Saturday, March 9, 2024
Meryl Streep's funny and cynical memories are among the many stories in the new book, “50 Oscar Nights: Iconic Stars and Filmmakers on Their Career-Defining Wins.”
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:30AMThursday, June 9, 2022
In 1972, the hit Broadway musical “Grease” was ready to go on the road, which meant that a new cast had to be put together. In Los Angeles, an 18-year-old actor just breaking into the bu…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:21PMSaturday, November 27, 2021
Stephen Sondheim, who died Friday at 91, was the most feted musical theater legend since Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:00PMFriday, November 12, 2021
“Tick, Tick…Boom!” — an early musical by Jonathan Larson, who created “Rent” — was born of sadness, anger and frustration, friends and family members tell The Post.
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:59AMMonday, September 27, 2021
There is going to be fury on Broadway tomorrow, and a lot of sighing, privately, from the people who run the real show.
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:40AMThursday, August 26, 2021
The three-minute montage "This Is Broadway,” narrated by Oprah Winfrey, captures the history -- and excitement -- of live theater and heralds the return of the Great White Way.
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:12PMSaturday, August 21, 2021
As Broadway claws its way back from an 18-month COVID shutdown, it could use a snappy new television commercial that captures the excitement of live theater. Currently, New York City is sink…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:27AMWednesday, June 16, 2021
Ten years after the ill-fated “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” opened on Broadway, Michael Riedel takes a look back at the most expensive — and ill-fated — show in Broadway history.
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:14PMFriday, February 5, 2021
Christopher Plummer had a complicated relationship with "The Sound of Music" -- he even threatened to walk off the picture, which won the 1966 Oscar for Best Picture, at one point.
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:31PMTuesday, January 19, 2021
About once a month for a number of pre-COVID years, producer Scott Rudin, Philip J. Smith, the chairman of the Shubert Organization, and I would meet for dinner at Sette Mezzo on the Upper E…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 06:00AMWednesday, December 23, 2020
Never in its 125 years has Broadway suffered the way it has in 2020.
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:03PMSaturday, November 7, 2020
Like the coronavirus pandemic, 9/11 brought Broadway to a standstill — until NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani took incredible steps to save it.
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:19PMThursday, April 2, 2020
Like every theater producer, Chris Harper, who’s behind the buzzy London revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Company,” is bucking up his cast, holding his investors together, and waiting …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:53PMThursday, March 26, 2020
The coronavirus continues to devastate Broadway. Two highly anticipated plays — “Hangmen” and the revival of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” — have been scuttled. Actors are …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:35PMThursday, March 19, 2020
As Broadway grapples with the coronavirus crisis, producers have concluded that the Great White Way will not reopen in April, as they’d hoped. The best-case scenario right now is the summe…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:04PMThursday, March 12, 2020
With the coronavirus outbreak, Broadway is facing its worst crisis since 9/11. But it got a lifeline, albeit a thin one, from Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who yesterday prohibited gatherings of more t…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:16PMBroadway will shut down four to six weeks beginning tonight, due to the coronavirus outbreak, several sources told The Post.
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:48PMThursday, February 27, 2020
Sophia Anne Caruso, the talented young star of “Beetlejuice,” surprised a lot of the musical’s fans when she announced on Instagram last week that she’d performed her last show. Acto…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:07PMThursday, February 20, 2020
Boston theatergoers recently said they had “the best time of their lives” at the play.
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:28PMThursday, February 13, 2020
As far as I can tell, the one and only time an Antônio Carlos Jobim song was heard on Broadway was in Twyla Tharp’s “Come Fly Away.” The song was “Wave,” which, as I write this, m…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:40PMThursday, February 6, 2020
Bob Avian will never forget the moment Michael Bennett told him he had AIDS. The two had been friends since 1959, when they met as dancers on a tour of “West Side Story.” “We were like…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:18PMThursday, January 30, 2020
The New York Musical Festival was created to give new writers a start. So isn’t it “ironic,” says Josh Canfield, whose “Alive! The Zombie Musical” played NYMF last year, that it �…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:51PMThursday, January 23, 2020
The show may stand out because of its writer — Anthony McCarten, who's up for a 2020 Oscar for his movie "The Two Popes."
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:51PMThursday, January 16, 2020
Stephen Sondheim has been a fan of director Marianne Elliott’s ever since he saw her production of “Saint Joan” in London at the National Theatre in 2007. Sondheim knows a great direct…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:00PMThursday, January 9, 2020
Ready for my favorite “Hee Haw” joke? Q: What do you call a man who doesn’t believe in birth control? A: Daddy! Exactly six years ago, I was picking up good buzz about “Moonshine,”…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:33PMThursday, January 2, 2020
It’s been a week since the death, at 88, of Jerry Herman, whose scores to “Hello, Dolly!” and “Mame” defined the brassy, sassy sound of a musical comedy at the tail end of Broadway…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:21PMSaturday, December 28, 2019
If you tried too hard to be funny, Don Imus wouldn’t help you with fake laughter. If you tried to poke fun at him and he wasn’t in the mood, he’d flatten you.
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:29PMThursday, December 26, 2019
The theater lost three giants in 2019: Hal Prince, Franco Zeffirelli and Carol Channing. Here, in their own words, are several other greats worth remembering. Diahann Carroll Diahann Carroll…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:29PMThursday, December 19, 2019
Its weekly grosses were so low, the Shuberts exercised the stop clause.
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:54PMThursday, December 12, 2019
When Andrew Lloyd Webber read the screenplay for “Cats,” he knew something was missing: a song for Victoria, an abandoned cat who wasn’t in his stage musical. “She had no voice at al…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:18PMThursday, December 5, 2019
“Tootsie” flopped on Broadway. It’s a terrific show, but its early closing is scaring the hell out of “Mrs. Doubtfire,” another musical whose leading man is also a leading lady. Ba…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:26PM 
