A reporter once asked Peter O'Toole, whose capacity for booze was legendary, if he ever turned up for work drunk. "The answer to that is not only drunk, but deliberately so," O'Toole said, l…
He was born in Miami, raised in Brooklyn and says he currently lives "in a suitcase" " but Ben Vereen seems most at home on Broadway. The Tony-winning star of "Pippin" is back in town, perfo…
Broadway legend Joel Grey has won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a Tony over his more than 50-year career, but the 84-year-old actor is still adding new lines to his résumé. On Satur…
The wholesome new Disney movie, out Nov. 23, is named after a Polynesian princess " but for Italians, the film's moniker brings to mind a somewhat less innocent lady: Moana Pozzi, a popular …
With about two years left to go until the much-anticipated Broadway launch of "Frozen," those eager to "Let It Go" can get a chill fix with a 55-minute live version that had its world premie…
“That’s me," says Robert Morse, smiling at his caricature in Sardi's. "It's like I'm looking in a mirror!" Well, not quite. Sketched some 55 years ago, when "How To Succeed in Bu…
After giving Alexander Hamilton the gift of rap, Lin-Manuel Miranda's written a song for The Rock. Disney's "Moana," out Wednesday, features original music by Miranda and the vocal stylings …
Florenz Ziegfeld. David Merrick. Cameron Mackintosh. And now . . . Gwyneth Paltrow. The Oscar-winning actress is poised to join the ranks of fabled theatrical impresarios if "H…
The first season of Showtime's "The Affair" took a novel approach to storytelling by playing out its narrative from two points of view: those of forbidden lovers Noah (Dominic West) and Alis…
Nobody’s approached Bruce Springsteen about turning his acclaimed new memoir into a musical. But he's certainly open to the idea. I met Springsteen, briefly, at a party for his best-se…
Stars, take notice: Josh Groban is doing Broadway right. In the magical new musical "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812," which opened Monday, the singer is top-billed. But from h…
Carl Barron has never been interested in getting political on stage.
The latest movie from J.K. Rowling's wizarding world hits theaters Nov. 18, but this time there's no teen named Harry, there's no dude called Hagrid, and there's no Hogwarts. It's not even s…
Of all the new shows percolating out there, the one I'm most excited about is "Buñuel," Stephen Sondheim and David Ive s' adaptation of two Luis Buñuel movies, "The Discreet Charm of t…
If Donald Trump wins the White House on Tuesday, he'll be only the second United States president born in New York City. So while you're waiting for a National Historic Landmarks plaque to g…
There was a twinge of sadness at the opening Sunday of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses." Those associated with the original 1987 Broadway production couldn't help but think of two people who helpe…
Howard and Janet Kagan, the husband-and-wife producers of "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812," have managed to upstage theater critics as the most reviled people on Broadway. The…
“The Walking Dead" was in dire need of some levity following its bloody Season 7 opener. Enter King Ezekiel. The AMC drama's newest character, played by Khary Payton, sports dreadlocks…
In off-Broadway's "A Life," David Hyde Pierce's 54-year-old character realizes he's forgotten what he was talking about. That's no big deal, says Pierce, 57: "It's the kind of forgetting we …
Kurt Vonnegut once wrote about a dystopian world that mandated mediocrity, so that beautiful people had to mask themselves, while brilliant ones donned headsets to scatter their thoughts. I …
'Young Frankenstein" is one of those movies that, when it crops up on TCM, you drop everything and laugh yourself silly till the credits roll. You know all the lines by heart: "What hump?" "…
Some musicals leave you wanting to sing and dance. One musical helped me leave my husband. And yes, that was a good thing. The show was "March of the Falsettos," William Finn's 1981, sung-th…
Last Sunday's game-changing, blood-soaked Season 7 premiere of "The Walking Dead" left its protagonist Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) in unfamiliar territory: helpless to stop the horror unfol…
I can tell you what Mel Brooks is doing for Halloween: re-animating his Broadway musical "Young Frankenstein." Brooks, along with co-writer Tom Meehan and director Susan Stroman, has taken a…
Joan Rivers achieved a lot: groundbreaking comedienne, popular TV personality, QVC entrepreneur, buckets of money. But the one thing she wanted above all else eluded her. As Leslie Bennetts …