When filmmakers reached out to Bill Berloni about finding and training a dog to co-star with Naomi Watts and Bill Murray in the film "The Friend," his answer was direct. "I basically told…
Photos by Jeremy Daniels. The show: The Manhattan Theatre Club production of "We Had a World" by Joshua Harmon and starring J…
After three Broadway revues of Stephen Sondheim's music you would think a fourth wouldn't offer anything fresh, have any surprises, or be anything special. Think again. "Old Friends" began l…
This is a tough one and news of infinite sadness. I just learned that composer William Finn has died at the age of 73. "March of the Falsettos" in 1981 was a revelation to me and his follow-…
Following on the high heels of the 2023 hit film "Barbie," "Boop! The Musical" likewise aims to remake and rebrand another dated pop character for contemporary times and audiences. Unlike Ba…
Like television journalist Edward R. Murrow's historic broadcasts, the stage adaptation of the 2005 film "Good Night, and Good Luck" has a seriousness of purpose that is again dr…
Photos by Monique Carboni The show: "Curse of the Starving Class" by Sam Shepard, revived by off-Broadway's The New Group Wh…
Today, the Windham-Campbell Prizes have awarded eight extraordinary writers $175,000 each to support their work and allow them to focus on their creative practice independent of financial co…
An astonishing, loopy and very true World War II story about Great Britain tricking Germany into believing false invasion plans has been the source material for non-fiction books and movies …
Entering "Buena Vista Social Club" is like stepping into a heady world of the senses, of heightened emotions, and of passionate music and dance. The Social Club was a real place for locals i…
Sometimes gay history is all around you and you don't even know it. John D. Allen, Ed.D, is seeking to change that by bringing decades " even centuries " of the joys and fears, triumphs and …
Yes, it's a stereotype, but do mothers and their gay sons really do have a special relationship like no other? Matt Doyle believes so. The Tony Award-winning actor from the gender-switching …
Athol Fugard, the great South African playwright died on Saturday night at his home in Stellenbosch, a town near Cape Town. He was 92. His wife, Paula Fourie, confirmed his death after a car…
Photo by T. Charles Erickson The following is my extended 2017 interview with James Bundy for American Theatre magazine.. Bund…
There's a powerful appeal to the idea of leaving behind the turbulence of the personal " or for that matter, the political " and escaping to a place of beauty, safety and solace. A separate …
All photos by Curtis Brown. The show: "El Coqui Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom" by Matt Barbot …
The show: The Broadway revival of the musical "Gypsy." …
When one first sees Connecticut actress Kate MacCluggage on stage in the Broadway rom-com "Left on Tenth," she's a sunny California friend of the main character played by Julianna Margulies.…
The curtain came down on the Broadway show "Left on Tenth" and it was time to walk the stars. Few Tony-honored artists have two shows playing on Broadway at the same time but animal trainer …
It's a misty autumn afternoon and along a winding country road in New Milford, a housing development emerges of stately though modestly-scaled homes with manageable lawns and pristine porche…
There's a cozy ease that permeates "All In," in which a rotating cast of celebs narrates, with both flourish and offhandedness, the humorous and offbeat essays of The New Yorker writer Simon…
The show: "A Christmas Story" musical at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam What makes it special?: After a limited holiday Broadway run inn 2012 and a national tour with a stop at the Bus…
When queer visual artist and writer Komail Aijazuddin was growing up in Lahore, Pakistan, he knew he was attracted to boys. But it wasn't easy being gay. At his all-male prep school where, a…
David Sedaris is proud to be gay. Not in the marching-in-the-streets-waving-placards way. He is proud of the word 'gay' " as opposed to any number of the homoseuxal-defining terms that he sa…
In NBC's new medical series "Brilliant Minds," Zachary Quinto plays an idiosyncratic neurologist inspired by Dr. Oliver Sacks, best known for his writings on neurological disorders in the bo…