Category is: PaleyFest groundbreaking television realness! On Saturday night the cast and creators of FX’s critically acclaimed series Pose slayed the stage and received 10s across the board (literally with signs in the audience) for their sickening looks but also top marks for their wildly insightful conversation…

War Paint, the musical starring Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole as cosmetics queens Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden, will close after the November 5 performance, seven weeks earlier than its previously announced final date of December 30, producers David Stone and Marc Platt announced this morning. The new…

War Paint, the Broadway musical that stars Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole who were both nominated for Tonys this year, has set a December 30, 2017 closing date at the Nederlander Theatre. It will have played 300 regular and 33 preview performances. The musical has a scheduled September 26-October 1 hiatus before…

It must have seemed an inspired idea: Cast competing divas to play the business titans who created rival women-centered businesses. And could the timing for the Broadway opening have been better? Feud, the FX series starring Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon as Bette Davis and Joan Crawford and set around the making of…

Following a tryout run that became the most successful show in the Goodman Theatre’s history, War Paint will move from Chicago to Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre in March, becoming the latest contender in the fast-filling competition for this season’s Tony Award for Best Musical. The show, which stars stage royalty Patt…

Call it the battle of the brands: A pair of Broadway stars will play two titans of the cosmetics industry in War Paint, a new musical that’s just been slated for its world premiere early next summer at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre. It’s set to begin performances June 28, 2016. The show, by the Grey Gardens team of Doug…

More than 20 years after confirming her status as a Broadway diva equal to the fictional star she was playing, Glenn Close will play Norma Desmond in a short-run revival of Sunset Boulevard at the English National Opera. It will be her London debut in the role that won her a Tony Award in the 1994 Broadway production…

Feinstein, the one-time assistant to lyricist Ira Gershwin and impresario of his own high-end club at the tony Upper East Side Regency Hotel, has settled on a new perch in the Theater District. Actually, grotto is more apt than perch, as Feinstein has joined forces with 54 Below, the cabaret and restaurant below…

UPDATES, with Wes Studi as series regular: American Horror Story‘s Patti Lupone, who guest-starred last season as the Cut-Wife on Penny Dreadful, has been promoted to series regular in a new role for Season 3 of the Showtime drama. She will play Dr. Seward, an American therapist who treats Vanessa (Eva Green) with an…

Jeremy Gerard has covered the evolving fortunes of Jujamcyn Theatres since it became a formidable competitor to the larger Shubert and Nederlander organizations in the late 1980s. In 2013 producer Jordan Roth became Jujamcyn's majority owner and the Street's youngest power broker. In this ongoing conversation they…

UPDATE Monday morning with opening-night information: Penn & Teller’s summer run at Broadway’s Marquis Theatre officially opened Sunday night, July 12. PREVIOUSLY, July 10: Penn & Teller have taken a break from Las Vegas and car commercials for a six-week run at Broadway’s Marquis Theatre, and welcome home. It’s been…

The life of a drama critic inevitably includes a confrontation with an angry playwright who insists that every character and situation in his or her very bad play is a 100-percent-guaranteed-true facsimile of real people and events in said playwright’s life. So it is with Shows For Days, Douglas Carter Beane’s…