Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Joan 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 …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:34PMThursday, October 20, 2016
Before the first preview of “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” Tuesday night, producer Howard Kagan stood in front of his cast and crew and informed them that The Post was a…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:11PMTuesday, October 18, 2016
“Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,” a musical inspired by Tolstoy’s “War and Peace,” takes place during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia. But the feud among the produce…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:11PMSunday, October 16, 2016
Al Capone, public enemy No. 1 and the most powerful gangster of the Prohibition era, spent the last years of his life in seclusion at his house in Florida. He fished from his boat, doted on …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:07AMThursday, October 13, 2016
It must be nice to be Sonia Friedman and Colin Calendar , the producers of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” which has racked up $40 million in advance ticket sales in London. They’…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:56PMTuesday, October 11, 2016
Before he became a television superstar, William Shatner was a classically trained actor who, many of his theater pals believed, had the chops to play Hamlet, Macbeth and, one day, King Lear…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:38PMThursday, October 6, 2016
Here’s a tip for Broadway’s theater owners: Get yourselves to Vienna to see the new musical by “Wicked” composer Stephen Schwartz. My Viennese spies say it’s sensational. It’…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:36PMTuesday, October 4, 2016
Newspapers are thriving! Well, at least on Broadway, where “The Front Page,” Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s 1928 comedy about tabloid wars in Chicago, is shaping up to be the smash …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:08PMThursday, September 29, 2016
Two Broadway legends are being saluted in a couple of forthcoming musical revues. First up is Hal Prince, whose life and shows are the subjects of “The Prince of Broadway.” Sources say i…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:11PMTuesday, September 27, 2016
Kevin Kline will be making a rare appearance on Broadway this spring at the St. James Theater in Noël Coward’s “Present Laughter.” Kline, long considered America’s greatest stage ac…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:54PMSaturday, September 24, 2016
In February 1861, President-elect Abraham Lincoln was scheduled to travel through Baltimore by train on his way from Harrisburg, Pa., to Washington, DC. Shortly before his departure, Lincoln…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:13PMFriday, September 23, 2016
After some turmoil in Elsa’s castle, Disney has finally settled on a new creative team for its upcoming Broadway musical “Frozen.” Michael Grandage is the new director, replacing Alex …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:05AMTuesday, September 20, 2016
Broadway will dim its lights Wednesday night at 7:45 for Edward Albee, who died Friday at 88. His many friends and admirers will gather in front of Sardi’s to watch the marquees go dark al…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:20PMSaturday, September 17, 2016
If, as Jonathan Swift said, “He was a bold man that first ate an oyster,” then New York is full of brave souls. We’ve been slurping down oysters ever since Henry Hudson sailed into New…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:31AMFriday, September 16, 2016
His play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" shocked Broadway in 1962 and catapulted him to the front-ranks of the American theater.
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:44PMThursday, September 15, 2016
Writing last week about the upcoming Donna Summer musical, I said I’d “slip past the rope line” to check out another disco musical in the works, Stephen Trask’s “This Ain’t No Di…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:45PMTuesday, September 13, 2016
The creators of “Groundhog Day” emerged from their burrow at London’s Old Vic, didn’t see their shadows and so decided to come to Broadway sooner rather than later. “Groundhog Day�…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:29PMThursday, September 8, 2016
I never deal in rumors. This column is like “Dragnet”: “Just the facts, ma’am.” But here’s a rumor I can’t resist. Lincoln Center Theater hopes to entice Colin Firth to star in…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:52PMTuesday, September 6, 2016
Hey, someone left the cake out in the rain! And I’m here to tell you all about it. Director Des McAnuff, of “Jersey Boys” fame, staged a workshop last week of a new musical about the l…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:50PMThursday, September 1, 2016
It won’t be long before it’s time to snuggle up with a good book on a cold day. Here are a couple that theater lovers will devour. Modesty forbids me from mentioning that the paperback e…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:31PMTuesday, August 30, 2016
Gene Wilder’s most celebrated partnership was, of course, with Mel Brooks in such comedy classics as “The Producers,” “Blazing Saddles” and “Young Frankenstein.” But I’ve bee…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:23PMSaturday, August 27, 2016
Early in the evening of Dec. 26, 1941, a train bound for Fort Knox pulled out of Union Station in Washington, DC. Four Secret Service agents stood guard over an assortment of discreet-lookin…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:06PMFriday, August 26, 2016
Lewis Black is headed to Broadway with a new show — “Black to the Future” — that may turn out to be his farewell tour. It’s the election that’s making him contemplate his future.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:58AMTuesday, August 23, 2016
In the halls of the Public Theater, where “Hamilton” started, they’re buzzing about another new musical with a one-word title — “Bunuel.” That would be Luis Bunuel, the great sur…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:09PMThursday, August 18, 2016
“Groundhog Day” is coming to Broadway. Ah, but when? That question is causing some panic among the producers of this season’s crop of new musicals. “Groundhog Day” opened to rave r…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:25PMTuesday, August 16, 2016
After writing last week about Alex Timbers being replaced as the director of Disney’s “Frozen” — Stephen Daldry may take the job — I heard from some of Timbers’ friends. Word was…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:23PMFriday, August 12, 2016
The Post gets results. In the case of Florence Foster Jenkins, we killed her. Or so the new movie — “Florence Foster Jenkins,” starring the great Meryl Streep — would have you believ…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:37AMThursday, August 11, 2016
Olaf may get a new boss. Disney is in talks with director Stephen Daldry to take the reins of its Broadway musical “Frozen.” Daldry, who won a Tony for his terrific staging of “Billy E…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:47PMTuesday, August 9, 2016
Julie Taymor — of “Lion King” fame and “Spider-Man” infamy — was recently asked what it would take to get her back to Broadway. “Oh, I’m coming,” Taymor told The Post’s B…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:19PMThursday, August 4, 2016
Fire up the klieg lights — it looks like Norma Desmond is returning to Broadway. A push is on to bring a celebrated British revival of “Sunset Boulevard,” starring Glenn Close, to the …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:46PMTuesday, August 2, 2016
“Cats” is back, and with it T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, posters, key chains, socks, baseball caps and mouse pads — each one emblazoned with the famous cat’s-eyes logo. Merchandising has…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:27PM 
