Wednesday, March 5, 2014
James Earl Jones shot to fame as boxer Jack Jefferson in Howard Sackler’s 1967 play “The Great White Hope.” Jones won the Tony and, two years later, was nominated for...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:52AMTuesday, February 25, 2014
Jimmy Fallon’s much-publicized decision to move “The Tonight Show” to New York City has Broadway producers and press agents salivating at the prospect of late-night exposure. Fallon, w…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:38PMFriday, February 21, 2014
In 1996, I was having lunch at Sette Mezzo with Peter Stone, who wrote the musicals “1776” and “The Will Rogers Follies.” I asked him what he was up to,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:14AMWednesday, February 19, 2014
Myfavorite American play is Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” A close second is Albee’s other masterpiece, “A Delicate Balance,” which premiered on Broadway in 1…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:48AMFriday, February 14, 2014
My favorite popular singer is — Goldfinger! — the great Shirley Bassey. And so it gives me tremendous pleasure to report that the producers of “After Midnight” are wooing the...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:49AMTuesday, February 11, 2014
The investors in Woody Allen’s new musical are sweating bullets — “Bullets Over Broadway.” Just when it looked as if Allen’s new $15 million musical had a pretty clear shot...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:52PMFriday, January 31, 2014
Note to Bob Greenblatt, head of NBC Entertainment, and Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, who produced the hugely successful live telecast of “The Sound of Music”: For your upcoming “Peter...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:07AMTuesday, January 28, 2014
Cyndi Lauper knows a thing or two about Broadway. She won a Tony for her score to “Kinky Boots,” and Sunday night picked up a Grammy for it as well....
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:10PMThursday, January 23, 2014
The villain of the hit Broadway musical “Matilda” is Agatha Trunchbull, headmistress of Crunchem Hall Academy. She’s a brawny, scary tyrant who bullies her pupils, grabbing one little …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:08PMWednesday, January 22, 2014
It’s no secret that Woody Allen is secretive. An actor friend who’s been in a few of his movies says that when you go in for the audition, you’re given...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:39AMThursday, January 16, 2014
Hugh Jackman may have vanished from “Houdini,” but he’ll be materializing on Broadway next season in “The River,” a play from London by Jez Butterworth. Jackman, Broadway’s No. 1…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:21PMWednesday, January 15, 2014
It’S going to be a few months before we get a clear idea of who the combatants will be at the Tony Awards, but there’s one category that’s quickly coming...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:42AMFriday, January 10, 2014
OK, baby boomers, dinner and a show on me if you can tell me where this joke came from: “Why, Sheriff Fate Thomas, what in the heck are you doin’...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:10AMWednesday, January 8, 2014
The battle for legendary stage star Julie Harris’ estate is heating up. Herbert Nass, a lawyer who represented Harris for many years until he was abruptly dismissed toward the end...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:36AMFriday, January 3, 2014
Let’s salute some fine actors who died in 2013. Here they are, in their own words: James Gandolfini He’ll forever be Tony Soprano, of course, but anyone who saw Gandolfini...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:47AMFriday, December 27, 2013
Pop quiz , 2014! Look into your crystal ball. What do you see? 1. NBC, riding high from the ratings success of “The Sound of Music,” says it will broadcast...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:54AMFriday, December 20, 2013
You’ll find Carole King’s life onstage in “Beautiful,” now in previews at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. But don’t look for King herself anywhere in the house. The reclusive “Tape…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:20AMWednesday, December 18, 2013
Peter O’Toole appeared on Broadway just once, as Henry Higgins in a 1987 revival of “Pygmalion.” O’Toole, who died Saturday, was famous for his drinking, but it wasn’t booze that...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:14AMFriday, December 13, 2013
Tom Hanks and Nora Ephron came up winners this year with “Lucky Guy,” a play about a larger-than-life New York character, columnist Mike McAlary. Now comes word that another larger-than-…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:17AM‘Smash” wasn’t, but “The Sound of Music” sure was.
More than 18 million people watched Rodgers and Hammerstein’s beloved musical performed live on NBC Thursday night, which exce…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:16AMFriday, December 6, 2013
Ten years ago, Burt Bacharach sat through a performance of “The Look of Love,” a revue featuring songs he wrote with lyricist Hal David. He was flanked by two friends,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:18AMFriday, November 22, 2013
In the movie “All About Eve,” the Broadway star Margo Channing befriends a stage-struck young woman named Eve Harrington. Eve insinuates herself into Margo’s life, becoming an indispen…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:59AMTuesday, November 19, 2013
Michael Cohl, the producer of my favorite show of all time — “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” — told me the real reason the musical is closing in January: “We...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:18PMThursday, November 14, 2013
Hal Prince is 85, but retirement isn’t for him. As I reported last month, he’s off to Japan next year to oversee a $9 million musical based on his life...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:08PMTuesday, November 12, 2013
The big boy’s coming to Broadway. And I don’t mean James Corden! The producers of “King Kong,” a spectacle from Australia, will soon announce plans for a New York run...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:57PMFriday, November 8, 2013
One of my favorite Broadway shows is “Promises, Promises,” with its gin and tonic of a score by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. It was a great loss to the...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:37AMTuesday, November 5, 2013
Out of nowhere — a hit! If you had said to me a few weeks ago that “After Midnight,” the elegant and joyful celebration of the music of Duke Ellington...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:09PMThursday, October 31, 2013
I was chatting with Sting the other night — that sound you hear is a name being dropped — about his upcoming Broadway musical, “The Last Ship.” We were backstage...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:19PMWednesday, October 30, 2013
Every now and then I like to see how much people can make in the theater. And so I collect investment papers on upcoming Broadway shows and apply my celebrated...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:55AMFriday, October 25, 2013
Before there was Hugh Jackman, there was Billy Crystal. Jackman shattered box-office records a couple of years ago with his sensational one-man show at the Broadhurst. He opened with a...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:26AMWednesday, October 23, 2013
Because I’m a black-belt in martial arts — I break boards the way “Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark” breaks actors — one of my favorite songs is “Kung Fu Fighting”...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:25AM 
