
Jesse Tyler Ferguson is very good at playing one type of character " frazzled, excitable, fussy. Exhibit A: the fastidious lawyer Mitchell on the sitcom “Modern Family.” The prob…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:49AM[SHARE]First came Cyndi Lauper and "Kinky Boots." Now Sara Bareilles and "Waitress" look ready to double down. Women dismissed for writing fluffy pop hits " "Love Song" in Bareilles' case " have su…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PM[SHARE]How do you adopt a sadistically violent book for the stage? Tone down the gore and dial up the satire. And that's how Broadway's "American Psycho: The Musical" ended up less about a serial k…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PM[SHARE]Poor Rihanna, still trying to shock the masses with violence and nipples! She should be careful: At the stroke of midnight, she might just turn into Madonna, reigning empress of harmless pro…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:23PM[SHARE]There are two kinds of spy movies: Loud, splashy, explosion-driven spectacles like the Bourne/Bond/"Mission: Impossible" franchises and geopolitical thrillers in which people in dark suits q…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:30AM[SHARE]If you want to see a sublime actor live and up close, skip the movie stars who swan by now and then on Broadway. Instead, catch anything with Frank Langella. Now 78, he's one of the most com…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:46PM[SHARE]"Les Fêtes Vénitiennes" Drenched in decadent red, BAM's "Les Fêtes Vénitiennes" makes the Met Gala look like teatime at a nunnery. This baroque opera is as close as we can get to a B…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:54PM[SHARE]For many seasons, "Dancing with the Stars" was the most unabashedly campy and sneakily athletic competition on TV " which usually made it more fun than "American Idol," "Top Chef" or "The Am…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:03AM[SHARE]Warning: This article contains details from the Season 2 premiere of “Fear the Walking Dead” The "Walking Dead" spinoff, "Fear the Walking Dead," has put down some intriguing car…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:00AM[SHARE]A couple of years ago, Colman Domingo faced a conundrum most actors can only dream of: He had to choose between two prestige TV series. In one corner, director Baz Luhrmann ("The Great Gatsb…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:58AM[SHARE]After three seasons of "Doctor Who," David Tennant has a nerdtastic following in the US " two rounds on "Broadchurch" also rallied fans of country-cottage procedurals. No wonder the British …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AM[SHARE]Everybody’s heard of kitchen-sink dramas, but couch-plays are where it's at these days. We asked the set designers of four shows what they were after in finding their sofas " in short,…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:30AM[SHARE]In case you haven't heard enough about a certain musical already, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter's new companion book, "Hamilton: The Revolution" (Grand Central Publishing, out Tuesd…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:44AM[SHARE]Too bad he was killed off so quickly, because Andrew Dice Clay stormed through the premiere episode of HBO's "Vinyl," giving a memorable performance as coked-up radio honcho Frank "Buck" Rog…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:41AM[SHARE]I see dead lesbians! And it's not that hard because it's been a real massacre on TV lately. Wednesday night on "Empire," Camilla (Naomi Campbell) dispatched her wife, Mimi (Marisa Tomei), th…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:48PM[SHARE]Performing Shakespeare would be a feat for any 71-year-old. For Jane Lapotaire, it's a miracle. In 2000, while teaching in Paris, the English actress collapsed onstage in front of her studen…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:10AM[SHARE]Sunday night on "The Walking Dead," a newcomer named Negan bashed someone to death with a barbed-wire baseball bat. Yet actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan doesn't necessarily think of his characte…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:37PM[SHARE]At first Lukas Graham's hit ballad "7 Years" " No. 2 on Billboard's Hot 100 " sounds a little sappy. Next thing you know, you've listened to it 375 times in a row. Maybe you've even t…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AM[SHARE]When "Hamilton" surfaced, it was called the multi-culti version of "1776." But it'd be sad if that 1969 hit about the signing of the Declaration of Independence was remembered only as the sq…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AM[SHARE]Riding high on an Oscar nomination for "Brooklyn," Saoirse Ronan is the poster child of Broadway's "The Crucible." Literally: A close-up of her face is on the show's posters and Playbill. Wi…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:00PM[SHARE]A dumbfounding amount of energy has been wasted on guessing who will die on Sunday's season finale of "The Walking Dead" " likely at the hand of the new arch-villain, Negan. Here's a secret:…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:07PM[SHARE]Warning: This article contains spoilers from “The Walking Dead” Episode 615 The nice way to look at the latest "Walking Dead" episode is as the calm before the storm " i.e., next…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:10PM[SHARE]Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's "Bright Star" is a Broadway oddity " and not just because it has a bluegrass score. No, the weird thing about "Bright Star" is the way it juxtaposes an over-…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PM[SHARE]It’s always nerve-wracking to watch TV stars venture out onstage. Can they manage without multiple takes and craft services? Does the magic happen in the editing room? Happily, Claire …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PM[SHARE]At its highest level, ballroom dancing is quite a workout: Do you think those high-flying acrobatics and fleet-footed shimmies are easy to pull off? Yet somehow pro Mark Ballas " back for th…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:49PM[SHARE]Warning: Spoilers ahead. There was some good news in Sunday's episode of "The Walking Dead": Daryl recovered both his bike and his crossbow. The man is complete again! The bad news was every…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:41PM[SHARE]A musical doesn't have to be perfect to delight. Cutting-edge is overrated, too: Just give us well-crafted material and a starry cast that knows exactly what it's doing. Exhibit A and B are …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:28PM[SHARE]Timothy Olyphant hadn't done theater in 20 years when the script for "Hold On to Me Darling" landed on his desk. "Right off the bat I knew it was both crazy-funny and serious as a heart atta…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:00PM[SHARE]I saw a play Monday night with one of the most annoying audiences ever. Technically, I can't be sure it was among the dumbest " it just felt that way. Sitting next to those morons was mortif…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:52PM[SHARE]Warning: This article contains spoilers from “The Walking Dead” Episode 613 What's the heck is happening to Carol on "The Walking Dead"? Over the past couple of seasons, this fan…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:37AM[SHARE]Though Broadway's "Eclipsed" and "Blackbird" are worlds apart in many ways, they both fearlessly deal with the same subject " the sexual exploitation of young women. Admittedly those are gri…
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