Monday, July 7, 2025
Nothing good lasts forever. After four years of being cancelled, Broadway producer Scott Rudin is coming back. Rudin and Barry Diller are producing a new play called “Little Bear Ridge Roa…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 08:12PMMarilyn Maye — she’s 97, she looks fantastic and sounds even better. What’s the story here? She’s been a cabaret star since the 1950s. She recorded the song “Cabaret” five years …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 08:12PMFriday, July 4, 2025
I’ve been waiting for the New York Times to write an obit for Paul Libin. The Broadway great, winner of a lifetime Tony Award, was a quiet giant in American theater. Paul’s death is one …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:54PMMonday, June 30, 2025
When Cedric the Entertainer made his Broadway debut in 2008, critics were not impressed. Cedric appeared in David Mamet’s “American Buffalo,” which was panned and closed quickly. The T…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:24AMWednesday, June 18, 2025
The numbers are in for the first Broadway post- Tony Awards. The total dropped over $6.5 million because on the afternoon of the Tonys, both “Othello” and “Good Night and Good Luck” …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:06PMThursday, June 12, 2025
Wednesday night’s Kennedy Center showing of “Les Miserables” was quite the scene. While high rolling Trump donors were taking their seats, so were a lot of other less well dress — or…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:48AMTuesday, June 10, 2025
“Smash,” the musical based on a failed TV show, is done. The Musical will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, June 22, 2025 after 32 previews and 84 regular performances at th…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:18PMThe Tony Awards on Sunday were a big hit. Ratings were up 38% from last year. The beautifully executed show boomed on host Cynthia Erivo’s popularity from “Wicked,” and a 10th annivers…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:12AMMonday, June 9, 2025
In two days, the touring cast of “Les Miserables” has a crushing decision. Will all or some of them perform in the musical’s opening night at the Kennedy Center? That’s the night Don…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:54PMCynthia Erivo led one of the best Tony Awards shows ever last night, showing off so much versatility and warmth they’ll probably ask her back a couple more times. The Tony winner and Oscar…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:54PMSaturday, June 7, 2025
“Good Night and Good Luck” has just concluded its live performance on CNN. The story of how legendary CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow stared down Senator Joseph McCarthy is more timely than…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:12PMTuesday, June 3, 2025
Bill and Ted have been to outer space, but never to the Tony Awards. Until now. This Sunday, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter will among the A list presenters on CBS for the annual Tony Awards a…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:36PMMonday, June 2, 2025
The Drama Desk Awards just concluded on Broadway. “Maybe Happy Ending” won Best Musical. “Purpose” won Best Play. They will certainly win at the Tony Awards next Sunday. There were t…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:03AMSunday, June 1, 2025
Broadway star Patti Lupone says she’s sorry. Lupone is apologizing after the dreadful — and maybe racist — things she said about fellow performers Audra McDonald and Kecia Lewis. The c…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:36AMWednesday, May 28, 2025
The first ever revival of the musical, “Chess,” is coming to Broadway. But it may never get to the Kennedy Center. The main character is named Freddie Trumper, aka The American. Freddie …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:18AMThursday, May 22, 2025
Bang! The fall Broadway season is coming into focus now that we’ve survived the Tony Awards parade. Next up: Tony winner James Corden, who hosted a talk show more recently, is coming back …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:12PMWednesday, May 21, 2025
This is startling. Trump toadie Richard Grenell, now running the Kennedy Center into the ground, has been elected to Live Nation’s board of directors. Under Grenell the Kennedy Center has …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 08:54PMThursday, May 8, 2025
It was good news and bad news last week on Broadway after Tony Awards nominations were announced. George Clooney and his “Good Night and Good Luck” rose to its all time high, $4 million.…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:12AMDonald Trump and Richard Grenell have a problem. Most theater artists despise them. CNN reports that around a dozen members of the touring cast of “Les Miserables” won’t perform on the…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:54AMFriday, May 2, 2025
The first casualty of the Tony Awards has arrived. “Redwood,” a musical starring Idina Menzel, will shutter on May 18th. “Redwood” had mixed to poor reviews. It received not one Tony…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:48PMThursday, May 1, 2025
The Tony Awards nominations begin rolling out at 8:30 this morning. In the mix potentially: George Clooney, Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kieran Culkin and other Hollywood stars. Will …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:06PMNominations for the 2024-2025 Season American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards® Presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing Best Book of a Musical Buena Vista Social Club Mar…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:06PMThe major Tony Awards nominees have been announced. Denzel Washington famous for the $900 ticket, was snubbed the Awards for “Othello.” Neither was Jake Gyllenhaal. Shock snub: Kieran Cu…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:06PMMonday, April 28, 2025
The end of Tony Awards eligibility was today. There have been so many new shows that the last two had to open today, one after another. “Dead Outlaw” came first at 2pm, followed by “Re…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:18AMSaturday, April 26, 2025
I didn’t really know what I was going to write about the “Sunset Blvd.” revival on Broadway last night. Then, following the curtain call, the St. James Theater got pretty wild when the…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:03AMFriday, April 25, 2025
Selling $900 tickets didn’t endear Hollywood stars to the Outer Critics. Today’s announcement of the first real theater awards didn’t include George Clooney or Denzel Washington. Also,…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:48PMDavid Hyde Pierce has really made Broadway his home post-“Frazier.” He has one win for Best Actor in a Musical, two more nominations, and a Lifetime Achievement Award. His work in “Spa…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:36AMWednesday, April 23, 2025
What a night in the theater, and all by accident. I finally got into Helen Hayes Theater — the smallest house on Broadway– to see Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ “Purpose,” directed by Phy…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:12PMThursday, April 17, 2025
George Clooney is the best thing to happen to Broadway’s bottom line in years. His adaptation of his and Grant Heslov’s “Good Night and Good Luck” had the highest numbers last week o…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:03AMWednesday, April 16, 2025
You may not know it, but TDF is not all about TKTS. The Theater Development Fund runs the half price ticket booth in Times Square, true. But the Fund is also the mothership of everything the…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:18AMMonday, April 14, 2025
Lin Manuel’s award winning Broadway musical “Hamilton” is still selling out most of its shows 9 years after it debuted. Come September 9th, though, “Hamilton” will be totally maxed…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:42PM 
