Fonda Heads Back to Broadway

'Harry Potter' star ready for new role

(NEWSER) - The idea of Harry Potter getting naked brought a lot of attention to Broadway’s Equus—but star Daniel Radcliffe is getting tired of stripping down with a fake horse every night, reports the New York Post. What’s next for the actor? Possibly a musical, he told his producer. But for now, producers are hoping half-naked promo posters of the young star will boost the play’s sluggish ticket sales. More»

She looks fantastic, but isn't cut out for After Miss Julie role

(NEWSER) - Critics agree on one thing when it comes to Sienna Miller’s Broadway debut: She looks hot. Her performance in After Miss Julie, however, wowed exactly no one:

• Ben Brantley was rooting for Miller from the start, but ultimately she “registers as a healthy, sane young woman with good diction, good posture, and great legs,” he writes in the New York Times. “Commendable as these attributes are, they are of limited use in portraying a tautly wound, death-courting neurotic who is eaten alive by her own demons.”

'You’re supposed to be unusual' in Hollywood: Wishful Drinking author

(NEWSER) - Carrie Fisher’s shrink told her, “If you worked in a supermarket they would’ve institutionalized you at 20,” she recalls. Not so in Hollywood, where the erstwhile Princess Leia suffered through drug addiction, manic depression, and failed relationships—her own and her parents’. But electroshock therapy helped her deal with all that and turn it into a one-woman show—and it was “worth it!” she tells New York. “Totally. Fucking. Worth it!” More»

Off-Broadway troupe revives author's one satirical work

(NEWSER) - A satirical play by Virginia Woolf received its professional premiere today in New York, NPR reports. Featuring figures like poet Alfred Lord Tennyson and painter George Frederic Watts, Freshwater lampoons "high-falutin', oldish, long-bearded Victorians," the play's producer said. Woolf wrote the hour-long farce as a fun project for her free-spirited, Bloomsbury circle friends. More»

Holmes could pursue theater across the pond: Cruise

(NEWSER) - Europe is fast becoming the new Beverly Hills, with Tom Cruise saying last night he may move back to London. The Valkyrie star lived there for 2 years with ex Nicole Kidman, and it seems he still remembers the lingo: “Katie was absolutely brilliant on Broadway,” Cruise tells the Mirror of wife Holmes, “and to work in the West End would be a joy.” More»