Tony Awards

My Weird Experiences with Famous People Lately

Just when you think you've seen and heard it all, it gets curiouser and curiouser, folks. First, I wrote up Hardcore Pawn as perhaps the worst, fakest reality show in all of Christendom. The publicist (whom I know and like) then emailed me that the stars are her clients. I prepared for a telling o ... More >>

Broadway's Most Honored Set Designer

This season it's David Rockwell, who has two, count 'em two, Tony nominations--one for the factory/nightclub set of Kinky Boots and another for the '80s newsroom ambience of Lucky Guy. This week's column contains my chat with various Tony nominees like Tom Hanks and Cicely Tyson, whom I interviewed ... More >>

Tom Hanks Tells Me What People Do To Him On The Subway

Here's all the chatter from Broadway's nominees

I Sang On The Pippin Cast Album

No, it wasn't exactly a solo. Or a featured bit. Or even the usual ensemble. I was part of a massive chorus of 300 or so people singing harmony behind Tony nominee Andrea Martin on her big song "No Time At All." And we soared! This was done in an uptown hall yesterday, as presided over by Time Out ... More >>

Amazing Photos From The Disco Extravaganza

Thank you, Wilson Models. Thank you world.

Broadway Roundup: Cicely Tyson, Alan Cumming....

Start shining the Tony award for Cicely Tyson, who's just plain wonderful in The Trip To Bountiful, Horton Foote's play about an older lady who wants to return to the Texas town of her youth, remembering it as a place of fertility and goodness. The 1985 movie had a heartbreaking Geraldine Page per ... More >>

LOST BOYS

Alec Baldwin stars in Orphans

SUNDAY NIGHT FEVER

Musto brings back the
mirror ball to studio 54

Randy Jones Has Been Added To My Disco Night!

I believe I mentioned that on Sunday February 17, I'm hosting a disco extravaganza at 54 Below--the old lower level of the legendary disco Studio 54--with a band, singers, Tony nominee Orfeh, and even yours truly stepping up to the mic to croon a disco chestnut or four. And now a Village People per ... More >>

MIGHTY WORDS

Celebrating two 
american legends

It's King Kong vs. Spider-Man On Broadway

The New York Times' Patrick Healy reports that the mammoth Australian musical King Kong has its eye on NYC's Foxwoods Theater, but there's just one problem. Another scary creature, Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark, happens to be inhabiting that very place and even a large can of Raid couldn't get it t ... More >>

Does Cyrano de Bergerac Win By A Nose?

Let's not consider this a full-fledged review of the Cyrano de Bergerac re-mounting on Broadway, just my rather nasal musings about it. The star of this production, directed by Jamie Lloyd from a translation by Ranjit Bolt, is definitely the nose. It's more elaborate than in past versions--bigger, ... More >>

The Best Actress In A Musical Tony Nominees Will Be...

I love predicting Tony award categories 10 whole months before they're announced because there's something so perverse about guessing who'll get the nominations before some of the shows have even started rehearsing! Even more deliciously, I usually get at least 60% right. So here are my predix f ... More >>

Rising Star Molly Pope: Exclusive Interview

With her amazing belt and wry wit, Molly Pope has stolen events like "You Like Me!" and "Night of 1000 Judys," also turning up at Feinsteins at Loews Regency, and in a Gallery Players production of Wonderful Town. I caught up with the fearless chantoozie on the road to even bigger and brighter thin ... More >>

The Honeymooners Is Becoming A Musical! Who Should Costar?

When Michael McGrath won a Tony award on Sunday for his performance as a lovable gangster in the Gerswhin musical Nice Work If You Can Get It, he thanked his wife and said, "Baby, you're the greatest!" The back story on that reference is that he's set to play Ralph Kramden in the upcoming, absolute ... More >>

All-Star Night of 1000 Judys Is Coming!

And I'm in it! It's a Judy Garland-obsessed show that benefits the Ali Forney Center. And guess who's going to be there, preaching at the shrine of Judyism?

My Tony Predictions Will Air Tonight On Theater Talk

Tonight at 1 A.M. on Channel 13, the long-running Theater Talk presents its usual array of experts offering educated guesses as to who'll cop the Tony awards on June 10. Jesse Green (New York magazine), Patrick Pacheco (LA Times, NY 1), and I offer our picks as to whether it'll be:

OBIES 2012: Don't Dress for Theater

A week of Broadway torture proves that hope lies with the scruffy

What Movies Should Be Turned Into Musicals? My Ideas!

With Newsies, Leap of Faith, and Ghost all upon us this season, Broadway is more than ever turning to old flicks to transform into stage dollars. But which movies haven't been muscalized for Broadway yet? Not that many, actually, but I do have some ideas. Hey, Mr. producer, next season let's plea ... More >>

I'm Playing Susan Lucci In Awards Show Spoof!

Well, I'm Italian! (And she's half.) It's part of You Like Me!, a wacky revue in which an assortment of wonderfully offbeat performers re-enact classic acceptance speeches in all their weepy glory.

'The Broadway Musicals of 1946'

Frank Langella In Man And Boy: My Review

No, it's not about NAMBLA. Shut up. It's a 1961 Terence Rattigan play set in the Village in 1934, about a Ponzi schemer and all-around fraud who uses his son as a pawn against his gay financial opponent, whom he calls "that silly, pink-faced old fairy!"

