There are plenty of nonmusical plays coming to Broadway this spring, but producers are fretting that few of them are selling. Three of those plays — “Sweat,” “Indecent” and “Sign…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:24PMIf you want to see 1,000 women burst into tears, hand them a piece of paper that says, “We regret to inform you that Josh Groban is unable to appear in today’s performance of ‘The Grea…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:14PMI have no idea why, but in this era of Make America Great Again, sales of George Orwell’s “1984” have skyrocketed. The book, first published in 1949, is topping best-seller lists at Am…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:38PMThings are getting tense up there in Toronto, where disgraced impresario Garth Drabinsky is plotting his comeback with the new musical “Sousatzka.” Drabinsky’s temper was legendary dur…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:29PMYou didn’t hear this from me, but this week Cher was at the very first read-through of a new musical based on her life. I’m going to give you a few details, but I’m begging you: Don’…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:03PMLondon theatergoers are pretty staid: applauding songs politely, sipping their white wine at the “interval” (translation: intermission) and never, ever giving a standing ovation. But the…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:18PM“The Scottsboro Boys” was one of my favorite musicals of the past 10 years, so I’m happy to report that the people who created it are at work on a new show. Director Susan Stroman,…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:34PMAnd the box office champ of the fall is — Nathan Lane in “The Front Page.” The revival recouped its $4.8 million production cost at the end of December, and is on track to make a tidy…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:25PMAs we swing into 2017, let’s look at the people, shows and events certain to make news on Broadway in the months ahead. Hello, $$$! Bette Midler is shaping up as the No. 1 box-office draw …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:36PMThe Broadway League was scrambling Tuesday for its members to authorize dimming the lights in honor of Debbie Reynolds and, perhaps, Carrie Fisher. Reynolds is probably a sure bet, since she…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:42PMBroadway will be dimming its lights a lot in the coming weeks. Dick Latessa, who won a Tony for “Hairspray,” died Dec. 19. Soon after, the theater lost Willa Kim, who designed the stylis…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:15PMWhen Harvey Fierstein slipped on a housecoat to play Edna in “Hairspray,” his co-star, Dick Latessa, told him he wasn’t the first to do a musical in drag: “We did a number in the out…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:12PMAs musical-comedy shrines go, it’s hard to top the staircase off the lobby of the St. James Theatre. Every night in the spring of 2001, Mel Brooks and his creative team sat on those steps …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:17AMOn the menu today: Some Shubert Alley scuttlebutt. Everybody’s wondering if “The Band’s Visit,” the new critics’ darling down at the Atlantic Theater, will move to Broadway in the …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:04PMDisgraced impresario Garth Drabinsky kicked off his comeback campaign in Toronto by hosting a press preview last week of his new musical, “Sousatzka.” With the confidence of a veteran hu…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:45PMSimon & Schuster just reissued Neil Simon’s memoirs, 1996’s “Rewrites” and 1999’s “The Play Goes On,” in one volume. I read them when they first came out, and they’re ter…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:39PM“Tough” may have been Edward Albee’s favorite compliment. “If he came backstage after a show and said, ‘That was a tough performance,’ you could sleep well that night,” say…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:27PMNothing will bring a smile to your face faster this holiday season than the opening number of “La La Land,” Damien Chazelle’s new movie that’s poised to reinvigorate the Hollywood mu…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AMHarry Potter waved his magic wand — and a Broadway theater everybody hates will be home to a show everybody loves. “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” a runaway hit in London, will op…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:16PMRobert De Niro told Page Six earlier this month that he was “annoyed” that the producers of the musical adaptation of “A Bronx Tale” tapped Broadway vet Jerry Zaks to direct instead …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:25AMEverybody on Broadway loves “The Best Worst Thing That Ever Happened,” director Lonny Price’s documentary about the reunion of the original cast of Stephen Sondheim’s flop musical �…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:51PMA reporter once asked Peter O’Toole, whose capacity for booze was legendary, if he ever turned up for work drunk. “The answer to that is not only drunk, but deliberately so,” O’Toole…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:33PMFlorenz Ziegfeld. David Merrick. Cameron Mackintosh. And now . . . Gwyneth Paltrow. The Oscar-winning actress is poised to join the ranks of fabled theatrical impresarios if “Head Over…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:15PMNobody’s approached Bruce Springsteen about turning his acclaimed new memoir into a musical. But he’s certainly open to the idea. I met Springsteen, briefly, at a party for his best-…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:32AMOf all the new shows percolating out there, the one I’m most excited about is “Buñuel,” Stephen Sondheim and David Ive s’ adaptation of two Luis Buñuel movies, “The Discreet Char…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:40AMIf Donald Trump wins the White House on Tuesday, he’ll be only the second United States president born in New York City. So while you’re waiting for a National Historic Landmarks plaque …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:03AMThere was a twinge of sadness at the opening Sunday of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses.” Those associated with the original 1987 Broadway production couldn’t help but think of two people who…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:58PMHoward and Janet Kagan, the husband-and-wife producers of “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,” have managed to upstage theater critics as the most reviled people on Broadway.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:41PM‘Young Frankenstein” is one of those movies that, when it crops up on TCM, you drop everything and laugh yourself silly till the credits roll. You know all the lines by heart: “What hu…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:25AMI can tell you what Mel Brooks is doing for Halloween: re-animating his Broadway musical “Young Frankenstein.” Brooks, along with co-writer Tom Meehan and director Susan Stroman, has tak…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:49PMJoan Rivers achieved a lot: groundbreaking comedienne, popular TV personality, QVC entrepreneur, buckets of money. But the one thing she wanted above all else eluded her. As Leslie Bennetts …
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