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Tommy Tune will receive a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award on June 7, but CBS still hasn’t decided whether to air his speech that night. In the past, some lifetime achievers...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:15PMTuesday, May 19, 2015
Dominic McHugh, a musicologist at England’s University of Sheffield, was researching “My Fair Lady” at the Library of Congress in 2008 when he came across 15 boxes of material no...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:44PMThursday, May 14, 2015
Kenneth D. Laub, a real estate magnate who lives on the Upper East Side, stopped by Donohue’s on Lexington Avenue the other night and told Maureen Donohue-Peters, the owner, he’d...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:43PMWhen it comes to the Tony Awards fashion police, Anna Wintour is the precinct captain. And boy is she getting the troops in line. Wintour attended the 2014 Tonys and...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:15PMTuesday, May 12, 2015
Of the four nominees for Best Musical, only one is turning into a bona fide hit. Advance sales for “An American in Paris” have climbed past $10 million, theater sources...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:33PMThursday, May 7, 2015
There's always talk of a “British invasion” at the Tonys. Sure enough, plenty of this year’s nominees come from that country we rebelled against 240 years ago — the actors,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:23PMTuesday, May 5, 2015
A critic once said the DCC in Drama Critics’ Circle stands for “Damned Cranky Cobras.” Well, some of those cobras have been especially cranky of late. Led by Marilyn Stasio...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:18PMThursday, April 30, 2015
Is it war between Harvey Weinstein and Broadway? The Tony nominators fired a big old cannonball into Weinstein’s Peter Pan musical, “Finding Neverland,” on Tuesday, by denying it a sin…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:28PMTuesday, April 28, 2015
The Tony nominators gave Harvey Weinstein the hook, the Captain Hook! Weinstein’s $20 million Peter Pan musical “Finding Neverland” — his first foray onto Broadway — failed to rece…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:47PMThe hosts of this year's Tony Award telecast on CBS will be Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth. Both are Broadway babies. Cumming has just finished a sold out run at...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:00AMThursday, April 23, 2015
“Clear the flop wall at Joe Allen! We’re going to need the space!” That’s how one wag sizes up the situation on Broadway this week. To accommodate the coming bloodbath,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:11PMIan McKellen is one of the great Shakespearean actors of his generation. His portrayals of Macbeth, King Lear, Iago and Prospero are legendary in theater circles. And yet most of...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:05PMTuesday, April 21, 2015
Broadway would be a little thin without the British. “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” this year’s likely Tony winner for Best Play, is an import from...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:38PMThursday, April 16, 2015
In Wednesday’s column, I paraphrased “It Might as Well Be Spring” — rather cleverly, I thought — to describe the Tony madness that’s gripping Broadway. I credited the lyrics to...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMWednesday, April 15, 2015
Broadway is as restless as a backer at an opening. It’s as jumpy as Bill Nighy on a stage. Larry Hart — of Rodgers and Hart — would say it...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:21AMThursday, April 9, 2015
“Mamma Mia!” — which turned everybody with a hand-held hair dryer into a Dancing Queen — will end its 14-year Broadway run Sept. 5. It is the eighth-longest-running show in...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:26PMTuesday, April 7, 2015
For weeks, my spies in Siam were telling me that nobody at “The King and I” could understand a word Ken Watanabe was saying. And when I say nobody, I...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:39PMThursday, April 2, 2015
Set your alarm clocks: “Groundhog Day,” the musical, is coming to Broadway. Based on the ’93 movie starring Bill Murray as a man forced to relive the same 24 hours...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:01PMTuesday, March 31, 2015
Broadway will dim its lights Wednesday night for Gene Saks, who died this week at 93. Best known for directing some of Neil Simon’s biggest hits — “Lost in Yonkers,”...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:38PMFriday, March 27, 2015
Broadway’s new Flo Ziegfeld — Harvey Weinstein — recently announced with much fanfare that his musical “Finding Neverland” hit $1 million last week at the box office. Naturally, Br…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:51AMTuesday, March 24, 2015
If you happened to be walking through Times Square one spring day in 1978, you might have been surprised to see Eartha Kitt parading down Broadway on the back of...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:37PMThursday, March 12, 2015
Larry David is king of the Broadway box office this season in “Fish in the Dark.” The show opened with $14 million in the bank, and the limited run at...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:14PMTuesday, March 10, 2015
For years, three powerful theater owners dominated Broadway. The Shuberts got there first in 1900. The company owns 17 Broadway theaters as well as Shubert Alley, one of the only...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:28PMSaturday, March 7, 2015
You’d get the call around 3:00 in the afternoon — because Frank Sinatra didn’t get up until 1:30. If you were in the inner circle, it might be his voice...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:23AMFriday, March 6, 2015
I haven’t seen it yet, but I hear the Roundabout’s revival of “On the Twentieth Century” is great fun — even when Peter Gallagher isn’t in it. Gallagher’s been battling...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:41AMTuesday, March 3, 2015
Threading my way through a snowy Times Square Tuesday, I came across a pitiable sight: A lone young man, dressed as sailor, trying to pass out discount fliers for the...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:33PMThursday, February 26, 2015
This year’s Oscars ceremony was, by all accounts, a letdown. But I confess to enjoying Lady Gaga’s medley from “The Sound of Music,” and Julie Andrews gave the evening something...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:29PMTuesday, February 24, 2015
Let the “Hamilton” backlash begin! Everybody on Broadway was snickering Tuesday at the self-importance of crew behind “Hamilton,” the hip-hop musical about Alexander Hamilton at the …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:13PMFriday, February 20, 2015
It’s pistols at dawn in Weehawken for the producers, investors and the creative team behind “Hamilton,” the rap musical about Alexander Hamilton everyone’s buzzing about down at …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:19AM 
