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 one of his dispatche...

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

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, checked him out on YouTube...

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 Brooks. Thomas Meehan h...

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

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 play "Almost, Maine."...

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, a master of improvi...

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

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 the director knew I'...

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 possibility. Time is import...

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 them all. He couldn...

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 came off stage, he w...

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 Lincoln Center's "South P...

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 wears. I've made a h...

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 private and public liv...

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 Married" director an...

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 Westchester. John Li...

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 song "Capped Teeth and ...

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

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 2005, I got a chance...