Douglas Carter Beane

In a Bumper Year, Four New American Plays Won Obies; Eight More Were Strong Contenders

The plays are the thing

'Modern Family' Star On Gay Terminology, Gurl

Modern Family Star On Gay Terminology, Gurl

At the opening night of Douglas Carter Beane's The Nance--with Nathan Lane as a gay Republican who does swishy stage acts in 1937--Jesse Tyler Ferguson of Modern Family fame happened to sit next to me. (Lucky him.) So I nanced him up for this week's column. You'll see what Jesse had to say about th ... More >>

The Year Of The Broadway Hottie Continues

This week's column takes you to the opening night of The Nance, about a gay burlesque star in the '30s and his various moral dilemmas. And among other things, the play furthers this as the year of the Broadway stud. I wrote about this earlier, when I ran photos of various nude or semi-nude guys par ... More >>

Nathan Lane Rules in The Nance

Playing a first-rate conflicted gay burlesque star

Will The Cinderella Writer Talk To Me?

Douglas Carter Beane and I were getting along pretty well--I did a nice interview with him, which was included in my last book--but when I didn't rave about Sister Act, calling it "rote but pretty enjoyable", he started cooling to me. He made a remark to me that made it clear he was disappointed wi ... More >>

Passion and Cinderella Try Opposite Approaches to the Musical;Belleville Tries One's Patience

Rules and deregulations

Is Cinderella Enchanted? My Review

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella--which originated as a light and lovely 1957 TV special--has been fleshed out with theatrics, jokes, a political subplot, puppets, extra songs, and anachronisms. The result is an unwieldy but crowd pleasing concoction that ends up being reasonably entertaining de ... More >>

Broadway Gossip About Ricky Martin, Newsies, and Jekyll & Hyde!

Once again, feel-good battles artsinessfor the Antoinettes

Lysistrata Jones Is Greece, The Musical

A new Broadway show gives Aristophanes some hoop dreams

Gossip About The New Cinderella

CBS/Museum of Television and Radio​ As you may have heard, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella will get an April workshop with the intent of an eventual Broadway mounting, if all goes bibbidi-bobbidi-boo. I ran into playwright Douglas Carter Beane before a performance of his musical Lysistra ... More >>

Lysistrata Jones--Blue Balls and Basketballs

Aristophanes hits the court in the Transport Group's new musical adaptation

Broadway ChitChat From The Tony Nominees

​This week's column has my invigorating talks with various award nominees who sparkled up the Broadway season. Here are some extra tidbits from the stars: How did Mark Rylance (above), the volcanic actor who's Tony nominated for Jerusalem, feel about not also being nominated for his perform ... More >>

HOOP DREAMS

A production of Lysistrata Jones

Paul Weitz's Trust Is a Lame Game

The playwright serves up another savorless meringue

Yank!, Clybourne Park, and Mr. & Mrs. Fitch Go For Gimmicks

Transsexual Lesbian Takes Hollywood!

Prodigal Sons director Kimberly Reed fills me in.

What Does Barbie Have to Do With Playboy's Lesbian Spreads?

​Performance artist Penny Arcade answers just that burning question in my new column, which you can CLICK HERE to roll around with and enjoy a whole bunch while sipping your afternoon milkshake. The same epic work of literature will tell you why Roastmaster General Jeffrey Ross turned down th ... More >>

What Does Barbie Have to Do With Playboy's Lesbian Spreads?

And a slice of wry from Douglas Carter Beane about Mr. and Mrs. Fitch.

This Week in the Voice

​Time was, Andrew Cuomo would pass a lot of harsh comments about rival politicians. Now, the attorney general mainly lets his indictments do the talking. And they've been eloquent. But has the former bully-boy really changed, or just changed tactics? Tom Robbins looks at the possible second Go ... More >>

The French Meryl Streep Speaks About Her Craft!

Musical chairs with nuns and a Jew.

New Pool Party Brings Out The Cuties!

And finding people who, surprisingly, aren't all wet.

Will Rihanna Go Hollywood?

Uptown Saturday nights are more fabulous all the time. Meanwhile, back at the Tonys . . .

Revised Standard Diversion

Chinese opera comes to Lincoln Center; Greek myth goes to a roller disco.

Overheard From Others and Myself

Another dead animal, another celebrity clothing line. Oh, and I love Paris when she's sprung—then and only then.

Tonys, Tonys, Tonys

The picks of the litter. In other business: Travolta's not exactly Divine, is he?

Alienating Intimacies

Alan Ball tests immigrant identity at home; Tennessee Williams shreds Americans abroad

Urban Fairy Tales

Mary Poppins makes little magic; Julie White gets big laughs

Early RSVP

Wedding bells are ringing for Rudnick and his glittery cast

The 51st Annual Obie Awards: Screwball Moments at the Skirball Center

White Party

Old news: A lot of movie stars are in the closet. Good news: A new comedy star's on the loose.

Long Night's Journey Into Daze

Fornes's Saloon of Visions; Beane's 'Shockumentaries'

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