Treachery is the worst sin in Dante’s “Inferno.”Those who betray friends are consigned to the ninth and deepest circle of hell, where they’re scattered in a frozen lake “as straw i…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:39PMEver since Kim Kardashian dumped Kris Humphries after 72 days of marriage, Oscar-winning actor Ernest Borgnine has been talking about his own short-lived nuptials to the great Ethel Merman. …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:45PMEdward Albee is America’s greatest living playwright.But even the greats can get hung up on a pesky third act.This week, the Signature Theatre Company pulled his latest play, the cheekily …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:24PM‘Spider-man, Turn Off the Dark” is turning on the charm. Surveying the Tony Award terrain -- which is short on new musicals -- the show’s producers have concluded that their much-malig…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:23AMAs the theater columnist for The Post it’s my job (and my pleasure) to torture the Broadway producers who come up with losers like “Taboo,” “Dance of the Vampires” or “Spider-Man…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 09:09AMAt 10:05 he began to let them touch him. They had been after his flesh a long while, but it is only now, after he is almost done, that he allowed them contact. His fingertips to theirs, he m…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:27PMThere are a handful of original cast recordings from the ’70s that musical-theater lovers played so often, the vinyl crackled with wear and tear. “A Chorus Line” was probably on the tu…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:19AMAt its best, my column is an implement of torture.But every now and then, I cross the line. Inadvertently, be sure, but it’s been known to happen.Lately, I’ve been having far too much fu…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:24PMStephen Sondheim is being tossed to the curb for Andrew Lloyd Webber. The revival of Sondheim’s “Follies,” a surprise hit and a bright spot in an otherwise dreary fall, is grossing mor…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:58PMBetter, stronger, faster -- Hugh Jackman is Broadway’s $6 million dollar man! His one-man show -- “Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway” -- doesn’t open until Nov. 10, but he’s already p…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:07PMIf you care about American popular music, you must make a pilgrimage to Beekman Place: 17 Beekman Place, to be exact. There stands a five-story, neo-Georgian brick town house from the 1930s.…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:22PMTallulah Bankhead once said there are only two kinds of men in this town: those who can catch cabs and those who can’t. On Broadway, there are only two kinds of producers: those who can ge…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:03PM"Funny Girl" has found a home. The upcoming Broadway revival will follow "Billy Elliot" into the Imperial Theater in April. Lauren Ambrose is set to star in this biographical musical about Z…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 03:59PMTen Tony Awards, rave reviews and the unwavering support of the most powerful columnist in the history of Broadway (thank you, you’re too kind) -- and “Billy Elliot” is hanging up its …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:06AMRead all about it: “Newsies,” a surprise hit from Disney, will land on Broadway in the spring, just in time to upset the Tony Awards apple cart. The musical, based on the popular 1992 mo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:14PMA well-crafted courtroom melodrama can be great fun for audiences, and a money-maker for backers. “A Few Good Men” launched the career of Aaron Sorkin back in 1992. The Roundabout Theat…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:44PMSmart producers -- all three of them -- should take advantage of the ane mic field of new musicals and find a show that could upend the season and sweep the Tonys. The Times is banging th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:41PMAfter being stopped short in their tracks by Stephen Sondheim's blistering letter and Ben Brantley's tough review, the producers of "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" are getting the show back …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:19PMAuditions are hell — and not just for newcomers. Even the most celebrated actors have blown it at one time or another. Sometimes it’s merely a case of bad nerves, but it might just as we…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:31PMA couple of seasons ago, the producers of some struggling Broadway plays thought they could improve business by eliminating intermission. Other than stemming the flow of walkouts, it didn…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:37PMThis "Follies" may do something no other "Follies" has done -- make a profit. Stephen Sond heim and James Goldman's musical about a reunion of old showgirls has long held a storied place in…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:28PMHERE comes a hit -- "One Man, Two Guvnors," another winner from the Na tional Theatre in London that's headed to Broadway in the spring. Under the leadership of Nicholas Hytner, the Nation…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:09AMThe fate of "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" was still up the air yesterday as the production team weighed the risks of opening a show in New York that's been maligned by two of the most infl…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:53PMHere come the hunks! Jude Law and Hugh Jackman, two guys who can sell out a theater in about 30 seconds, are coming back to Broadway. Jackman's first up, opening Oct. 25 at the Broadhurs…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:11PMThe Roundabout's scrambling to find a musical in the fall for Studio 54, one of its prime houses. The nonprofit company announced plans to revive Bob Fosse's 1978 revue "Dancin' " there i…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:54PMThe creators of the up coming Broadway re vival of "Porgy and Bess" -- still raw from the bucket of acid Stephen Sondheim doused them with the other week -- are bracing for more potential tr…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:34PMAS anyone who saw his terri fic performance in "The Motherf**ker With the Hat" can attest, Bobby Cannavale is one of our finest dramatic stage actors. But he's not content to rest on this y…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:51PMTwitter Watch has a useful feature, broadwayworld.com: Every time a Broad way personality tweets something newsworthy, those "Glee"-obsessed show geeks post it. The latest tantalizing tid…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:14AMIs Broadway big enough for two Spider-Men? Over at the Fox woods Theatre, we've got Reeve Carney still slogging it out as the title character in Bono and The Edge's $75 million "Spider-Ma…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:19PMHarvey Weinstein's maiden voyage as a Broadway impresa rio has run into choppy waters. The producer, who released the Oscar-winning "The King's Speech," is the driving force behind a new …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:07PMThe new musicals this season aren't exactly blockbuster central. Douglas Carter Beane's "Lysistrata Jones" is campy and fun, but it's not going to topple "The Book of Mormon." "Nice Wor…
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