Don’t Write Off The Addams Family Just Yet!

Contrary to what you may have read, The Addams Family, the new musical at the Lunt-Fontanne, is not the worst thing to come to Broadway this season. It’s not even the worst thing to come to Broadway last week. (More, later, on what was.)

Addams opened last Thursday night after a reportedly troubled run in Read More

Hair, Clothes, Makeup–Poof! Stylists Groom Selves for Soiree

Also on Monday, May 19: Hair, makeup and costume people decked themselves out for the Designing Hollywood Awards, distributed by New York Women in Film & Television during a ceremony held at the Time-Life Building.

Actress Bebe Neuwirth, of Cheers, Frasier and Broadway fame, told the audience that it was a makeup artist’s fabulous Read More

Dumbed-Down Lower East Side Jews Swap Haimeshe Pickle for Jacuzzi

The subject of Jewish identity and denial is a troubling, vast

theme for a play, and questions of assimilation and historic loss shouldn’t be

treated glibly. But I’m afraid that Everett

Beekin , Richard Greenberg’s new drama about two generations of Jews living

in 1940′s New York and late-1990′s California, strikes me as an awesomely Read More

Phillips Auctioneers’ Makeover in Progress

It was the evening before the first round of Phillips Auctioneers’ Impressionist and Modern Art Sale, and the formerly crusty English house was doing some major repositioning, aggressively flexing the chic social and financial muscle it’s been given by its new owner, French luxury conglomerate LVMH. It was only last May that the freshly pumped-up Read More