It’s been six years since composer Tim Minchin began his public journey with Matilda The Musical. His adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic book has won awards on both sides of the Atlantic. This week the touring production opens at...
Of course everyone knows Tim Curry for his bravura role as Frank ‘n’ Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. But there’s much more to the man than the sweet transvestite from Transylvania. His career on the stage is so...
"American Sign Language (ASL) is such a style, but I think we’re attempting to make it all seem within the world of the play as opposed to the concert version.”
In a world filled with reality shows, it surprises no one more than RuPaul Charles that RuPaul’s Drag Race, which airs on LogoTV, is about to launch it’s seventh season on March 2.
“Honey, I don’t even know where my...
“This is the last tour of my career. I can say that right now with absolute certainty,” says 89-year old actress Angela Lansbury, best known as Jessica Fletcher from her highly successful television series Murder, She Wrote, over the...
Forty-five minutes after my interview with Harvey Fierstein is scheduled to take place my phone rings. I say hello and hear, “I’m so, so sorry. I’m never late for interviews.” I didn’t need to ask who it was. You...
Ninety-four years have not diminished Maureen O’Hara’s wonderful lilting voice or her unfiltered worldview. The Irish-born actress appeared on film in such classics as The Quiet Man (1952), A Miracle on 34th Street (1947), and the original The Parent Trap...
The number of living legends from the world of film and theater is shrinking. Shirley MacLaine qualifies as both. From her rise to fame as Carol Haney’s understudy in 1954’s The Pajama Game (which led to a contract with...
A theatrical production with nudity, coarse language, explicit sexuality, and strong political themes might not be among the shows most venues would consider booking. At the family-friendly Hollywood Bowl, it’s even more surprising. This weekend the 1967 musical Hair...
It’s a banner year for one-person shows in Los Angeles: Denis O’Hare in An Iliad, Christopher Plummer in A Word or Two, Daniel Beaty in The Tallest Tree in the Forest, Barry McGovern in I’ll Go On, Annette Bening...