Wednesday, September 4, 2024
The audience at Alicia Keys’s Broadway show got a surprise Tuesday night. Before the intermission the show suddenly stopped. The lights went up and the stage manager appeared on stage. Ton…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:48AMFriday, August 16, 2024
The great and legendary writer-director-performer Elaine May did something very unusual on Tuesday afternoon. The Tony Award winning actress, two time Oscar nominee, winner of a Lifetime Osc…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:07AMWednesday, August 14, 2024
Actress Rachel Zegler will not keep her opinions to herself, no matter how unpopular. Yesterday, Zegler — who became better known thanks to Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story — Twee…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:35AMMonday, August 12, 2024
Carol Burnett, who’s now 92, starred Off Broadway in 1959 in “Once Upon A Mattress.” Her performance as Princess Winifred, coupled with her regular appearances on “The Garry Moore Sh…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:31PMThursday, August 8, 2024
Roman Roy and Saul Goodman are coming to Broadway. Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk will top line David Mamet’s short but sour “Glengarry Glen Ross” next spring on the big stage. Comedia…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:21AMFifty years ago on Wednesday (last night) Philippe Petit made history walking on a highwire between the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center. It was illegal, of course, but it made headline…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:22AMFriday, August 2, 2024
The Patti Lupone- Mia Farrow play coming to Broadway this month has some news. Famed director Jack O’Brien, age 86, is getting a young, perky assistant director. Marsha Mason, who’s only…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:40AMThursday, August 1, 2024
Um, like, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are really going to star in a Broadway play. The former stars of “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” movies will play Estragon and Vladimir in S…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:18PMYou want tickets to this off Broadway show? Fuhgeddabout it. Adam Driver will star in Kenneth Lonergan’s new play, “Hold on to Me, Darling” at the Lucille Lortel Theater beginning in S…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:28AMWednesday, July 24, 2024
Eddie Redmayne is outta here. The Oscar winner opened in “Cabaret” this past winter with hopes of winning a Tony award. He was signed up for a year. But despite a nomination, Redmayne’…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:06PMTuesday, July 2, 2024
If you want to see “Merrily We Roll Along” on Broadway this week, be prepared to pony up. The revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical is seeing ticket prices up to over $5,200 on StubHub…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:42AMTuesday, June 25, 2024
Another show posts a closing notice. The revival of The Who’s “Tommy” will play its last performance on July 21st. The musical received good reviews and had ecstatic audiences, but was…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:12PMThursday, June 20, 2024
It was inevitable. Prince is coming to Broadway. The late purple rock star will be the subject of an estate approved musical based on his hit movie, “Purple Rain.” The show will launch i…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:42PMTuesday, June 18, 2024
Sir Ian McKellen says he’s ok after his fall off a London stage last night. He tumbled during a performance of “Player Kings,” a Shakespeare mashup. Audience members heard McKellen sho…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:06PMMonday, June 17, 2024
The Tony Awards ratings are in and they are bad. The early numbers indicate this year’s show dropped 15% from last year. The total so far looks like just 3.5 million viewers, down from 4.1…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:48PMTammy Faye Bakker (pronounced Baker) is back to looking for her Jim. Elton John’s musical about the televangelist couple has lost star Andrew Rannells just three months before the show is …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:48AM“The Outsiders” won two big Tony Award tonight — Best Musical and Best Director. It didn’t win any acting prizes, or its music or writing. The musical based on S.E. Hinton’s famous…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:32AMSunday, June 16, 2024
The Tony Awards are on tonight, from 8 to 11pm. In the middle at 9pm, HBO debuts season 2 of “House of the Dragon.” This morning the Tonys are pushing a performance by Jay Z with Alicia …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:12PMSaturday, June 15, 2024
EXCLUSIVE I told you a couple of weeks ago, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York has charged the chief financial officer of the Epoch Times with trying to launder…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:32PMThursday, June 13, 2024
For Idina Menzel, it’s not “If/When,” it’s spring 2025. The former star of “Wicked” will return then to Broadway in a new musical called “Redwood.” It’s the story of a grie…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:54PMWednesday, June 12, 2024
The Tony Awards — coming this Sunday — are acquiescing to a big public complaint. At first it seemed like they were not going to allow the play with music, “Stereophonic,” to perform…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:32PMTuesday, June 11, 2024
The Tony Awards are coming this Sunday on CBS. While this has been an excellent season on Broadway, the show — which begins at 8pm — is battling internal and external forces. Let’s sta…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:06AMCongrats to two of our best actors and nicest people. Naomi Watts and Billy Crudup had their official wedding in Mexico this weekend. I told you they would back on May 15th. Naomi’s brothe…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:06AMThursday, June 6, 2024
Hello, I’m Dolly! Is the name of Dolly Parton’s new musical. It will come to Broadway in 2026 with old songs, new songs, and a book by Dolly. We may learn a lot about Dolly’s life and …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:54PMMonday, May 27, 2024
I just caught up with two new Broadway shows whose premieres I couldn’t make — there were just too many openings this season! The first is “Suffs” an original musical from writer-sta…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:18PMWednesday, May 22, 2024
We’re still waiting for word on the fifth and final season of “Stranger Things” on TV. Meanwhile, a prequel play called “Stranger Things: First Shadow” in London’s West End has b…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:32PMFriday, May 17, 2024
Tony winner Sutton Foster, hot off “Sweeney Todd,” is coming back to Broadway immediately. Foster will star in a summer revival of “Once Upon a Mattress,” the musical that brought Ca…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:24PMWednesday, May 15, 2024
The Hollywood strikes last year are now turning into a big win for Broadway. Both George Clooney and Robert Downey Jr are coming to town next in plays for the first time. Clooney will star i…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:32AMWednesday, May 8, 2024
A little more from last night’s elegant and funny one night only performance for Lincoln Center Theater (1000 times better than that low class Met Gala). Sigourney Weaver was deftly funnie…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:18PMWow! Tuesday night Lincoln Center Theater put on the kind of star studded event that was a throwback to the good old days. To raise money, LCT produced — in two days — a retro staging of…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:12AMMonday, May 6, 2024
In the world of the Tony Awards, musicals like “The Great Gatsby,” “The Notebook,” and “Back to the Future” are considered, well, “bad,” and get no nominations. But in Broadw…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:24PM 
