By Benjamin-Emile Le Hay 9/10/12 4:00pm

Fashion Week

NANETTE LEPORE Fall 2012 Fashion Show

Kristin Chenoweth Back on Her Feet and Front-Row at Fashion Week

Broadway star and Tony winner, Kristin Chenoweth was badly injured on the set of popular primetime CBS show The Good Wife in July. The petite star told the LA Times in September that she “had a skull fracture, rib issue and neck issue and a hip issue,” and had to be carried off in a stretcher after a lighting rig fell on her.

But this week, she has back in action for the first time, attending several runway shows in New York.

“This is my big night out after seven weeks,” the giddy and tenacious Ms. Chenoweth told The Observer at the DL 1961 fashion show last week in West Chelsea. Read More

By John Heilpern 12/25/06 12:00am

It All Hangs on a Hyphen: The British Art of the Con

May I point out a small error that David Mamet—and practically everyone else in the country—is making with his excellent adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance at the Atlantic Theater Company? They’re misspelling the name of the play’s British author. It isn’t Harley Granville Barker.

The distinguished Edwardian playwright ought to have a hyphen, thus: Harley Read More

By John Heilpern 12/25/06 12:00am

It All Hangs on a Hyphen: The British Art of the Con

May I point out a small error that David Mamet—and practically everyone else in the country—is making with his excellent adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance at the Atlantic Theater Company? They’re misspelling the name of the play’s British author. It isn’t Harley Granville Barker.

The distinguished Edwardian playwright ought to have a hyphen, thus: Read More

By John Heilpern 10/11/99 12:00am

Vaudeville May Have Died, but the Vagina Never Will

Another openin’, another show. But just when you might be thinking optimistically at the start of a new Broadway season, “They don’t produce terrible shows like Epic Proportions anymore,” why, by golly, they go ahead and do them anyway.

Are they on a suicide mission, or just whistling Dixie? The numbing, neo-vaudevillian awfulness of this Read More