The stereotype about theatrical couples is that their lives are as dramatic offstage as on: nightly debauches, unconventional menages, bitter rivalries sheathed in endearments. When the spotlight dimmed, the Lunts apparently fought like the Kramdens. But Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel live like athletes in training, or seminarians. […]

John Fante, a major ‘little-known’ author, produced autobiographical novels about his early struggles which have inspired a select cadre of admirers. Among the most committed of these is writer-director Robert Towne, who’s been trying to get Fante’s Ask The Dust made for years. The upshot is a careful, […]

Idina Menzel, formerly of Rent and The Wild Party, sings her own pop and blues tunes in the Sh-K-Boom Room at the Cutting Room Dec. 7. Joining her will be singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw. Menzel made her Broadway splash as Maureen in the original company of Rent. She most […]