Thursday, April 25, 2019
“Tootsie” and “Ink” scurried in this week to make the Tony deadline and have upset everyone’s brackets. The nominations come out Tuesday, and you can bet both shows will be uncorki…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:45PMThursday, April 18, 2019
You have only Friday night and Saturday to see the hottest play in town: “The Lehman Trilogy” at the Park Avenue Armory. Alas, you’re going to need Lehman brothers money (well, before …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:34PMThursday, April 11, 2019
Disney is celebrating its 25th anniversary on Broadway this month with three hits that mint money: “Aladdin,” “Frozen” and “The Lion King.” That last, with a worldwide gross of $…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:31PMThursday, April 4, 2019
Who’d have thought the most controversial show this spring would be . . . Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!”? A revival of the 1943 musical opening Sunday is dividing audience…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:51PMThursday, March 28, 2019
There’s tumult behind the scenes this week at “Be More Chill,” the social-media phenomenon that’s become a Broadway musical. Concerned that their show isn’t gaining traction in the…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:49PMThursday, March 21, 2019
It was a wild night at Tuesday’s “Ain’t Too Proud” preview. The critics were in the house for the new The Temptations musical, so the producers and creators were on edge. They almost…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:50PMThe winter months were tough on “The Prom,” and some on Broadway feared it might fold. But the show got an infusion of cash from its investors and is now set to run through the Tony Awar…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:18PMThursday, March 14, 2019
A Washington Post critic sprayed a can of Raid on the out-of-town tryout of “Beetlejuice” last fall. Peter Marks called the $20 million musical “overcaffeinated, overstuffed and virtua…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:28PMThursday, March 7, 2019
The biggest little hit in town right now is “Fiddler on the Roof,” which has lifted the curse from the Shubert Organization’s Stage 42, an off-Broadway theater on far West 42nd Street.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:06PMThursday, February 28, 2019
You have only until Sunday to see one of the strangest musicals ever conceived for the stage: “Lolita, My Love,” a 1971 flop based on Vladimir Nabokov’s sensational novel about a colle…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:27PMThursday, February 21, 2019
Princess Diana may have stolen the show at Buckingham Palace, but it’s Queen Elizabeth II who’s stealing “Diana,” the new musical that started previews this week at San Diego’s La …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:27PMThursday, February 14, 2019
“Would you like a cup of tea?” an assistant asks Glenda Jackson as she leaves a rehearsal room in Times Square. “What I would like,” says this great lady of the theater, “is a …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:08PMThursday, February 7, 2019
It was shaping up to be the most talked about — and salacious — theater event of the new year: Oscar winner Cate Blanchett and “Game of Thrones” star Stephen Dillane steaming up the …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:12PMThursday, January 24, 2019
Ivo van Hove certainly divides audiences and critics. Champions love the Belgian director’s stylized, ferocious whirling dervish productions. Detractors bristle at all the special effects,…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:12PMThursday, January 17, 2019
It is a blend of faithful adaptation and fanciful splicing. It is the middle ground between artistry and commercialism, between reasonable prices and premiums, and it lies in London right no…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:56PMThursday, January 10, 2019
The play’s the thing this spring on Broadway. To the competitive roster of non-musicals I spoke about last week — all-star revivals of “King Lear” and “All My Sons” among them �…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:16PMThursday, January 3, 2019
Ring out the old, ring in the new: Here’s my countdown to the 10 personalities, shows and backstage dramas I’m looking forward to in 2019. 10. Glenda Jackson delivered an unforgettable p…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:45PMThursday, December 27, 2018
Broadway lost some boldface names in 2018. Let’s give them an encore, in their own words. William Goldman made his name in the movies, writing the screenplays to “Butch Cassidy and the S…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:42PMThursday, December 20, 2018
An array of Broadway types populates the new musical comedy, “The Prom”: the self-absorbed diva, the exasperated press agent, the vain leading man. And then there’s the jaded chorus gi…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:12PMThursday, December 13, 2018
Like many theater-mad kids who grew up in the ’60s, songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman know every note and word from “Mary Poppins.” “I listened to, and continue to listen to…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:06PMThursday, December 6, 2018
“It would have been the first play ever to open and close in the Southern District Court.”
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:18PMThursday, November 29, 2018
“Girl From the North Country,” the brooding musical fashioned around Bob Dylan songs, is moving to Broadway this season, but not to the theater it wanted. The producers of the show, whic…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:23PMThursday, November 22, 2018
Bruce Springsteen has paved the way for a host of legendary music acts to play the Great White Way in 2019. A group of powerful entertainment companies — Live Nation, Creative Artists Asso…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:39PMThursday, November 15, 2018
Never mind those Curtiss Helldiver fighter planes circling the Empire State Building in “King Kong.” The real threat to Broadway’s big ape may be those vicious drama critics. They stra…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:35PMThursday, November 8, 2018
I’m going to be a yenta and give you the plotke on “Fiddler on the Roof.” The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s revival down at the Museum of Jewish Heritage is headed uptown to …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:44PMThursday, November 1, 2018
The ladies who lunch are booking a table in New York. The gender-bending revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Company,” which won rave reviews in London, will open on Broadway next fall, sev…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:54PMThursday, October 25, 2018
Just in time for Halloween, there’s no shortage of monsters and villains lurking around Shubert Alley. My Tony for Best Baddie goes to Mr. Muldoon, the sinister IRA boss in Jez Butterworth…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:15PMThursday, October 18, 2018
A little tip if you want to see a show before it takes off and prices go sky-high: It ain’t too soon to grab tickets to “Ain’t Too Proud.” This new musical, about the Temptations, ha…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:40PMThursday, October 11, 2018
Tituss Burgess, enjoying small-screen fame as the struggling actor of Netflix’s “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” is also the driving creative force behind “The Preacher’s Wife,” a ne…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:10PMThursday, October 4, 2018
Bob Dylan has signed off on moving “Girl From the North Country,” a new musical fashioned around his song catalog, to Broadway in the spring, sources tell The Post. The musical, which de…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:18PMThursday, September 27, 2018
The American Theatre Wing threw a jolly bash Monday night honoring Andrew Lloyd Webber, who’s endowed a program to bring arts into schools. Lloyd Webber had the best line of the night when…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:18PM 
