happy in this post-"A Star Is Born" world? Or do you need more? Is there somethin' else you're searchin' for? If you're yearning to hear Jack and Ally perfo…
"Sexy" is not a word you'd use to describe the founding of most newspapers. More accurate descriptors might include: "formal," "dusty" and "self-important." The Sun, however, is not like mos…
Meet Dorothy Michaels: Renowned stage actress and chanteuse. A brutally honest feminist who's built like a Hummer, she lives in New York, and " oh, right " she's really a he. Dorothy is the …
It's got fart gags galore, but "Gary" isn't a gas " it's more like hot air. Subtitled "A Sequel to Titus Andronicus," the labored comedy that opened Sunday night picks up where Shakespeare's…