P. Jacobsen The Signature Theater’s 160-seat auditorium is at 555 West 42nd Street in Clinton. After a wearying five-year search in which the Signature Theater Company was promised a new home at the former World Trade Center site and later in a community ...
Sara Krulwich Hunter Parrish as Melchior in "Spring Awakening" at the Eugene O’Neill Theater. They don’t do sadness, not even a little bit. But it’s hard not to feel sad for the members of the cast of the Broadway show "Spring Awakening," who ...
Dana Edelson/NBC Sarah Palin and Lorne Michaels, executive producer of “Saturday Night Live,” on the show watching Tina Fey play Ms. Palin. Anyone tuning in to "Saturday Night Live" hoping to see side-by-side versions of Gov. Sarah Palin — the real thing and ...
Kevin Van Aelst overwhelming to see human flesh in high definition. Consider Joe Biden. When he’s upset, he blanches slightly, particularly around his mouth. It seemed to happen this way, at ...
AS we’ve been reminded lately with a stream of 40th-anniversary remembrances, 1968 was an unusually tumultuous year, with the Columbia University riots, the student uprising in Paris and the assassinations of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, not to mention ...
Los Angeles Adam Scourfield/BBC MARK OLIVER EVERETT does not deal in reassuring platitudes, whether writing bruised and barbed confessionals as the frontman for his cult rock band, Eels, or discussing the ...
JEREMY PIVEN was in repose, sort of. Dressed in a charcoal gray hoodie, both hands hugging an oversize mug of Guatemalan yerba mate tea, Mr. Piven was curled up on a couch in his rented Chelsea apartment one recent Saturday morning, the Alison Krauss-Robert Plant bluegrass ...
The appearance on "Saturday Night Live" by the Republican vice presidential nominee, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, pushed that three-decade-old late-night show to its best overnight ratings in more than 14 years. The numbers, based on the overnight results from ...
LOS ANGELES — Roughly an hour after performing a tango that would earn her another week on "Dancing With the Stars" last Monday, Cloris Leachman took a moment to look ahead to where her career, still-blossoming at 82, might go once her time on the ABC ...
Dana Edelson/Reuters Gov. Sarah Palin, far right, taking her turn on “Weekend Update” on “Saturday Night Live,” with Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler. Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska made her point by going on "Saturday Night Live." She proved she has a ...
Concluding another strong week in which it was the most-watched network on all but two nights, CBS eked out another victory on Sunday, according to Nielsen’s estimates. CBS benefited in large part from an overrun of its afternoon football coverage, which meant that about 20 million ...
Tongue-tied politicians and would-be plumbers aren’t the only ones to have their visibility raised by "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart": , left, the burly on-air correspondent for the Comedy Central news satire, has signed a deal to develop his own sitcom for CBS, Variety reported. ...
It’s too bad weasely answers can’t somehow be converted into clean energy, because Martin Smith, the "Frontline" producer and reporter, elicits a lot of them in "Heat," his savvy investigation of global warming and our chances of stopping it. ...
Rob Bennett Rachel Maddow on the set of her new program for MSNBC. Rachel Maddow, a woman who does not own a television set, has done something that is virtually unheard of: she has doubled the audience for a cable news channel’s ...
"Dancing With the Stars" drew 18.6 million viewers on Monday, according to Nielsen estimates, helping ABC earn the most viewers for the night over all. But among viewers 18 to 49, the CBS comedy lineup edged ahead, winning the 9 p.m. time slot with "Two and ...
In a development that is nearly as astounding as the enduring career of long after his heyday, NBC said it was ordering a full season of episodes for "Knight Rider," the contemporary remake of the 1980s-era action show in which Mr. Hasselhoff starred, Variety reported. ...
"Stylista," which begins on Wednesday on CW, is selling itself as "The Devil Wears Prada" in reality-television form. But it may even surpass its predecessor as a treatise on the empty ambition and distaste for civility that girds so much of Seventh Avenue. "Stylista" shows that ...
"NCIS" and "Without a Trace" lifted CBS to No. 1 in the ratings on Tuesday night. According to Nielsen’s estimates, those shows won their time slots, with 17.1 million viewers for "NCIS" at 8 p.m. and 11.6 million for "Without a Trace" at 10. In between, ...
It’s a good day for television fans who aren’t squeamish about the sight of blood: Showtime has ordered a fourth and a fifth season of "Dexter," its pitch-black series that stars as a Miami crime-scene analyst who moonlights as a serial killer. The third season ...
SO HIP Abigail Lorick’s spring show last month captured that privileged look. "IT’S chic to look post-rehab, didn’t you know," one friend tells another on "90210," setting the tone of jaded excess that is pervasive on the show, which has become ...
Sarah Silverman, whose eponymous half-hour show, "The Sarah Silverman Program," is in its second season on Comedy Central, has had two creative triumphs this year. Steve Agee The first, a short video released ...
Here’s another sign that the video game business seems impervious to the economic woes afflicting other parts of the entertainment industry: The gaming business’s annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, known as E3, will return to its expansive (and expensive) home at the Los Angeles Convention Center in ...
In the last season of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," the fictional Larry David lost his marriage, his therapist, the sanctity of his home (to a family of hurricane survivors) and what seemed to remain of his dignity. On the upside, the real-life , left, has gained ...
Game 1 of the World Series delivered Fox’s largest audience on a Wednesday since the finale of "American Idol," easily raising the network to No. 1 for the night over all. Approximately 14.6 million viewers tuned in to watch the game, according to Nielsen’s estimates adjusted ...
Lionhead and Microsoft Game Studios Fearsome figures from Fable II, a creation of the award-winning game designer Peter Molyneux. I was an honorable man when I began my quest for ultimate power. ...
Donata Wenders The Cuban musicians of the Buena Vista Social Club. "The Complete Arista Recordings of Anthony Braxton" (Mosaic; mosaicrecords.com) is a formidable beast, an eight-disc set covering the output of this multireedist and composer during a ...
Herman Sorgeloos "Drumming," one of Teresa De Keersmaeker’s works being performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. BRUSSELS TO say that the choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has a famously nerve-racking persona does little justice to the ...
Fletcher Drake, courtesy of the Kennedy Center Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass,” described in the score as “A Theater Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers,” in its premiere at the Kennedy Center in 1971. LEONARD BERNSTEIN, wherever he is, must surely be kvelling over the ...
THE state conservatory of music in Yerevan, Armenia, is named for Gomidas, a late-19th-century composer probably unfamiliar to anyone who is not Armenian. An avenue and a grassy park in Yerevan also bear his name, and a monument in the center of the city depicts his ...
Pannonica De Koenigswarter The saxophonist Sonny Rollins, photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter. IF the mysterious Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter is at all remembered today, it is for her proximity to the deaths of two legendary jazz musicians. In 1955 Charlie Parker died ...