"Frozen" fever is still strong at Walt Disney World, as the resort's newly opened Frozen Ever After ride continues to attract long lines of fans willing to wait up to five hours for a boat t…
There was some consternation on Broadway last week over the abrupt closing of "Shuffle Along." A few people blamed producer Scott Rudin for not supporting the show after leading lady Audra M…
"My name is Popov, Dusko Popov." Well, it doesn't have the same bite as "My name is Bond, James Bond," but Dusko Popov, a Yugoslavian double agent during World War II, may well have been the…
The summer's hottest touring act is drawing crowds in all 50 states and travels under the tightest security. No, it's not Beyoncé " it's a centuries-old book. Published in 1623, Shakespeare…
Broadway’s biggest scandals now revolve around sky-high ticket prices and stars forgetting their lines. Oh, for the days when the vice squad stepped in! That's exactly what happened in…
Call it "The Miracle on 50th Street." Radio City Music Hall has been trying hard to give its precision-dance troupe, the Rockettes, something to do beyond Christmas " with little luck. In 20…
Josh Groban better start hip-hopping all over the place like Lin-Manuel Miranda if "Natasha, Pierre & Great Comet of 1812" is going to make it on Broadway. I've been riffling through the…
Is "Groundhog Day" ever going to come out of its burrow? Since Scott Rudin abruptly severed ties a few weeks ago with the musical adaptation of the 1993 Bill Murray film, word is the show wo…
This season's predicted to be a scorcher, but if you're worried about exercising in the heat, doctors say, "Don't sweat it." That's because we're actually pretty well-suited to the hot weath…
Now that ‘Hamilton’ has harvested its Tonys, some big names have announced their departure from the show " July 9 will be the last performance for Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa…
Yet another star of "Hamilton" declared his independence from the Tony-sweeping show on Sunday. A week after he won a statuette for his depiction of Aaron Burr in the perpetually sold-out Br…
If there's one thing New Yorkers love even more than outdoor concerts, it's outdoor movies. If you're willing to travel, you can easily see a different flick each night " nearly all of them …
What’s even better than a Broadway number? A big Broadway number where everybody’s thisclose to naked. That is exactly what happens at the yearly “Broadway Bares,” a …
If anything's ripe for parody, it's "Hamilton," which rode a wave of hype to sweep the Tonys on Sunday. And who better to take a few potshots at "Hamilton"-mania than Gerard Alessandrini, cr…
If you think Helen Mirren signing up for the next installment of the "Fast and the Furious” franchise is a weird move, you haven't paid enough attention to her career. Dame Helen's …
How do you wrangle a play as sexist as "The Taming of the Shrew"? The new Shakespeare in the Park production tamps down the misogyny by using an all-woman cast, many of them in drag. Even so…
Elvis Costello was in town last weekend for a reading of his musical adaptation of Elia Kazan's great movie "A Face in the Crowd." This show has been flying under the radar for a while, but …
Larry David is bringing his curmudgeonly grumblings back to HBO with a ninth season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” nearly five years since the meta comedy was last on the air. HBO an…
They came to prominence in Hollywood films in the early 1980s and were rivals for the Best Actress Oscar in 1983. Meryl Streep won, for "Sophie's Choice," and Jessica Lange, who was nominate…
"Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda tearfully dedicated a sonnet to the Orlando massacre victims at the Tony Awards Sunday night.
Broadway celebrated its latest cultural phenomenon Sunday night " "Hamilton" — which captured 11 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. But the celebration came the same day an ISIS-insp…
“Hamilton,” the hip-hop stage biography of Alexander Hamilton, won the 2016 Tony Award for best new musical, capping an emotional night in which many in the Broadway community ra…
Groundbreaking. Game-changing. Revolutionary. That's what the critics have called Lin-Manuel Miranda's "Hamilton," which won a bevy of Tony Awards last night. So what will be the next "groun…
Tony Awards host James Corden declared that "hate will never win" during a sober opening to Broadway's biggest night Sunday, only hours after the mass murder in Florida. "All around the worl…
One of the funnier skits on "Inside Amy Schumer" this season was "Betsy Ross," in which she tells Lin-Manuel Miranda (of "Hamilton" fame) about her new passion project, the next historica…