You might think flying business class is always about being fanned with palm leaves while flipping through books on golf, but sometimes there are real hardships going on behind that curtain, as Lynne Meadow, who makes $395,824 a year as artistic director of the non-profit Manhattan Theatre Club, discovered last August on a flight from Rome to New York on Continental Airlines. The Sun has it that Meadow (pictured) is now suing the airline after......

Start sharpening your spurs, gays and gals, because Jake Gyllenhaal is coming to Broadway! If director Mike Nichols has his way, you’ll soon have your chance to stalk the sensitive heartthrob as he flees through the stage door of Farragut North, a new play about presidential campaign hardball penned by a former Howard Dean staffer. According to today’s Post, Gyllenhaal (who made his stage debut in a Maggie Gyllenhaal-directed production of Cats in their parents’......

Anthony King is a very talented comedian, actor, writer, and artistic director of the UCB theater and together with Scott Brown he has written Gutengerg! The Musical! a hilarious and inventive sendoff of not just theater but of the people who make theater. How did you and Scott Brown meet and who is Scott Brown? Scott and I have differing stories about exactly when it was that we first met (his story involved me dressed......

With the massive arts listings in last Sunday’s Times, the new season officially got underway, although theatre fans have for some time been able to get at least some idea about the next year on stage, and not only the brand-name productions, via the estimable nytheatre.com. Still, poring over those inky pages and getting overwhelmed by the sheer bulk of what’s about to come our way has no real substitute, and we’re now particularly......

We first became aware of Mario Cantone's stage gifts after seeing him in the Roundabout’s revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins and in Manhattan Theatre Club’s The Violet Hours. Gothamist had also loved him as Charlotte’s acid-tongued wedding planner Anthony Marentino on Sex & The City. His new one-man Broadway show is aptly called Laugh Whore, and Cantone delivers a riotous evening of of comedy and music. Cantone references classic television variety shows often, and we......

Gothamist is intrigued to hear that Brooklyn's in da house, not once, but twice in the upcoming Broadway season.    First, Brooklyn begins previews in September at the Plymouth Theatre in a show that has been described as "a musical about the journey of a Parisian songstress" which jumps between our mighty borough and the city of light.  Eden Espinoza (Wicked) and hottie Kevin Anderson (Sunset Boulevard, Death of a Salesman) star,  and Jeff Calhoun (Big River) directs. The show was first produced......

News that New York playwright Neil Simon received a kidney from his publicist made Gothamist wonder how much do publicists, agents, and managers charge for organ donation? On the downside, it's not the easiest of procedure, but the upside is that you have a kidney left and it is free publicity.. But it's great that Simon's publicist, and good friend, Bill Evans, was able to do this - organ donation is too little utilized. And......