Thursday, 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 "Significant Othe…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 7, 2017
If you want to see 1,000 women burst into tears, hand them a piece of paper that says, "We regret to inform you that Josh Groban is unable to appear in today's performance of 'The Great Come…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:14PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 2, 2017
I have no idea why, but in this era of Make America Great Again, sales of George Orwell's "1984" have skyrocketed. The book, first published in 1949, is topping best-seller lists at Amazon, …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Things are getting tense up there in Toronto, where disgraced impresario Garth Drabinsky is plotting his comeback with the new musical "Sousatzka." Drabinsky's temper was legendary during hi…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:29PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 19, 2017
You didn't hear this from me, but this week Cher was at the very first read-through of a new musical based on her life. I'm going to give you a few details, but I'm begging you: Don't tell a…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 17, 2017
London theatergoers are pretty staid: applauding songs politely, sipping their white wine at the "interval" (translation: intermission) and never, ever giving a standing ovation. But the rev…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 12, 2017
“The Scottsboro Boys" was one of my favorite musicals of the past 10 years, so I'm happy to report that the people who created it are at work on a new show. Director Susan Stroman, com…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:34PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 11, 2017
And the box office champ of the fall is " Nathan Lane in "The Front Page." The revival recouped its $4.8 million production cost at the end of December, and is on track to make a tidy pro…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 5, 2017
As we swing into 2017, let's look at the people, shows and events certain to make news on Broadway in the months ahead. Hello, $$$! Bette Midler is shaping up as the No. 1 box-office draw th…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 3, 2017
The Broadway League was scrambling Tuesday for its members to authorize dimming the lights in honor of Debbie Reynolds and, perhaps, Carrie Fisher. Reynolds is probably a sure bet, since she…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 29, 2016
Broadway will be dimming its lights a lot in the coming weeks. Dick Latessa, who won a Tony for "Hairspray," died Dec. 19. Soon after, the theater lost Willa Kim, who designed the stylish an…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 22, 2016
When Harvey Fierstein slipped on a housecoat to play Edna in "Hairspray," his co-star, Dick Latessa, told him he wasn't the first to do a musical in drag: "We did a number in the out-of-town…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:12PM[SHARE]Friday, December 16, 2016
As musical-comedy shrines go, it's hard to top the staircase off the lobby of the St. James Theatre. Every night in the spring of 2001, Mel Brooks and his creative team sat on those steps in…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:17AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 15, 2016
On the menu today: Some Shubert Alley scuttlebutt. Everybody's wondering if "The Band's Visit," the new critics' darling down at the Atlantic Theater, will move to Broadway in the spring and…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Disgraced impresario Garth Drabinsky kicked off his comeback campaign in Toronto by hosting a press preview last week of his new musical, "Sousatzka." With the confidence of a veteran huckst…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 8, 2016
Simon & Schuster just reissued Neil Simon's memoirs, 1996's "Rewrites" and 1999's "The Play Goes On," in one volume. I read them when they first came out, and they're terrific, both as s…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 6, 2016
“Tough" may have been Edward Albee's favorite compliment. "If he came backstage after a show and said, 'That was a tough performance,' you could sleep well that night," says Mercedes R…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:27PM[SHARE]Friday, December 2, 2016
Nothing will bring a smile to your face faster this holiday season than the opening number of "La La Land," Damien Chazelle's new movie that's poised to reinvigorate the Hollywood musical. T…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 1, 2016
Harry Potter waved his magic wand " and a Broadway theater everybody hates will be home to a show everybody loves. "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," a runaway hit in London, will open in …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:16PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Robert De Niro told Page Six earlier this month that he was "annoyed" that the producers of the musical adaptation of "A Bronx Tale" tapped Broadway vet Jerry Zaks to direct instead of him. …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Everybody on Broadway loves "The Best Worst Thing That Ever Happened," director Lonny Price's documentary about the reunion of the original cast of Stephen Sondheim's flop musical "Merrily W…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:51PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 19, 2016
A reporter once asked Peter O'Toole, whose capacity for booze was legendary, if he ever turned up for work drunk. "The answer to that is not only drunk, but deliberately so," O'Toole said, l…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 17, 2016
Florenz Ziegfeld. David Merrick. Cameron Mackintosh. And now . . . Gwyneth Paltrow. The Oscar-winning actress is poised to join the ranks of fabled theatrical impresarios if "H…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Nobody’s approached Bruce Springsteen about turning his acclaimed new memoir into a musical. But he's certainly open to the idea. I met Springsteen, briefly, at a party for his best-se…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Of all the new shows percolating out there, the one I'm most excited about is "Buñuel," Stephen Sondheim and David Ive s' adaptation of two Luis Buñuel movies, "The Discreet Charm of t…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:40AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 5, 2016
If Donald Trump wins the White House on Tuesday, he'll be only the second United States president born in New York City. So while you're waiting for a National Historic Landmarks plaque to g…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 3, 2016
There was a twinge of sadness at the opening Sunday of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses." Those associated with the original 1987 Broadway production couldn't help but think of two people who helpe…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Howard and Janet Kagan, the husband-and-wife producers of "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812," have managed to upstage theater critics as the most reviled people on Broadway. The…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:41PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 30, 2016
'Young Frankenstein" is one of those movies that, when it crops up on TCM, you drop everything and laugh yourself silly till the credits roll. You know all the lines by heart: "What hump?" "…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 27, 2016
I can tell you what Mel Brooks is doing for Halloween: re-animating his Broadway musical "Young Frankenstein." Brooks, along with co-writer Tom Meehan and director Susan Stroman, has taken a…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Joan Rivers achieved a lot: groundbreaking comedienne, popular TV personality, QVC entrepreneur, buckets of money. But the one thing she wanted above all else eluded her. As Leslie Bennetts …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:34PM[SHARE] 
