Even though she ended her tenure on Amazon Prime Video in 2023 and, yes, is a fictional character, Miriam “Midge” Maisel, the protagonist of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, is a New York City icon. At this point, she’s as synonymous with the five boroughs as the yellow taxi, ... More

For the second half of the new musical Dead Outlaw at the Longacre Theatre, Andrew Durand has to stand “dead” in a coffin for 45 minutes straight, staring right into the audience. That’s because Duran plays Elmer McCurdy, an outlaw killed in a shoot-out after robbing a ... More

She broke box office records in Chicago and played Audrey opposite Corbin Bleu in Little Shop of Horrors. Now Jinkx Monsoon, a two-time winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, plans to conquer Gilbert and Sullivan in the Roundabout Theatre’s new Pirates! The Penzance Musical. She plays Ruth, ... More

“I love learning about women in music who paved the way,” says Gracie Lawrence, who stars on The Sex Lives of College Girls and leads the pop-soul band Lawrence with her brother Clyde. So, researching her role as Connie Francis in the new musical Just in Time ... More

When Gal Gadot told her 8-year-old daughter Maya that she’d be starring in a new live-action musical version of Snow White for Disney, the girl was thrilled. “She was so happy,” Gadot recalls. “She said, ‘Mommy, you’ll be a perfect Snow White.’” Then her eldest daughter, Alma, revealed that their mother wouldn’t ... More

Chances are that if all of us television obsessives had the chance to bring back one of the long-gone characters in the Shonda Rhimes universe, McDreamy and McSteamy among them, we’d probably choose Olivia Pope. She’s the political fixer at the heart of the long-running series Scandal, played iconically for ... More

Luke Grimes stars as Kayce Dutton in the final season of Yellowstone, now streaming on the Paramount Network. The series chronicles the trials of the Dutton family, led by John Dutton (Kevin Costner), who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States. Costner is, famously, not returning for the ... More

The pop singer Nicole Scherzinger is giving the performance of a lifetime as Norma Desmond in the sensationally entertaining revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard at the St. James Theatre. (Just engrave the Tony Award now.) But the well-deserved mid-show standing ovations occasionally eclipse that her ... More

It’s only the start of the new theater season, but it’s fairly certain that Laura Donnelly is giving one of the best performances of the year in The Hills of California, a new play by her partner Jez Butterworth. The two met when Donnelly, now 42, ... More

It’s hard to miss Tony Robbins. Not only is he nearly 6-foot-7 and built like a linebacker, he’s a best-selling author, life coach and business strategist, entrepreneur and global philanthropist with a booming voice and an outsize personality. His motivational seminars have helped jumpstart and support many ... More