Paul Rudnick

Playwright and screenwriter Paul Rudnick discusses Playing the Palace, his new novel.

Playwright Paul Rudnick explains why Caitlyn Jenner’s big reveal on the cover of Vanity Fair demonstrated media mastery — and why it might make a real difference for transgender rights.

2013 has been a year of opposites attracting. Consider some of the year’s collaborations in pop music: the rapper LL Cool J and the country singer Brad Paisley, Daft Punk and Pharre...

Humor writer Paul Rudnick takes a close look at all manner of subjects: from living in a series of increasingly bizarre apartments in New York City to cavorting with his artist friends to dealing with showbiz personalities to the finer points of coping with one's family. His new book of ...

The screenwriter (“In and Out”) and playwright (“I Hate Hamlet”) puts the colorful details of his life in his new memoir, I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey. As the original writer of “Sister Act,” he tells Kurt why the sight of Whoopi Goldberg ...

Paul Rudnick reveals how he stays slim eating nothing but processed sugar. Really.

Riding the coattails of hits like Lost and Heroes, this season’s glut of TV is heavy on the fantasy -– with shows featuring vampires, ghosts, time travel, and fembots. Kurt chats with playwright and screenwriter Paul Rudnick about the supernatural zeitgeist.

This Sunday on The Simpsons, Marge’s sister Patty falls in love and marries a pro golfer. One twist — her new spouse is a woman. This latest pop culture take on the highly charged issue of gay rights comes hot on the heels of the recent controversies over Spongebob Squarepants’ ...

Kurt talks with Paul Rudnick, the screenwriter of the new remake of The Stepford Wives, a film about a town in a Connecticut suburb where the men have replaced their wives with submissive robots. Rudnick says that growing up in New Jersey was like growing up in a punch line.