Friday, May 1, 2026
It’s been a terrible year for original musicals on Broadway. “Lost Boys,” “Beaches,” carrying the cake across Central Park, and so on barely hold a candle to last year’s Best Mus…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 29, 2026
The Drama Desk nominations are out, and they’re pretty stunning. The group snubbed almost anything to do with Hollywood stars. So Daniel Radcliffe, Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss Bacharach, Ad…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:00PM[SHARE]You have to hand it to Broadway producers Fran and Barry Weissler. The musical, “Chicago,” just had its biggest weekly box office ever. Ever! The musical has been playing for 30 years. �…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 23, 2026
EGOT* winner Liza Minnelli is getting an all star 80th birthday tribute in June. (*She has an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award. One of the few.) The show at Carnegie Hall on June 2th feat…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 21, 2026
It’s awards season in theater, and the annual shunning of movie stars on Broadway has begun. The Outer Critics Circle announced their nominees this morning, and the group looks like the mu…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:34PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 16, 2026
It's pretty much a throw of the dice to put on any Broadway play. But how about a new play? And one with movie stars who've never been on Broadway? Yikes. But two time Oscar winner Adrien Br…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 15, 2026
The Kennedy Center under Trump has finally found someone who doesn't mind performing there. That would be Tony Hinchcliffe, a right wing Trump supporting comedian labeled "racist" and deeply…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:12PM[SHARE]Big night for Billy Crystal. The beloved actor-comic-director-etc made a historic appearance on Stephen Colbert's Late Show from the Ed Sullivan Theater. Billy got his start there decades ag…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 9, 2026
Scott Rudin is back tonight on Broadway. "Death of Salesman" is the second play he's producing in his post-cancellation phase. The first one, "Little Bear Ridge Road," starred Laurie Metcalf…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:02PM[SHARE]Why not, I guess? Singer PINK has been chosen to host the Tony Awards this year. She's never been on Broadway or acted in a production. She's a pop star. (And also a trapeze artist.) But Pin…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Broadway had a great week last week. Box office receipts were up about $5 million from last week. But they were also a notch behind last year on this date even though there were more shows. …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Usually no one on Broadway can agree on anything. But the Broadway debut of "Becky Shaw" last night has brought everyone together. There are no negative or even mixed reviews. Two-time Pulit…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 08:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2026
A new Broadway play took a pasting last night with reviewers. "Dog Day Afternoon," based on the famous Sidney Lumet movie starring Al Pacino and John Cazale, went down in flames. The play, a…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:48PM[SHARE]Tough night for rapper Megan Thee Stallion. She just joined the cast of Broadway's "Moulin Rouge." Tonight's performance was suddenly stopped when Megan had to be taken to the hospital. Her …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:48PM[SHARE]Friday, March 27, 2026
Maybe there's a budding super couple coming to "Days of our Lives." The Peacock soap got a shout out from Ryan Gosling this week during an interview for "Project Hail Mary." He praised star …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 26, 2026
You can't make this up. Trump is live now giving a rambling talk at the cabinet meeting. This is just part of the insane stuff spewing out of his head. He's just railing against everyone. Wh…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Last week was pretty, pretty good on Broadway. Receipts were up almost $5 million thanks in part to school being out in a lot of places. "Hamilton" and "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" le…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:02PM[SHARE]There's no question that John Lithgow is one of our finest actors whether on stage or screen. So only he could pull off a dazzling performance as an absolutely vile person with no redeeming …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:54PM[SHARE]Friday, March 13, 2026
"Tricky Dick" Richard Grenell is OUT at the Kennedy Center. After just about burning the place to the ground, Grenell has essentially been fired as head of the facility by Donald Trump. Than…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:48PM[SHARE]Sting is coming to the Metropolitan Opera House. Last night, the famed rocker performed two songs from his show, "The Last Ship" on Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show. "The Last Ship" sails June 9t…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:42PM[SHARE]Friday, March 6, 2026
You can still buy tickets to see David Copperfield in Vegas this spring and summer. The ticketing machine in Las Vegas is so complicated that it hasn't caught up with last night's abrupt ann…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:01PM[SHARE]Magician David Copperfield is disappearing himself. Copperfield announced tonight that he's suddenly wrapping a 25 year run at Las Vegas's MGM Grand Hotel at the end of April. Copperfield's …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 26, 2026
Bad weather is Broadway's biggest enemy. The numbers are in for last week, and the total box office was down by $2 million from the previous week. The total was $31.5 million. Some of that i…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 22, 2026
There will be no "Wicked" tonight on Broadway. The coming blizzard has knocked out the 8 show that play on Sunday night including "Wicked," "Book of Mormon," "And Juliet," "Chicago," "Oh Mar…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 19, 2026
Broadway is revved up. The great Matthew Morrison, of "Glee" fame and "Finding Neverland," is coming back. He's taking over from Tony winner Jonathan Groff for three weeks in "Just in Time,"…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Effie White is back " as a producer. Jennifer Hudson has joined the team producing the new Broadway revival of "Dreamgirls." The show will be directed and choreographed by Camille Brown. Hud…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:36PM[SHARE]Monday, February 2, 2026
LOL Trump has made such a disaster of The Kennedy Center that he had to close it. No one will perform there while he's president. It's a total failure for him and his tacky lackey Tricky Dic…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 29, 2026
On January 16th, the Kennedy Center hired a new artistic programming chief. Yesterday, he resigned. Kevin Couch is gone. He gave no reason for resignation. For a laugh, I'll say that JD Vanc…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:48PM[SHARE]You know, it's the 50th anniversary of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." I used to go to the Exeter Theater in Boston, and then the 8th St. Playhouse in New York to see midnight showings in i…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 27, 2026
There's not much left on the Kennedy Center schedule. Famed composer Philip Glass is now removing the premiere of his "Lincoln" Symphony from the Center. He says the values of Lincoln are in…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:06PM[SHARE]Monday, January 26, 2026
Trump, on TruthSocial, has suddenly posted this odd statement of possible retreat: He writes, out of nowhere: "People don't realize that The Trump Kennedy Center suffered massive deficits fo…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:42PM[SHARE] 
