Thursday, December 17, 2015
If you’ve been knocking around the theater world as long as I have, you’re bound to come across a Maggie Smith story. Here’s my favorite: During the 1990 run of “Lettice and Lovage�…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:15PMSunday, December 13, 2015
Producer Jeffrey Richards had no trouble raising the money for “China Doll,” the new David Mamet play starring Al Pacino. What a perfect match — Mamet, celebrated for writing tough, ru…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AMThursday, December 10, 2015
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers,” Blanche DuBois says in “A Streetcar Named Desire” — and it’s perhaps the most famous line in the American theater. But …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:29PMSaturday, December 5, 2015
This time of year stokes a competitive spirit in the city’s wealthiest residents — finding the finest brands, of course, but also the most exclusive gifts. The ones so limited that you c…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:17PMThursday, December 3, 2015
As Andrew Lloyd Webber strolls down West 51st Street to the Winter Garden Theatre — where his delightful new musical “School of Rock” opens Sunday night — he passes by another theate…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:11PMTuesday, November 24, 2015
Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have had a good run at NBC doing live broadcasts of great Broadway musicals. Nearly 20 million people tuned in to see Carrie Underwood teach the von Trap…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:49PMThursday, November 19, 2015
THE fun of covering Broadway is that, just when you think you’ve got the lay of the land, out of no where comes a show to shake up the terrain. A year ago, the buzz was all about ̶…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:45PMCURTAIN up! The new theater season is here, so let’s shine the spotlight on a few of the big names trying to conquer the Great White Way. * HELLO, DOLLY! Country music hasn’t far…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:45PMHAL Prince was watching the Screen Actors Guild awards on TV last January when he turned to his wife and started babbling. “Get dressed,” she said. “We’re going to th…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:45PMTime to check in with poor bedraggled Al Pacino, star of David Mamet’s “China Doll.” The play was supposed to have opened Nov. 19, but, after I reported on the disastrous previews, the…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:52PMThursday, November 12, 2015
Don’t beam him up. Tweet that he’s in a new musical on Broadway and tell everybody to buy a ticket. Broadway was a little slow to embrace social media, but George Takei and the produ…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:45PMThursday, November 5, 2015
Theatergoers racing through Shubert Alley to make curtain time, beware! If you’re not careful, you might trip over all those wires piping lines to actors with memory lapses. As I reported …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:21PMSaturday, October 31, 2015
As villains go, “Trumbo” — the movie about blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, opening Friday — has a doozy: Hedda Hopper, the gossip columnist who terrorized the film industry f…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AMThursday, October 29, 2015
True story: Two women walked out of a matinee of David Mamet’s “China Doll” at intermission. Said one to the other, in a strong Long Island accent: “Michael Riedel is going to have a…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:17PMFriday, October 16, 2015
To the list of theatrical dynasties — the Barrymores, the Redgraves — add the Willises! Papa Bruce and his daughter Rumer are making their Broadway debuts this season: Rumer’s playing.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:08AMFriday, October 9, 2015
It’s all in the wrist! Keira Knightley suffered an injury to her wrist this week, forcing the temporary cancellation of “Thérèse Raquin,” the play in which she’s appearing at the...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AMSaturday, October 3, 2015
The Post’s theater columnist, Michael Riedel, knows all the juiciest stories about the backstage shenanigans that make up Broadway’s history. Here, in an excerpt from his new book, “Ra…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:25PMFriday, October 2, 2015
The fall chill is in the air, and for some shows on Broadway that always means softness at the box office. Producers with shows waiting in the wings scour the...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AMFriday, September 25, 2015
The delightful Sydney Lucas, who’s all of 12, will leave “Fun Home” next month. She’s been with this year’s Tony-winning musical since its workshop three years ago. Critics adored …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AMWednesday, September 23, 2015
Jackie Collins, who died Saturday at 77, wrote 32 novels, several of which she adapted for movies or television. But in the final years of her life, she turned her...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AMThursday, September 17, 2015
Daniel Craig usually plays the hero — most famously, of course, James Bond. But Craig’s thinking of swapping his Walther PPK for Desdemona’s handkerchief as the villainous Iago in a...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:58PMWednesday, September 16, 2015
Theatergoers are saying “Oui, oui” to “Amélie.” This new musical, adapted from the 2001 French movie, is trying out at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, where it’s just been extended un…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:01AMSaturday, September 12, 2015
As the new Broadway season gets under way, Restaurant Row — West 46th Street between Eighth and Ninth avenues — will be teeming with theatergoers darting into Joe Allen, or...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AMThursday, September 10, 2015
Long before Stephen Colbert kicked off his highly touted debut on CBS this week, Broadway shows were jockeying to be the first to perform on the new “Late Show.” Colbert,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:38PMTuesday, September 8, 2015
The new theater season has begun and, believe it or not, there are other shows out there besides “Hamilton.” Not that you would know that from the New York Times,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:38PMThursday, September 3, 2015
Sad news for fans of “Falsettos”: Jujamcyn bailed on a revival that was to have opened in the spring. Sources say casting and budgets are to blame. Jordan Roth, the...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:45PMTuesday, September 1, 2015
Broadway’s gearing up to say “ciao” to what may be the guiltiest of pleasures in the musical theater. “Mamma Mia!” — which gave New York City a much-needed jolt of...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:52PMFriday, August 28, 2015
One of my favorite American plays of the last several years is Lynn Nottage’s “Ruined,” a harrowing look at prostitutes navigating the deadly politics of an African country torn apart.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AMWednesday, August 26, 2015
Kevin Spacey — Emmy-nominated for his deliciously evil Frank Underwood in “House of Cards” and one of my favorite actors — is plotting his Broadway return. He’s working on a...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:01AMFriday, August 21, 2015
The curtain is going up on . . . “The Sting.” No, no — not that Sting, the one who wrote last year’s noble failure “The Last Ship.” This “Sting” is the...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AMTuesday, August 18, 2015
Whenever I’m in need of a laugh, I read my old columns — or watch Carly Sakolove’s “Send in the Clowns” video. Who, you might be wondering? A few years...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:22PM 
