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

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Les Misérables Doesn't Dream Daringly

The Follies of 1832

My Oscar Predictions As Of This Moment!

Naturally, they might change--especially when I see every last film--but right now, this is what I'm predicting on goldderby.com (where they ask various commentators for their incredibly prescient forecasts and expect them to be accurate). SUPPORTING ACTRESS 1--Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables 2--S ... More >>

Adventures with Santa and Co. in Rise of the Guardians

Jack Frost and the Secular Pantheon

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Judy Tenuta Asks Me For Help With Her Sex Tape!

Hilarious love goddess Judy Tenuta has signed a big deal for Vegas, plus she has a new book out and two movies. She paused to crack me up about all of it the other day, with a zingy phone call from La La Land. Hi, Judy. Tell me about your book, Full Frontal Tenudity. It's like three books in one ... More >>

Hugh Jackman Gushes About His Family

On the Tony Awards the other night, Hugh Jackman dropped the camping and gay jokes and made a big show out of professing love--on camera--for his wife, who was there to present him with an honor. The whole thing seemed very calculated to get the straight word out. Did you buy it? Well, as backgro ... More >>

The Tony Awards Are Over! My Roundup

Here are the highlights from my very vivid three-hour viewing experience. Hold your applause till the end: Interviewed on the red carpet, Tyne Daly dismissively said the Tonys are a race meant for everyone else, "not for us." She wasn't nominated. How bad were the musicals this year? So bad that ... More >>

Liza Minnelli Comforted Costar of Broadway Flop

At last night's Astaire Awards, Leslie Odom, Jr. won Outstanding Male Dancer In A Broadway Musical for his work in the short-lived evangelism tuner Leap of Faith. In accepting the honor, Odom said about the show, "We weren't liked, in case you didn't hear. "After we got the bad reviews, I was sit ... More >>

Les Miz Trailer: Is Anne Hathaway Better Than Susan Boyle?

Les Miserables--based on the Andrew Lloyd Webber hit that Andrew Lloyd Webber actually had nothing to do with--is coming to the screen in all its stirring pathos and musicality. And here comes the trailer, which consists of Anne Hathaway singing an anguished "I Dreamed A Dream," as we see brownish ... More >>

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

Once again, feel-good battles artsinessfor the Antoinettes

Met Director Thomas Campbell Talks The Museum's New Ad Campaign, Celebrities And Social Media

Have you ever wondered what Alex Rodriguez's favorite works of art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art are? Would you have guessed they include a Manet, a Thomas Eakins, a 10th-11th century Sicán funerary mask and a Rauschenberg among others? Well, that's what the museum's newest ad campaign with the ... More >>

Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin Together Again: My Review

In his own revue currently on Broadway, the charming Hugh Jackman sings a snippet of "I Won't Dance," backed by a full orchestra, dancing girls, and a slide show. In An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, Broadway vets Patti and Mandy do the same song conversationally and intimately, sitt ... More >>

Robot on the Ropes, Love or Something Like It in His Corner in Real Steel

Father-and-son reunion, and a semblance of emotion

Marja Vongerichten Talks Kimchi Chronicles

RodaleMore than just kimchi​Until now, Jean-Georges was the Vongerichten with the culinary clout, but his wife Marja is getting into the fray with her new PBS television show and cookbook, the Kimchi Chronicles. The New York Daily News profiles her today, learning about how her desire for Kor ... More >>

Hugh Jackman's Sexuality! Discuss

Broadwayworld.com​Hugh Jackman was great as gay performer Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz, but on the Tony Awards the other night, he was still swishing around. As himself! Hugh and host Neil Patrick Harris performed a very funny Tony host showdown, which resulted in them camping it up to tun ... More >>

Bruce Vilanch on Who Will Host Next Year's Oscars

If you thought the ceremonies weren't funny, don't blame him.

