Patti LuPone isn't keeping the drama between her and Broadway veteran Audra McDonald on the stage.. In an interview with The New Yorker, published May 26, LuPone said McDonald is "not a friend ...

LuPone also fires back at Lewis, saying the Broadway vet "doesn’t know what the f--- she’s talking about" Patti LuPone isn’t mincing words when it comes to where she stands with fellow ...

Oprah’s got jokes. Oprah Winfrey took the stage at the 2025 Tony Awards on Sunday and appeared to shade Patti LuPone for her drama with Audra McDonald. As she presented the award for Best ...

Outspoken Broadway star Patti LuPone, who was born and raised in Northport, says she and fellow theater icon Audra McDonald have a long-standing rift that recently deepened with McDonald’s ...

LuPone revealed to The New Yorker that she had a falling out with McDonald some years ago, although she declined to go into further detail. The revelation came to be after Schulman brought up a ...

Although LuPone said in the interview that their falling out occurred in the past, many believe that LuPone is now publicly bashing McDonald because she feels that McDonald didn’t support her ...

Audra McDonald “doesn’t know” why Patti LuPone said she “isn’t a friend” in her New Yorker profile, finally addressing the bad blood between Broadway royalty in a new interview ...

LuPone, who criticized former costar McDonald and "Hell's Kitchen" star Lewis in a recent New Yorker profile, walked back her fiery statements in a May 31 statement shared on her social media pages.

During an interview with the New Yorker reporter, Michael Schulman, on May 26, LuPone stated McDonald was "not a friend," and that the two of them drifted apart a long time ago.

Patti LuPone apologizes and is devastated after interview comments backlash about Kecia Lewis and Audra McDonald from a New Yorker interview.

Patti LuPone is apologizing for the recent comments she made in a New Yorker profile about Audra McDonald and Kecia Lewis that’s had the theater world buzzing. “For as long as I have worked in ...