Most toddlers delight their parents by walking from one end of the room to the other without wiping out. Two-year-old Nik Wallenda dazzled his mom, Delilah, when he walked across the living …
Marian Seldes was beloved: an elegant, talented, wonderfully eccentric actress and teacher whose students included Christopher Reeve, Patti LuPone and Kevin Spacey. She died in 2014, at 86. …
In June 1979, the Bee Gees were on top of the world. Months before, their "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack, featuring songs written and/or performed by the Australian trio, had won a Grammy…
Here’s everything to see and listen to on NYC’s stages this fall. Theater Even in a season when The Boss comes to town " "Springsteen on Broadway" (previews Oct. 3, Walter Kerr) …
Fallout from the crash and burn of "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812" continues to rain down on Broadway. A group of disgruntled investors in the $14 million production " which …
Mitch Lowe has created a monster fit for the big screen. The chief executive of MoviePass took a sleepy, little-known 20,000-member movie subscription service on Aug. 15 and injected pure ad…
Most music fans know Nona Hendryx as a member of Labelle, the trio of divas who scored a No. 1 hit in 1974 with "Lady Marmalade." But the 72-year-old soul sister has worked with everyone fro…
If they gave an award Sunday night for Most Hilarious Emmy Campaign, Jackie Hoffman would win. Nominated for her role as Mamacita in "Feud: Bette and Joan," she made a video of herself calli…
"I'm really sorry for what's about to happen," director Darren Aronofsky said before showing "mother!" at a packed Toronto Film Festival theater on Saturday. Calm down, "Black Swan" guy. Vie…
DENVER " Disney is opening its Broadway-bound "Frozen" Thursday night to a sea of Elsas. Easily one-third of the audience for the last month of previews has arrived in long blue gowns and bl…
Prospective backers for the upcoming revivals of "Angels in America" and "M. Butterfly" are getting sticker shock when they see the price tags. These are big, bold and potentially thrilling …
WASHINGTON " Lin-Manuel Miranda can add one more distinction to his growing resume: congressional honoree. The Hamilton actor and playwright who made the Founding Father a pop-culture phenom…
All the Raisinets in the world aren't enough to sugarcoat this fact: In recent months, the Hollywood box office has been a disaster. Tinseltown just wrapped up its worst summer at the box of…
Her Playbill bio is longer than that of some of her co-stars. Then again, she's had a helluva life, having narrowly escaped death row. Now, after three years on the road with "Annie," Macy, …
President Frank Underwood called me the other day to tell me about a play that I haven't been paying much attention to: "The Parisian Woman." It's a terrible title, but when FU calls, you li…
The big shows for the new theater season are set. We'll be singing "Let It Go" from "Frozen," toasting the wit of Tina Fey in "Mean Girls," enjoying the charms of "The Band's Visit," and hop…
Put aside the politics, the polemics and the president. Michael Moore, nestled into a booth at a bar in the theater district, wants to talk about something else: his lifelong love affair wit…
"All the world's a stage," said Shakespeare. And he was right: His own work's headed to four Hell's Kitchen bars and a Brooklyn recycling center. Theaters are so 16th century. In the next se…
When Maggie Gyllenhaal was 7 years old, she rode with her Aunt Frieda and Uncle Maury in a taxi to Times Square. They were going to see a Broadway show and Gyllenhaal remembers them speaking…
It’s all in the numbers for Ali Stroker: a one-woman show over two nights next month followed by "Ten Days in the Valley" on ABC. The Tony-nominated actress ("Spring Awakening") " best…
Not only is it alive, it's a hit. Mel Brooks spent the past year in the laboratory repairing his 2007 flop "Young Frankenstein" and, by all accounts, succeeded: The show is slaying them in N…
These days, Lady Gaga's "Little Monsters" come in tens of thousands to honor their idol. But back when she was just getting started, doubters thought no one would bother showing up to her sh…
If this theater company thought their patrons wouldn’t give a damn, they were wrong. A historic Memphis, Tennessee, theater, which has shown “Gone With the Wind” screenings…
Pull up a chair, Stephen Sondheim fans: I've got eyewitness reports from the National Theatre of London's first preview of "Follies." Directed by Dominic Cooke, this lavish production, set i…
Pull up a chair, Stephen Sondheim fans: I've got eyewitness reports from the National Theatre of London's first preview of "Follies." Directed by Dominic Cooke, this lavish production, set i…