Some Big Apple residents bear witness to the old adage " the only constant is change " more than most. These six New Yorkers have lived in their homes for more than 50 years, raising childre…
Not even “Hamilton” can keep up with these numbers. The script to the London stage production “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two” sold more than 2 m…
"Cats" is back, and with it T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, posters, key chains, socks, baseball caps and mouse pads " each one emblazoned with the famous cat's-eyes logo. Merchandising has long be…
Don’t let the haters put kitty litter in your cream. "Cats" now. "Cats" forever. The revival this week of the musical that ran on Broadway for an entire generation (1982 to 2000) trigg…
Television's search for the first great musical drama has been a fraught journey, with a few expensive dead-ends. Either the music was there and the story wasn't ("Smash") or the story and t…
London's National Theatre will mount a revival of "Amadeus" " Peter Shaffer's celebrated play about the rivalry between Mozart and Salieri " in October. The National hasn't produced "Amadeus…
It's a hard knock life for "Annie" composer Charles Strouse who's locked in a legal battle with his longtime collaborator over rights to Broadway hits like "Bye Bye Birdie" and "Applause." S…
James M. Nederlander, who built an empire of theaters that stretched from Times Square to Los Angeles, died Monday night in New York. He was 94. Nederlander, along with his rivals-turned-fri…
When Chilina Kennedy, the star of Broadway's "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical," decided to adopt, she thought she was doing it for Molly. That was six years ago. Kennedy was living in her…
While Broadway goes through its "Hamilton" craze, London is obsessed with Harry Potter. Advance sales for "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" at the Palace Theatre have hit $32 million, whic…
You can't always get what you want. But if you try sometime, you just might find … you're singing backup for Mick Jagger. Hey, it happened to Matthew Ciuffitelli. Three years ago he wa…
Before composer Alan Menken went off to Disneyland to write "The Little Mermaid" and "Beauty and the Beast," he was working on a Broadway musical called "Kicks." It never got off the ground,…
Even if you don't fall in the water, you'll be drenched within five minutes of playing kayak polo. Between the frantic paddling and the splashing when the ball hits the water hard, you don't…
The title of Woody Allen's "Café Society" conjures up three famous haunts of the '30s and '40s: the '21' Club, El Morocco and the Stork Club. Those Midtown joints were largely restricted to…
Here’s a promising cast: Victoria Clark, Tony-winning star for "The Light in the Piazza"; Montego Glover, who was the highlight of "Memphis" a few years back; and Tsidii Le Loka, the o…
He got the job done, and now the Tony Award-winning “Hamilton” star Daveed Diggs is dropping the mic for good. On the heels of Lin Manuel-Miranda's final curtain-call as the m…
It's mid-July and the broadcast networks have yet to cough up one single summer series hit. Lucky for us, the world of television is now a much different beast, with many more places (or "pl…
Theatergoers who paid a fistful of Benjamins to see the Broadway hit "Hamilton" were upset Monday to wind up the in the first audience to attend the show after the departure of its star and …
It's going to be just as hard to score a glimpse of "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda as it is to see his final four shows. The 36-year-old librettist, who is taking his final bow Saturd…
A celebrity-laden crowd packed the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Saturday night as Alexander Hamilton's alter ego, Lin-Manuel Miranda, made his final appearance in "Hamilton," Broadway's bigges…
Al Capone will forever be associated with Chicago, City of the Big Shoulders, as Carl Sandburg put it in 1914, where "gun[men] kill and go free to kill again." But America's most notorious g…
All kids love cartoons, but in Owen Suskind's case, they changed his life. Suskind, 25, has autism. Growing up in Washington, DC, he had difficulty talking and relating to others. Then his f…
The Smiths and their lead singer, Morrissey, have long had a passionate following, but few are as gonzo as their fans in Mexico and in Southern California's Mexican-American community. Now c…
For many lucky theatergoers who scored "Hamilton" tickets, July 9 will be the gloomiest day ever. That's when Lin-Manuel Miranda ends his run in the show. So will co-stars Phillipa Soo and T…
HBO is quietly developing " dare I say in the dead of night? " a Broadway musical based on its popular vampire series "True Blood." Director Pam MacKinnon, who barely survived the fiasco tha…