It’s polished, witty, tuneful and, if you’ve hit middle age, unsettling.In the 23 years since it debuted at off-Broadway’s Cherry Lane Theatre, “Closer Than Ever,” Richard Maltby J…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:48PMNora Ephron was working right up until the end. Just a couple of weeks ago, she was still polishing her much-anticipated play “Lucky Guy,” about the late newspaper columnist Mike McAlary…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:45PMThe tour of Larry Kramer’s “The Normal Heart,” which won the Tony for Best Revival of a Play in 2011, just opened in Washington, DC, to rave reviews. Kramer sent a packet of those noti…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:52AMHere’s a show that, if it’s any good, should make your head spin: “The Exorcist.” The play, which has been adapted from William Peter Blatty’s 1971 novel, begins performances next …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:29AMHelen Mirren won an Oscar as Elizabeth II in “The Queen.” So why not wear the crown again? Mirren’s doing readings in London this week of a new play called “The Audience,” which ch…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:31PMBerry Gordy Jr. was in town last month meeting with agents, theater owners and producers about an autobiographical musical using his Motown catalog of hits. How do I know this? I heard it th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:07AMTake that, Stephen Sondheim! “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess” pulled off the biggest upset last night at the Tony Awards, beating Sondheim’s “Follies” for Best Revival of a Musica…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 02:21AMAcouple of years ago, while in San Diego checking out a new musical, I decided to take a road trip down to Baja California with Rick Miramontez, a Broadway press agent, and two of his office…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:44PMWith the shake of my crystal ball — and the accuracy of “Dewey Defeats Truman” — here are my predictions for Sunday’s Tony Award winners. BEST MUSICAL The race — and it’s tigh…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:59PMWriting about the Tony Awards telecast back in 1991, Alex Witchel, then the cage-rattling Broadway columnist of the New York Times, posed the question: “Who’s on first?” That is, which…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:45PMI first met Arthur Laurents, who died a year ago, in 1994 at his elegant townhouse on St. Luke’s Place in the West Village. I was making a “Theater Talk” program about composer Jule St…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:42PMShortly before he died in 2005, Arthur Miller smiled at his daughter, Rebecca, and said, “Catch!” What he threw her way was nothing less than his literary legacy, a body of work that inc…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:12AMTwo of Broadway’s great treasures can be found on the stage of “Gore Vidal’s The Best Man” — Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones. Between the two are more than 150 years of big, …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:50AMThe musical everyone’s buzzing about is headed to Broadway.“Matilda,” a London import based on Roald Dahl’s great children’s book, will open next spring at a Shubert Theatre to be …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:41PMThe roadies are in town.Every year at this time, some 300 producers and theater owners — who collectively are known as “The Road” — gather in New York for a conference.Ostensibly the…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:46PMArthur Herbert Fonzarelli, porn star? The Fonz — who in real life goes by the name Henry Winkler — is in negotiations to star on Broadway next season in “The Performers,” a new comed…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:24AMAs regular readers of this column know (hi, mom, hi dad!), I like to rib Public Theater chief Oskar Eustis about his infatuation with Broadway.The Public is one of the most influential nonpr…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:24PMLet’s forgo the usual rumor-mongering and print something that’s the God’s honest truth: Tom Hanks will be making his Broadway debut next season in a new play by Nora Ephron. (Scramble…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:16AMBroadway legend Hal Prince is putting the finishing touches on his musical revue, “Prince of Broadway,” which is due to open in New York in November. Now all he has to do is find someone…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:14AMHere’s what theater insiders are gossiping about after yesterday’s Tony Award nominations: * Be careful what you wish for. It could cost you another $2 million. That’s the situation fa…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:30AMThe great Jule Styne, composer of “Gypsy” and “FunnyGirl,” livedbyan ironclad rule: The day after one of your show opened to bad reviews, sit downat the piano and start writing the n…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:02PMThe most powerful people on Broadway this weekend will be the 28 theater professionals who make up the Tony nominating committee. Their nominations — anxiety over which will keep producers…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:19AMThere are a lot of prayer meetings going on at “Leap of Faith,” the new musical at the St. James about a con-man evangelist. But most of them are taking place offstage. Production member…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:14AMBroadway’s biggest and most aggressive vulture right now has hoofs, flanks and a mane. He’s called Joey, but don’t be taken in by that gentle-sounding name. This creature is stalking S…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:19AMStephen King has killed off all sorts of characters in his 49 or so novels. Now that he’s working in the theater, he might have a go at killing off his director County,” a musical King�…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:31PMThe great Judi Dench is being killed off as M in the new Bond flick, “Skyfall.” Which means Dame Judi is free to return to the stage, first in London and then, if all goes well, on Broad…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:42AMThe most powerful group of people on Broadway every spring are the men and women who sit on the Tony Award administration committee.They determine Tony eligibility — if something (or someo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:05AM‘End of the Rainbow,” which opened Monday night, depicts the last months of Judy Garland’s life as she tries to stage a comeback in London, only to succumb, yet again, to booze and pil…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:27PMAfter years of sitting through productions of his moving but stubbornly flawed musical “Merrily We Roll Along,” Stephen Sondheim has finally found the one he likes best. And I don’t me…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:02AMHas Disney got back its old Magic Kingdom touch? The word around town this week is that “Newsies,” which opens Thursday at the Nederlander, may help erase the nightmarish memories of suc…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:24AMTim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber have been in town to inspect their revivals of “Evita” and “Jesus Christ Superstar.” Lloyd Webber had to postpone his visit to “Evita” this week …
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