Thursday, 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 …
Linked From 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 …
Linked From 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,…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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 …
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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.”
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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 …
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:18PMThursday, September 20, 2018
Tourists have King Kong, Daniel Radcliffe and a show about Cher this season. Theater buffs and lovers of classic comedy have something even better: Elaine May’s first Broadway appearance i…
Linked From The New York Post at 09:49PMThursday, September 13, 2018
With only a couple of previews in Chicago under its corset, “Tootsie” is shaping up to be a hit. Buzz was building during rehearsals for Santino Fontana, as the main character, and it ex…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:07PMThursday, September 6, 2018
Penn Badgley didn’t mean to step away from the spotlight for six years. But since “Gossip Girl” ended in 2012, he hasn’t had another starring TV role until now. “I didn’t anticip…
Linked From The New York Post at 09:54PMTime to raise the curtain on the shows headed to Broadway this season. Here are some notable titles: Get tickets now Kenneth Lonergan’s plays age well. Last season’s revival of “Lobby …
Linked From The New York Post at 09:54PMThursday, August 30, 2018
Neil Simon was the most successful playwright in Broadway history, racking up some 9,000 performances — and many millions of dollars — with hits such as “The Odd Couple,” “The Suns…
Linked From The New York Post at 08:35PMThursday, August 23, 2018
Not to drop a name, but I was at a dinner party once with Robert De Niro (thump!) who said the actress he admired most was Barbara Harris. De Niro was a student at the Actors Studio in New Y…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:27PMThursday, August 16, 2018
Without a star above the title, it’s hard for a new American play to get to Broadway. That’s the number-one gripe that producers, agents, investors and actors have about the business. Ye…
Linked From The New York Post at 06:48PMThursday, August 9, 2018
Les Moonves, the embattled head of CBS, once told me: “The Tony Awards are part of this network’s heritage. The telecast is a money-loser for CBS, but there are certain things that are m…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:58PMThursday, August 2, 2018
Moolah-la: They’re sure spending a lot of money on “Moulin Rouge! The Musical.” The stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s vertigo-inducing movie musical is budgeted at $30 million — a…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:25PMThursday, July 26, 2018
Broadway producer Gwyneth Paltrow skipped Thursday night’s opening of her show, “Head Over Heels,” the Go-Go’s musical, at the Hudson Theatre. Word is she stayed in Montauk, making w…
Linked From The New York Post at 10:55PMThursday, 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…
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