Friday, November 7, 2025
I told you a couple of times this season, tickets to Tom Hanks's off Broadway play were not selling. Two time Oscar winner Hanks has co-written a play he also stars in called "This World of …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 6, 2025
This is a funny complaint because personally, I don't care. Do you? After taking over the Kennedy Center last winter, Donald Trump sent lackey Richard Grenell out to do press. In the New Yor…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Daniel Radcliffe already has a Tony Award for "Merrily We Roll Along." Apparently he wants another one. He's coming to Broadway this winter in a limited run of a one man show. "Every Brillia…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:18PM[SHARE]Two time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is coming to off Broadway this week. Performances begin tomorrow night for his play, "This World of Tomorrow," co-starring Kelli O'Hara and Ruben Santiago Hud…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 28, 2025
It's hard to know why Matt Damon hasn't done more work in theater. Last night, he absolutely killed it as the lead of an all star cast in a reading to raise money to save a NYC Landmark. Dam…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 23, 2025
As you may have heard, it's crazy in New York right now. Our three remaining mayoral candidates participated in another televised debate tonight, and got nowhere. Manhattanites and older peo…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Broadway was boffo this past week. The Columbus Day holiday brought a spectactular $8 million rise to the box office numbers for all shows in total. "Hamilton" is out of control, with $4 mil…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 9, 2025
It was only a few months ago that theater fans were outraged by ticket prices to see Denzel Washington in "Othello" and George Clooney in "Good Night and Good Luck." Producers were charging …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Last year, Jennifer Lopez " aka JLo" had a lovely turn in the Amazon MGM movie, "Unstoppable." When the movie played in Toronto, there was some Oscar buzz. If "Unstoppable" had had a real re…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 7, 2025
"Hamilton" is on fire. It's all because of Leslie Odom, Jr. The Tony winning star of "Hamilton" is back playing Aaron Burr for a limited run. Odom began on September 9th. Since then, the box…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Tonight, "Art" returns to Broadway. Yazmin Reza's play about friendship and art and how three friends value each, comes back with a new trio of actors. Bobby Cannavale " so good right now in…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:02PM[SHARE]Monday, September 15, 2025
Wolverine is having a lot of trouble selling tickets. Hugh Jackman's shows this weekend coming up at Radio City Music Hall are a mixed bag. The evening shows on Friday and Saturday are mostl…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:36PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 14, 2025
Alicia Keys is standing her ground. She's going to perform live on stage for anyone who buys a ticket to her "Hell's Kitchen" musical after the show is over on September 26th and 27th. The s…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 11, 2025
Eve Ensler, a remarkable playwright who invented The Vagina Monologues, calls herself "V" now. But for the purposes of publicity, most fans know her as Eve Ensler. V has written a new work c…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 08:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Exclusive: Evidently no one wants to work at the Kennedy Center. They're currently listing 31 jobs on LinkedIn, from Senior Vice President Artistic Programming ($340,000 per year) to Shuttle…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 9, 2025
When the late New Yorker movie writer, Lillian Ross, revealed the story of her affair with the magazine's fabled editor, it blew the minds of the literati. Now the late William Shawn's son, …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 7, 2025
UPDATE: A new report also says an investor is suing the producers. As I wrote below, the show cost $24.25 million, it's a total loss. Billy Porter may have sepsis or is just smart about aban…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 6, 2025
"Hamilton" is a hit in theaters. Thursday and Friday audiences brought in almost $4 million. The Tony Award winning Broadway musical's filmed version " which has been playing on Disney Plus …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 4, 2025
The "Hamilton" 10th anniversary marketing campaign rolls on. Last night, Lin Manuel Miranda and a lot of his original Broadway cast came to Shakespeare in the Park's Delacorte Theater for a …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:18AM[SHARE]Friday, August 29, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Sue Gilad aka Suzanne Gilad has her name on dozens of Broadway shows. She's listed as a "producer," but she's an investor, who's got " or had " her claws in hits like "Moulin Roug…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:54AM[SHARE]Friday, August 22, 2025
How much more damage can Trump and his lackeys inflict on the poor Kennedy Center? In a further move to the right, Richard Grennell and his pack of thugs have fired the dance programmers. Th…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 21, 2025
Aunt Ada from "The Gilded Age" is coming to Broadway. She may run into Mrs. Russell. I told you this week that Carrie Coon will be on the boards this fall in Tracey Letts' "Bug." Now Cynthia…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:18PM[SHARE]They say if you bring big stars to Broadway, the audience will show up. But so far the fall season is looking tenuous at best even with three big names about to hit the stage. Shows starring…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 20, 2025
When we last saw Bertha Russell, she was aghast that her husband left her. That was on "The Gilded Age." Now Mrs. Russell's portrayer, Carrie Coon, is coming to Broadway this fall. She'll st…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 19, 2025
There were so many stars in the opening night audience last night for Jeff Ross's Broadway debut that it was dizzying. Ross, famous for being a "roast master," pulled off a coup with his one…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:36PM[SHARE]It hasn't been an easy summer on Broadway. While Times Square is filled with thousands of people milling around taking pictures with Elmo, the theater district has struggled. Last week's box…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:36PM[SHARE]Friday, August 15, 2025
I know, Putin and Trump are rolling in the hay but back in Washington, the Kennedy Center is still mired in trouble. The New York Times reported today that Jeffrey Finn, the long time produc…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Mira Sorvino is coming to Broadway. The Oscar winner will join the long running musical "Chicago" on September 15th as Roxie Hart. Roxie is kind of the musical version of Mira's award winnin…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:18PM[SHARE]It was just a short time ago that Gracie Mansion hosted the Made in NY Awards for the movie community. That was before Mayor Eric Adams was on the run, so to speak, from Zohar Mamdani in the…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 6, 2025
"Hamilton" is coming to the big screen. Sort of. Disney will release the original filmed version of the musical on September 5th to theaters. This is the version that was shown on Disney Plu…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 30, 2025
I keep reading that Las Vegas is empty right now. International tourists are staying away in droves. I guess the idea of being rounded up by ICE agents and sent to the Sudan is unappealing. …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:32PM[SHARE] 
