Tuesday, March 31, 2026
A new Broadway play took a pasting last night with reviewers. “Dog Day Afternoon,” based on the famous Sidney Lumet movie starring Al Pacino and John Cazale, went down in flames. The pla…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:48PMTough night for rapper Megan Thee Stallion. She just joined the cast of Broadway’s “Moulin Rouge.” Tonight’s performance was suddenly stopped when Megan had to be taken to the hospit…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:48PMFriday, March 27, 2026
Maybe there’s a budding super couple coming to “Days of our Lives.” The Peacock soap got a shout out from Ryan Gosling this week during an interview for “Project Hail Mary.” He pra…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:54AMThursday, March 26, 2026
You can’t make this up. Trump is live now giving a rambling talk at the cabinet meeting. This is just part of the insane stuff spewing out of his head. He’s just railing against everyone…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:42PMTuesday, March 24, 2026
Last week was pretty, pretty good on Broadway. Receipts were up almost $5 million thanks in part to school being out in a lot of places. “Hamilton” and “Harry Potter and the Cursed Chi…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:02PMThere’s no question that John Lithgow is one of our finest actors whether on stage or screen. So only he could pull off a dazzling performance as an absolutely vile person with no redeemin…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:54PMFriday, March 13, 2026
“Tricky Dick” Richard Grenell is OUT at the Kennedy Center. After just about burning the place to the ground, Grenell has essentially been fired as head of the facility by Donald Trump. …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:48PMSting is coming to the Metropolitan Opera House. Last night, the famed rocker performed two songs from his show, “The Last Ship” on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show. “The Last Ship” sai…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:42PMFriday, March 6, 2026
You can still buy tickets to see David Copperfield in Vegas this spring and summer. The ticketing machine in Las Vegas is so complicated that it hasn’t caught up with last night’s abrupt…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:01PMMagician David Copperfield is disappearing himself. Copperfield announced tonight that he’s suddenly wrapping a 25 year run at Las Vegas’s MGM Grand Hotel at the end of April. Copperfiel…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:54AMThursday, February 26, 2026
Bad weather is Broadway’s biggest enemy. The numbers are in for last week, and the total box office was down by $2 million from the previous week. The total was $31.5 million. Some of that…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:18PMSunday, February 22, 2026
There will be no “Wicked” tonight on Broadway. The coming blizzard has knocked out the 8 show that play on Sunday night including “Wicked,” “Book of Mormon,” “And Juliet,” �…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:36PMThursday, February 19, 2026
Broadway is revved up. The great Matthew Morrison, of “Glee” fame and “Finding Neverland,” is coming back. He’s taking over from Tony winner Jonathan Groff for three weeks in “Ju…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:31PMWednesday, February 11, 2026
Effie White is back — as a producer. Jennifer Hudson has joined the team producing the new Broadway revival of “Dreamgirls.” The show will be directed and choreographed by Camille Brow…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:36PMMonday, February 2, 2026
LOL Trump has made such a disaster of The Kennedy Center that he had to close it. No one will perform there while he’s president. It’s a total failure for him and his tacky lackey Tricky…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:06AMThursday, January 29, 2026
On January 16th, the Kennedy Center hired a new artistic programming chief. Yesterday, he resigned. Kevin Couch is gone. He gave no reason for resignation. For a laugh, I’ll say that JD Va…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:48PMYou know, it’s the 50th anniversary of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” I used to go to the Exeter Theater in Boston, and then the 8th St. Playhouse in New York to see midnight showing…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:42AMTuesday, January 27, 2026
There’s not much left on the Kennedy Center schedule. Famed composer Philip Glass is now removing the premiere of his “Lincoln” Symphony from the Center. He says the values of Lincoln …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:06PMMonday, January 26, 2026
Trump, on TruthSocial, has suddenly posted this odd statement of possible retreat: He writes, out of nowhere: “People don’t realize that The Trump Kennedy Center suffered massive deficit…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:42PMThe cold wind was whipping off the Hudson River Friday afternoon. But it was pretty hot at Boulevard Carroll, just off the river on West 55th St. That’s where a rehearsal room was packed t…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:42PMFriday, January 23, 2026
Opera great Renée Fleming has cut her last ties to the Kennedy Center. Fleming has canceled her appearance with the National Symphony Orchestra on May 29 and 30, 2026 at the Kennedy Center …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:36PMWednesday, January 21, 2026
Mark Consuelos will be one busy boy this spring. The co-host of “Live with Kelly and Mark” is making his Broadway debut in a Noel Coward comedy revival. Consuelos is co-starring with Kel…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:48PMSaturday, January 17, 2026
The Trump Kennedy Center’s loss is everyone else’s gain. (See video below.) In the last weeks, “Wicked” composer said he wouldn’t host the Kennedy Center’s annual gala this sprin…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 08:18PMThe truth is, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” was never a huge hit. When the two part play opened in March 2018 — after a hit run in London’s West End — the show was hot. But i…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:54AMWednesday, January 14, 2026
The dean of Deadline.com, Baz Bamigboye, reports earth shaking news today. “Wicked” stars Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey will reunite in 2027 for a London production of Stephen Sondhe…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:06PMSaturday, January 10, 2026
There will be no opera in the Melania Trump Opera House. It’s all over as the fat President sings. The Washington National Opera says it’s leaving the Kennedy Center after 45 years. They…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:42PMThursday, January 8, 2026
Comedian John Mulaney has postponed his shows in Minneapolis set for this weekend. It’s not a surprise considering the civil unrest over the murder by ICE of young mother Renee Good. He te…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:06PMTuesday, January 6, 2026
Don’t let anyone fool you. The dance troupe “Shen Yun” returns to the Kennedy Center tonight. They are part of a cult that includes right wing conspiracy newspaper, The Epoch Times. Ja…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:12PMTuesday, December 30, 2025
Broadway is suddenly booming, which is good news for everyone. “Stranger Things: The First Shadow” was doing lackluster business all year until… The TV series ends tomorrow night. New …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:24PMMonday, December 29, 2025
The Kennedy Center is going to be very quiet this winter and spring. The only show of note coming in for the next six months is a national tour of “Chicago,” from March 29th. Otherwise, …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:02PMThursday, December 25, 2025
It wasn’t bad enough that Tuesday night’s Kennedy Center Honors garnered the lowest TV ratings in the history of the show. Now it turns out that there was no Christmas Eve jazz show, as …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:12AM 
