Wednesday, January 19, 2011
On Jan. 31, the New York Drama Critics Circle has one last chance to check its slide into irrelevancy when it comes to "Spider-Man, We're Postponing Again."
The critics meet that day, and…
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Get ready for the Jersey Girls.
A jukebox musical about the Shi relles called, naturally, "Baby, It's You" will open in the spring at the Broadhurst.
The nostalgia-dripping show is aim…
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The final performances of "Dracula" last weekend played less like a Gothic thriller and more like the backstage farce "Noises Off."
The antics -- which Tony-win ning costume designer Willa K…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:14PMThursday, January 6, 2011
Vampires aren't the only dead things in "Dracula."
The show's designers say the pro ducers are dead, too -- deadbeats.
The designers -- including Tony winner Willa Kim (costumes), Dana…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:40PMWednesday, January 5, 2011
The role of Mama Rose in "Gypsy" has always attracted great divas, from Ethel Merman to Angela Lansbury, Tyne Daly to Patti LuPone.
And now comes word that the greatest diva of them all -…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:46AMThursday, December 30, 2010
Broadway lost some great theater people in 2010. I went hunting in The Post's archive for in terviews with some of them. Raise a glass and enjoy.
* LENA HORNE
In 1981, her movie and nigh…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:37PMTuesday, December 28, 2010
The management of the Foxwoods The atre, home to the be leaguered "Spider- Man: Turn Off the Dark," has admitted that at least some sections of the orchestra are unsafe.
And to whom did m…
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Bono is one of the world's great philanthropists, speaking out for the oppressed, the sick and the poor.
But where's Mr. Humanitarian when it comes to the disaster that's "Spider-Man: Tur…
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Nathan Lane's missives
And Fiona Shaw's britches
Kelsey's French kisses
And Spider-Man's glitches . . .
Those were four of my favorite things in the theater this year, and before the ho…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:28PMThursday, December 9, 2010
About 4 a.m. on Dec. 12, 1976, Jack Cassidy, the suave, handsome char acter actor, poured himself a scotch and soda and settled down on the couch in his West Hollywood pent house.
He prob…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:29PMWednesday, December 8, 2010
My 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…
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Had 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 insp…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:17PMTuesday, November 30, 2010
In "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark," our dan gling hero vanquishes a parade of villains -- the Green Goblin, Swarm, Electro, Carnage, Swiss Miss and Kraven the Hunter.
But Spidey may have …
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Not 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 mil…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 06:20AMTuesday, November 23, 2010
Manhattan The ater 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 …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:03PMThursday, November 18, 2010
'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 fo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:35PMWednesday, November 17, 2010
Power 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 t…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:26AMFriday, November 12, 2010
At the risk of turning this column into the Green Goblin Gazette, 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 t…
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It'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 10:17AMFriday, October 22, 2010
A very impressive en semble cast has come together for Stephen Adly Guirgis' new play "The Motherf - - - er With the Hat" -- hereafter known, for obvious reasons, as "Hat."
Bobby Cannavale,…
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