Thursday, 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…
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…
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