Thursday, February 20, 2020
Boston theatergoers recently said they had “the best time of their lives” at the play.
Linked From The New York Post at 06:28PMThursday, February 13, 2020
As far as I can tell, the one and only time an Antônio Carlos Jobim song was heard on Broadway was in Twyla Tharp’s “Come Fly Away.” The song was “Wave,” which, as I write this, m…
Linked From The New York Post at 06:40PMThursday, February 6, 2020
Bob Avian will never forget the moment Michael Bennett told him he had AIDS. The two had been friends since 1959, when they met as dancers on a tour of “West Side Story.” “We were like…
Linked From The New York Post at 06:18PMThursday, January 30, 2020
The New York Musical Festival was created to give new writers a start. So isn’t it “ironic,” says Josh Canfield, whose “Alive! The Zombie Musical” played NYMF last year, that it …
Linked From The New York Post at 03:51PMThursday, January 23, 2020
The show may stand out because of its writer — Anthony McCarten, who's up for a 2020 Oscar for his movie "The Two Popes."
Linked From The New York Post at 05:51PMThursday, January 16, 2020
Stephen Sondheim has been a fan of director Marianne Elliott’s ever since he saw her production of “Saint Joan” in London at the National Theatre in 2007. Sondheim knows a great direct…
Linked From The New York Post at 04:00PMThursday, January 9, 2020
Ready for my favorite “Hee Haw” joke? Q: What do you call a man who doesn’t believe in birth control? A: Daddy! Exactly six years ago, I was picking up good buzz about “Moonshine,”…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:33PMThursday, January 2, 2020
It’s been a week since the death, at 88, of Jerry Herman, whose scores to “Hello, Dolly!” and “Mame” defined the brassy, sassy sound of a musical comedy at the tail end of Broadway…
Linked From The New York Post at 06:21PMSaturday, December 28, 2019
If you tried too hard to be funny, Don Imus wouldn’t help you with fake laughter. If you tried to poke fun at him and he wasn’t in the mood, he’d flatten you.
Linked From The New York Post at 04:29PMThursday, December 26, 2019
The theater lost three giants in 2019: Hal Prince, Franco Zeffirelli and Carol Channing. Here, in their own words, are several other greats worth remembering. Diahann Carroll Diahann Carroll…
Linked From The New York Post at 06:29PMThursday, December 19, 2019
Its weekly grosses were so low, the Shuberts exercised the stop clause.
Linked From The New York Post at 05:54PMThursday, 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…
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