Thursday, July 19, 2018
How bad was the rehearsal that some say caused Jeff Loeffelholz, the longtime standby at “Chicago,” to kill himself? The actor’s handwritten notes, which friends spearheading a “Just…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:54PMThursday, July 12, 2018
What in the world is going on with Broadway’s “Straight White Men?” Young Jean Lee’s dark comedy, opening this month at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater, lost two of its leading men in…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:47PMThursday, July 5, 2018
Lauren Ambrose, the Tony-nominated star of Lincoln Center Theater’s hit revival of “My Fair Lady,” finds the role of Eliza Doolittle too taxing to perform eight times a week. So she’…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:43PMThursday, June 21, 2018
Most of the top titles from Broadway’s Golden Age were revived over the past decade or so, with one exception: “Camelot.” Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s 1960 musical about Kin…
Linked From The New York Post at 08:18PMThursday, June 14, 2018
The era of the jukebox musical, epitomized by the sensational “Jersey Boys,” is winding down. Now it’s time to bow down to the diva musical. Critics threw rocks at “Summer: The Donna…
Linked From The New York Post at 08:34PMMonday, June 11, 2018
Broadway thumbed its nose at Tina Fey and touristy musicals Sunday night by showering “The Band’s Visit,” a lovely, human show, with 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Its sweep o…
Linked From The New York Post at 02:00AMThursday, June 7, 2018
Here’s the gossip coming out of Radio City Music Hall about Sunday night’s Tony telecast on CBS: If you want to see the Boss but can’t afford those thousand-dollar seats for “Spr…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:14PMThursday, May 31, 2018
It took them 20 years to get here, but Jeff Richmond and his wife, Tina Fey, are finally where they’ve always wanted to be: Broadway. “We’re theater people who got detoured,” says Ri…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:40PMThursday, May 24, 2018
David Mamet hasn’t written a hit play in years, but the one he’s just finished has the potential to be a blockbuster. It’s about Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul who’s exp…
Linked From The New York Post at 08:39PMThursday, May 17, 2018
Theater owners and producers from around the country came to town this week for their annual convention — and the big get is a selfie with Tina Fey. The “Mean Girls” creator has been h…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:02PMThursday, May 10, 2018
The comedy in “musical comedy” started to go missing in the 1980s as shows about felines seeking redemption (“Cats”) and students manning the barricades (“Les Misérables”) steam…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:30PMThursday, May 3, 2018
An all-star cast began previews this week in “The Boys in the Band,” Mart Crowley’s 1968 play about a group of gay men who throw a party — and plenty of bitchy zingers. So it seemed …
Linked From The New York Post at 08:22PMThursday, April 26, 2018
The Tony Award nominators are like Regina in “Mean Girls.” And while they don’t all wear pink, their power is absolute — which is why they’ve got the theater world on edge until Tu…
Linked From The New York Post at 08:52PMThursday, April 19, 2018
They’re not going to sing and dance like Hugh Jackman or get big laughs like James Corden, but Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban just might expand the Tony telecast demographic beyond the…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:59PMThursday, April 12, 2018
“Carousel” is a great American musical. But it doesn’t come without baggage. A first-class revival starring Jessie Mueller and Joshua Henry opened on Broadway Thursday night traile…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:22PMSunday, April 1, 2018
The most depressing place in American drama may well be Harry Hope’s Saloon, where “The Iceman Cometh,” Eugene O’Neill’s descent into dipsomania, takes place. “It’s the No Chan…
Linked From The New York Post at 06:24AMThursday, March 8, 2018
In his engaging new memoir “Unmasked,” Andrew Lloyd Webber resurrects a mogul who dominated showbiz in the 1960s and ’70s — and then vanished. Robert Stigwood, an impresario from Aus…
Linked From The New York Post at 06:53PMFriday, March 2, 2018
Martin McDonagh may well win an Oscar Sunday night for his screenplay for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” But his chance at a Tony will have to wait. The transfer of McDonag…
Linked From The New York Post at 03:41PMThursday, February 22, 2018
Frosty the Snowman has a corncob pipe, a button nose and two eyes made of coal. Olaf — the big-hearted sidekick of Disney’s “Frozen” — is made out of different stuff: carbon fiber,…
Linked From The New York Post at 06:41PMTuesday, February 20, 2018
I don’t know if the Russians have infiltrated the White House yet, but they were all over the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, last weekend for “Chess.” So what did they think of that…
Linked From The New York Post at 08:19PMThursday, February 15, 2018
It took Jimmy Buffett just six minutes to write the song on which he built an empire — and a Broadway musical. He was in Austin, Texas, some 40 years ago, visiting a woman he was dating, a…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:51PMTuesday, February 13, 2018
It’s no mean feat replacing Bette Midler in “Hello, Dolly!” Midler was the No. 1 attraction on Broadway in 2017, racking up weekly grosses of $2.5 million and winning the Tony Awar…
Linked From The New York Post at 06:55PMThursday, February 8, 2018
Martin McDonagh may well win the Oscar for his screenplay for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” And now he may also be a contender for a Tony for Best Play — though he’ll …
Linked From The New York Post at 06:57PMTuesday, February 6, 2018
It’s hard to outfox a movie studio, but Broadway’s Douglas Carter Beane seems to have done just that. The Tony-nominated playwright has long wanted to turn his 1995 cult movie “To …
Linked From The New York Post at 06:35PMThursday, February 1, 2018
Luis Fonsi brought down the house at Clive Davis ’ Grammy party Saturday, performing his infectious hit “Despacito.” I hear that among the VIPs impressed with Fonsi’s vocal chops and…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:34PMTuesday, January 30, 2018
The Go-Go’s are on the go-go! Reunited for the first time in years, the ’80s girl group performed to a packed house Monday night at the Bowery Ballroom. It was a kickoff party for their …
Linked From The New York Post at 07:24PMThursday, January 25, 2018
One of Broadway’s juiciest, longest running feuds may have just ended. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Patti LuPone haven’t spoken to each other since the composer fired the diva from “Sunset …
Linked From The New York Post at 06:48PMWednesday, January 24, 2018
I have found the next Hugh Jackman. And he is . . . Jonathan Groff. Everybody — and I mean everybody on Broadway — is talking up his performance in “The Bobby Darin Story” at the…
Linked From The New York Post at 06:22AMThursday, January 18, 2018
CBS is wasting no time lining up a host for this year’s Tony Awards. I hear the offer is out to James Corden, who hosted the telecast to great acclaim in 2016. Sources say the host of “T…
Linked From The New York Post at 08:01PMTuesday, January 16, 2018
Even in 2016, Garry Marshall knew that what worked for his 1990 hit film “Pretty Woman” wouldn’t work in a musical. Times had changed, and Vivian and Edward — the characters played b…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:37PMThursday, January 11, 2018
Bryan Cranston is winning raves as wild-eyed anchorman Howard Beale in the stage adaptation of “Network” at London’s National Theatre. The “Breaking Bad” star was a major box-offic…
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