Tuesday, February 20, 2018
I don't know if the Russians have infiltrated the White House yet, but they were all over the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, last weekend for "Chess." So what did they think of that madde…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 15, 2018
It took Jimmy Buffett just six minutes to write the song on which he built an empire " and a Broadway musical. He was in Austin, Texas, some 40 years ago, visiting a woman he was dating, and…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 13, 2018
It’s no mean feat replacing Bette Midler in "Hello, Dolly!" Midler was the No. 1 attraction on Broadway in 2017, racking up weekly grosses of $2.5 million and winning the Tony Award fo…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:55PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 8, 2018
Martin McDonagh may well win the Oscar for his screenplay for "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri." And now he may also be a contender for a Tony for Best Play " though he'll have to …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 6, 2018
It’s hard to outfox a movie studio, but Broadway's Douglas Carter Beane seems to have done just that. The Tony-nominated playwright has long wanted to turn his 1995 cult movie "To Wong…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:35PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 1, 2018
Luis Fonsi brought down the house at Clive Davis ' Grammy party Saturday, performing his infectious hit "Despacito." I hear that among the VIPs impressed with Fonsi's vocal chops and stage c…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 30, 2018
The Go-Go's are on the go-go! Reunited for the first time in years, the '80s girl group performed to a packed house Monday night at the Bowery Ballroom. It was a kickoff party for their new …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 25, 2018
One of Broadway's juiciest, longest running feuds may have just ended. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Patti LuPone haven't spoken to each other since the composer fired the diva from "Sunset Boulev…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 24, 2018
I have found the next Hugh Jackman. And he is . . . Jonathan Groff. Everybody " and I mean everybody on Broadway " is talking up his performance in "The Bobby Darin Story" at t…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 18, 2018
CBS is wasting no time lining up a host for this year's Tony Awards. I hear the offer is out to James Corden, who hosted the telecast to great acclaim in 2016. Sources say the host of "The L…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Even in 2016, Garry Marshall knew that what worked for his 1990 hit film "Pretty Woman" wouldn't work in a musical. Times had changed, and Vivian and Edward " the characters played by Julia …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 11, 2018
Bryan Cranston is winning raves as wild-eyed anchorman Howard Beale in the stage adaptation of "Network" at London's National Theatre. The "Breaking Bad" star was a major box-office draw in …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Sorry, Go-Go's: My lips are not sealed: "Head Over Heels," a new musical featuring songs by the '80s girl band, will open this summer at the Hudson Theatre. Gwyneth Paltrow is producing the …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 4, 2018
Here’s a blast of heart-warming good cheer on a cold winter day " "Crazy for You" is headed back to Broadway. Susan Stroman, who directed "The Producers" and "The Scottsboro Boys," is …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Here are the people, shows and events sure to grab Broadway's attention in 2018. Abracadabra: The "Harry Potter" carnival is headed to town, and tickets are going fast: Every time a new bloc…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 28, 2017
With a nod to Oscar Hammerstein II: Bette at the Shubert Bruce Springsteen on Broadway Garth Drabinsky starts yelling and Mandy says "No way" Michael Moore dances and even sings These are a …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:46PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 26, 2017
Let’s salute a few showbiz folks who took their final bows this year. Several were Broadway fixtures, while others found fame on TV or in Hollywood but couldn't resist the lure of the …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Broadway musicals are getting more expensive every season, but there's still plenty of money to be made on a shoestring budget. One of the biggest hits so far this season is "The Band's Visi…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:31PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 16, 2017
Twentieth Century Fox is shelling out $100 million to turn "The Greatest Showman" " the movie/musical starring Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum " into a three-ring media circus. Jackman and co-st…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:16PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 14, 2017
Someone left the show out in the rain " but it's on its way to B'way. A giant disco ball called "Summer: The Donna Summer Musical" is headed to Broadway earlier than expected. The $12 millio…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 12, 2017
The big event on Broadway this week is taking place on the Lower East Side, where "Moulin Rouge! The Musical" is having a no-expense-spared workshop. Heavy-hitters, including Broadway's powe…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 7, 2017
The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus packed up for good this year " but P.T. Barnum is still the toast of the town, thanks largely to Hugh Jackman. You can't turn on the TV with…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:50PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 5, 2017
“SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical" scrambled aboard a lifeboat Tuesday and it looks as if it could float " at least until the Tony Awards in June. The $20 million musical ab…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 30, 2017
James Cameron's "Titanic" has been rereleased in movie theaters, and Broadway's getting out its lifeboats as well. A revival of "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," a 1960 musical about a plucky wo…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 28, 2017
A few Broadway misfires, as Ken Mandelbaum called them in "Not Since Carrie: 40 Years of Broadway Musical Flops," can be called "heartbreakers and cream": These are shows that, while fatally…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Tina Fey celebrated the opening of "Mean Girls" in Washington, DC, Sunday night with an upbeat but politics-free party at the Atrium at Old Ebbitt Grill. Fey and her producers, "Saturday Nig…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 16, 2017
"Marian," a documentary about Marian Seldes that upset many theater people because it shows the actress in the grip of dementia, will be screened on Saturday as part of the Williamsburg Inde…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Call it the battle of those dancing feet: Two acclaimed productions of "42nd Street" may soon go tap-to-tap for a shot at Broadway. The splashy revival that just ended at London's Theatre Ro…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 9, 2017
In the 1970s, Hell's Kitchen was one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the city. Residents walked in the middle of the streets at night to avoid the muggers, junkies, hookers and drug d…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:09PM[SHARE]Jimmy Buffett says he was going to be on Broadway one way or another because of his mother. "She was the Southern version of Auntie Mame," Buffett says, "and she made me audition for 'South …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Last week I wrote about three shows that are trying to slip onto Broadway stages before the Tony cutoff date in April: "The Honeymooners," "Summer: The Donna Summer Musical" and "Hadestown."…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:36PM[SHARE] 
