By Benjamin-Emile Le Hay 12/11/12 7:50pm

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Adelina Wong Ettelson, Cora Cahan, Fiona Howe Rudin and Sarah Jessica Parker at the New Victory Theater Council for the Arts. (JONATHAN ZIEGLER/PatrickMcMullan.com) ==

The Land of Oz: Sarah Jessica Parker, Naomi Watts and Isaac Mizrahi Salute Acrobatic Aussies at The New Vic

It’s quite something to behold a bare-chested man jumping around in a cherry red kangaroo suit. As we entered the youthful domain of the New Victory Theater’s gala honoring the Australia Council for the Arts, there he was.

A hodgepodge of theater philanthropists and celebrities entered slowly behind us, passing not only kangaroo-man but an assembly of cast members from Melbourne’s Circus Oz, the current holiday show at the venue. Read More

By Elise Knutsen 6/21/11 7:01pm

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Famke Janssen at the Persol Magnificent Obsessions exhibition opening at Center 548 on June 16, 2011 in New York City. Photo by Berangere.

The Bard, the Park and the Public: The Public Theater’s 2011 Gala

On what could only be described as a glorious midsummer night, the Public Theater celebrated its annual summer gala in Central Park. A sit-down dinner preceded a star-infused performance of All’s Well That Ends Well, one of Shakespeare’s lesser known works, directed by Daniel Sullivan.

Players from the worlds of Broadway, Hollywood and New York’s Read More

By Rex Reed 7/21/10 3:01am

Angelina Jolie Puts the Pepper in Salt!

Salt is not a cautionary tale about the dangers of high blood pressure from too much sodium. No, it’s just another entry in the flaky, forgettable farrago of predictable action thrillers in a particularly brainless summer, this time starring Angelina Jolie as a C.I.A. operative named Evelyn Salt, who may or may not Read More

By Jesse Oxfeld 6/09/10 3:17am

It’s Tony Time!

On a Tuesday night last summer-July 14, Bastille Day-I saw my first play as The Observer‘s new theater reviewer. It was Vanities, an awful Off Broadway musical at the Second Stage, and the evening was memorable only because it was also the night the Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, the trade Read More

By Jesse Oxfeld 1/27/10 12:26am

It’s Miller Time

It’s a thankless task, being the father in an Arthur Miller play—always a failed salesman or a suicidal military-parts manufacturer. So, too, for Eddie, the paterfamilias uncle in A View From the Bridge, who has a hard job as a Brooklyn longshoreman, a devoted but nagging wife and a lovely young orphan niece who’s growing Read More

By Sharon Barbour 6/26/09 8:52pm

Twelfth Night Premieres in Park; Theater Crowd Kvells for Its Summer Darling

On Thursday, June 25th, celebrities basked in the early evening sunshine at the opening night of Twelfth Night at Shakespeare in the Park. Playwrights Tony Kushner, David Hare and Suzan-Lori Parks; actors Candace Bergen and Patricia Clarkson; comedians Steve Martin and Martin Short; and broadcaster Diane Sawyer were just a few of the stars who Read More

By Christopher Rosen 12/16/08 1:40pm

New Wolverine Trailer Looks Clawless

What do the all the major wars from the last 150 years, the director of the Academy Award-winning film Tsotsi and the Sexiest Man (and Oscar host) Alive have in common? If you guessed X-Men Origins: Wolverine, you got it! The trailer for the summer’s first big action spectacle, which premiered in front of The Read More