The reverberation of dinner chimes echoed through the stairwell of the Plaza as a tardy Shindigger rushed up the steps to the 28th Annual Guild Hall Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Awards on Monday evening. And there we found what we like to call a “celebrity boil,” as a multitude of cameramen and reporters Read More
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
There is, I believe, a catastrophic error of judgment in Anthony Page’s production of Waiting for Godot, starring Nathan Lane and Bill Irwin.
Samuel Beckett’s seminal Modernist masterpiece—first produced in America in 1956—is famously set in a void with only a near-barren tree (a Beckett tree: one too fragile upon which to hang yourself). Read More
SWING VOTE
Running Time 120 minutes
Written By Jason Richman and Joshua Michael Stern
Directed By Joshua Michael Stern
Starring Kevin Costner, Stanley Tucci, Nathan Lane, Dennis Hopper, Kelsey Grammer, Madeline Carroll
Say about it what you will, but in an election year, you can’t accuse Kevin Costner’s political satire Read More
Chris Matthews cannot be stopped. A month after singing his ‘aria’ in The New York Times Magazine and almost announcing his intention to run for office on The Colbert Report, the host of MSNBC’s Hardball is now conquering Hollywood.
Matthews appears as himself in the trailer for Swing Vote, a film that Read More
Last night at the Palm restaurant on West 50th Street, the actor Dylan Baker was talking about how glad he was to be working in New York. But it’s not Los Angeles that snatches him away.
“The problem is, you’re always looking for that pay-job and often that’s in television or film," said the 48-year-old Read More
Some are arguing that gay pride is a thing of the past, but actor Nathan Lane doesn’t agree. “Is that what you’ve heard?” said Mr. Lane on Monday, June 25. He was being honored at a gala for the Trevor Project, which operates a 24-hour suicide-prevention hotline for homosexual and questioning youth. “Harvey Fierstein just Read More
The excellent revival of Simon Gray’s Butley at the Booth on Broadway proves particularly welcome because Mr. Gray’s hero isn’t nice. The British relish a bit of bitterness and intelligence, and Mr. Gray’s alcoholic, chain-smoking professor of English, Ben Butley, has a talent to abuse. He abuses everyone: his wife, his male lover, his students Read More
The excellent revival of Simon Gray’s Butley at the Booth on Broadway proves particularly welcome because Mr. Gray’s hero isn’t nice. The British relish a bit of bitterness and intelligence, and Mr. Gray’s alcoholic, chain-smoking professor of English, Ben Butley, has a talent to abuse. He abuses everyone: his wife, his male lover, his students Read More
Jerry Lewis, 80 years old, was soaked with sweat. He sat at the center of a banquet table at the New York Hilton’s Mercury Ballroom last Friday, May 9. It was the Friars Club’s annual roast, and Mr. Lewis—this year’s man on the spit—was also there to accept his appointment as the new abbot of Read More
