Monday, May 25, 2015
Hilarious, audacious—and guaranteed to offend just about everybody. That's how theater insiders are describing The Book of Mormon, the much-anticipated new Broadway musical from South …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMIt's Rosh Hashanah -- but the only Jew on Broadway who's celebrating is Shylock. Al Pacino, as Shakespeare's complex villain in The Merchant of Venice, has racked up by far the highest advan…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe very first day I arrived in New York in 1986 as an undergrad at Columbia, I headed to Broadway. (Actually, I headed north and got lost until a nice lady on 143rd Street turned me around.…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe earpiece, used by actors of a certain age who have trouble learning their lines, is so Broadway. For the latest in line-feeding technology, the place to go is off-Broadway, especially P…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMNicole Kidman's returning to Broad way, clothed.The actress will star in a revival of Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth" next fall. The director is David Cromer, who won glowing revie…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMLying in bed one night in 1996, Broadway producers Fran and Barry Weissler decided to make the biggest bet of their lives. The deadline for financing the revival of "Chicago" on Broadway wa…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMAristotle Onassis was the biggest, baddest Greek this side of Zeus.And now, like many legendary Greeks, he's got a play of his own."Onassis," by Martin Sherman, opened last week in out-of-t…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMAttention will be paid.Director Mike Nichols and Philip Seymour Hoffman are secretly -- well, not anymore! -- laying the groundwork for a revival of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" ne…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMJeffrey Richards, the press agent and prolific producer, in troduced me to that great movie "Sweet Smell of Success," starring Burt Lancaster as the vicious Broadway gossip columnist J.J. Hu…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMUntil "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" plays its first performance Nov. 14 -- a night that promises to be a landmark event in Broadway gossip-column writing -- we're going to be bored out of…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMIt takes a comic genius like Charles Busch to milk laughs out of something as hoary as a bunch of nuns sing ing, dancing and cracking jokes. Busch has done it with "The Divine Sister." His …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMBette Midler says she loves the musical "Priscilla Queen of the Desert" so much "I'd be starring in it -- if I were a gay man!"She has, however, found another way to get her name above the t…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMIt's never a good sign when the actors show up for work and find the doors of the theater padlocked shut.But that's what happened Wednesday night to the cast of "The Deep Throat Sex Scandal…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMWhen Patti LuPone takes her curtain call at the Belasco Theatre on Nov. 4 for the opening of “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” she might want to glance up at the priva…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMFrom London comes word that Keira Knightley, a sexy pirate wench, will be making her West End debut as a sexy suspected lesbian in Lillian Hellman's "The Children's Hour."Details are still …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMA very impressive ensemble cast has come together for Stephen Adly Guirgis' new play "The Motherf---er With the Hat" -- hereafter known, for obvious reasons, as "Hat."
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMJoe Stein, a merry quipster with hair the color of Tang, died this week at the grand old age of 98.He was one of the last of Broadway's snappy bookwriters -- which is to say, Jewish guys bo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM'Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark" is the most expensive and technically complex show ever produced on a Broadway stage. It may also turn out to be the most dangerous -- to both the actors and…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMWhen it comes to "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark" -- my favorite show since "Taboo" -- expect delays.The $65 million spectacle is scheduled to play its first preview Nov. 14. But there's suc…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThose soulful Lower East Side bohemians are coming back."Rent," Jonathan Larson's ground breaking 1994 musical, will be re vived next year, The Post has learned. The show, which will be sta…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMIt's a role he was born to play -- in fact, he wrote it. Harvey Fierstein, one of the last of the bankable Broadway stars, will join the cast of "La Cage aux Folles" as Albin, the high-stru…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMAt the risk of turning this column into the Green Goblin Ga zette, let's have an other go at "Spider- Man, Please Sign My Cast." I've got my foot on its neck, and I'm having too much fun to…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMPower lists are silly, gimmicky things that get everybody talk ing, especially those who don't make the cut. BroadwaySpace.com stirred the pot last week with its second annual list of the 5…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM'Pippin" -- Stephen Schwartz's perennially popular and tuneful 1972 musical -- is headed back to Broadway. The production will be directed by Diane Paulus, who was nominated for a Tony for …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMManhattan Theater Club, long an engine of new and ambitious plays, is getting into the risk-averse import business. The nonprofit, taxpayer-subsidized company recently opened Lee Hall's "Th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMNot even Spider-Man could avert this disaster. Last night's opening pre view of Broadway's most expensive production ever, "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," was an epic flop as the $65 mill…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMIn "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark," our dangling hero vanquishes a parade of villains -- the Green Goblin, Swarm, Electro, Carnage, Swiss Miss and Kraven the Hunter. But Spidey may have met…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMHad someone shouted "Is there a doctor in the house!" a few days ago at "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark," it would have been because yet another actor had broken something. But safety inspec…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMMy friends at The Broadway League, the bloated and useless organization that runs the Tonys into the ground, are in crisis mode. The reason? All the bad press about Broadway falling apart b…
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