Paul Rudnick

Friday's TV Highlights: 'The Moment' on NBC

2013-05-29 20:00:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 26 - June 1, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � -------------------- SERIES Bridezillas The unscripted series...

Movie review: 'Making the Boys'

2011-04-29 00:00:00

It may be hard for those who grew up watching "Will & Grace" to imagine the shock and excitement when Mart Crowley's "The Boys in the Band" caught fire off-Broadway in 1968, becoming one of the most discussed, derided and defended dramas of its era. A...

Theater review, 'Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays' at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center

2011-05-13 16:33:13

The Spotlight: Brian Shnipper of 'Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays’

2011-05-18 16:33:12

Lena Dunham: Men are sensitive, get off their cases!

2013-03-22 02:30:05

"I HATE the conventional wisdom that men are supposedly complete pieces of s--t and it's our job as women to put up with them. Men are just as sensitive and easily victimized as women are ... that drives me nuts. We're all humans and doing human stuff."...

The last of the Golden Globes items! (we think)

2013-01-18 02:30:04

"NO, NO! Don't take them off! If you do your feet will swell. The blood is going to rush to your feet!" That was actress Hayden Panettiere's advice to a pained woman in the ladies room at the HBO Golden Globes party. The woman wanted to remove her...

"Miss Saigon," With Former "Engineer" Kevin Gray Directing, Highlights Hartt Season

2012-08-29 12:29:00

Kevin Gray, who starred in "Miss Saigon"� in Toronto and Los Angeles -- and is now a faculty member at the Hartt School, directs the musical at the school, part of the University of Hartford. The show runs Oct. 25 to 28, at Lincoln Theater, University of...

Summer Shorts sets lineup: LaBute, Rudnick among writers on the slate

2012-07-16 21:45:12

New one-acts by scribes including Neil LaBute and Paul Rudnick are among the offerings on tap for Summer Shorts 2012, this year's edition of the Off Broadway fest of brief new works. Walter Bobbie ("Venus in Fur") has signed on to helm Rudnick's show,...

"Smash:" It's Not a Documentary But Still...

2012-02-05 04:35:00

Watching the first four episodes of the much-hyped TV series “Smash,” one may ask, “Whose Broadway is it anyway?” Theater geeks and chat room obsessives will no doubt have lots to celebrate and carp about as the 15 episodes roll...

Fran Drescher borrows from life for 'Happily Divorced'

2011-06-08 12:50:22

Life with Mr. Sheffield was never like this. Former Emmy nominee Fran Drescher ("The Nanny") returns to series television in "Happily Divorced," a new TV Land sitcom premiering Wednesday, June 15. Loosely drawn from her real-life relationship with ex-...

"Magic Mike," director Steven Soderbergh's male stripper movie, has been called the "Citizen Kane" of stripper movies by Entertainment Weekly columnist Libby Gelman-Waxner (pen name for screenwriter Paul Rudnick), and the quote is being played on TV commercials for the movie everywhere.

2012-06-27 16:16:57