'Night Of 1000 Judys' Is Tonight! They'll Sing 'Em All!

​No, not Judi Dench. Anyway, tonight's attractions: Jackie Hoffman will sing "Swanee." Tony winner Daisy Eagan will do "The Trolley Song." Emily Bergl (Desperate Housewives) will croon "Zing! Went The Strings of My Heart" And there will be more. They'll sing 'em all and they'll stay all n ... More >>

I'm Julie Andrews For One Night!

​And that night is tonight! At the Laurie Beechman Theater at 9:30, Michael Schulman and Rachel Shukert are presenting "You Like Me: An Evening of Classic Acceptance Speeches," with an all-star cast of people serving lots and lots of gratitude. But I'll be reciting a classic anti-acceptance ... More >>

Urinetown Creators to Return to the Fringe With Yeast Nation

Done with the pee, Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann dive into the ooze

Meryl's Other Daughter Takes New York

​We've already seen Mamie Gummer in plays, movies, and TV shows. But her 24-year-old sister Grace Gummer is relatively new to me, so I was curious to see her in a suporting role in the new revival of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia. And she's good! Grace has her mother's (and sister's) face, but her ... More >>

My Hot Night With Nancy Sinatra

​ One of my eternal idols, Nancy Sinatra, invited me to a dinner at Patsy's for Sinatra Family Estate wines, so I brought Tony nominee Orfeh, who also loves Nancy, and went for the meatballs and the magic. Between courses (and watching other people sample the wines), I talked to Nancy about h ... More >>

Gossip About Steve Carell, Joaquin Phoenix, and Katie Holmes

Plus Amy Ryan: not your everyday Jane

The Best Wedding Song-and-Dance Ever, Period (Video)

​We've seen a lot of "wedding dance" videos over the last year, whether they're epic proposals, or walks down the aisle, or whatever: YouTube has empowered the wedding party beyond any reasonable stretch of the imagination. Well, anyone who ever wants to reach at greatness in this regard now ... More >>

Put More Rock Legends on Broadway!

Joan Marcus​Million Dollar Quartet has proven that by throwing together a low-budget show with actors imitating four music legends (in this case Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins), the tourists will come and you can make lots of cash while nabbing some acclaim and even a To ... More >>

Vanessa Williams Is Doing Her Memoirs

Richard Termine​That's what I'm hearing, and it'll surely be a rewarding read. After all, Vanessa Williams came to national attention as a lovely beauty queen whose crown was ripped off her pretty head when a lesbo-nudie spread surfaced.

The Response to the Tony Awards Shows That Show Business Is No Longer Business As Usual

More thoughts on Broadway and the state of theater in New York

Mo Rocca's Boyfriend Wrote Tony Awards Joke

​I ran into Mo Rocca last night and congratulated him on being one of the writers for the Tony Awards on Sunday. (Shut up. I thought there was funny stuff.) I asked Mo if he wrote the great line that host Sean Hayes said about how at the World Cup they yell "Goal!" but at the Tonys they shri ... More >>

Three Days In the Life of Jay-Z, A Man Whose Weekend Was Way, Way Better Than Yours

Friday, June 11th: Isle of Wight Festival Oh, what am I doing Friday night? Yeah, I don't really know. Maybe fly to England and open the Isle of Wight Festival. Kanye West said he might come through and do "Run This Town." Thinking I'll maybe play in front of a tens of thousands of people wearing ... More >>

'Sex and the City 2' Gay Dish!

At newest Chelsea gay bar, baseball and beer. Plus: Broadway and bears

MIND THE GAP

America and England join hands for Sam Mendes

Coco Before Tautou: Katharine Hepburn Sings!

Get out your Tums, kids, because this one's gonna hurt. You see, in 1969, screen legend Katharine Hepburn played designer Coco Chanel in the splashy Broadway musical Coco.

Andrea Martin's Saucy Comment Last Night!

​One of the funniest people alive, Andrea Martin is the SCTV genius who went on to become a Tony award winner on Broadway and a familiar punim on the social scene.

Hair Cast Act Like Actual Hippies, Blow Off Show for Gay Marriage March

"By Any Means Necessary" just ran smack into "The Show Must Go On," and the latter blinked. The cast of the Tony-winning revival of Hair are cancelling their Sunday matinee performance on October 11 so they can stand with marriage equality supporters at the National Equality March in Washington, D.C ... More >>

Bret Michaels' Statement on Near-Beheading Onstage at the Tonys: I'm Fine, Thanks for Nothin', and Man, I Missed Anne Hathaway

He lives. He types. Per Vulture comes news of Bret's official statement regarding his rather unfortunate run-in with a piece of scenery live onstage at the Tony Awards Sunday night. A few rather unpleasant pictures, too. He's trying to laugh this off, people, give him credit. Key graf:

The Low Point in the David Carradine Coverage

Fighting off the recession with priceless gems. Plus, a few Debbie taunts.

Haven Can Wait

Rehab as a beautiful experience, plus cracks about pies. Psst! Ted Haggard was a top.

The Asian Equation

What exactly should an Asian-American theater fest celebrate?

Tonys, Tonys, Tonys

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

NY Mirror

The Brains of the Outfit

Alpha choreographer and a clutch of improvisers commit themselves to the printed page

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NY Mirror

Deviants and Damons

Slurry With the Fringe on Top

Global Swarming

Is It Time To Move Beyond Multiculturalism?