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]Saturday, November 4, 2017
Reed Birney was beginning to smolder. Every time the actor came on stage as O'Brien, the chief torturer in "1984" at the Hudson Theatre, a group of theatergoers giggled. "The laughter was in…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Call it Broadway Monopoly " the game producers, landlords and other insiders love to play when theaters suddenly open up. With so many shows circling the Great White Way, two or three could …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:33PM[SHARE]Monday, October 30, 2017
Happy Halloween! Is there any better place to go ghostbusting than the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colo. (from $189)? Believers in the paranormal say there are more spirits hanging about th…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:34PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 26, 2017
Two showbiz legends " Mel Brooks and Andrew Lloyd Webber " are turning their painful flops into crowd-pleasing hits. Brooks just returned from London clutching raves for his snappy new "Youn…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:09PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Back in August, I reported that Amy Schumer, the star of Steve Martin's new play "Meteor Shower," was shaping up to be Broadway's biggest box-office draw this fall. After she sold $1 million…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:55PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 19, 2017
The biggest star in Lincoln Center's upcoming revival of "My Fair Lady" isn't playing Eliza Doolittle or Henry Higgins: She's playing Mrs. Higgins, Henry's elegant mother. Diana Rigg will re…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 17, 2017
"The Cher Show" is rehearsing here in New York at the New 42nd Street Studios, but somebody key to the entire enterprise is missing: Cher. She can't be here because she's in London and Croat…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 12, 2017
Tickets for "Mean Girls" went on sale last week at the August Wilson Theatre, and Tina Fey was there to hand out cheese fries. The p.r. stunt was, well, cheesy " but effective. Inspired by o…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:31PM[SHARE]Harvey Weinstein was at Gwyneth Paltrow's townhouse last year when she unveiled "Head Over Heels," the musical she's producing about the 1980s girl band the Go-Gos. Weinstein, sources say, w…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 10, 2017
The Playbill for "Springsteen on Broadway" reads "Written and Directed by Bruce Springsteen" " which means the Boss could be eligible for Tony Awards for both Best Book and Best Direction of…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 5, 2017
The buzz around the revival of Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song" at Second Stage Theater is so good, there's talk of a move to Broadway in the spring. But don't tell Fierstein. "Stop!" he says…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 3, 2017
WANTED: An actress who can scream like Fay Wray eight times a week. The creators of the "King Kong" musical are town this week looking for Ann Darrow, the beauty that'll kill their beast at …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 28, 2017
July 3, 2015, was a heartbreaking day for many people who work in the theater. That afternoon, they received an e-mail from Rick Elice, the Tony-nominated co-writer of "Jersey Boys," letting…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Marian Seldes was beloved: an elegant, talented, wonderfully eccentric actress and teacher whose students included Christopher Reeve, Patti LuPone and Kevin Spacey. She died in 2014, at 86. …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 23, 2017
In June 1979, the Bee Gees were on top of the world. Months before, their "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack, featuring songs written and/or performed by the Australian trio, had won a Grammy…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:22PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 21, 2017
Fallout from the crash and burn of "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812" continues to rain down on Broadway. A group of disgruntled investors in the $14 million production " which …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 14, 2017
DENVER " Disney is opening its Broadway-bound "Frozen" Thursday night to a sea of Elsas. Easily one-third of the audience for the last month of previews has arrived in long blue gowns and bl…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Prospective backers for the upcoming revivals of "Angels in America" and "M. Butterfly" are getting sticker shock when they see the price tags. These are big, bold and potentially thrilling …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 7, 2017
President Frank Underwood called me the other day to tell me about a play that I haven't been paying much attention to: "The Parisian Woman." It's a terrible title, but when FU calls, you li…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 5, 2017
The big shows for the new theater season are set. We'll be singing "Let It Go" from "Frozen," toasting the wit of Tina Fey in "Mean Girls," enjoying the charms of "The Band's Visit," and hop…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 31, 2017
Put aside the politics, the polemics and the president. Michael Moore, nestled into a booth at a bar in the theater district, wants to talk about something else: his lifelong love affair wit…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Not only is it alive, it's a hit. Mel Brooks spent the past year in the laboratory repairing his 2007 flop "Young Frankenstein" and, by all accounts, succeeded: The show is slaying them in N…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:02PM[SHARE]Friday, August 25, 2017
Pull up a chair, Stephen Sondheim fans: I've got eyewitness reports from the National Theatre of London's first preview of "Follies." Directed by Dominic Cooke, this lavish production, set i…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:12AM[SHARE]Pull up a chair, Stephen Sondheim fans: I've got eyewitness reports from the National Theatre of London's first preview of "Follies." Directed by Dominic Cooke, this lavish production, set i…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:52AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Jerry Lewis, who died this week at 91, scored in just about every branch of show business: nightclubs, radio, television, concerts, movies and records. But it was only relatively late in lif…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 20, 2017
Denzel Washington will return to Broadway this spring in "The Iceman Cometh," The Post has learned. A 14-week run of Eugene O'Neill's drama, to be directed by two-time Tony winner George C. …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 17, 2017
Just call her Amy $chumer. Out of the gate in this new Broadway season, the No. 1 box office draw is a 36-year-old stand-up comedian. Can Amy Schumer sing? Can she dance? Who knows? Who care…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Bill Murray popped up at "Groundhog Day" last week, triggering some fun publicity and boosting ticket sales. Alas, the boost was too little, too late. Despite its seven Tony nominations, the…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 10, 2017
Disney’s readying "Frozen" for Broadway and here, exclusive to The Post, are two of designer Christopher Oram's new costumes for Anna. The green robe this princess of Arendelle wears i…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:46PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 8, 2017
"Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812," the acclaimed Broadway musical engulfed in a racial firestorm, will close Sept. 3, The Post has learned. The cast and crew were told shortly be…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:45PM[SHARE] 
