Tina Fey celebrated the opening of "Mean Girls" in Washington, DC, Sunday night with an upbeat but politics-free party at the Atrium at Old Ebbitt Grill. Fey and her producers, "Saturday Nig…
The American Music Awards is basically like the Twilight Zone of award ceremonies. Sunday night's show (held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles) depicted the music world as a place wher…
"Marian," a documentary about Marian Seldes that upset many theater people because it shows the actress in the grip of dementia, will be screened on Saturday as part of the Williamsburg Inde…
Frumpy and Denzel are two words you don't often see together " until now. The new thriller "Roman J. Israel, Esq." has Washington sporting a paunch, unkempt afro, huge specs and an oversize …
Jerry Zaks is back where he belongs: on Broadway, where no fewer than three of his shows " "Hello, Dolly!", "A Bronx Tale" and Steve Martin's "Meteor Shower" " are on the boards. "That I've …
Call it the battle of those dancing feet: Two acclaimed productions of "42nd Street" may soon go tap-to-tap for a shot at Broadway. The splashy revival that just ended at London's Theatre Ro…
Like one of the characters in her off-Broadway play, "Stuffed," Lisa Lampanelli jokes that during her dieting days " all three decades of them " she lost and regained some 300 pounds: "that'…
"Wikipedia is wrong!" Lucy DeVito says. "I was born in Los Angeles, not New York, but my parents and I would come here a lot, so I feel like a New Yorker." The oldest of Danny DeVito and Rhe…
A long time ago, in a completely different galaxy far, far away… Disney announced Thursday that it plans to release a brand-new Star Wars trilogy once the current saga wraps up —…
In the 1970s, Hell's Kitchen was one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the city. Residents walked in the middle of the streets at night to avoid the muggers, junkies, hookers and drug d…
Jimmy Buffett says he was going to be on Broadway one way or another because of his mother. "She was the Southern version of Auntie Mame," Buffett says, "and she made me audition for 'South …
Christopher Plummer wasn't expecting to go to Europe next week, but he will " when he reshoots Kevin Spacey's scenes in "All the Money in the World." The Ridley Scott film, due to open Dec. …
Last week I wrote about three shows that are trying to slip onto Broadway stages before the Tony cutoff date in April: "The Honeymooners," "Summer: The Donna Summer Musical" and "Hadestown."…
For Elton John, everything comes full circle. On Sunday night, the venerable music man surprised a Broadway audience for "The Lion King's" 20th anniversary performance. John joined the cast …
The “King of Queens” would soon be coming to “House of Cards” — if television fans got their way. A petition to replace Kevin Spacey with actor Kevin James on t…
Tonys, Shmonys: Your musical's only as good as your kid says it is. Luckily, Lin-Manuel Miranda's son just gave "Hamilton" a big (little) thumbs up. From his perch atop two booster seats, Se…
Reed Birney was beginning to smolder. Every time the actor came on stage as O'Brien, the chief torturer in "1984" at the Hudson Theatre, a group of theatergoers giggled. "The laughter was in…
Once, sometimes twice a day, says Mercedes Ruehl, she's "the most unloved woman in New York." It happens during "Torch Song," when her character, Mrs. Beckoff, tells her gay son she wishes h…
He's an all-American blond cutie who had a hit Disney Channel show, "Austin & Ally," and sings in a band, R5, alongside siblings Riker, Rocky and Rydel. So naturally Ross Lynch's eyes li…
Amy Schumer's about to make her Broadway debut in Steve Martin's "Meteor Shower," which has its first preview on Wednesday. She's already box-office gold " but can the 36-year-old comedia…
Call it Broadway Monopoly " the game producers, landlords and other insiders love to play when theaters suddenly open up. With so many shows circling the Great White Way, two or three could …
Netflix is moving ahead with plans for a "House of Cards" spinoff. Variety has learned that the streaming service and producer Media Rights Capital are in very early stages of development on…
Happy Halloween! Is there any better place to go ghostbusting than the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colo. (from $189)? Believers in the paranormal say there are more spirits hanging about th…
After five seasons on Netflix, no one has managed to topple political mastermind Frank Underwood of "House of Cards." But the same can no longer be said for the actor who plays him, Kevin Sp…
The Harvey Weinstein charges have exposed plenty of hurt and shame, but they've also made the off-Broadway play "What We're Up Against" as relevant today as it was when written in 1992. A no…