Linda Lavin is absolutely brilliant as Rita Lyons in Nicky Silver's new play The Lyons now running at The Vineyard Theater. She's the family matriarch flipping through Elle Décor as the play opens. She's busy getting ideas for redecorating the living room while her husband lies on his...

Daniel Radcliffe is starring as J. Pierrepont Fitch in the Broadway revival of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying and he is fantastic. In fact the entire show is terrific and everyone was cheering when I saw it last Sunday.

The show tells the story...

John Adam's Old Work Gets New Life in Luca Guadagnino's New Film I Am Love

Luca Guadagnino's I Am Love is one of my favorite films of the year, and perhaps, of the last few years. When I left the theater I felt elated and uplifted and really...

The big summer songs are here thanks to Katy Perry, Rhianna, Xtina and more, but don't overlook a few other pop divas that have something to sing about this summer.

First up, Robyn's Body Talk Part 1. Robyn, the Swedish pop sensation, returns with a 30 minute collection...

"I'm a fighter." That's what the character Stu finally realizes at the end of act two of the new off Broadway musical Yank!. His journey to self realization is told during World War II from boot camp to deployment in the Pacific. Yank! is called "A WWII Love Story"...

Normal to feel angry
Normal to feel guilty
Normal to feel sad
Normal to hallucinate

That's what I learned recently when my cat Velma died.

When I first met her I didn't expect to keep her. I didn't think I was really a cat person. I mean...

A news fast can be a wonderful thing. I highly recommend it. However, it has become harder and harder to truly fast these days. I was on vacation last week in Provincetown, M.A. and enjoying the lobster rolls, the art galleries, the sun and especially the cocktails by the pool...

Spring is trying to spring here in Manhattan and I'm walking the streets listening to a selection of three very cool new projects from three very different artists. I'm sure as I look back on these days this music will begin to define early spring 2009 in New York.

"I am Harvey Milk and I'm here to recruit you," screams Sean Penn into a bullhorn while playing the slain San Francisco City Supervisor. Those words still resonate today. If Harvey Milk were alive today, Proposition 8 would never have seen the light of day. Harvey Milk inspired hundreds of...

I spent a good part of last Tuesday crying. It started early in the morning right after I got back from voting. I turned on The Today Show and watched my candidate and his family vote in Chicago. Then Meredith had to mention how sad it was that his grandmother...

Amend -- transitive verb 1: to put right ; especially : to make emendations in (as a text) 2 a: to change or modify for the better : improve b: to alter especially in phraseology ; especially : to alter formally by modification, deletion, or addition

Dear Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain, You are driving a wedge between my parents and me.

This battle between Obama and McCain is now playing out in emails and telephone calls between New York and North Carolina. It started out harmless enough with occasional emails with subject lines like "535...

It was a free download of "Half Boyfriend" on the gay blog/website Towleroad that peaked my interest in actor/singer-songwriter Jay Brannan. His voice is completely distinctive and new. It doesn't really fit any traditional mold and I thought I was alone in thinking he's the male version of...

It's the music in the new Pixar Disney film Wall-E that made such an impact on me. The film opens with an excerpt of "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" sung by Michael Crawford from the movie musical Hello Dolly and it becomes Wall-E's leitmotif as he spends the next...

Looking for something a little better than Hard Candy? Get a taste of Robyn's new self-titled release. This album came out in 2005 in Europe, but took two years to get a release date scheduled domestically. It is well worth the wait.

Perez Hilton was raving about her months...

There I was in the back row of the St. Jame Theater last Saturday night witnessing Patti LuPone sink her teeth into the role of Mama Rose in Gypsy and tear the place apart. It was an amazing evening as she practically took the roof off of the place....

"I'm at the mall on a diet pill!" shouts Fred Schneider on the single and title track "Funplex" and with that ladies and gentlemen please welcome back The B52s. It's been 16 years since their last studio album and they don't disappoint on this triumphant return.

Funplex takes me...

THE MOST EXCITING NEW AMERICAN PLAY BROADWAY HAS SEEN IN YEARS." - Charles Isherwood, The New York Times

"Life is very long, " the family's patriarch says and so begins the Tracy Letts' play August: Osage County, now running through April 29 at the Imperial Theatre (then to...

"And so to the year's brightest new talent: the pocket-sized Welsh girl with the voice of a '60s soul diva. Move over Amy Winehouse..." --Q Magazine

I just got my hands on an album sampler from Duffy the other day and lucky, lucky me. I had heard about her...

Indie rock darlings Vampire Weekend got my $11 and I couldn't be happier. I picked up their self-titled debut album today on my lunch break and I am really digging it. Self described "Upper West Side Soweto," the album is a mix of African beats, classical string arrangements and...