I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers

                         By: Patrick Christiano
Bette Midler as Sue MengersBette Midler has returned to Broadway in her first non singing role as the legendary gossip loving "superagent" Sue Mengers, a part that suits the star's brassy yet warm, larger than life persona to a T. The vehicle for Midler's return after a 40 year absence is Tony Award winning (Red)playwright John Logan's affectionate new comedy, "I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers," helmed by director Joe Mantello as an intimate 75 minute entertaining evening of campy gossip with the former William Morris agent rehashing her heyday in 1970's Hollywood.

                                 Fast and Funny at 54 Below
                                       By: David Sheward

Peter Bartlett, Harriet HarrisThe New York Drama Critics Circle Awards are usually held in a crowded bar with all the honorees, critics, friends, and cast members standing up and pushed up against each other as if they were in the subway. This year, the ceremony, held on Mon. May 13, was moved to the more spacious 54 Below cabaret room. Critics mingled with actors, playwrights, directors, producers, and press agents and there was no bloodshed.

                         By: David Sheward
Jose Llana, Ruthie Ann MilesPop, rock, disco, politics, and stunning theatrical imagination combine in this innovative musical now at the Public Theater. This bracingly original event-one hesitates to call it something as ordinary as a show-stretches the musical genre in form and content. Conceived by David Bryne of Talking Heads and employing a richly evocative score by Byrne, Fatboy Slim, Tom Gandey, and J Pardo, Here Lies Love tells the story of Imelda Marcos's relentless rise to power as first lady of the Philippines. It's significant that Byrne does not indulge in an obvious comedy number about his subject's famous shoe collection. Neither he, his musical collaborators, nor the ingenious staging of Alex Timbers stoops to such clichés.

Billy Porter "Kinky Boots"The Drama Desk hosted a champagne brunch for the 2013 nominees to meet with the press in the Grand Salon of JW Marriott Essex House on Central Park South in New York.  The 58th annual Drama Desk Awards will be presented in a ceremony at Town Hall on Sunday May 19. The Drama Desk Awards are presented annually to honor outstanding achievement by theatre artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway. The Drama Desk Awards are voted on by theatre critics, journalists, editors and publishers covering theatre in the metropolitan area.
Photography: Barry Gordin
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Another Opening of Another Box Office Blockbuster: Star Trek Into Darkness

                                         By: Ellis Nassour

Summer blockbusters are rolling off Hollywood's assembly lines so fast - and weekly breaking cineplex box office records, it's hard to keep up with them. There're sequels and prequels and remakes. Already, and still on screens, are Iron Man 3, with Robert Downey Jr. back as Tony Stark alongside Gweneth Paltrow as Pepper, and as the Mandarin, Sir Ben Kingsley; The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, and Tobey Maguire; and upcoming, Vin Diesel in Fast and Furious 6 to be followed only days later by The Hangover III.

     OCC, DDs, and Tonys: Will 'Kinky Boots' Kick 'Matilda' to the Curb?
      
               By: David Sheward