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Lady Rizo and Bridget Everett Show us How Stars Get Made

Breaking Big, But Slowly

Kristin Chenoweth on the Oscars, Adele, Hugh Jackman, and S&M

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A Quick Guide To Broadway Nights At Gay Bars

Monday is the big night for weekly Broadway-related bar events at gay bars because most shows are dark that night, and the boites hope the customers and performers are available to straggle in. Mixing Broadway and booze, these parties tend to attract theater-queens and their friends who thrill to a ... More >>

Coming Up Roses

Forbidden Broadway Takes a Stab at It

A favorite showbiz revue returns with knives drawn

Bernadette Peters Admits She May Have Aged A Tiny Bit

The timeless Bernadette Peters was the guest of honor at a New Dramatists Luncheon at the Marriott Marquis yesterday, where she was serenaded by costars Elaine Stritch and John Dossett and honored by Joel Grey, who said she's been like a younger sister to him ever since she played just that in Georg ... More >>

Who Got Snubbed By The Tony Nominations?

Broadway's finest have been honored by the Tony nominating committee, the results announced just moments ago as theater folk all over town felt some real emotion for a change. Among the nominated are, well, approximately two thirds of the people I predicted yesterday. But more interestingly, who g ... More >>

My Tony Nomination Predictions!

I've seen almost everything this season except Magic/Bird--which to me sounds like a wildlife puppet show, and it's quite possible that's what it is--and I'm ready to tell you who will definitely maybe probably almost get Tony nominated tomorrow morning. Here goes: BEST PLAY *Clybourne Park *Othe ... More >>

Footloose 2011: There is Still a Time to Dance

Follies: Dances With Ghosts

The revival of Sondheim's Follies offers more extravagance than emotional grip

Follies Is Back! My Review

​Is a serviceable Follies good enough? Yes, because the 1971 classic is such a rich, dark leap into regret, with a witty and poignant Sondheim score--and besides, the Eric Schaeffer-directed production rises to the occasion for Act Two. You know the drill:

I Know Who Should Play The Three Strippers In Gypsy!

​As you know, Barbra Streisand is reportedly going to make a movie where she's Grandma Rose--I mean Mama Rose--in Gypsy. Well, I have a great idea as to who should play the worn out yet educational ecdysiasts who sing "You Gotta Get A Gimick" to young Gypsy Rose Lee as they show off the shtic ... More >>

What's Your Favorite Diva Showstopper From Follies?

​The classic show biz breakdown musical, Follies, is coming back to Broadway, complete with its luscious and witty Sondheim score. There are no fewer than four showstopping numbers for women in the musical. Your faves in order? Here are mine: (4) Could I Leave You? Phyllis--played by Jan ... More >>

Pennies From Heaven

Radcliffe's Costar Shocked By His Tony Dis

​Photo: Broadwayworld.com Tammy Blanchard plays Hedy La Rue in the How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying revival, and got Tony nominated for it, while star Daniel Radcliffe was famously omitted. Well, at the nominees meet-and-greet today, the talented Blanchard--whom you know as y ... More >>

Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch Brighten the Starshine of A Little Night Music

Stephen Sondheim devotees get a little more of what they've been missing

This Week in the Voice: Gladys Carrión, City Kids Advocate and Upstate's Bureaucratic "Satan"

​Why do some people upstate consider the Bronx's Gladys Carrión their own 'Satan' incarnate? Maybe it has something to do with all the juvenile detention facilities city kids get sent to up there. Or got sent to. Because -- as the commissioner of the Office of Children and Family Services -- Car ... More >>

Elaine Stritch is Flubbing Her Lines

​Octogenarian Broadway legend Elaine Stritch is reportedly messing up lines here and there in A Little Night Music, but hey, that's what, um, er...line!--uh, that's what previews are for. Observers say costar Bernadette Peters helped her out on a line at one performance, and other nights, the ... More >>

I Met With a Reality Show Producer

​ A TV producer recently contacted me because he's supposedly a big fan and thought I'd be great to pitch a show with. He warned me that I wouldn't make that much money directly off the show. But, obviously, he'd do much better than that or he wouldn't have been suggesting it. After a phone ... More >>

Battle Of The Summer-Themed Mixtapes: The Morning Benders Vs. Jens Lekman Vs. DJ Jazzy Jeff & Mick Boogie

​Here we have three artist-curated mixes to guide you through this apocalyptic heat: Given that DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince's "Summertime" remains the almighty jam (it is too hot to even argue about this) (she turn around to see what you beepin' at), Jeff's gargantuan, nearly 50-track mix ... More >>

Downtown Gossip Tidbits

Sultana​Drag performer Sultana will concentrate on her art and performing full-time from now on. After losing her job at Tiffany's, Sultana has now been pink slipped at Ivanka Trump's jewelry establishment. The economy's being especially rough on drag queens!

Patti LuPone is the New Ethel Merman

via PattiLuPone.net​In 1987's tap-happy revival of Anything Goes, Patti LuPone scored as Reno Sweeney, the role originated by big-lunged Ethel Merman in the 30s. In 2008, she picked up a Tony for playing Mama Rose, another Merman role, in a rousing retread of Gypsy. And now, she going to tak ... More >>

"Facts of Life" Sweetie Costars with Gay Porn Studs

Meeting Mindy Cohn in Fort Greene. Side trip to Nashville.

Vodka Stinger's Top Five Broadway Videos

New TKTS Booth Opens: Takes Credit Cards, Stamina

Mothers and Other Animals

Gypsy is younger than ever, but LuPone's Madam Rose is the maddest yet

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Country in the City

As Nashville invades New York, a home-grown hayseed scene thrives beneath the CMA's radar

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High Culture on a Low Budget

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Revival of the Fittest

Old's Always Better; the Hard Part Is Making It New

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Refracted Fairy Tales

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What actor was boyfriends until recently with that hotshot director who helped guide him to Oscar?

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