Thursday, December 12, 2019
When Andrew Lloyd Webber read the screenplay for “Cats,” he knew something was missing: a song for Victoria, an abandoned cat who wasn’t in his stage musical. “She had no voice at al…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:18PMThursday, December 5, 2019
“Tootsie” flopped on Broadway. It’s a terrific show, but its early closing is scaring the hell out of “Mrs. Doubtfire,” another musical whose leading man is also a leading lady. Ba…
Linked From The New York Post at 06:26PMThursday, November 21, 2019
It may not recoup its $9.5 million investment.
Linked From The New York Post at 06:42PMThursday, November 14, 2019
“Tootsie” had everything going for it: great title, terrific reviews, star-making turn by Santino Fontana, snappy score by David Yazbek and a hilarious book by Robert Horn. And yet one o…
Linked From The New York Post at 10:48PMThursday, October 31, 2019
The delightful Ian McKellen, who turned 80 this year, has a message for anybody who wants to see him on stage: “Run!” New Yorkers have that chance Tuesday at the Hudson Theatre, where Mc…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:54PMThursday, October 24, 2019
The buzziest show in London right now is “Lungs,” starring Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. Or, as they’re known in real life, Claire Foy and Matt Smith, the royal couple of Netfl…
Linked From The New York Post at 04:51PMThursday, October 17, 2019
Eileen Atkins is the only Dame of the English theater who hasn’t been invited to lunch with the Queen at Sandringham House. All the other Dames — Judi (Dench), Maggie (Smith), Diana (Rig…
Linked From The New York Post at 06:03PMThursday, October 10, 2019
Brian Cox had no intention of tackling a meaty character like Lyndon Baines Johnson in Robert Schenkkan’s “The Great Society.” He’d moved away from big theater roles to focus on part…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:03PMThursday, October 3, 2019
Cameron Crowe ran into Elton John last year at a party thrown by David Geffen. “I hear you’re doing a musical version of ‘Almost Famous,’” John said. “I love Tom Kitt” – Crow…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:31PMThursday, September 26, 2019
“Little Shop of Horrors” may be the most adorably creepy — and enduring — musicals of all time. It opened in 1982 at the small WPA Theater in Chelsea, then moved to the Orpheum on Se…
Linked From The New York Post at 02:40PMThursday, September 19, 2019
Who knew Loki and Daredevil are the biggest theater geeks in town? Tom Hiddleston (Loki) and Charlie Cox (Daredevil) are starring in the spare — but scorching — revival of Harold Pinter…
Linked From The New York Post at 06:52PMThursday, September 12, 2019
The New York Times has a new darling: Jeremy O. Harris, whose “Slave Play” began previews Tuesday at the Golden Theatre after last year’s sold-out run at New York Theatre Workshop. The…
Linked From The New York Post at 05:37PMThursday, September 5, 2019
The theater world’s buzzing about two off-the-grid musicals that could make the leap to Broadway in the spring. The other week I reported on “The Wrong Man,” by singer-songwriter Ross …
Linked From The New York Post at 04:57PMThursday, August 29, 2019
Thursday, August 22, 2019
Brace yourself, theater people: Gerard Alessandrini, the merry skewer-er of all that you do, is coming back with “Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation.” A New York institution since 1…
Linked From The New York Post at 06:46PMThursday, August 15, 2019
Let’s hear it for the great Lois Smith, who rode to the rescue this week when “The Inheritance,” coming in from London, was missing a key cast member: Vanessa Redgrave. She won raves f…
Linked From The New York Post at 04:42PMThursday, August 8, 2019
“Moulin Rouge,” “Jagged Little Pill” and “Tina: the Tina Turner Musical” are the new Broadway season’s major musical contenders. But keep your eye on a small, original show tha…
Linked From The New York Post at 02:30PMThursday, August 1, 2019
Barry Manilow, back on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne for a few weeks, came onstage at Tuesday’s opening night and cracked: “You weren’t expecting Faye Dunaway, were you?” Big laughs …
Linked From The New York Post at 06:05PMWednesday, July 24, 2019
Faye Dunaway has been fired from the Broadway-bound play “Tea at Five.” Dunaway, 78, was playing Katharine Hepburn in the one-woman play, set to open on Broadway next year. It had been p…
Linked From The New York Post at 03:28PMThursday, July 18, 2019
After 20 years, Jack Viertel is giving up the job that everyone who loves musical theater covets: producing Encores! at City Center. As I shouldn’t have to remind my readers, Encores! pres…
Linked From The New York Post at 08:43PMThursday, July 11, 2019
The first person I called after hearing Rip Torn died on Tuesday was Elizabeth Ashley, who knew him well. “I’m seeing so many R.I.P.’s for Rip,” the actress told me. “Are you f- …
Linked From The New York Post at 06:28PMThursday, June 27, 2019
Loki is coming to Broadway this summer. Tom Hiddleston, the villain of Marvel’s “Avengers” movies, will star in a revival of Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal.” The production won raves …
Linked From The New York Post at 05:31PMThursday, June 20, 2019
Sad news that “The Prom,” an original and delightful show, is closing Aug. 11. Had it won the Tony for Best Musical, it might have eked out a year or so. But it was probably doomed from …
Linked From The New York Post at 08:40PMThursday, June 13, 2019
What little drama there was at Sunday’s low-rated Tony Awards telecast centered on “Be More Chill,” Joe Iconis’ struggling musical. When James Corden, Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles …
Linked From The New York Post at 07:46PMMonday, June 10, 2019
A Tony Awards that had the potential to deliver some jaw-dropping upsets delivered nothing but a lackluster telecast hosted by James Corden, who, though he did a brilliant job three years ag…
Linked From The New York Post at 09:03AMThursday, June 6, 2019
A top Broadway executive e-mailed the other day to say, “I really think the only winner during this period of time is the pharmaceutical industry, as the demand for beta blockers and anxie…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:33PMThursday, May 30, 2019
Broadway’s roaring into the homestretch with the Tonys next weekend, and I’ve never seen so many nervous people in Shubert Alley. Many races are up in the air, which should make for an e…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:47PMThursday, May 23, 2019
It’s going to be Cameron Crowe vs. Alanis Morissette at the Tonys next year. Morissette’s “Jagged Little Pill” begins previews in the fall at the Broadhurst Theatre. But it could be …
Linked From The New York Post at 07:49PMThursday, May 16, 2019
Broadway’s power brokers took time out from Tony season this week to fly to London to see “Cinderella,” the new musical from Andrew Lloyd Webber. The heat is intense on this one, not o…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:16PMThursday, May 9, 2019
Critics are always sniping at something, but the real fun begins when they start sniping at one another. The members of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle got into a heated exchange last w…
Linked From The New York Post at 05:03PMThursday, May 2, 2019
Robert Horn, Tony-nominated for his snappy book to “Tootsie,” knows all too well what it’s like to scrape out a living in New York while trying to break into the theater. He never play…
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