Kevin Spacey is a convincing president in 'Elvis & Nixon'
The surreally historic 1970 meeting of two icons in the White House gets the dream cast it deserves in Liza Johnson's hilarious "Elvis & Nixon" " with actors' actors Michael Shannon as t…
The surreally historic 1970 meeting of two icons in the White House gets the dream cast it deserves in Liza Johnson's hilarious "Elvis & Nixon" " with actors' actors Michael Shannon as t…
That backlash against "Hamilton" I've been fomenting is really starting to take hold. In the past week, the musical won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, its advance sale hit $80 million, and it…
Poor Rihanna, still trying to shock the masses with violence and nipples! She should be careful: At the stroke of midnight, she might just turn into Madonna, reigning empress of harmless pro…
“Hamilton,” the hip-hop stage biography of Alexander Hamilton has won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for drama, honoring creator Lin-Manuel Miranda for a dazzling musical has captured p…
This is one Broadway show that's bound to have a very large costume budget: "Cher: The Musical." The pop icon tweeted a few years ago that she wanted to do a show about her life. She met wit…
Playbill is hoofing it a few blocks north. The theatergoers' magazine, founded in 1884, is moving to Himmel + Meringoff's 729 Seventh Ave., a building at West 49th Street with an illustrious…
There are two kinds of spy movies: Loud, splashy, explosion-driven spectacles like the Bourne/Bond/"Mission: Impossible" franchises and geopolitical thrillers in which people in dark suits q…
If you want to see a sublime actor live and up close, skip the movie stars who swan by now and then on Broadway. Instead, catch anything with Frank Langella. Now 78, he's one of the most com…
Patrick Stewart has a blast playing against type as a soft-spoken white supremacist holding a punk rock band as his temporary prisoners in Jeremy Saulnier's nicely crafted, low-budget comedy…
The last time Nicole Kidman appeared on Broadway " in David Hare 's "The Blue Room" " she took off her clothes for, oh, about eight seconds and set box-office records at the Cort Theatre. Th…
"Les Fêtes Vénitiennes" Drenched in decadent red, BAM's "Les Fêtes Vénitiennes" makes the Met Gala look like teatime at a nunnery. This baroque opera is as close as we can get to a B…
"Citizen Kane'' opened 75 years ago on May 1 at the still-extant Palace Theatre on Broadway. But Orson Welles' masterpiece, universally acclaimed as one of the greatest films to ever come ou…
Ready or not, here comes Barbra. A new film version of the classic 1959 musical "Gypsy," starring Barbra Streisand, might finally happen. Variety reports that STX Entertainment is in "advanc…
Let's make a list of the best American musical comedies. "Guys and Dolls." "Kiss Me, Kate." "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." "The Producers." "The Book of Mormon." "The Sp…
For many seasons, "Dancing with the Stars" was the most unabashedly campy and sneakily athletic competition on TV " which usually made it more fun than "American Idol," "Top Chef" or "The Am…
Warning: This article contains details from the Season 2 premiere of “Fear the Walking Dead” The "Walking Dead" spinoff, "Fear the Walking Dead," has put down some intriguing car…
A couple of years ago, Colman Domingo faced a conundrum most actors can only dream of: He had to choose between two prestige TV series. In one corner, director Baz Luhrmann ("The Great Gatsb…
GREENSBORO, N.C. " Bruce Springsteen has canceled his concert in North Carolina, citing the state’s new law blocking anti-discrimination rules covering the LGBT community. In a stateme…
After three seasons of "Doctor Who," David Tennant has a nerdtastic following in the US " two rounds on "Broadchurch" also rallied fans of country-cottage procedurals. No wonder the British …
Everybody’s heard of kitchen-sink dramas, but couch-plays are where it's at these days. We asked the set designers of four shows what they were after in finding their sofas " in short,…
In case you haven't heard enough about a certain musical already, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter's new companion book, "Hamilton: The Revolution" (Grand Central Publishing, out Tuesd…
Too bad he was killed off so quickly, because Andrew Dice Clay stormed through the premiere episode of HBO's "Vinyl," giving a memorable performance as coked-up radio honcho Frank "Buck" Rog…
I ran into Julie Taymor at a Lincoln Center library benefit a few months ago, and she looked relaxed and happy. "You look terrific," I said. "That's because I don't have any more stress!" sh…
Chemistry counts for an awful lot in a romantic comedy, and I'd be hard-pressed to name a more compatible recent screen couple than Anna Kendrick and Sam Rockwell (in spite of their nearly 1…
I see dead lesbians! And it's not that hard because it's been a real massacre on TV lately. Wednesday night on "Empire," Camilla (Naomi Campbell) dispatched her wife, Mimi (Marisa Tomei), th…