Andy Borowitz swears to me that he’s not out to “hoax anybody," but people are hoaxed, nonetheless. As soon as someone on Facebook posts...

Jim Dale still hears voices. Hermione, Hagrid, Harry, and hundreds of others. Thanks to Dale, generations of "Harry Potter" fans —...

I was unfamiliar with Chris Botti when I got the assignment to interview him, the following day. I listened to a lot of his music,...

When I grow up, if I grow up, I want to be Thomas Meehan. A remarkable man. For this 2005 profile, I spoke with his collaborator, Mel...

I adored "Souvenir," which came to Broadway in 2005 long before Meryl Streep turned it into "Florence Foster Jenkins." I'll stick with...

John Cariani is an actor and writer and the gentlest soul I know. We first spoke in 2008. It's appropriate that John Cariani titled his...

The first rule of improv is never say "No." It's always "Yes, and..." Looking back over this 2006 interview, I notice that Colin Mochrie,...

You hear about places like the Steinway basement. My 2006 chat with composer John Musto got me in. A magical place. The Steinway basement...

I first encountered Peter Schickele's alter ego, P.D.Q. Bach, when I was a college kid in New Mexico. I sang bass in a men's chorale and...

I love a good laugh. I spent a laugh-filled July afternoon with Paquito D'Rivera in a Midtown rehearsal room. He radiates joy and...

I did a ton of research before speaking with Bill Nighy when he came to Broadway in 2006. I watched three or four of his movies and loved...

I couldn't resist teasing Michael Flatley when we spoke in 2006. I had just seen Paul McCartney on "60 Minutes" and noticed that when he...

Ted Sperling gave me an incredible gift, and I didn't use it. When I was granted unbelievable access, to the first time the cast of...

The great Irish actor Jim Norton once who told me that his character work always begins from the ground up, with the shoes his character...

Before he came to Nyack to sit down with his friend Elliott Forrest in 2011, he gave me a few minutes to talk "30 Rock," and where his...

When I call Bill Irwin, it's usually bad news. I called him when Jonathan Demme died, seeking his recollections of the "Rachel's Getting...

John Lithgow is a gifted storyteller, so I was happy to catch up with him in 2010 as he prepared to bring his "Stories By Heart" tour to...

I have a confession: I've had a crush on Bernadette Peters since I saw her in "Song & Dance," a bipolar musical in which she sang the...

In 2007, when Chazz Palminteri revisited his masterwork, "A Bronx Tale," on Broadway (before eventually turning it into a musical), he...

When I was a kid, Saturday nights meant "All in the Family," "The Bob Newhart Show," "Mary Tyler Moore" and "The Carol Burnett Show." In...