Thursday, May 11, 2017
Kevin Spacey, a tennis fanatic, rarely misses the US Open if he can help it. But last fall, as he watched Phil Collins perform at the opening ceremonies at Arthur Ashe Stadium, he had a thou…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:07PMTuesday, May 9, 2017
Let’s give the Tonys a rest for a minute and look to London, where three productions — past, present and future — may be Broadway-bound. Everybody’s talking about Nathan Lane, pl…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:24PMThursday, May 4, 2017
Can you win a Tony Award without campaigning? It looks as if Kevin Kline is going to try. Kline, 69, was nominated this week for his portrayal of an aging matinee idol in “Present Laughter…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:37PMTuesday, May 2, 2017
We are off and running with the Tony nominations, announced Tuesday, and while it’s easy to predict some of the winners, a lot of categories are up for grabs. “Natasha, Pierre and the Gr…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:01PMFriday, April 28, 2017
Tony nominations are out Tuesday, so let’s read the tea leaves. Producers are gnawing their nails over Best Musical. So many shows, only four (maybe five) slots. “Come From Away” and �…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:16AMTuesday, April 25, 2017
Who knew “Rebecca,” the musical at the center of a civil trial now playing at the New York State Supreme Court Theater, was the next “Phantom of the Opera”? Lawyers for “Rebecca”…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:46PMMonday, April 24, 2017
Nearly 50 years after Frank Serpico exposed endemic corruption in the New York City Police Department, his name still divides people. For some, especially those on the left, Serpico is a whi…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:41AMThursday, April 20, 2017
In 1976, just as his career as a pop superstar was taking off, Barry Manilow moved into an apartment in the San Remo on Central Park West. His neighbor was Broadway’s Fred Ebb, the lyricis…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:58PMTuesday, April 18, 2017
In Washington, DC, the name Frank Underwood inspires fear and loathing. But on Broadway, he’s a hero! Underwood, otherwise known as Kevin Spacey, swooped in Tuesday and saved the Tony Awar…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:11PMSaturday, April 15, 2017
The new musical “Groundhog Day’’ had its own “Spider-man’’ moment Friday night when its star, Andy Karl, suffered a painful injury during a preview and finished his performance o…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:39AMThursday, April 13, 2017
Tina Fey turned down an offer to host this year’s Tony Awards, and now Broadway’s scrambling to find a ringmaster in time for the June 11 telecast. Fey, who’s working on a musical adap…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:12PMTuesday, April 11, 2017
It played only one night, but the concert version of “Crazy For You” was such infectious fun, there’s talk of a Broadway revival next season. The concert, which Susan Stroman staged Fe…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMFriday, April 7, 2017
Anyone who’s been knocking around theater in New York as long as I have surely has fond memories of Howard Crabtree’s “When Pigs Fly.” That campy revue opened at the Douglas Fairbank…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:24AMTuesday, April 4, 2017
As the April 27 cutoff for Tony eligibility approaches, the season is heating up. Here’s a snap shot of the terrain: We may have to throw a pity party for “Amélie,” which just opened …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:29PMTuesday, March 28, 2017
In the spring of 1912, Henry B. Harris and his wife went to London, looking for plays to produce for the Hudson Theatre, the showpiece of his thriving Broadway empire. Built in 1903, the Gre…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:22PMFriday, March 24, 2017
Broadway loves an overnight sensation — a newcomer heralded by critics and adored by audiences. The fresh face this season belongs to . . . Danny DeVito. OK, so he’s not exactly an u…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:54AMTuesday, March 21, 2017
Broadway loves brand-name titles, from movies (“Groundhog Day”) to books (“Wicked”) to television shows (a “Wonder Years” musical is in the works). So why not . . . board gam…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:37PMSunday, March 19, 2017
Broadway has always been a boys’ club. Sure, there are some powerful female producers — Daryl Roth (“Kinky Boots”), Lynne Meadow (the head of the Manhattan Theatre Club) and Fran Wei…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:47AMWhen it comes to visionaries, give war a chance. Several major artists and innovators of the 20th century served as volunteer ambulance drivers during World War I, shaping their experiences …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:02AMThursday, March 16, 2017
When Mark Medoff attended a reading on Monday of his Tony Award-winning play “Children of a Lesser God,” he was apprehensive: He hadn’t seen the play in a few years and was worried it …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:54PMTuesday, March 14, 2017
Most people in the theater world run to the spotlight. Not Terrence McNally. Modest, shy and industrious, he’s let his work speak for itself. Fortunately, his plays — “Lips Together, T…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:24PMThursday, March 9, 2017
After the high ratings and great reviews for “Behind the Candelabra,” HBO’s 2013 ghoulish but absorbing bio about Liberace, producer Jerry Weintraub wanted to turn it into a Broadway m…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:38PMTuesday, March 7, 2017
If Norma Desmond is ready for her Broadway close-up, surely Robert Evans is, too. Hollywood’s suntanned, sunglasses-wearing legend is putting the finishing touches on the stage adaptation …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:47PMThursday, March 2, 2017
Angelica Page developed her one-woman show about her mother, Oscar-winning actress Geraldine Page, at the Actors Studio in New York. It was a fitting place to work, since her mother was a me…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:43PMTuesday, February 28, 2017
Tina Fey and “Saturday Night Live” executive producer Lorne Michaels are revving up for what they’re calling a “developmental lab” of their “Mean Girls” musical. The script, wh…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:01PMThursday, February 23, 2017
Paul Rudnick is one of the funniest writers around. Reading his collected plays the other day, I burst out laughing at lines from “I Hate Hamlet,” starring the vainglorious ghost of John…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:43PMTuesday, February 21, 2017
There’s something for everybody on Broadway this spring: comedies (“The Play That Goes Wrong”), dramas (“Sweat”), star vehicles (“War Paint”) and revivals (“Hello, Dolly!…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:21PMThursday, February 16, 2017
The two performances Broadway’s raving about — Glenn Close in “Sunset Boulevard” and Jake Gyllenhaal in “Sunday in the Park With George” — are ineligible for Tony Awards. For C…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:07PMTuesday, February 14, 2017
My column last week about the nonmusical plays struggling at the box office prompted all sorts of e-mails and calls from producers imploring me to give them a chance. Nobody likes to come ou…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:01PMSunday, February 12, 2017
Bletchley Park is one of the most famous World War II sites in England. Tourists flock to the estate, where Alan Turing cracked the Nazis’ Enigma machine, enabling the Allies to read secre…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:22AMThursday, February 9, 2017
There are plenty of nonmusical plays coming to Broadway this spring, but producers are fretting that few of them are selling. Three of those plays — “Sweat,” “Indecent” and “Sign…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:24PM 
