Tuesday, 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 08:10PMThursday, October 16, 2014
Garth Drabinsky, Broadway’s real-life Max Bialystock, is hanging around the stage door again. Out on parole after serving three years in a Canadian clink for fraud and forgery in connectio…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMTuesday, October 14, 2014
Many thanks to Kevin Spacey for taking over this space last week and delivering a fine tribute to his former acting teacher, Marian Seldes. His column generated plenty of e-mail,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:11PMWednesday, October 8, 2014
Of all the Broadway divas, my favorite — and my good friend — is Betty Buckley. She won a Tony singing “Memory” in “Cats,” and she broke my heart as...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:28AMTuesday, October 7, 2014
Whenever Roger Moore, who will be 87 on Tuesday, gets depressed thinking about all his movie friends who have gone to “that great cutting room in the sky,” he recalls...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:45PMThursday, October 2, 2014
I went up to Cambridge, Mass., last weekend to play on Harvey Weinstein’s turf, “Finding Neverland.” Today he plays on mine, “Hunsecker-land,” as in J.J. Hunsecker, the Broadway go…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:50PMThursday, September 25, 2014
For a nation that broke away from the British Empire with quite a bit of fanfare, we still love all things English, especially the Monarch. Chelsea Clinton’s pregnant? No one...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:13PMTuesday, September 23, 2014
I’d just finished my 50th lap in the Equinox pool when somebody jumped into my lane. It turned out to be John Slattery, the “silver fox,” as my girlfriend calls...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:24PMThursday, September 18, 2014
The gossip at the American Theatre Wing’s classy salute to Angela Lansbury Monday night centered on the spat between the producers of “American Psycho” and their former partner, off-Br…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:18PMFriday, September 12, 2014
Let’s shine the spotlight today on a show nobody’s ever heard of but everyone’s talking about. Well, those in the know (which now includes you, dear reader) are talking about...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:07AMThursday, September 11, 2014
On paper, the character must have seemed campy, to the point of ridiculousness. “The Spy Who Loved Me,” the 1977 Bond movie starring Roger Moore, perhaps sought to capitalize on...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:37PMTuesday, September 9, 2014
“There are enough dim lights on Broadway and they’re all at the League.” That’s one producer’s assessment of the Broadway League, which set off a social media firestorm this we…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:18PMThursday, September 4, 2014
Joan Rivers, God bless her, was here because of Ray Bolger. Bolger, the Scarecrow from “The Wizard of Oz,” once starred in an old Frank Loesser musical called “Where’s Charley?”...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:45PMWednesday, September 3, 2014
Me thinks Harvey Weinstein is preparing to put out the plank again on the good ship “Finding Neverland.” The victim this time? Jeremy Jordan, who’s playing J.M. Barrie in the...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:32AMSunday, August 31, 2014
The hills are alive with the sound of scandal. Oscar Hammerstein II is famed as the lyricist behind such wholesome Broadway classics as “The King and I” and “The Sound...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:17AMTuesday, August 26, 2014
Harvey Weinstein begs: Please come to Boston, you ramblin’ columnist. He took issue with my column last week about the Times’ Ben Brantley and deadline.com’s Jeremy Gerard reviewing �…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:06PMFriday, August 22, 2014
The Shubert Organization, Broadway’s biggest and most powerful landlord, is expanding its Times Square empire. The company recently made a bid for New World Stages, the complex of undergro…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:21AMWednesday, August 20, 2014
The reviews are in: “Finding Neverland,” Harvey Weinstein’s new Broadway-bound musical, is “evolving,” “determined,” “twee” and “the kind of show that kids drag their par…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:28AMMonday, August 18, 2014
Almost everybody I know who’s seen the stage adaptation of “Shakespeare in Love” in London thinks the show is terrific. Charles Spencer, a longtime friend and drama critic of The...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMFriday, August 15, 2014
Two decades years before Peter Benchley terrified swimmers with “Jaws,” Ian Fleming deployed a shark to sinister effect in his 1954 novel “Live and Let Die.” The evil Mr. Big...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:07PMIn 1959, Lauren Bacall left Hollywood for New York and Broadway. Her husband, Humphrey Bogart, had died two years before, and an engagement to Frank Sinatra went off the rails...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:56AMWednesday, August 13, 2014
‘I have a little present for you,” producer Robyn Goodman told director Moisés Kaufman and playwright Rajiv Joseph. “Robin said yes!” The play was “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:40AMFriday, August 8, 2014
A funny thing happened on the way to the forum — James Corden took another job. The news this week that Corden, a Tony winner for “One Man, Two Guvnors,”...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:05AMWednesday, August 6, 2014
It’s always a pleasure to see a pro at work. I don’t care what the play is — if Brian Dennehy or Frank Langella or Eileen Atkins is in it,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:11AMTuesday, July 29, 2014
I love a lawsuit — and this one promises to be fun! Andrew Lloyd Webber, the most successful composer in theater history, is going after Michael Cohl, the rock ’n’...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:13PMFriday, July 25, 2014
There’s nothing more bracing on a hot summer day than sipping an ice-cold martini while reading Stephen Sondheim’s letters to Arthur Laurents on the subject of their flop musical “…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:21AMTuesday, July 22, 2014
The boys still have it! Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane, starring this fall in Terrence McNally’s “It’s Only a Play,” are still box office gold. The revival, which opens Oct....
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:50PMWednesday, July 16, 2014
If you’re a certain age — 40 and up should do it — you’ll have fond memories of the Muppet movies, particularly 1984’s “The Muppets Take Manhattan,” which finds Kermit...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:06AMThursday, July 10, 2014
One of my favorite actors is Bill Nighy, so I’m pleased to report he’s likely headed back to Broadway next spring in David Hare’s fine play, “Skylight.” Nighy and his...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:51PMWednesday, July 2, 2014
We’re only a month into the new theater season, and already we’ve got Tony contenders. From Chicago comes word — and reviews — that “The Last Ship,” a new musical...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:21AMThursday, June 26, 2014
Let’s have some more fun today with those letters to Arthur Laurents that Stephen Sondheim doesn’t want you to see. Laurents, you’ll recall, left his papers to the Library of...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:10PM 
