24 stories from Newsweek
The acclaimed Green Day album comes to the stage, and drags rock and roll along with it.
So in an effort to clear some smoke away from this fire, we spoke to Dustin Lance Black, the Oscar-winning and openly gay screenwriter of Milk, and Jarrett Barrios, the president of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), to get their assessment of the larger issues surrounding sexuality in Hollywood.
Heterosexual actors play gay all the time. Why doesn't it ever work in reverse?
Under the direction of Michael Mayer (who co-wrote the show's libretto with Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong), American Idiot has raucous energy and frequently spectacular stagecraft. It doesn't hold together as well as it should, but there's still something entirely welcome going on here.
Mark Rothko and selling out in the art world.
Papp made theater free, and proved it was priceless.
Star Gavin Creel sings "I Got Life" and explains why the cast will travel to the capital, how the show resonates, and the worst part of working on the Great White Way
The playwright at the heart of America's cultural moment.
Will Ferrell brings Bush back-to Broadway.
Some audiences of the new film 'Frost/Nixon' see parallels to the current administration. That's not what the playwright had in mind.
Ms. Minnelli may be 62, but she's still a legend-and now she (and her new hips) are returning to Broadway.
Why a Brit was inspired to write 'Frost/Nixon.'
To speed the play, think poetry, not potty mouths.
Do you prefer a play with firepower or star power?
Daniel Radcliffe takes it all off on Broadway. Does anyone care?
The year's top Broadway musicals may be hip, but they're old-fashioned, too.
Julie Andrews's memoir reveals a lonely childhood that could have used a spoonful of sugar, or two.
An Oscar, at 83, would be nice. But Ruby Dee isn't done yet.
Clay Aiken is sore from rehearsing for 'Spamalot,' and now he's sore at us.
The last show Mel Brooks produced in his lab was a monster smash. Now comes a show about a monster.
The musical disaster show has made Director Julie Taymor this season’s media Piñata. But could her departure unmask another culprit?
They've conquered Broadway, talk radio, the U.S. Senate-and they may win the White House. Why Mitt Romney and 6 million Mormons have the secret to success.
The actor goes back where he started"to Broadway, in John Guare's acid take on celebrity, 'The House of Blue Leaves.'
