James Sims is the Senior Editor at BroadwayWorld.com. Beyond his duties on this website, James also contributes as a featured blogger for the Huffington Post.
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Now that Conan O'Brien is off the air, Tonight Shows prodigal son Jay Leno is trying to clear the air about the late-night shakeup at NBC, telling Joy Behar that he got screwed too.
Robin Williams might have been the guest on last night's Daily Show with Jon Stewart, but it was a gag involving Muppets that stole the show, especially for all of the political gurus watching Comedy Central's program.
A new trailer has been posted online promoting the sixth and final season of MTV's pop culture hit The Hills, the spinoff of the networks earlier hit, Laguna Beach.
It's that time of the year when spring is in the air and we all shed our dreaded winter coats and look into out closets and check out the spring/summer apparel with a fit of excitement and dread.
Zombies are getting ready to invade AMC after the cable network ordered six one-hour episodes of The Walking Dead, a sci-fi series based on the Robert Kirkman comic book, reports The Wrap.
Jamie Foxx is a hard working man of showbusiness, with Hollywood blockbusters under his belt and chart topping songs to his name, and now the star is set to return to his television roots with a new sketch-comedy show on Fox, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
As if the reality of media layoffs and non-existant newspaper readerships wasn't enough of a reason for journalists to take up drinking, along comes Broadway's Time Stands Still, a play focusing on the emotional breakdown of a war correspondent.
It's not often that my work as an entertainment and Broadway reporter crosses paths with my day job as the New Media Specialist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, so when I heard that an opera was going to be staged in the Museum's Hayden Planetarium, I was excited to check
Ragtime's lack of celebrity is one of many reasons why the musical failed to set box office records, as was pointed out by Patrick Healy in The New York Times last week.
With a new season of Showtime's The Tudors coming up and Barack Obama now bogged down by controversial plans for Afghanistan, it seems appropriate to reflect on a recent trend that graced the Broadway stage over the past couple years.
Off-Broadway's The Marvelous Wonderettes has been playing to enthusiastic crowds at The Westside Theatre since it settled in New York City following an extended run in Los Angeles - where I first saw the show and fell in love.