Be More Chill and What The Constitution Means To Me, currently on Broadway, are among the just-announced Lucille Lortel Award nominees for their previous Off Broadway versions. The Lortels, which honor Off Broadway productions, mark a sort of unofficial kick-off to New York’s theater awards season. Broadway’s Tony…

Seth Meyers, Mike Birbiglia, Tiffany Haddish, Hasan Minhaj, John Mulaney, John Oliver and Sarah Silverman will band together in New York City next month to save the Earth: Meyers will host the all-star “Night of Comedy” event to benefit a nonprofit organization pledged to protect the environment against the Trump…

Bryan Cranston arrived on Broadway to two full houses last week, as the much-anticipated Network played a couple previews at the Belasco Theater and contributed $293,220 to Broadway’s $37,230,401 total for Week 24 (ending Nov. 11). Overall box office for the 38 Broadway productions reflected a 13% jump in receipts…

Maybe you could quibble with the title of Mike Birbiglia’s latest one-man show. The New One, opening tonight on Broadway at the Cort Theatre, is the same one he debuted last summer Off Broadway (now that would be a silly quibble), and all the bassinets in the world couldn’t contain the TV and movie scripts that got to…

Two new productions – Mike Birbiglia’s The New One and musical The Prom – joined the Broadway roster but couldn’t keep overall box office from slipping: Grosses for Broadway’s Week 22 (ending Oct. 28) were down about 4% to $33,133,984. Attendance of 272,782 was about even – actually, a slight 1% increase from the…

Sleepwalk or wake-walk with Mike Birbiglia for a couple miles Friday and you might get a free ticket to his upcoming Broadway show The New One. The publicity stunt – hey, it worked – marks the Broadway box office opening of The New One, Birbiglia’s one-man-show that started Off Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre in…

Mike Birbiglia's sold-out Off Broadway show The New One will move to Broadway’s Cort Theatre next month, the producers announced today. The limited engagement begins previews on Oct. 25, with an official opening set for Nov. 11. The limited engagement runs through Jan. 20, 2019. "I'm so excited to be bringing The New O…

Comic and actor Mike Birbiglia’s return to Off Broadway this summer sold out within hours yesterday and is being extended by two weeks. Mike Birbiglia: The New One begins a limited engagement July 26 at the Cherry Lane Theater in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. Originally set to close August 2, the show will now close…

U2’s Bono, responding to the cancellation of his band’s concert in St. Louis tonight, says he’s “deeply saddened” by events in the city. Quoting Martin Luther King Jr. – “Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability” – Bono asks in an Instagram message, “…is this 1968 or 2017?” (See it below). Musician…

Can even Saturday Night Live make tonight’s Vice Presidential debate entertaining? We’ll have to wait until the weekend for that, but other Hollywood comics, actors and masochists sat through all the crosstalk to make sense – and jokes – out of Pence Vs. Kaine. Here’s a sampling. Refresh for updates... Vice…

Mike Birbiglia is not just the writer-director-star of the new independent dramedy Don’t Think Twice, about the sometimes not-so-happy behind-the-scenes world of an improvisational comedy troupe — he is a stand-up performer himself who has used his own experience in that world to craft a remarkably authentic film that…

The Film Arcade said today that Don’t Think Twice will open July 22 in New York, followed by a national rollout. The film from writer-director-star Mike Birbiglia premiered at SXSW and also screened at Tribeca last month. The dramatic comedy revolves around an improv troupe made up of all best pals that loses the…