When Horton Foote died Wednesday at age 92, he was hard at work on the most ambitious project of his nearly seven-decade writing career. "The Orphans Home Cycle" — a collection of nine of Horton Foote's plays set in the fictional version of his hometown of Wharton, Texas — will premier...

Bono and the Edge of U2 are the latest mainstream musicians to pen songs for a Broadway show. They have teamed up with visionary director Julie Taymor to bring "Spider-Man" to Broadway next year. The show — titled "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" — will tell the story of the s...

Will Ferrell continues to set Broadway box-office records as former president George W. Bush in the satire "You're Welcome America." Last week the laffer — which opened to mixed reviews Feb. 5 — made serious money, raking in $871,127 and setting a new house record at the Cort Theatre. ...

Filed under: Celebrities, Ratings, Awards, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free Do you remember what film won the Oscar for Best Picture last year? (No Country for Old Men). What about Best Actor and Actress? (Daniel Day-Lewis and Marion Cotillard). If you didn't remember, don't feel bad. You're probably li...

Listen. Let me say that I don’t begrudge a person a way to make a living. This list will not include Insurance salesmen or real estate folk, because we all need certain levels of insurance, nor will it include strippers, waiters, writers, fluffers, shit shovelers and ball scratchers/attorneys....

Saw this bad-ass movie over the long weekend and all I can say is…wow, Ron Howard rocks, baby! As a director I have loathed (“The Da Vinci Code”) just as many of his movies as I have loved (“Cinderella Man”) over the years, but with “Frost/Nixon” it’s ...

Although Christine and I saw the Tony-award-winning musical “Wicked” a couple weeks back, am finally just now getting around to blogging about it. But please don’t take the delay as a lack of enthusiasm, because this show rocked our world…HARD! Not only are the songs great an...

The success of the Center on Halsted, Chicago LGBT Community Center has been met with some difficult challenges. Some of the people in our community that need a place like this the most is our own queer youth of color. Poor, queer, black teenage kids, meet your white, queer older neighbors. The chal...

For those who wonder why the producers of Broadway shows work so hard to win Tony Awards, the answer lies in the dramatic uptick in takings following exposure on Sunday night's CBS telecast. Even with increased competition meaning decreased ratings as of late (last year it was the series finale of &...

newVideoPlayer("glenn_close_tonys.flv", 506, 423,""); Yes, theatre still exists. And, more importantly, there are still theatre awards shows. Last night's Tony Awards, celebrating the best of Broadway, offered few surprises, but did bestow top honors upon two relative newcomers to the New York theat...