Hello, diva lovers. I'd like to dedicate today's column to one of the most gifted comedic actresses of her time, Madeline Kahn, who lost her battle with ovarian cancer last week. Kahn, who received a Tony Award for her riotous portrayal of Dr. Gorgeous Teitelbaum in Wendy Wasserstein's The Sisters Rosensweig, was equally at home on the stage or on screen, earning Tony nominations for her work in In the Boom Boom Room, On the Twentieth Century and Born Yesterday while meriting Academy Award nominations for such screen roles as "Blazing Saddles" and "Paper Moon." Though difficult to choose from her eclectic array of characters, I think my favorite Kahn performance was in the aforementioned "Paper Moon" as the good-bone-structured Trixie Delight, opposite the father-and-daughter team of Ryan and Tatum O'Neill. The operatically-trained performer had the ability to make you laugh with a simple inflection of the voice, and she could also move you in both song and the spoken word. This unique, multi-talented actress will be much missed. In lieu of flowers, Kahn's family asks that donations be made to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund (One Penn Plaza, Suite 1610, New York, NY 10001).

Hello, diva lovers. I'd like to dedicate today's column to one of the most gifted comedic actresses of her time, Madeline Kahn, who lost her battle with ovarian cancer last week. Kahn, who received a Tony Award for her riotous portrayal of Dr. Gorgeous Teitelbaum in Wendy Wasserstein's The Sisters Rosensweig, was equally at home on the stage or on screen, earning Tony nominations for her work in In the Boom Boom Room, On the Twentieth Century and Born Yesterday while meriting Academy Award nominations for such screen roles as "Blazing Saddles" and "Paper Moon." Though difficult to choose from her eclectic array of characters, I think my favorite Kahn performance was in the aforementioned "Paper Moon" as the good-bone-structured Trixie Delight, opposite the father-and-daughter team of Ryan and Tatum O'Neill. The operatically-trained performer had the ability to make you laugh with a simple inflection of the voice, and she could also move you in both song and the spoken word. This unique, multi-talented actress will be much missed. In lieu of flowers, Kahn's family asks that donations be made to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund (One Penn Plaza, Suite 1610, New York, NY 10001).

So how many cliches have playwrights, librettists, and lyricists given the world -- or taken from it?

So how many cliches have playwrights, librettists, and lyricists given the world -- or taken from it?

In this 1994 interview, Tony-winning director Nicholas Hytner talks about casting Carousel in a way that has trickled down to this 2018 production.

In 2017, the musical Groundhog Day opens on Broadway.

A revival of the classic musical On the Town, starring Tony Yazbeck, Jay Armstrong Johnson and Clyde Alves, opened Oct. 16 at the Lyric Theater.

Playwright Ruth Goetz, the co-writer of Broadway's The Heiress, the popular psychological romance based on Henry James' "Washington Square," died Oct. 12 at the Actors' Fund Home in Englewood, NJ.

In 1964, Sammy Davis, Jr. stars in the musical Golden Boy, opening at the Majestic Theatre.

While theatres remain dark, revisit some of your favorites with Inside the Theatre, and get a closer look at the details you might miss before the show—plus a deep dive into the theatre's history.

Colleagues, friends and family congregated on March 25 at the Majestic Theatre to remember and celebrate the legendary theatre actress and teacher Uta Hagen, who died at 84 on Jan. 14 at her Manhattan home.

This month: Haley Joel Osment (American Buffalo), David Lindsay-Abaire (Shrek the Musical), Elizabeth Ashley (Dividing the Estate), and Mitzi Gaynor ("Razzle Dazzle! The Special Years").

This month: Haley Joel Osment (American Buffalo), David Lindsay-Abaire (Shrek the Musical), Elizabeth Ashley (Dividing the Estate), and Mitzi Gaynor ("Razzle Dazzle! The Special Years").

Well —to begin a sentence with a noun—is alive and well and living at the Longacre Theatre happily-ever-afterish after two years of playing Off-Broadway and on the road and five years of writing and revising, including a last-ditch overhaul at the finish line.

Well —to begin a sentence with a noun—is alive and well and living at the Longacre Theatre happily-ever-afterish after two years of playing Off-Broadway and on the road and five years of writing and revising, including a last-ditch overhaul at the finish line.

This month we talk to two actors: Viola Davis, a Tony winner (King Hedley II) whose futuristic legal series, "Century City," debuts Tuesday on CBS-TV (9 PM ET), and who's starring Off-Broadway in the Roundabout play, Intimate Apparel.

This month we talk to two actors: Viola Davis, a Tony winner (King Hedley II) whose futuristic legal series, "Century City," debuts Tuesday on CBS-TV (9 PM ET), and who's starring Off-Broadway in the Roundabout play, Intimate Apparel; and Geraint Wyn Davies, who has starred in seven TV series, including "Forever Knight" and "Black Harbour," and who's currently making his New York stage debut as Edmund in the Lincoln Center Theatre production of King Lear.

This month we look at the stage and TV careers of Jamey Sheridan, seen weekly as Captain Deakins on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (Sundays, 9 PM/ET, NBC), and talk to Michael Kantor and David Horn about the six-part series, "Broadway: The American Musical."

This month we look at the stage and TV careers of Jamey Sheridan, seen weekly as Captain Deakins on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (Sundays, 9 PM/ET, NBC), and talk to Michael Kantor and David Horn about the six-part series, "Broadway: The American Musical."

Some weeks ago, I concentrated on an early-'60s musical (The Fantasticks), while some weeks before that, I discussed a late-'60s musical (Hair). Now are you ready for a mid-'60s musical to give you the third jewel of the Triple Crown?