Spotted Celebrities in Audience — Page 3

Over the years and off the top of my head...Jackie Hoffman at Harry Clarke (telling all within earshot after the show that she would have gone down on all the multiple personalities Billy Crudup portrayed in the play), Nathan Lane seeing Laurie Metcalf in The Other Place, Robert Redford at Master Class (sat right next to him), Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman at Six Degrees of Separation, Jack Nicholson and Angelica Huston at A Lie of the Mind, Diahann Carroll at Torch Song Trilogy, Jackie Onassis and Maurice Templesman at Chicago (when Liza Minnelli was filling in), Kevin Bacon at Closer, Andrew Rannells at Suffs, Celeste Holm at Hair, Jill Clayburgh at The Merchant of Venice (the last two at the Delacorte), Susan Sarandon at Three Days of Rain, Liza Minnelli and Candace Bergen at Lydie Breeze, Andrew Cuomo at Dog Day Afternoon, Tony Shalhoub at Spamalot among others. I saw Oprah at something but I don't remember what.

Updated On: 6/20/26 at 07:50 PM

I need to add one more! After seeing the last revival of Pippin, I was hanging out outside of the Music Box Theater (not really stage-dooring, but maybe looking to see who came out), and I struck up a conversation with a somewhat older gentleman who was also waiting there. My best theater friend just had this weird smirk on his face as this gentleman and I talked about how much we loved the production. At some point the older guy said, "you know, I once played the part of Pippin," and I suddenly realized, much to my chagrin, that I had been talking to John Rubinstein the whole time. My friend had realized it the whole time, too. The three of us all enjoyed a vigorous laugh! (For the record, John Rubinstein is an amazingly humble and engaging conversation partner.)

I was walking to a matinee of Porgy and Bess at the Rodgers, and my dad clocked Valerie Harper in the breezeway of the Marquis Theatre, in a t-shirt and shorts wearing little make-up. She then sat a row behind me at Porgy and Bess by herself. Later the same day, on my way out of the evening performance of Once, Harper came out of the Booth after seeing Other Desert Cities, with her make up and hair all done up, in a beautiful blue dress as if she just stepped off a red carpet.

Not at a show, but when I was waiting for the Avenue Q lottery to start, I was pacing the sidewalk, and bumped into a blonde woman, who when I apologized for bumping into her, realized it was Charlotte d'Amboise on her way to A Chorus Line.

Edie Falco walked passed me in the crowd as we were both exiting End of the Rainbow.

Anna Wintour at the Lost Boys this past Wednesday night.

Sat next to Jesse Tyler Ferguson at Marjorie Prime.

When I went to the post-pandemic reopening performance of The Lion King I sat across the aisle from Gloria Steinem. Kristin Chenoweth was also there.

When I saw Merrily We Roll Along downtown I was standing near the box office waiting for my friend and I had the thought, "That lady kind of looks like Margo Martindale". And then I heard her pick up tickets for Margo Martindale. Oh.

This past season: Samuel and LaTanya Jackson, Edie Falco, and Hugh Dancy and Claire Danes at the final Saturday matinee of Oedipus. Tony Kushner and Mark Harris sitting directly in front of John Kander and his husband at Marjorie Prime. Tony Shalhoub and Brooke Adams at Little Bear Ridge Road. Lynn Ahrens and Jules Fisher at Art.