News
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Swift & sure
Taylor Swift is fed up with being called a lovesick serial dater because...
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Fatman Batman to the rescue!
Good work, Batman — now take it easy on the bangers and mash! A pot...
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NY 'driving' you crazy
It’s official — New York is the worst city in the nation for drivers, an...
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Menendez hooker lied
A 23-year-old escort from the Dominican Republic who had claimed that New...
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Demi divorce
Demi Moore is finally filing divorce papers, 16 months after splitting up...
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Gooding tries on alter ego
Cuba Gooding Jr. created an alter ego, “Dick McWilly,” to party after a...
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Royal stand-up
Prince Albert and Princess Charlene of Monaco hosted Dame Shirley Bassey...
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No more politics?
Just back from visiting Kim Jong Un, Dennis Rodman was spotted at Sapphire...
Sports
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Wristy business
TAMPA — The Yankees rightfully are concerned that Mark Teixeira’s right...
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Woodson takes fall
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Mike Woodson admitted he blew it. The Knicks coach...
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Amazin’ by default
PORT ST. LUCIE — What is troublesome about the Mets’ long-shot chance at...
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Rangers win
With each slide and fist pump, with each dominating third period, with...
Entertainment
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'Oz' not great
"I’m just not the man you wanted me to be," James Franco’s fraudulent...
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Stern for Fallon?
You probably wake up to Howard Stern — but do you want to go to sleep with...
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World's biggest poseur!
Hathahate, meet Franco rancor. When Anne Hathaway and James Franco’s bad...
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'Folly' success
We’re so conditioned to be cynical nowadays that dark is considered edgy...
Blog
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'Good Person of Szechwan' is a hit at LaMama
As today's headlines and Twitter feeds get eaten up by the Shia LaBeouf affair (in short: he was...
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Romeo Castellucci's unsettling 'On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God'
Over the past 15 years or so, visionary director Romeo Castellucci has blossomed into a star of...
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Coil 2013: 'Seagull (Thinking of You)'
Talk about early-bird special: Yesterday I caught "Seagull (Thinking of You)" at the unholy hour of...
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Under the Radar 2013: 'C'est du Chinois' + 'Blood Play'
Last night I caught two shows at the Public Theater's Under the Radar festival back to back. First...
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So long, 'Our Hit Parade,' it's been a great ride!
Last night I was at Joe's Pub to attend the last installment ever of "Our Hit Parade." -- exactly...
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The Top 10 shows of 2012
Yes, it's OK to laugh: I enter all the shows I see in an Excel spreadsheet. It certainly makes...
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Anne Bogart's testing 'Trojan Women (After Euripides)'
We have a lot of very good theater directors here in New York, but they're a bit lacking when it...
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Chekhov, circus and multimedia immersive Shakespeare at BAM
It's an abundance of riches, and it's killing me: two particularly exciting shows are playing BAM...
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Taste test: The 'Elf' cupcake
You may remember that a few months ago, we sampled Magnolia Bakery's Ditto cupcake, inspired by ...
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Pileup of theater openings in November
We've been through crazy-busy weeks here on the theater beat, but the coming one takes the cake....
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MOVIES
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'Oz' is not great at all
"I’m just not the man you wanted me to be," James...
By LOU LUMENICK
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THEATER
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Tally a success for this old-fashioned ‘Folly’
We’re so conditioned to be cynical nowadays that...
By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI
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TV
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Holey ‘Bible’
What if Jesus were the handsomest dude to have...
By LINDA STASI
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Tally a success for this old-fashioned ‘Folly’
We’re so conditioned to be cynical nowadays that dark is considered edgy and romance dopey. But the Roundabout revival of “Talley’s Folly” that opened last night is proud to believe in love. It’s shocking precisely because it’s not... Full Story
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Gloria-ous musical B’way-bound
* A few quick hits today: THE Nederlanders recently announced that they’ve teamed up with Gloria Estefan and her husband, Emilio, to bring the...
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Send in these clowns!
For some people, clowns are one rung below mimes and air-guitar zeroes on the ladder of entertainment hell. Well, let the cranks stay home and let...
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New ‘Cinderella’ is gourd-geous
How do you come up with a new show that also feels comfortably familiar? On Broadway, the current answer is “Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella” — an...
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It’s not ‘homey’ sweet ‘homey’
Hot on the heels of Jesse Eisenberg’s “The Revisionist” comes another off-Broadway show depicting Americans in their late 20s as neurotic and...
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‘Revisionist’ needs rewrite
There are times during “The Revisionist” when you almost have to pinch yourself. Is this actually happening? Are Vanessa Redgrave and Jesse Eisenberg...
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Welcome to... the Punderdome
The lowly pun has long been considered the bottom-feeding bristle worm of the comedy world, shunned by improv teachers citywide and annoying, well,...
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‘Passion’ an emotional letdown
Imagine a luxury car, all sleek lines, buttery leather seats, exotic-wood dashboard. Then you step on the gas pedal, and find out it’s running on a...
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Feinstein may go Below for his new nightclub
Ever since Feinstein’s shut down at the Regency, Michael Feinstein has been on the hunt for a new place to tickle his ivories. I hear he may make a...
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Tunes bustin’ out all over
With Wednesday’s stellar staging of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Carousel,” the New York Philharmonic joyously put the “music” back into the Broadway...
