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Staten Island's infamous Kreischer Mansion briefly returned to the market this week. With an asking price of $2 million, the home has seven bedrooms, 1.25 acres " and a few ghosts. The fanci…
American Masters: Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive Monday, 9 p.m., PBS On series such as "True Blood" and "American Horror Story," actor Denis O'Hare has proven his affinity for roles with a Go…
Two showbiz legends " Mel Brooks and Andrew Lloyd Webber " are turning their painful flops into crowd-pleasing hits. Brooks just returned from London clutching raves for his snappy new "Youn…
Pico Alexander's leading lady came to his dressing room the other day with a suggestion. "It would be better the way we did it before," Sherie Rene Scott told him, "when you were f -Å
In a first for Disney Channel, a key character on its popular tween series Andi Mack will realize he's gay and come out to his friends. The story arc will mark the channel's first depiction …
Back in August, I reported that Amy Schumer, the star of Steve Martin's new play "Meteor Shower," was shaping up to be Broadway's biggest box-office draw this fall. After she sold $1 million…
The biggest star in Lincoln Center's upcoming revival of "My Fair Lady" isn't playing Eliza Doolittle or Henry Higgins: She's playing Mrs. Higgins, Henry's elegant mother. Diana Rigg will re…
A dozen years ago, when Oz Pearlman worked in information technology for Merrill Lynch, he supplemented his Wall Street wages by doing magic tricks. Watching Pearlman turn five $1 bills into…
"The Snowman" arrives in theaters this week with a flourish of spectacularly bad timing: Not only does its plot revolve around artfully dismembered women, its hero is named " I'm not kidding…
Today was a big day for fans of "Harry Potter" and Broadway, of which there are many, as tickets for "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” in New York City, went on sale. However, the pr…
"The Cher Show" is rehearsing here in New York at the New 42nd Street Studios, but somebody key to the entire enterprise is missing: Cher. She can't be here because she's in London and Croat…
To the exalted roster of artists who've performed at Carnegie Hall " Tchaikovsky, Leonard Bernstein, the Beatles " add Bill Murray. Decades after he crooned "Star Wars" on "SNL", the 67-year…
When legendary record producer and talent scout John Hammond signed Bruce Springsteen in 1972, the scraggly Jersey kid was envisioned as a lyrically intricate singer-songwriter, who might be…
Tickets for "Mean Girls" went on sale last week at the August Wilson Theatre, and Tina Fey was there to hand out cheese fries. The p.r. stunt was, well, cheesy " but effective. Inspired by o…
Harvey Weinstein was at Gwyneth Paltrow's townhouse last year when she unveiled "Head Over Heels," the musical she's producing about the 1980s girl band the Go-Gos. Weinstein, sources say, w…
Sometimes it's hard to let it go. That's what Idina Menzel's younger sister learned while growing up in the shadow of the future "Frozen" star " the Anna to her Elsa. As Cara Mentzel writes …
The Playbill for "Springsteen on Broadway" reads "Written and Directed by Bruce Springsteen" " which means the Boss could be eligible for Tony Awards for both Best Book and Best Direction of…
The buzz around the revival of Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song" at Second Stage Theater is so good, there's talk of a move to Broadway in the spring. But don't tell Fierstein. "Stop!" he says…
Throwing a play onto the big screen is always risky. It can be the best choice a studio ever makes ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?") or the absolute worst ("August: Osage County"). Even wh…
Elizabeth McGovern spent six years playing the ideal mother " the warm, wise and nurturing Lady Cora of "Downton Abbey." Clearly, she was ready for a change, and now she's found one. As the …
WANTED: An actress who can scream like Fay Wray eight times a week. The creators of the "King Kong" musical are town this week looking for Ann Darrow, the beauty that'll kill their beast at …
Making her debut at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater singing from the libretto of "La Traviata," chanteuse Charity Tillemann-Dick reached to the vocal stratosphere and gave her all to the last …
Creative inspiration strikes at random times, often when it's least expected. For the UK-based publishing house Bloomsbury, it struck in the office one day when a colleague's mother sent a p…
July 3, 2015, was a heartbreaking day for many people who work in the theater. That afternoon, they received an e-mail from Rick Elice, the Tony-nominated co-writer of "Jersey Boys," letting…
She’s sung her way through six beauty pageants. Now Angel Blue, 2005's Miss Hollywood, is ready for prime time: She'll make her Met Opera debut Monday in "La Bohème." Visually speakin…
