Thursday, July 18, 2019
After 20 years, Jack Viertel is giving up the job that everyone who loves musical theater covets: producing Encores! at City Center. As I shouldn’t have to remind my readers, Encores! pres…
Linked From The New York Post at 08:43PMThursday, July 11, 2019
The first person I called after hearing Rip Torn died on Tuesday was Elizabeth Ashley, who knew him well. “I’m seeing so many R.I.P.’s for Rip,” the actress told me. “Are you f- …
Linked From The New York Post at 06:28PMThursday, June 27, 2019
Loki is coming to Broadway this summer. Tom Hiddleston, the villain of Marvel’s “Avengers” movies, will star in a revival of Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal.” The production won raves …
Linked From The New York Post at 05:31PMThursday, June 20, 2019
Sad news that “The Prom,” an original and delightful show, is closing Aug. 11. Had it won the Tony for Best Musical, it might have eked out a year or so. But it was probably doomed from …
Linked From The New York Post at 08:40PMThursday, June 13, 2019
What little drama there was at Sunday’s low-rated Tony Awards telecast centered on “Be More Chill,” Joe Iconis’ struggling musical. When James Corden, Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles …
Linked From The New York Post at 07:46PMMonday, June 10, 2019
A Tony Awards that had the potential to deliver some jaw-dropping upsets delivered nothing but a lackluster telecast hosted by James Corden, who, though he did a brilliant job three years ag…
Linked From The New York Post at 09:03AMThursday, June 6, 2019
A top Broadway executive e-mailed the other day to say, “I really think the only winner during this period of time is the pharmaceutical industry, as the demand for beta blockers and anxie…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:33PMThursday, May 30, 2019
Broadway’s roaring into the homestretch with the Tonys next weekend, and I’ve never seen so many nervous people in Shubert Alley. Many races are up in the air, which should make for an e…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:47PMThursday, May 23, 2019
It’s going to be Cameron Crowe vs. Alanis Morissette at the Tonys next year. Morissette’s “Jagged Little Pill” begins previews in the fall at the Broadhurst Theatre. But it could be …
Linked From The New York Post at 07:49PMThursday, May 16, 2019
Broadway’s power brokers took time out from Tony season this week to fly to London to see “Cinderella,” the new musical from Andrew Lloyd Webber. The heat is intense on this one, not o…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:16PMThursday, May 9, 2019
Critics are always sniping at something, but the real fun begins when they start sniping at one another. The members of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle got into a heated exchange last w…
Linked From The New York Post at 05:03PMThursday, May 2, 2019
Robert Horn, Tony-nominated for his snappy book to “Tootsie,” knows all too well what it’s like to scrape out a living in New York while trying to break into the theater. He never play…
Linked From The New York Post at 05:28PMThursday, April 25, 2019
“Tootsie” and “Ink” scurried in this week to make the Tony deadline and have upset everyone’s brackets. The nominations come out Tuesday, and you can bet both shows will be uncorki…
Linked From The New York Post at 05:45PMThursday, April 18, 2019
You have only Friday night and Saturday to see the hottest play in town: “The Lehman Trilogy” at the Park Avenue Armory. Alas, you’re going to need Lehman brothers money (well, before …
Linked From The New York Post at 07:34PMThursday, April 11, 2019
Disney is celebrating its 25th anniversary on Broadway this month with three hits that mint money: “Aladdin,” “Frozen” and “The Lion King.” That last, with a worldwide gross of $…
Linked From The New York Post at 06:31PMThursday, April 4, 2019
Who’d have thought the most controversial show this spring would be . . . Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!”? A revival of the 1943 musical opening Sunday is dividing audience…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:51PMThursday, March 28, 2019
There’s tumult behind the scenes this week at “Be More Chill,” the social-media phenomenon that’s become a Broadway musical. Concerned that their show isn’t gaining traction in the…
Linked From The New York Post at 05:49PMThursday, March 21, 2019
It was a wild night at Tuesday’s “Ain’t Too Proud” preview. The critics were in the house for the new The Temptations musical, so the producers and creators were on edge. They almost…
Linked From The New York Post at 04:50PMThe winter months were tough on “The Prom,” and some on Broadway feared it might fold. But the show got an infusion of cash from its investors and is now set to run through the Tony Awar…
Linked From The New York Post at 04:18PMThursday, March 14, 2019
A Washington Post critic sprayed a can of Raid on the out-of-town tryout of “Beetlejuice” last fall. Peter Marks called the $20 million musical “overcaffeinated, overstuffed and virtua…
Linked From The New York Post at 08:28PMThursday, March 7, 2019
The biggest little hit in town right now is “Fiddler on the Roof,” which has lifted the curse from the Shubert Organization’s Stage 42, an off-Broadway theater on far West 42nd Street.…
Linked From The New York Post at 06:06PMThursday, February 28, 2019
You have only until Sunday to see one of the strangest musicals ever conceived for the stage: “Lolita, My Love,” a 1971 flop based on Vladimir Nabokov’s sensational novel about a colle…
Linked From The New York Post at 06:27PMThursday, February 21, 2019
Princess Diana may have stolen the show at Buckingham Palace, but it’s Queen Elizabeth II who’s stealing “Diana,” the new musical that started previews this week at San Diego’s La …
Linked From The New York Post at 08:27PMThursday, February 14, 2019
“Would you like a cup of tea?” an assistant asks Glenda Jackson as she leaves a rehearsal room in Times Square. “What I would like,” says this great lady of the theater, “is a …
Linked From The New York Post at 08:08PMThursday, February 7, 2019
It was shaping up to be the most talked about — and salacious — theater event of the new year: Oscar winner Cate Blanchett and “Game of Thrones” star Stephen Dillane steaming up the …
Linked From The New York Post at 04:12PMThursday, January 24, 2019
Ivo van Hove certainly divides audiences and critics. Champions love the Belgian director’s stylized, ferocious whirling dervish productions. Detractors bristle at all the special effects,…
Linked From The New York Post at 08:12PMThursday, January 17, 2019
It is a blend of faithful adaptation and fanciful splicing. It is the middle ground between artistry and commercialism, between reasonable prices and premiums, and it lies in London right no…
Linked From The New York Post at 05:56PMThursday, January 10, 2019
The play’s the thing this spring on Broadway. To the competitive roster of non-musicals I spoke about last week — all-star revivals of “King Lear” and “All My Sons” among them …
Linked From The New York Post at 06:16PMThursday, January 3, 2019
Ring out the old, ring in the new: Here’s my countdown to the 10 personalities, shows and backstage dramas I’m looking forward to in 2019. 10. Glenda Jackson delivered an unforgettable p…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:45PMThursday, December 27, 2018
Broadway lost some boldface names in 2018. Let’s give them an encore, in their own words. William Goldman made his name in the movies, writing the screenplays to “Butch Cassidy and the S…
Linked From The New York Post at 06:42PMThursday, December 20, 2018
An array of Broadway types populates the new musical comedy, “The Prom”: the self-absorbed diva, the exasperated press agent, the vain leading man. And then there’s the jaded chorus gi…
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