Friday, February 20, 2015
It’s pistols at dawn in Weehawken for the producers, investors and the creative team behind “Hamilton,” the rap musical about Alexander Hamilton everyone’s buzzing about down at …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:19AMTuesday, February 17, 2015
A month before “Gigi” will arrive on Broadway, its original star — Louis Jourdan — bid us au revoir. One of my favorite actors, Jourdan died this week at his...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:28PMThursday, February 12, 2015
The only show anyone’s talking about these days is “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop musical that opens Tuesday at the Public. Has he trimmed the running time? (Not enough.) W…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:12PMThursday, February 5, 2015
Hugh Jackman bids farewell to Broadway on Sunday, wrapping up his understated turn in Jez Butterworth’s mysterious play “The River” at Circle-in-the-Square. But fret not, theater owner…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:30PMTuesday, February 3, 2015
“Hamilton,” the much-buzzed-about rap musical from Lin-Manuel Miranda (“In the Heights”), allegedly has extended its run at the Public Theater until April 5. I say “alleged…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:04PMThursday, January 29, 2015
The Broadway beat is getting to be like one of my favorite movies, “Sweet Smell of Success.” It’s all about press agents. Rick Miramontez resigned from “Finding Neverland” last wee…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:21PMTuesday, January 27, 2015
Here’s an enticing premise: 10 famous actors who worked together years ago reunite and, one by one, are bumped off. Is it an Agatha Christie mystery? An Anthony Shaffer (“Sleuth”).…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:34PMThursday, January 22, 2015
“Constellations,” with Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson, is such a big hit, the powers that be at Manhattan Theatre Club are kicking themselves because they didn’t book it into a...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:53PMTuesday, January 20, 2015
As we know, Chita Rivera returns to Broadway this spring in “The Visit,” a new musical by John Kander, Fred Ebb and Terrence McNally. But there’s another diva in the...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:41PMThursday, January 15, 2015
I was having lunch last month with Tim Rice (plunk, a name drops!) at the Ivy Club in London when we ran into a wizened old man in a ratty-looking...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:42PMTuesday, January 13, 2015
Stand down, Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick: You’re no longer the kings of Broadway, at least not this season. Your box-office crowns have been usurped by…Larry David. Lane and Bro…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:24PMFriday, January 9, 2015
Jennifer Hudson will give Broadway a boost of star power this fall when she makes her stage debut in “The Color Purple.” Oprah Winfrey, who produced the show in 2005,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:32AMTuesday, January 6, 2015
Now that the joyous holiday season is behind us, let’s be mean. This Broadway season is shaping up to be a disaster for new musicals. The latest casualty is Sting’s...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:40PMTuesday, December 30, 2014
Pop quiz, 2015! Give your crystal ball a good shake and peer into the future with me. 1. Hackers will release e-mails between . . . (a) Scott Rudin and David Merrick...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:11PMThursday, December 18, 2014
Broadway lost many towering talents in 2014. Here they are, in their own words: Elaine Stritch By the late ’60s, Stritch was becoming a has-been. Everybody loved her onstage, but...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:26PMTuesday, December 16, 2014
The announcement that Christoph Waltz is playing the villain in “Spectre,” the new James Bond movie, sent me scurrying to my old 007 DVDs to check out some of my...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:19PMThursday, December 11, 2014
Tourists on line at the TKTS booth in Times Square are doing double takes: Is that Tony Danza, star of “Who’s the Boss?”, in their midst? It sure is! Danza’s...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:59PMTuesday, December 9, 2014
I’ve been saying for weeks that the terrain for new musicals on Broadway is wide open for a spoiler. And one is on its way. “The Visit,” starring Chita Rivera...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:29PMThursday, December 4, 2014
Bradley Cooper is the million-dollar Elephant Man. He’s posting impressive numbers as the deformed Joseph Merrick in the revival of Bernard Pomerance’s 1979 drama, opening Sunday. The li…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:55PMTuesday, December 2, 2014
NBC’s live broadcast of “The Sound of Music” last year drew 22 million viewers. The betting at the network and on Broadway is that Thursday’s live broadcast of “Peter Pan,”...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:43PMTuesday, November 25, 2014
I’m flattered that Sting’s taken my advice, dispensed here a couple of weeks ago: He’ll be joining the cast of “The Last Ship” from Dec. 9 to Jan. 10, playing...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:44PMFriday, November 21, 2014
Back in 1982, the Broadway-bound musical “My One and Only” was in trouble during its Boston tryout. The creative team, exhausted and starving after working 24 hours straight trying to...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:38AMTuesday, November 18, 2014
Diva alert! Donna Murphy is playing Norma Desmond in a reading of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Sunset Boulevard” this week at the Roundabout Theatre Company. I’m of two minds about this...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:16PMThursday, November 13, 2014
With Times Square shining brighter than ever, there’s no place for the lovably shabby. And so the Café Edison on West 47th Street, which has been feeding Jewish comfort food...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:19PMTuesday, November 11, 2014
When I was a kid and left my room a mess, my mother would say: “Who do you think I am — Hazel?” If you’re over 45 or ever watched...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:28PMThursday, November 6, 2014
Sting is appearing in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade — not as a float, but probably on one, singing songs from his new musical, “The Last Ship.” You have to...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:45PMTuesday, November 4, 2014
Broadway’s slate of musicals this season is by no means set in stone. “The Last Ship,” as I reported last week, is listing like the Concordia. “Side Show,” though likely to...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:36PMThursday, October 30, 2014
Of this I’m certain: Sting will receive a Tony nomination for his score for “The Last Ship.” The critics praised his lyrics and music, using nearly identical words and phrases...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:36PMTuesday, October 28, 2014
News flashes from the Rialto today (very Walter Winchell): Theater people know how send off one of their own, and the Nov. 17 tribute to Elaine Stritch at the Al...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:24PMThursday, October 23, 2014
If you grew up watching the Bob Hope specials on NBC as I did, your image of the comedian is Mr. Southern California — a rich old Republican clad in...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:00PMTuesday, October 21, 2014
The best movie about Broadway is — and I will brook no discussion — “All About Eve.” “Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night” is a...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:10PM 
