Top Broadway pundits predict easy victories at this Sunday's Tony Awards, but there is a lot of drama in other leading contests.
Courtney P. Vance couldn't get over it. He was presenting a Theatre World Award to Tom Hanks, not only a two-time Oscar winner and beloved star of man...
If this were Dutch Masters instead of American Masters, I'd have a box of cigars, gripes Mel Brooks about the enterprise of including a documentary ab...
I often note how difficult it is to create a comedy that's not only smart and funny but also charming and surprising. But first-time director Craig Zisk, a TV veteran, has done that with The English Teacher.
An excitingly ambitious new play by Douglas Carter Beane, The Nance is held back only by some poor casting and a modest lack of context. But it's essential theater for anyone who wants to see Nathan Lane -- one of the greats -- at the top of his game.
The Assembled Parties is one of the few original plays to debut on Broadway this season -- and it's a winner. Opening in a grand Upper West Side apartment populated by assimilated Jews, it addresses searing issues of family, class and culture.
I started the week with a big drawing of the new musical, Motown. This is a show about the life of record producer/songwriter, Berry Gordy. It is already a big hit, with the winning formula of a score of very popular Motown hits.
I hate to dub The Nance as a cautionary tale, but all history is cautionary. And not so splendid either, as we always prefer to think.
Plays conjuring Manhattan in the 1930s often take on the look of a live-action Edward Hopper painting. Not a bad thing. Actually, the effect is stunning when the curtain rises on The Nance.
The award season is all about superlatives and thank you speeches but for East Hampton's Guild Hall Lifetime Achievement Awards, it is about community and family.
While some Americans assume that their religious freedom gives them the right to trample the rights of others, all too often the oppressor doesn't realize what true freedom can mean to someone.
Bette Midler has played a hard-living rock-and-roll singer in "The Rose," the victim of a kidnap plot in "Ruthless People" and a loving best friend in...
One of the blessings of having an unfettered imagination is a willingness to take greater risks than many other artists. When it was first announced t...
"Modern Family" is ringing in the New Year with Billy Dee Williams and Nathan Lane. According to EW, "Star Wars" alum Billy Dee Williams will gue...
How do you pay tribute to a star in the film industry, playfully dubbed "The Meryl Streep of Costume Design"?
"The Good Wife" Season 4 will feature many new -- and familiar -- faces. Rita Wilson will return early in the fourth season as Viola Walsh in the ...
When "The Good Wife" returns this fall, it won't be the jolly-go-lucky Lockhart/Gardner we've seen in the past -- it'll be far from it. "[Season 4]...
Chicago truly is an amazing theatre town -- especially now, where we have two epic plays receiving landmark productions, and I've been lucky to see both of them.
Brian Dennehy talked the meaning of art, explained his passion for Eugene O'Neil and told me my wife was more intelligent than me. It was perhaps the most fun I've had hosting The Interview Show, a monthly talk show we put on in Chicago and Brooklyn.
With two "Snow White" films in the works, the question of "Who's the fairest of them all" will be especially apt in 2012. And while the Charlize Thero...
Well, this was unfortunate. During Tuesday's "View," guest Nathan Lane grew visibly stunned when an audience member got sick during the show. Lane...
Nathan Lane stopped by "Late Show" (Weeknights, 11:35 p.m. EST on CBS) Tuesday night and delivered his assessment of the GOP candidates running for th...
Stories are often told in Los Angeles. They range from you'll-never-guess-who-I-saw-at-Urth to the variety of comedies, dramas and fantasies that we s...
According to Vince Mendoza, the idea of his latest record was partly to embrace the various musicians that he's met over the years and to invite his old friends to participate in his music.
Anticipating great gusts and flooding, many Hamptonites chose the real-life drama of celebrity lives as read by celebrities over the real-life drama of storms at Guild Hall last Friday night.
