Saturday, February 13, 2021
Broadway will not be back before this summer or fall. That’s what Broadway League president Charlotte St Martin said in an interview
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:03PMMonday, February 8, 2021
Joe Allen was no Elaine Kaufman. He wasn’t sitting in his eatery on West 46th St. every night, entertaining and hosting the
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:06PMFriday, January 29, 2021
This is turning into pretty good theater. The 2019-2020 Broadway season never really happened, remember? It stopped on March 13th because of
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:32PM“I have managed Miss Tyson’s career for over 40 years, and each year was a privilege and blessing,” her manager, Larry Thompson,
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:13AMFriday, January 15, 2021
Phil Smith, the long time head of the Shubert Organization, and a Broadway star in his own right, has died at age
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:18PMHarvey Fierstein, stand down. Emma Thompson has been cast as evil Mrs. Trunchbull, the deliciously malicious central antagonist in the movie version
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:18PMThursday, January 7, 2021
This is interesting. Yesterday, Paramount announced a film version of “Spamalot” directed by Casey Nicholaw. Today their theatrical division pulled the plug
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:32PMWednesday, January 6, 2021
The hit Monty Python musical, “Spamalot,” played to sold out Broadway audiences for four years, from 2005 to 2009. It accrued 1,575
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:12PMTuesday, January 5, 2021
1925– it was a very good year. It was the year F. Scott Fitzgerald published “The Great Gatsby,” Virgina Woolf issued “Mrs.
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:42PMMonday, January 4, 2021
I had to read this information a couple of times– I’ve translated it into English for you. (It was supposedly written in
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:24PMThursday, December 31, 2020
2020 is almost over. Hey wait– what happened to the Tony Awards? Well, the Tony season never really happened. Broadway closed back
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:54PMWednesday, December 30, 2020
Justin Bieber is preparing for a live streamed New Year’s Eve show tomorrow night, sponsored by T Mobile. The question is: Why?
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:24PMWednesday, December 23, 2020
Rebecca Luker was literally a light on Broadway. Beloved by all, with a gorgeous voice, she was nominated for three Tony Awards
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:36PMSunday, November 1, 2020
John Mulaney restored “Saturday Night Live” to its past glory when he hosted the show last night for the second time in
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 08:54PMFriday, October 16, 2020
Really, it’s another world. The Tony nominations came from 16 eligible shows, a very slight field. The result is that Aaron Tveit
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:18PMThere are only 16 shows eligible for the 2020 Tony Awards. The nominees come from these shows, and it’s a mediocre list
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:18PMWednesday, October 14, 2020
Normand Latourelle was the co-creator of the Cirque du Soleil empire and took it to the top. He left to create Cavalia,
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:42PMFriday, October 9, 2020
The situation on Broadway and in New York theater is now a full scale disaster. The word is that the Broadway League
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:24AMMonday, October 5, 2020
Keep refreshing… Spike Lee has announced on Twitter and Instagram that actor Thomas Jefferson Byrd was murdered last night in Atlanta. Byrd
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 08:03AMWednesday, September 23, 2020
Good news and bad news at the Metropolitan Opera. First the bad news: they’ve cancelled the season right through May 2021. No
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:18PMFriday, September 11, 2020
Diana Rigg, the gifted and beloved stage, TV and movie star has died in the UK at age 82. Rigg is permanently
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:36PMIs he stepping down or being pushed out the window? Whichever way it’s gone, Ben Brantley is out as the New York
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:36PMMonday, August 31, 2020
The Tony Awards are really insisting in going through with a faux awards show sometime this fall on a streaming platform. It
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:54AMSunday, August 23, 2020
Broadway is in a muddle, and no one seems to know what’s going on. Today the Broadway League announced they were planning
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 08:24PMFriday, August 14, 2020
Don’t cry for Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber. The composer of “Evita,” “Cats,” and many other Broadway musicals says on Twitter that he’s
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:02PMWednesday, August 12, 2020
Things could not be stranger now on Broadway. With the season demolished, and no Tony Awards, and no fall season, producers are
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:06PMMonday, August 10, 2020
Scott Rudin has lived large on Broadway for years. He’s made his recent reputation in the last decade for bringing in big
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:32PMTuesday, August 4, 2020
Reality has set in: Radio City Music Hall has cancelled the Christmas Spectacular for the first time since 1933. I give them
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:12PMWednesday, July 22, 2020
Kanye West‘s 99th nervous breakdown continues apace. Working up to his album release on Friday (maybe, who knows, maybe he’s imagining it),
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:06PMWednesday, July 8, 2020
The GoFundMe campaign for Nick Cordero’s family is nearing $1 million. As of 5:30pm it was up to $965,000. Cordero died two
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:06PMI told you already this week, the “Hamilton” soundtrack is number 1 on iTunes, where it’s selling downloads by the thousands. “Hamilton”
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:06PM 
