Tuesday, August 2, 2016
"Cats" is back, and with it T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, posters, key chains, socks, baseball caps and mouse pads " each one emblazoned with the famous cat's-eyes logo. Merchandising has long be…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:27PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 28, 2016
London's National Theatre will mount a revival of "Amadeus" " Peter Shaffer's celebrated play about the rivalry between Mozart and Salieri " in October. The National hasn't produced "Amadeus…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 26, 2016
James M. Nederlander, who built an empire of theaters that stretched from Times Square to Los Angeles, died Monday night in New York. He was 94. Nederlander, along with his rivals-turned-fri…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:46AM[SHARE]Friday, July 22, 2016
While Broadway goes through its "Hamilton" craze, London is obsessed with Harry Potter. Advance sales for "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" at the Palace Theatre have hit $32 million, whic…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Before composer Alan Menken went off to Disneyland to write "The Little Mermaid" and "Beauty and the Beast," he was working on a Broadway musical called "Kicks." It never got off the ground,…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:35PM[SHARE]Friday, July 15, 2016
The title of Woody Allen's "Café Society" conjures up three famous haunts of the '30s and '40s: the '21' Club, El Morocco and the Stork Club. Those Midtown joints were largely restricted to…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:47AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 14, 2016
Here’s a promising cast: Victoria Clark, Tony-winning star for "The Light in the Piazza"; Montego Glover, who was the highlight of "Memphis" a few years back; and Tsidii Le Loka, the o…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:13PM[SHARE]Friday, July 8, 2016
Al Capone will forever be associated with Chicago, City of the Big Shoulders, as Carl Sandburg put it in 1914, where "gun[men] kill and go free to kill again." But America's most notorious g…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 30, 2016
HBO is quietly developing " dare I say in the dead of night? " a Broadway musical based on its popular vampire series "True Blood." Director Pam MacKinnon, who barely survived the fiasco tha…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 28, 2016
There was some consternation on Broadway last week over the abrupt closing of "Shuffle Along." A few people blamed producer Scott Rudin for not supporting the show after leading lady Audra M…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:56AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 26, 2016
"My name is Popov, Dusko Popov." Well, it doesn't have the same bite as "My name is Bond, James Bond," but Dusko Popov, a Yugoslavian double agent during World War II, may well have been the…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 23, 2016
Josh Groban better start hip-hopping all over the place like Lin-Manuel Miranda if "Natasha, Pierre & Great Comet of 1812" is going to make it on Broadway. I've been riffling through the…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Is "Groundhog Day" ever going to come out of its burrow? Since Scott Rudin abruptly severed ties a few weeks ago with the musical adaptation of the 1993 Bill Murray film, word is the show wo…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 16, 2016
If anything's ripe for parody, it's "Hamilton," which rode a wave of hype to sweep the Tonys on Sunday. And who better to take a few potshots at "Hamilton"-mania than Gerard Alessandrini, cr…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Elvis Costello was in town last weekend for a reading of his musical adaptation of Elia Kazan's great movie "A Face in the Crowd." This show has been flying under the radar for a while, but …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:11PM[SHARE]Monday, June 13, 2016
Broadway celebrated its latest cultural phenomenon Sunday night " "Hamilton" — which captured 11 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. But the celebration came the same day an ISIS-insp…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:40AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 12, 2016
Groundbreaking. Game-changing. Revolutionary. That's what the critics have called Lin-Manuel Miranda's "Hamilton," which won a bevy of Tony Awards last night. So what will be the next "groun…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:08PM[SHARE]At Sunday's Tony Awards there is opportunity in losing. With Broadway set to crown "Hamilton" the greatest show in the history of mankind, the also-rans are scrambling to make the most of th…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:09AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 11, 2016
At Sunday's Tony Awards there is opportunity in losing. With Broadway set to crown "Hamilton" the greatest show in the history of mankind, the also-rans are scrambling to make the most of th…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:58AM[SHARE]Friday, June 10, 2016
In the early 2000s, when TV ratings for the Tony Awards seemed perennially stuck in the basement, Broadway fretted that CBS might ditch the telecast. Rumors swirled that the Tonys would go l…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:16AM[SHARE]Monday, June 6, 2016
I first interviewed Peter Shaffer in 1990 when he was about to open his play "Lettice and Lovage," starring a delightfully daffy Maggie Smith, on Broadway. I'd been a fan of Shaffer's plays …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 2, 2016
Jeff Daniels was an overnight sensation as Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof." Not on Broadway " at his Chelsea, Mich., high school. "I'm 18. I'm blond. Not a clue what Jewish was," he says. "Bu…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 31, 2016
"There are two cardinal rules of show business," Max Bialystock says in "The Producers." "No. 1: Never put your own money in the show. No. 2: Never put your own money in the show!" Steve Mar…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 26, 2016
Jesse Tyler Ferguson made his Broadway debut opposite Lea DeLaria in the 1998 revival of "On the Town." Ferguson was shaped like a beanpole in those days; DeLaria, we have to admit, was not.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 24, 2016
As we close in on the June 12 Tony Awards " the excitement mounts! " here's a snapshot of the race: "Hamilton" has a record-breaking 16 nominations, but it's not going to topple Mel Brooks' …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:44PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 19, 2016
Break out your tap shoes, Elsa, you're coming to Broadway! The Walt Disney Co. held a top-secret reading of the stage version of "Frozen" last week " and word around the Magic Kingdom is tha…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:35PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 18, 2016
In 1942, Oscar Hammerstein II stood on the porch of his farmhouse in Doylestown, Pa., looking at a herd of cows on the side of a hill. He was working on a new show with Richard Rodgers about…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 12, 2016
The out-of-town Tony voters are in New York to catch up on the nominated shows, and all they're talking about is a performer who's not up for anything this year. "Have you seen Heather He…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Around Broadway they're calling it James Dolan's revenge. Dolan, the head of Madison Square Garden, pushed his "Spring Spectacular" show at Radio City Music Hall into the summer this year, w…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 5, 2016
Tony Award nominees are clutching their cellphones, anxiously awaiting the call " or rather, the summons " from Her Highness Anna Wintour. The Vogue editor-in-chief will once again dress sel…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2016
The two women marched up the aisle at intermission and spotted a man lingering at the back of the theater. "Do you have anything to do with this show?" one woman demanded. "I'm the producer,…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:09PM[SHARE] 
