Tuesday, April 26, 2016
The two women marched up the aisle at intermission and spotted a man lingering at the back of the theater. “Do you have anything to do with this show?” one woman demanded. “I’m the p…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:09PMThursday, April 21, 2016
That backlash against “Hamilton” I’ve been fomenting is really starting to take hold. In the past week, the musical won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, its advance sale hit $80 million, …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:34PMTuesday, April 19, 2016
This is one Broadway show that’s bound to have a very large costume budget: “Cher: The Musical.” The pop icon tweeted a few years ago that she wanted to do a show about her life. She m…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:00PMThursday, April 14, 2016
The last time Nicole Kidman appeared on Broadway — in David Hare ’s “The Blue Room” — she took off her clothes for, oh, about eight seconds and set box-office records at the Cort T…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:22PMTuesday, April 12, 2016
Let’s make a list of the best American musical comedies. “Guys and Dolls.” “Kiss Me, Kate.” “How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.” “The Producers.” “The Book…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:12PMThursday, April 7, 2016
I ran into Julie Taymor at a Lincoln Center library benefit a few months ago, and she looked relaxed and happy. “You look terrific,” I said. “That’s because I don’t have any more s…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:50PMTuesday, April 5, 2016
“I’m reading my five-star reviews!” lyricist Don Black said Tuesday when I congratulated him on the triumphant opening of “Sunset Boulevard” at London’s English National Opera. T…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:39PMThursday, March 31, 2016
Everyone’s raving about the Encores! production of “1776,” at City Center through Sunday. It’s one of my favorite musicals, with its catchy score by Sherman Edwards and its brilliant…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:54PMTuesday, March 29, 2016
I’m a huge Barbara Cook fan, so I was sad to learn this week that the off-Broadway show she was working on with James Lapine and Tommy Tune had been scrapped. “Barbara Cook: Then and Now…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:39PMFriday, March 25, 2016
The abrupt cancellation on March 8 of the Broadway musical “Nerds” — about the rivalry between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates — shocked the cast and crew. They were rehearsing the show th…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:47AMTuesday, March 22, 2016
A few months ago while lunching at Sardi’s, Broadway press agent Sam Rudy looked around at the caricatures of theater people lining the walls and wondered if there was one of his longtime …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:18PMMonday, March 14, 2016
When Danielle Brooks learned she’d been offered the role of Sofia in the Broadway revival of “The Color Purple,” she burst into tears. This was the show, after all, that made her want …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:15AMThursday, March 10, 2016
If the fall was the season of “Hamilton,” the spring will be the season of blood. And I don’t mean the blood that will be spilled at the Gerald Schoenfeld, when “American Psycho” b…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:24PMThursday, March 3, 2016
Goodbye, “Hughie”! The revival of Eugene O’Neill’s “Hughie,” starring Forest Whitaker, will close March 27, The Post has learned exclusively. This dreary drama about a small-time…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:35PMThursday, February 25, 2016
Bruce Vilanch, one of the funniest writers in Oscar history, has no doubt Chris Rock will go for the, um, white elephant in the living room Sunday night. “There’s no way he can ignore it…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:16PMThursday, February 18, 2016
Forest Whitaker’s co-star for the first week of previews of “Hughie” on Broadway was . . . a water cooler. During those rocky early performances, Whitaker didn’t stray too far fr…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:47PMThursday, February 11, 2016
Joel Grey won an Oscar for his performance as the creepy Emcee in the 1972 movie version of “Cabaret.” But he did so in spite of — not because of — director Bob Fosse. In fact, as Gr…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:24PMFriday, February 5, 2016
Johnny Carson’s favorite singer was Marilyn Maye. The Kansas City mob loved her, too. Now 87, Maye is one of the last of the club singers who crisscrossed the country in the ’50s and ’…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:15AMThursday, February 4, 2016
There’s been a little distaff dust-up at “Waitress,” the new musical slated to open on Broadway in the spring. The show’s been touting its all-female creative team as a selling p…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:45PMMonday, February 1, 2016
“Hail, Caesar!” — Joel and Ethan Coen’s screwball comedy about the movie business, opening Friday — revolves around a deadly serious man. His name is Eddie Mannix, and his job is t…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:15AMSaturday, January 30, 2016
Winter’s arrived with a vengeance, which means it’s time for comfort food. And is there any dish more comforting than a piping hot chicken potpie? Pierce that golden crust with your …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:15AMThursday, January 28, 2016
Al Pacino wraps up his run in David Mamet’s “China Doll” on Sunday, bringing the curtain down on my favorite show of the Broadway season. It was, to put it mildly, a rocky run, but I c…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:34PMThursday, January 21, 2016
A quick story from Carol Channing’s farewell tour of “Hello, Dolly!” in the 1990s: As the company bus rolled into a city on the tour, cast members looked out the window and saw GOD SAV…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:08PMTuesday, January 19, 2016
Bette Midler will return to Broadway in the fall as the title character in the celebrated musical, “Hello, Dolly!” Midler will play Dolly Levi, the matchmaker from Yonkers, who f…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:46AMSunday, January 17, 2016
Just before Christmas, Page Six reported that Bill and Hillary Clinton were at ‘21’ toasting the news of daughter Chelsea’s pregnancy, when Bubba asked the staff to dig up something he…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:00AMThursday, January 14, 2016
“Lazarus” was already sold out at the New York Theatre Workshop before the news of creator David Bowie’s death this week. But now it’s giving “Hamilton” a run for its sky…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:56PMSunday, January 10, 2016
For years, Broadway theater owners have been selling air rights above their rather squat, landmarked stages to developers. Developers use those air rights to add extra floors to skyscrapers.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:00AMThursday, January 7, 2016
Robert Stigwood, who died this week at 81, was the forgotten impresario. Like Howard Hughes, he blazed through the entertainment world and then . . . vanished. Old friends whose careers …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:38PMWednesday, December 30, 2015
A science-fiction icon, a wisecracking comic legend, an eccentric restaurateur, an avenger . . . and an actor who held the stage for eight hours in a Dickens of a play. Here are a few no…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:23PMSunday, December 27, 2015
Jennifer Hudson’s the draw at “The Color Purple” box office — but her co-star, Cynthia Erivo, is Broadway’s latest overnight sensation. The British actress is winning raves for her…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:35PMThursday, December 17, 2015
If you’ve been knocking around the theater world as long as I have, you’re bound to come across a Maggie Smith story. Here’s my favorite: During the 1990 run of “Lettice and Lovage�…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:15PM 
