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Monday, April 14, 2014

Word: Annette Bening Coming Back to New York Theatre This Summer by Roger Friedman

Is Annette Bening returning to New York theater at last? I am told– still unconfirmed–that Bening has agreed to play Goneril in Categories: Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:34PM
Friday, April 11, 2014

New York Theatre Scoops: James Earl Jones, Dianne Wiest Coming This Fall by Roger Friedman

These are EXCLUSIVES (sorry, have to do that because some people just don’t learn): James Earl Jones may be heading back to Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:40PM

Woody Allen’s Smash Broadway Opening: Film’s Oscar Winner Dianne Wiest “Loved It” by Roger Friedman

Dianne Wiest won the second of her two Oscars (so far) for Woody Allen’s “Bullets Over Broadway” in 1995. (The first was Categories: Broadway Reviews Featured Reviews …

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:47AM
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Monday, April 7, 2014

Broadway: “Joneses” is a Bust, “Bridges” Burning, “Mother” Failing, “If/Then” Iffy by Roger Friedman

Broadway was not hot last week. It was cold, as a nasty breeze whipped through Shubert Alley. “The Realistic Joneses” finally opened Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:01PM
Friday, April 4, 2014

Theater Review: Denzel Opens “Raisin,” Plus News About “Batman and Superman” by Roger Friedman

So here’s the long and short of it: a lot of celebs turned out to see Denzel Washington open last night in Categories: Celebrity Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:27AM
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Sunday, March 30, 2014

Theater: James Earl Jones, Mike Nichols See The Best Play of the Season– in Brooklyn by Roger Friedman

I’d like to take almost everyone involved in a new Broadway show and bus them out to St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:59PM

WTF? Idina Menzel Musical “If/Then” Littered with F Word, Song Called “What the F—” by Roger Friedman

I thought I’d say that “If/Then,” the musical starring Idina Menzel (Adele Dazeem to John Travolta) should be called “Sliding Doors: The Categories: Featured Theat…

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:26PM
Friday, March 28, 2014

Broadway: “Rocky” Getting Three Days Next Week on “Today” Show by Roger Friedman

More and more people are yakking about the hit Broadway musical, its star Andy Karl, and the amazing sets including the now Categories: Celebrity Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:27PM
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Monday, March 24, 2014

Broadway: “Bridges” May Be Burning, “Rocky” Getting Sucker Punched by Roger Friedman

The Tony Awards are on June 8th– which looks like a date far away in the future to some people on Broadway. Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:08PM

Broadway: New Jean Valjean of “Les Miz” Says TSA Searches His Luggage “All the Time” by Roger Friedman

“Les Miz” is back on Broadway, better than ever. Last night the overstuffed Imperial Theater was rocking as Ramin Karimloo–  a big Categories: Broadway Reviews Celebrit…

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:06AM
Friday, March 21, 2014

Radio City Scraps Big Budget Rockettes Show That Was Supposed to Launch Next Week by Roger Friedman

Whoops! Radio City Music Hall will not be hosting “Hearts and Lights” starting next week as planned. The big budget Rockettes show Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:33PM
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Great Mark Ruffalo-Keira Knightley Film Gets Strange Name Change, to Close Tribeca by Roger Friedman

The best film seen at last fall’s Toronto Film Fest was John Carney’s “Can a Song Save Your Life?” Now for some Categories: Featured Theater Uncategorized(Read mo…

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:27PM
Friday, March 14, 2014

“Rocky” Delivers a Knock Out Punch on Broadway, And Wins the Match by Roger Friedman

Sylvester Stallone’s “Rocky” is now a Broadway musical. Listen, it’s a hit. There’s no way around it. “Rocky” is a huge entertaining Categories: F…

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:44AM
Monday, March 10, 2014

Oscar Boom: Idina Menzel Broadway Musical “If Then” Has $900K Week — Before It Even Starts by Roger Friedman

Wow! “If/Then,” a Broadway musical not even in previews yet, sold $909,000 worth of tickets last week. Why? The show’s star is Categories: Celebrity Featured Theater(Re…

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:28PM
Friday, March 7, 2014

LBJ Now the New “Lincoln” With Spielberg in Audience at Broadway Opening by Roger Friedman

I remember Lyndon Baines Johnson. When he announced he wasn’t running for re-election in March 1968, the United States of America was Categories: Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:11AM
Thursday, March 6, 2014

Emma Thompson Sheds Mary Poppins for Mrs. Lovett in Magnificent “Sweeney Todd” by Roger Friedman

I’d have paid double last night and would pay it again to see Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel in “Sweeney Todd” at Categories: Featured Music Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:56AM
Friday, February 21, 2014
Monday, February 17, 2014

Broadway: Carole King Breaks Record, “Bronx Bombers” is a Solid Triple by Roger Friedman

Broadway is buzzing in the middle of winter, believe it or not. The Carole King-Gery Goffin-Barry Mann-Cynthia Weil musical “Beautiful” broke a Categories: Celebrity Featured …

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:55PM
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Thursday, January 2, 2014

Anna Crouse, Grandmother of “Girls” star Zosia Mamet, Creator of TKTS Booth, Dies at 97 by Roger Friedman

Anna Crouse, widow of playwright Russel Crouse and mother of actress Lindsay Crouse, has died at age 99. So far only a Categories: Celebrity Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:25PM
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

A “Knots Landing” Reunion and All Star Send Off for 6 Time Tony Winner Julie Harris by Roger Friedman

Six time Tony Award winner Julie Harris, first lady of the American theater, got an all-star send off this afternoon from a Categories: Celebrity Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 08:20PM
Monday, December 2, 2013

Broadway: Kinky Boots Breaks Record, Popular Press Agent Leaves, Pippin Recoups by Roger Friedman

A big Broadway day: over the weekend Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein’s “Kinky Boots” broke a house record at the Hirschfield Theater. Categories: Featured Theater(Read…

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:42PM
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Broadway: “Spider Man” — Closing Soon– Celebrates 3rd Anniversary Tonight by Roger Friedman

Not every show on Broadway will be remembered for something. But tonight “Spider Man: Turn off the Dark” marks three years since Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:58AM
Monday, November 25, 2013

Monty Python Reunion Now 5 Shows (Remember My 100 Show Scoop, Kids) by Roger Friedman

The Monty Python reunion has been extended to five shows from its original one. Please do remember my scoop about 100 shows Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:13AM

“X Men” on Broadway: Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart Score a Huge Success in Pair of Plays by Roger Friedman

Liv Tyler and Orlando Bloom (Arwen, and Legolas Greenleaf to you) came to celebrate Gandalf. Others came to cheer on the “X Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:48AM
Friday, November 22, 2013

Review: Sarah Jessica Parker, Blythe Danner Sizzle in Off Broadway Play about “The Madoffs” by Roger Friedman

Bernie and Ruth Madoff probably never imagined they’d become the stuff of celebrity drama. First Woody Allen reinvented them for “Blue Jasmine” Categories: Featured Thea…

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:23AM
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Broadway “Spider Man” Closing in January After Box Office Collapses (As Tipped Here) by Roger Friedman

“Spider Man: Turn off the Dark” is closing in January. I told you twice. On August 22nd http://www.showbiz411.com/2013/08/22/broadway-spider-man-has-big-drop-from-last-week-while…

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:53AM

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