Although Kieran Culkin isn’t a proponent for method acting, sometimes there’s just no competing with the real thing. Following a 2012 interview in which Mark Ruffalo revealed a “naughty young actor” once got him high on stage when switching a prop joint for the real thing during a play, the A Real Pai…

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With two of the most anticipated movie cameos of the year, Jon M. Chu had his work cut out for him. The Wicked director recently recounted how he conceived an appearance for the original Broadway musical’s stars Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth during the song ‘One Short Day’, performed with their…

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Broadway had a very merry Christmas – with one big exception – as any number of shows gained big at the box office last week, breaking house records and in one case – Wicked – soaring past the $5 million mark to achieve the highest grossing week ever in Broadway history. But that exception was a…

Dick Capri, the comedian and actor, has died. He was 93. After spending his final Christmas with his family, Capri succumbed to a bleeding enlarged aorta, dying in his sleep in the early hours of Thursday, Dec. 26 in Florida. Related Stories …

Elf the Musical, which returned to Broadway last month for a limited run, grossed $2,230,419 across eight performances for the week ending December 22, breaking the house record at the Marquis Theatre to highlight the pre-holiday box office frame. The revival, which stars Mean Girls Tony nominee Grey…

The Broadway season doesn’t lend itself comfortably to Best of the Calendar Year Stories — my choices for the first six months of 2024 were made and announced last June in a Tony Award predictions column. So no need to reiterate my undying love for Stereophonic, Illinoise, Appropriate, et. al. Instead, let me bring…

Last week, the Broadway play All In: Comedy About Love got very dramatic about money – weekly box office, specifically, with grosses topping $1 million, an impressive feat for any play not named Mary. Figure in that All In isn’t really a play at all, but a collection of readings by the short comic fiction…

Tennessee Williams sets Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, his 1955 play about sexual repression, at a cotton plantation on the Mississippi Delta. You can feel the heat in director Rebecca Frecknall's production at the Almeida Theatre starring a scorching Daisy Edgar-Jones (Twisters, Normal People) as Maggie, the cat…

There aren’t enough dressing rooms on Broadway to contain all the expectations for the new Gypsy, George C. Wolfe’s revival starring the great Audra McDonald. Considered by theater buffs to be among the greatest stage musicals of the American canon, Gypsy now stars a performer considered among the…

Itamar Moses’s Dead Outlaw, the acclaimed musical that had a very successful Off Broadway run earlier this year, will open on Broadway this April, producers announced today. Featuring music and lyrics by David Yazbek and Erik Della Penn and direction by David Cromer, Dead Outlaw will begin preview…