After their widowed father died in 1995, jazz pianist Ted Rosenthal and his sister packed up the family home in Great Neck, LI. They didn't know what that box of letters, all written in Germ…
The play's the thing this spring on Broadway. To the competitive roster of non-musicals I spoke about last week " all-star revivals of "King Lear" and "All My Sons" among them " add Heidi Sc…
A star is reborn. When Lady Gaga triumphantly swanned to the Golden Globes stage in 2016 to claim her first-ever acting award, the moment became a meme. But for an embarrassing reason: the w…
"I graduated from Georgetown in 2000 and started off sleeping on my sister Gina's couch in Carroll Gardens," says comedian Mike Birbiglia. "And 18 years later, I live in Carroll Gardens agai…
Ring out the old, ring in the new: Here's my countdown to the 10 personalities, shows and backstage dramas I'm looking forward to in 2019. 10. Glenda Jackson delivered an unforgettable perfo…
Broadway lost some boldface names in 2018. Let's give them an encore, in their own words. William Goldman made his name in the movies, writing the screenplays to "Butch Cassidy and the Sunda…
Tina Fey, King Kong and Harry Potter all made their marks in New York theater in 2018, with varying degrees of success. There were no perfect musicals. On Broadway, Fey's sly humor made "Mea…
"Aquaman" is swimming in ticket sales " and US movie theaters are ringing up yet another year for the history books. The superhero action flick reeled in $67.4 million last weekend, driving …
Come Christmastime, it seems that nothing short of Santa can top a real, live camel. Rugged yet regal, the dromedary dominates every living Nativity it steps into. That's true at Radio City'…
American holiday activities are worse than coal in a stocking. Each year, we schlep to super malls and force crying children to pose with creeper Santas. We trudge to local productions of "T…
An array of Broadway types populates the new musical comedy, "The Prom": the self-absorbed diva, the exasperated press agent, the vain leading man. And then there's the jaded chorus girl, wh…
Broadway fans love to whine about movie adaptations overtaking their beloved theaters. But can't movie buffs also complain about their favorite films getting ruined by the stage? I will " be…
For years, residents of Park Slope could not stop talking about the Pavilion Cinema, but their chatter was for all the wrong reasons. Topics of conversation often centered around the joint&#…
A safe haven for actresses that went out of fashion decades ago is undergoing a revival in the #MeToo era. The Rehearsal Club, a Midtown meeting place set up in 1913 for young women who work…
For nearly a decade, Rachel Dratch has read aloud from the musings of Madonna, Ethel Merman and Burt Reynolds' secretary. Lately, the "SNL" alum and others have shared all that and more at t…
Not long into this new "To Kill a Mockingbird," a young girl considers what she's just heard in a courtroom. "All rise," says Scout, marveling at the weight of the words while imagining if p…
One of this season's funniest musicals got its start from . . . Mario Kart. So say David Rossmer and Steve Rosen, the writers and stars of off-Broadway's "The Other Josh Cohen.…
The world has yet to recover from her record-breaking last single, but Ariana Grande is already saying, “Thank U, Next.” The pint-sized pop powerhouse dropped her new track, R…
From 2014 to 2017, Mariah Carey owned the Christmas concert circuit in New York with her annual holiday residency at the Beacon Theatre. But with the diva taking her yuletide act to Europe t…
Standing onstage in a black T-shirt and jeans, Bruce Springsteen waxes poetic about his earliest days in Freehold, NJ. He speaks of growing up next to the school St. Rose of Lima and breathi…
Like many theater-mad kids who grew up in the '60s, songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman know every note and word from "Mary Poppins." "I listened to, and continue to listen to, that a…
Clinically speaking, the best breakup song ever written is "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" by Taylor Swift. "[It] is about a woman gaining control and making healthy boundaries for…
“This is a theater for the people,” says Jake Gyllenhaal in honor of New York City Center’s 75th anniversary. The Oscar-nominated film actor leads the well wishes in a new …
In "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," which just launched its second season on Amazon, Tony Shalhoub plays a highly strung Upper West Sider. It's a role in which he feels at home, since the 65-yea…
Christmas in the city: Rockefeller Center's tree, Radio City's Rockettes, New York City Ballet's "Nutcracker." But let's say you've already been there, seen that: Are you acting the Scrooge …