In spite of the happy faces you saw at the Emmy Awards, a comedy writer’s life in Hollywood isn’t all laughs, especially for those on the far side of 40. That predicament—plus other midlife crisis issues—are at the heart of Kenny Solms’ new comedy It Must Be Him. The show is now in a limited run ...

Grandma sure is in high spirits this week, thanks to Jackie Hoffman being named The Addams Family's "Person of the Week." (Take that, Tony Awards!) Hoffman received an honorary poster, complete with facts about her life and (as always) a nod to her Jackie Hoffman Live at Joe's Pub album. This week also marked vacation time for leading ...

AOL Music has brought in top musicians like Lady Gaga, Beyonce and Taylor Swift to perform on their Sessions web concerts, so it shouldn't come as a surprise to hear the music of Green Day fill their studio. AOL recently invited John Gallagher Jr, Stark Sands, Tony Vincent, Rebecca Naomi Jones and the rest of the American Idiot cast ...

John Wilkes Booth may be one of American history's most infamous players, but before becoming a presidential assassin, Booth and his famous brother Edwin were among the country's most beloved actors. An Error of the Moon, a new drama from playwright Luigi Creatore, imagines the relationship between the two brothers as they spar over politics and private matters ...

We’ve seen our share of opening numbers at awards shows, so it takes a lot to bowl us over. Well, host Jimmy Fallon did the trick at the start of the 2010 Emmy Awards when he joined Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Amber Riley, Chris Colfer and an array of TV stars for a giddy Glee-themed opening. The premise ...

You know you love her! Susan Blackwell is back for a second season of her laugh-inducing Side By Side by Susan Blackwell. This time, Blackwell reached out to Modern Family's Emmy nominee (and Broadway veteran) Jesse Tyler Ferguson. After spending his summer in New York opposite Al Pacino in the Shakespeare in the Park production of The Merchant of ...

The Music Box Theatre is sure to rumble with the sounds of howling laughter when the comedic power team of Tony winners David Hyde Pierce and Mark Rylance as well as Absolutely Fabulous funny lady Joanna Lumley bring La Bete to the Great White Way this fall. Broadway.com has an exclusive sneak peek at the revival of this 17th-century-set ...

Broadway sweetheart Sutton Foster is joining forces with funny man Seth Rudetsky on August 30 at the Gerald W. Lynch Theatre at John Jay College for a concert presentation of the rarely-seen hit 1979 musical They're Playing Our Song. In this exclusive video, Broadway.com gets a chance to chat up the stage favorites and to talk about the ...

The rocking sounds of the Tony-winning musical Memphis were on a roll for a group of young theater fans who joined cast members from the show as part of the Broadway Inside and Out program, presented by Broadway.com's Broadway Classroom. New York's My Fox was on hand for a recent workshop, as Memphis cast member Brad Bass ...

With The Addams Family's stage manager on vacation, Jackie Hoffman has let loose and made the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre her own personal playground. In her latest video blog, with nobody around to enforce the rules, Jackie decides to mess up her Grandma costume, party with Pugsley and steal a very special award from co-star Krysta Rodriguez. Hoffman also even manages ...