Forest Whitaker's co-star for the first week of previews of "Hughie" on Broadway was . . . a water cooler. During those rocky early performances, Whitaker didn't stray too far …
"Hamilton" stole the show at Monday night's Grammy Awards, first performing its electrifying opening number and then when creator/star Lin-Manuel Miranda rapped his acceptance speech for Bes…
Warning: Spoilers ahead from Sunday night's "Walking Dead" episode The midseason premiere of AMC's hit series "The Walking Dead" was loaded with shockers. For starters, young Sam (Major Dods…
American Masters: Carole King Friday, 9 p.m., PBS Carole King has been on an amazing winning streak. "Beautiful," the Broadway show based on her hits, won two Tonys. King received a Kennedy …
'No one gets to clock out today." You know the situation is desperate on "The Walking Dead" when even pompadoured uber-geek Eugene (Josh McDermitt) goes nuts, runs out and slashes putrefying…
SEE IT The latest entry in the Encores! series of neglected musicals is "Cabin in the Sky," which in 1940 boasted an all-black cast led by Ethel Waters. Modern, overly PC souls will instinct…
Everybody may love Raymond, but you've never seen Ray Romano like he is in HBO's new '70s-era music drama "Vinyl." As Zak Yankovich, the Queens-bred actor has traded his Italian, family-guy …
Hollywood's been getting a lot of flak for its treatment of women " and that's just on-screen. We're not even talking salaries here. Basically, this is a company town run by bros with MBAs w…
Joel Grey won an Oscar for his performance as the creepy Emcee in the 1972 movie version of "Cabaret." But he did so in spite of " not because of " director Bob Fosse. In fact, as Grey write…
Many "Grey's Anatomy" fans were unhappy when Giacomo Gianniotti joined the cast as intern Andrew DeLuca. And Giannotti hopes to reverse those fans' feelings when the veteran ABC drama return…
Broadway definitely doesn't have enough superhero musicals, so it's great to see that the adventures of the mutant princess with cryokinetic powers will soon get the show tune treatment. Get…
Johnny Carson's favorite singer was Marilyn Maye. The Kansas City mob loved her, too. Now 87, Maye is one of the last of the club singers who crisscrossed the country in the '50s and '60s, s…
There’s been a little distaff dust-up at "Waitress," the new musical slated to open on Broadway in the spring. The show's been touting its all-female creative team as a selling point "…
"There's some large things that happened. We don't all survive, we don't all take it very well." No kidding! That's what "The Walking Dead" Norman Reedus (Daryl) is talking about " has it ev…
"Hail, Caesar!" " Joel and Ethan Coen's screwball comedy about the movie business, opening Friday " revolves around a deadly serious man. His name is Eddie Mannix, and his job is to make Hol…
A wap bam boom! Before dissecting TV’s latest live musical presentation, let’s get something out of the way: “Grease Live,” which aired Sunday night on FOX, was the f…
Grease: Live! Sunday, 7 p.m., Fox Vanessa Hudgens grew up doing acting in musical theater before becoming a household name in Disney Channel's "High School Musical." After moving on to Broad…
Winter’s arrived with a vengeance, which means it's time for comfort food. And is there any dish more comforting than a piping hot chicken potpie? Pierce that golden crust with your fo…
It's 71 degrees and sunny on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, Calif. " where, in a few days, Fox will stage its production of "Grease: Live!" But all anyone on the set can talk about is rain…
Manhattan's iconic Ziegfeld Theatre will close its doors for the last time Thursday night. An employee at the door confirmed that after the 10 p.m. screening of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens…
Al Pacino wraps up his run in David Mamet's "China Doll" on Sunday, bringing the curtain down on my favorite show of the Broadway season. It was, to put it mildly, a rocky run, but I can rep…
The craziest thing about "The X-Files" is actually easy to believe: Gillian Anderson was offered half as much money as David Duchovny for the new six-episode revival. Never mind that she's t…
The Great White Way only went dark for a day, but it's still causing misery for some Broadway fans. Nearly 2,600 theatergoers were planning to see the hottest show in town, "Hamilton," on Sa…
If you were meant to travel somewhere, then yes, a blizzard can stink. For everybody else: woo-hoo! Here are some of the newer series and movies available on Hulu, Amazon Prime and HBO. If y…
I first reported four years ago that the Ziegfeld Theatre could close because of million-dollar-a-year losses. But I'm still saddened by my colleague Steve Cuozzo's scoop that Manhattan's…