Kristin Chenoweth Coming Back To Broadway

​That's what the talented cutie said in a tweet, as playbill.com reports--and she hintingly added, "Just ask Scott Ellis." Ellis happens to be an artistic director of the Roundabout Theatre Company. And Chenoweth just recently did a reading of the 1978 musical On The Twentieth Century costar ... More >>

Academy Member Admits Franco and Hathaway Were Bad Oscar Hosts

​ In a very ungracious move, a high-ranking member of the Academy of blah blah has given an interview saying that James Franco and Anne Hathaway were terrible choices as Oscar hosts. Let me add to the ungraciousness by saying "Hallelujah!" The Academy member cites the two comely stars' lack ... More >>

Oprah's Best Australian Vacation Ever -- While You're Stuck in The Snow!

via Faces Of The Last Season of Oprah​This week on the final season of Oprah we were treated to her voyage to the land down under. And of course, she blew our freaking minds away. She said, "Everyone has Australia on their bucket lists but people are scared of coming here because the flight ta ... More >>

James Franco and Anne Hathaway: Great Oscar Hosts?

​I was just on Judith Regan's show on Sirius radio when my husbear Bruce Vilanch phoned in and revealed that he'll again be writing the jokes for the Oscar telecast. Vilanch said he recently met with first-time hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway to see how to optimize their presence on the ... More >>

Live: Yeah Yeah Yeahs Play MOMA's Party in the Garden

Karen O, gathering a new tribe. All photos by Rebecca Smeyne​Party in the Garden, featuring the Yeah Yeah Yeahs MOMA Tuesday, May 25 They didn't bust out "Art Star" (too self-effacing for the young moneyeds?) but the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' acoustic set was a wholly perfect centerpiece to the regal ... More >>

Voice Critics Debate the Theater Season So Far

Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin as Oscar Hosts!

​Remember the comedy team of Martin and Lewis? Hello? Well, brace yourselves for Martin and Baldwin! Yep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will cohost the Oscars next year, and they should do pretty well, especially if no one tells them that Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr. unceremoniously turn ... More >>

Is Precious, With Mo'Nique, The Movie of the Year?

Plus sizing up other leading ladies, nightlife crime, and Tony hopefuls.

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​Twitpic by Mom101. Mayor Bloomberg asked Obama for antiterrorism money. Yet his NYPD minions busted a Staten Island citizen for keeping guns 'n' ammo in his kid's bedroom, so how serious can Bloomberg be about fighting terrorists where it counts? No matter, Marty Markowitz backed him anyway ... More >>

Hanging With The Tony Crowd

At an American Theatre Wing dinner at Cipriani the other night, I got to sit with a bevy of Tony award types and wet myself with delight. At my table, Roger Robinson--who's Tony nominated for Joe Turner's Come and Gone--said that, after the bump they got from the Obamas seeing the show, he was stun ... More >>

Good Star Bad Star: Jackman "Heartbroken," Cross Breaks Balls

Now look what you did -- you broke Hugh Jackman's heart! The X-Men Origins: Wolverine star and Oscar show host says he was "heartbroken" when his comic-book movie was leaked via the internet a month ahead of schedule, and considers his heartbreak "a very serious crime" -- heartbreak in the first de ... More >>

Live: Director Darren Aronofsky at the Rubin Museum

Pointing on the job "Brainwave": Darren Aronofsky The Rubin Museum March 19 Once, at a Q A following an early screening of The Fountain, Darren Aronofsky's long-anticipated film about a tripartite Hugh Jackman questing after immortality, I asked the director what was up with all the poking. (To wi ... More >>

Nate Silver Takes All the Suspense Out of the Oscars

Every year people bitch that the Oscars are boring, and this year's event just lost what little non-wardrobe interest it had, because Nate Silver has called the winners. The supergenius statistician who predicted the last Presidential election's results with uncanny accuracy tells New York magazine ... More >>

Unlikely Comeback Vehicle Patrol: Kenneth Branagh and Thor

Jon Voight Confronted About McCain!

Baggage from Marc Jacobs, Josh Brolin's take on Harvey's killer.

That Old Black Magic

Memento director takes his bag of tricks to the Victorian era

Third Degree

The X-Men survive explosions, a threat to mutant rights, and Brett Ratner

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Holy Ghosts

Welcome to a Twilight Zone of campfire and Catholic thrills

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Season Your Admiration

In the midst of global dimming, the theater could offer a few bright spots

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The Normalizing Heart

How AIDS plays have changed since Larry Kramer raged

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The Rules of the Game

Culture Vultures Home to Roost

The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime

Crouching Pussycats, Hidden Gems

Moviegoers Avoid Big-Budget Pitfalls

Bands of Outsiders