A new play's cast has some harsh words for Michael Riedel
My column last week about the nonmusical plays struggling at the box office prompted all sorts of e-mails and calls from producers imploring me to give them a chance. Nobody likes to come ou…
My column last week about the nonmusical plays struggling at the box office prompted all sorts of e-mails and calls from producers imploring me to give them a chance. Nobody likes to come ou…
YouTube sensation PewDiePie gained notoriety for his crass commentary, but now he’s facing backlash for a series of videos viewers say crossed the line. The YouTube star, whose real na…
Bletchley Park is one of the most famous World War II sites in England. Tourists flock to the estate, where Alan Turing cracked the Nazis' Enigma machine, enabling the Allies to read secret …
He was born in Georgia and lives in Pennsylvania, but Justin Guarini's spiritual home is Broadway. "I was probably 11 when I saw 'Les Miz,' " the first "American Idol" runner-up tells…
Nazis, adultery, betrayal. The story behind Solomon Guggenheim's first museum touches on all three " and the paintings are pretty good, too. You'll find the art at Chelsea's Leila Heller Gal…
You can't escape this winter's hottest entertainment trend. But it's not ornate British costume dramas or midseason lawyer procedurals. It's neither biopics nor boffo comic-book capers. The …
There are plenty of nonmusical plays coming to Broadway this spring, but producers are fretting that few of them are selling. Three of those plays " "Sweat," "Indecent" and "Significant Othe…
No matter how big you are in Hollywood, you don't get a trailer when you play Broadway. Heck, you're lucky if you have your own bathroom. Ask Jake Gyllenhaal. He and his "Sunday in the Park …
If you want to see 1,000 women burst into tears, hand them a piece of paper that says, "We regret to inform you that Josh Groban is unable to appear in today's performance of 'The Great Come…
The cast of "Fifty Shades Darker" didn't just need to look good naked. They needed to dominate in the buff. Enter Ramona Braganza: the celebrity fitness guru who whipped stars Jamie Dornan a…
At pre-Super Bowl LI press conference, Lady Gaga hinted that her halftime show would be about "inclusion." She got that right. It was hard to imagine anybody not enjoying the 12-minute, stun…
Talk about a pop comeback. Daisy Duke-loving Lady Gaga is set to go on tour and is to produce a follow-up to her No. 1 album "Joanne," her second album inside a year. It hardly seems a momen…
I have no idea why, but in this era of Make America Great Again, sales of George Orwell's "1984" have skyrocketed. The book, first published in 1949, is topping best-seller lists at Amazon, …
Whether stealing the show from under Richard Burton's nose or entertaining at home with his pet mountain lion, George Rose always seemed bigger than life. Perhaps the only thing more sensati…
“Superior Donuts" has the nostalgic feel of a 1970s sitcom " particularly since it's anchored by old pros such as Judd Hirsch and Katey Sagal. Hirsch plays Arthur, the jaded owner of a…
Things are getting tense up there in Toronto, where disgraced impresario Garth Drabinsky is plotting his comeback with the new musical "Sousatzka." Drabinsky's temper was legendary during hi…
In her skinny jeans and BulletBoys T-shirt, Talia Reese looks like any other stand-up delivering a late-night set in a Greenwich Village comedy club. But while others bemoan their sex lives …
"Titanic." "All About Eve." "La La Land"? Proving yet again that Oscar voters are primarily interested in movies that celebrate the industry all Oscar voters work in, the Academy of Motion P…
"La La Land" dominated the Oscar nominations Tuesday, scoring 14 nods " including the Motion Picture Academy's top award, Best Picture. The musical, with Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, tied "T…
One of the nice surprises about the Netflix "reimagining" of "One Day at a Time" was the writers' decision to define the show's main character, Penelope Alvarez (Justina Machado), beyond the…
You didn't hear this from me, but this week Cher was at the very first read-through of a new musical based on her life. I'm going to give you a few details, but I'm begging you: Don't tell a…
London theatergoers are pretty staid: applauding songs politely, sipping their white wine at the "interval" (translation: intermission) and never, ever giving a standing ovation. But the rev…
Chazz Palminteri is living proof that you can take the boy outta The Bronx, but you can't take The Bronx outta the boy. His autobiographical play "A Bronx Tale" morphed into a movie and is n…
“The Scottsboro Boys" was one of my favorite musicals of the past 10 years, so I'm happy to report that the people who created it are at work on a new show. Director Susan Stroman, com…