there is an added frisson to their coming collaboration in "Uncle Vanya" (which opens on Thursday and runs through March 8), one of the rare instances...
Daily News | By JOANNA MOLLOY and MEREDITH KOLODNER | Posted 03.05.2009 | Entertainment
Will Ferrell's spoof of former President George Bush may be the hottest ticket in town, but it's a lap-dancing Condoleezza Rice - and her red panties ...
Jason Mannino | Posted 03.02.2009 | Living
More than three weeks into 2009 you have ambitiously begun to tackle resolutions to bring forward in your life changes to enhance your quality of livi...
Vickie Karp | Posted 03.01.2009 | Entertainment
DHH: Theater is uniquely positioned to address issues of community simply because it's not mass media. I do some work in theater. I do some work in film and television.
AP | MICHAEL KUCHWARA | Posted 02.27.2009 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — Well, there's an upside to Jeremy Piven's highly publicized departure last month from the Broadway revival of "Speed-the-Plow." David...
AP | Posted 02.27.2009 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — "Thriller" a Broadway musical? Producer James L. Nederlander says he has acquired the rights for a stage version of Michael Jackson'...
Mark Blankenship | Posted 02.22.2009 | Entertainment
Should male and female actors be divided into their own categories? I know it's always been this way, but does that make it necessary?
Fern Siegel | Posted 01.30.2009 | Entertainment
Shrek the Musical at the Broadway Theater is notable for being loud and unnerving. The original film was layered; the musical translation is all campy surface. The Lion King this isn't.
New York Times | Posted 01.28.2009 | Entertainment
DEEP in their scone-envying souls, many Americans suspect that British actors are better than their own countrymen at performing classic plays. But ar...
Matthew-Lee Erlbach | Posted 01.26.2009 | World
WILL stands in front of Harold Pinter's dead body while NIC reads the paper. WILL. Well he's dead. NIC. What? WILL. Look, there. He doesn't move...
Tom Gregory | Posted 01.23.2009 | Entertainment
Piven's abrupt departure from Speed the Plow was a low in the history of Broadway. Every actor who ever uttered the edict "the show must go on" rolled his eyes, or rolled over in his grave.
Huffington Post | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green
As Jeremy Piven leaves Broadway due to his high mercury count, people are wondering just what exactly that means. It means you've been poisoned. Or y...
Variety, ET | Posted 01.18.2009 | Entertainment
***Alarming update from Piven's doctor below about his high mercury toxicity, the symptoms and the possible causes*** From Variety: Jeremy Piven will...
Hal Donahue | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics
New Yorkers gather from all over the nation and abroad; where they come from and what they are reaffirms that we are all "real Americans," even those "pesky" immigrants.
Amitava Kumar | Posted 01.16.2009 | Entertainment
When it was first performed in 1896, in Petersburg, The Seagull was a disaster. But the actors in this new production of the play by the Royal Court Theatre, are magnificent.
Brad Balfour | Posted 01.07.2009 | Entertainment
Langella: "Ron [Howard] was about as good as anyone I've ever worked with. He wants the film to be about human beings and wants it to be about the soul of people."
AP | Posted 12.25.2008 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — "American Buffalo" has come _ and gone. The revival of the David Mamet play starring John Leguizamo, Cedric the Entertainer and Hale...
Fern Siegel | Posted 08.11.2009 | Entertainment
The Footage, now playing at the Flea Theater, will leave you mad -- at how manipulative people can be with technology.
AP | ERIN CARLSON | Posted 12.15.2008 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — Elton John still can't believe he's a Broadway hitmaker. The 61-year-old musician marveled at his success Thursday night at the open...
AP | Posted 12.14.2008 | Entertainment
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The artistic director at California's largest nonprofit musical theater company resigned Wednesday amid protests over his d...
Fern Siegel | Posted 12.13.2008 | Entertainment
The young, romance-seeker asks: "Don't you believe in love?" Her more jaded friend snaps back: "I believe in Lehman Bros." In 1922, when Edith Wharton wrote those lines, everyone laughed.
New York Times | Posted 12.13.2008 | Entertainment
The last time that John Lithgow and Patrick Wilson participated in the kind of theater exercises that they did to prepare for the current Broadway re...
AP | KRISTEN A. LEE | Posted 12.11.2008 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — Chris Noth's focus had shifted from career to family when his agent called about a role in the Atlantic Theater Company's off-Broadwa...
Fern Siegel | Posted 11.24.2008 | Entertainment
The Disneyfication of Broadway, coupled with the proliferation of movies turned musicals, is enough to send any serious theater fan screaming into the night.
NY Times | Posted 03.11.2009 | Entertainment