New York City Ballet married Broadway and Balanchine at their annual Spring Gala, which featured the premiere of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins, a collaboration between the ballet’s company and the Tony Award-winning singer Patti LuPone. The veteran Broadway actor Victor Garber (best known for his role in Titanic and soon Read More
Is there any job more weird than an actor’s?
I’m not so sure that all the world’s a stage, actually. Actors are different from you and me. They pretend to be other people via a state of deliberate amnesia.
It’s commonplace to say that actors must speak the lines as if Read More
The Observer‘s John Heilpern was right. The Tony Awards last night at Radio City Music Hall was the night for the great Ms. Patti LuPone and the diva’s devoted followers known as LuPonistas. It had been almost three decades since Ms. LuPone won her first Tony Award for Evita. She was nominated in 1988 Read More
Whether you’re seeing Gypsy for the first (or fourth or fifth) time, you’ll want to catch Arthur Laurents’ revival starring Patti LuPone at the St. James Theatre. For one thing, Gypsy is among the very best musicals ever written, and we assume that by now the 90-year-old Mr. Laurents—who created the masterly book in 1959, Read More
On March 4, Mary-Louise Parker was sipping up some lobster bisque in a New York cafe when the man sitting in the seat next to her dropped dead. Or, shall we say, slumped dead at his table. His cell phone started to ring. Ms. Parker, playing a shy, retiring museum worker on the opening night Read More
I can scarcely begin to describe my dismay at the calamitous news that Broadway theaters are now allowing everyone to eat and drink during a show. As I see and hear it, chowing down in the theater will kill the theater.
Like a lot of people I know, I used to love going to Read More
Hey, things are looking good and weird out there! This fall brings Bebe Neuwirth in a surreal textual experiment, Isabelle Huppert in a suicidal frenzy, Patti LuPone hauling around a tuba, and talking sea creatures from the deep. Plus? Snoopy’s dead, man!
After her delectable and hilarious turn as Clarice in Silence! The Musical, Jenn Read More
Hey, things are looking good and weird out there! This fall brings Bebe Neuwirth in a surreal textual experiment, Isabelle Huppert in a suicidal frenzy, Patti LuPone hauling around a tuba, and talking sea creatures from the deep. Plus? Snoopy’s dead, man!
After her delectable and hilarious turn as Clarice in Silence! The Musical, Read More
It’s official: Despite the confused but overzealous TV weathermen, the bikini displays at Barneys and the street-corner Koreans selling potted daffodils imported from Amsterdam, spring will be a little late this year. That hasn’t stopped the rushing of the season, however, by two current cabaret divas and one cabaret divan. Maria Friedman can touch your Read More
“Crude,” “lewd” and “shameless” are three words that pretty accurately describe Adam Sandler movies in general, and 50 First Dates in particular. Like his 1998 valentine The Wedding Singer , this alleged new comedy pairs the liverwurst-faced Saturday Night Live alumnus with fizzy, wide-eyed Drew Barrymore, who makes a nice leavening agent for the ugly, Read More
