When it comes to visionaries, give war a chance. Several major artists and innovators of the 20th century served as volunteer ambulance drivers during World War I, shaping their experiences …
It's springtime for Martin Shkreli! A satirical musical about the life of the so-called "pharma douche" will get a proper off-Broadway run in May, just weeks before the former hedge fund man…
When Mark Medoff attended a reading on Monday of his Tony Award-winning play "Children of a Lesser God," he was apprehensive: He hadn't seen the play in a few years and was worried it might …
A well-done movie musical is a great equalizer: It can make audiences feel like they're in the front row at a Broadway show without the sticker shock. Bill Condon's lavish live-action "Beaut…
Most people in the theater world run to the spotlight. Not Terrence McNally. Modest, shy and industrious, he's let his work speak for itself. Fortunately, his plays " "Lips Together, Teeth A…
It may be Canada's 150th birthday, but suddenly our neighbor to the north is setting the pop culture agenda. The world's most talked about Ryans " Gosling and Reynolds " both hail from Canad…
The creator of Nickelodeon’s “SpongeBob SquarePants” says he has been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease. Stephen Hillenburg tells Variety that he will continue to w…
In the last few months, Bella Thorne has tweeted a photo of herself wearing nothing but high heels, and also Snapchatted a pic of her newly pierced nipple (seen through a sheer pink top) and…
Veteran actor John Lithgow understands the vagaries of his profession " including his TV segue from cigar-chomping statesman Winston Churchill in "The Crown" to a roller skating, bisexual ac…
In 1974, Reed Birney dropped out of Boston University and came to New York at 19, to become an actor. "I was ambitious and I wanted to get going," he tells BARBARA HOFFMAN. "I've been here e…
After the high ratings and great reviews for "Behind the Candelabra," HBO's 2013 ghoulish but absorbing bio about Liberace, producer Jerry Weintraub wanted to turn it into a Broadway musical…
King Kong, one of the most iconic movie monsters in cinematic history, has gone through a lot of changes " most notably, his height, which varied from scene to scene in the first two iterati…
The scene: Casey Affleck, giving the performance of his life, is confronted by his ex-wife but can't accept her attempt to reach out across the emotional gulf that separates them. The tragic…
If Norma Desmond is ready for her Broadway close-up, surely Robert Evans is, too. Hollywood's suntanned, sunglasses-wearing legend is putting the finishing touches on the stage adaptation of…
"Don't know when I've seen such a lovely wedding. But I always cry. Don't know why it is, but I always cry," says Louella Soames in a famous speech from the play "Our Town." Here's why you c…
Angelica Page developed her one-woman show about her mother, Oscar-winning actress Geraldine Page, at the Actors Studio in New York. It was a fitting place to work, since her mother was a me…
Restless "Game of Thrones" fans who are traumatized that this year's seventh season of their favorite show won't start till summer " later than usual " can get a Westeros fix Tuesday night a…
Disney aired its first gay kissing scene in Monday's episode of children's cartoon "Star vs. the Forces of Evil." The Disney XD show saw main character Star and her friend Marco attend a con…
Tina Fey and "Saturday Night Live" executive producer Lorne Michaels are revving up for what they're calling a "developmental lab" of their "Mean Girls" musical. The script, which Fey adapte…
Paul Rudnick is one of the funniest writers around. Reading his collected plays the other day, I burst out laughing at lines from "I Hate Hamlet," starring the vainglorious ghost of John Bar…
The galaxy's favorite scoundrel is back " and he's brought some friends. Disney released its first cast photo for the new untitled Han Solo spinoff movie Tuesday. The film is due for release…
There’s something for everybody on Broadway this spring: comedies ("The Play That Goes Wrong"), dramas ("Sweat"), star vehicles ("War Paint") and revivals ("Hello, Dolly!"). One thing'…
Ryan Gosling's jazz pianist in "La La Land" may be obsessed with bringing back beebop, but in real life the Oscar-nominated film has resurrected another arcane art form: tap dancing. "I've b…
Billions Sunday, 10 p.m., Showtime The return of "Billions" finds U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti) and hedge fund king Bobby "Axe" Axelrod (Damian Lewis) digging out from the afte…
The two performances Broadway's raving about " Glenn Close in "Sunset Boulevard" and Jake Gyllenhaal in "Sunday in the Park With George" " are ineligible for Tony Awards. For Close, it's the…