Thirty-seven-year-old Darren Criss is a star on Broadway, and a regular at piano bars. “Keep the music going, you know?” he said. “I think the expression goes, ‘Life is a cabaret!’” When he’s in Los Angeles, it’s Tramp Stamp Granny’s, where he and his wife, Mia, are the owners. “It’s kind of a beautiful little…
She’s the mother of all stage mothers: Rose, a single mom hellbent on turning her two young daughters into stars during the waning days of vaudeville. But in the musical “Gypsy,” she gets top billing. Rosalind Russell played her in the 1962 movie; Bette Midler in the 1993 TV version; and on stage, where it…
After fewer than 10 days in theaters, the movie “Wicked” made more than $360 million worldwide, making it the highest grossing Broadway musical adaptation of all time. Director Jon M. Chu said there was a need to make “Wicked” now — “that it was speaking to a new voice of a new generation.” Before casting…
Delia Ephron on bringing “Left on Tenth” from page to Broadway – CBS News Watch CBS News Acclaimed author and screenwriter Delia Ephron, known for “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” and “You’ve Got Mail,” shares her journey to Broadway with her new play “Left on Tenth.” Be the first to know Get browser notifications…
Shaina Taub on making Broadway history and “TIME 100 Next” recognition – CBS News Watch CBS News Broadway’s Shaina Taub made history with her hit musical Suffs, earning her a Tony for both best book and best score. She’s been named to the TIME100 Next list and collaborated with Elton John on The Devil Wears…
Woman pursues Broadway dancing dream decades later: “I love expressing myself” – CBS News Watch CBS News A woman is revisiting her decades-old ambition to land a Broadway show. It’s not Kim Hale’s first stab at becoming a Broadway dancer. The 56-year-old spent years in her 20s and 30s chasing her dream and eventually left…
Iconic magazine Playbill celebrates 140th anniversary – CBS News Watch CBS News The iconic magazine Playbill is celebrating its 140th anniversary. Alex Birsh’s family has published Playbill since 1973. This month, every Broadway show has four different Playbill covers. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting….
At 90 years old, veteran actor and Oscar-winner Shirley MacLaine was in a spicy mood. Looking through photographs from her long career, captured mostly in black and white, she remarked, “Where are the nude ones?” Of one picture of her seated on the hood of a Cadillac on the Paramount lot, she said, “Here, I’m…
Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone have been friends for 30 years. “We are different,” said LuPone. “I’m sort of, I guess you’d say I’m pepper, she’s sugar. Or agave or honey, and I’m paprika. Do you know what I mean?” “I wouldn’t have thought of the food element, probably, or the spice element,” Farrow laughed….
