Friday, May 3, 2013
I am happy to report that Christopher Durang’s “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” has won Best Play from the New York Drama Critics Circle. They also chose “Matild…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:46PMTuesday, April 30, 2013
The Tony Awards nominees have just been announced. Among the Hollywood stars who came to Broadway, Tom Hanks is the sole winner. He was nominated for Best Actor in a play for “Lucky Gu…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 08:37AMFriday, April 26, 2013
The Tony Awards committee has met. White smoke has come up out of their tower. And now we know a few things we didn’t before. Namely: the four young actresses who alternate as the main…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:44PMThursday, April 25, 2013
Hollywood came east last night and mixed with Broadway—a not always easy alliance. But they did it for their late pal Sue Mengers, and star Bette Midler who uncannily channels Mengers in a…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:46AMWednesday, April 24, 2013
How old is Cicely Tyson really? Her official age on the imdb.com and other sources puts her at 79. That would seem about right. An article from People magazine’s archives, published in…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:30AMThere are a lot of good actors onstage at the Sondheim Theater in the revival of Horton Foote’s “Trip to Bountiful.” Cuba Gooding Jr., Vanessa Williams, Tom Wopat, Condola …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:40AMMonday, April 22, 2013
The first important theater nominations are out, from the hard working Outer Critics Circle. They cover Broadway and off Broadway, so it’s pretty comprehensive. The OCC didn’t no…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:11PMFriday, April 19, 2013
Frankly Alec Baldwin knows he’s been upstaged in his Broadway return with Lyle Kessler’s “Orphans.” When I asked him at last night’s after party what he thought…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:54PMThursday, April 18, 2013
Playwright Richard Greenberg had an unenviable problem yesterday. Just as his excellent new play “The Assembled Parties” was about to debut, he had to change a bit of it because …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:36AMThursday, April 11, 2013
“Matilda” opens tonight on Broadway, adding itself to “Kinky Boots,” the soon to close “Hands on A Hardbody,” and “Cinderella” (a new old show…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:19AMWednesday, April 10, 2013
The lawsuit between “Spider Man: Turn off the Dark” creator Julie Taymor and the show’s producers has been settled. Here’s the release: New York, NY – Julie Tay…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:11AMFriday, April 5, 2013
Cyndi Lauper is the hardest working rock star I know. She started out when Madonna debuted. Everyone thought Cyndi would be the bigger star. She writes her own hits and is a serious composer…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:04AMSunday, March 24, 2013
A Broadway musical about Phil Spector? If I were Rachelle Spector, the 32 year old woman who married Phil Spector after he was arrested for murder– and before he received a 19 years to lif…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:11PMFriday, March 22, 2013
The latest entry for Best Musical this season was last night’s “Hands on a Hard Body.” The late legendary director Robert Altman was planning to make a feature film of the …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:20AMThursday, March 21, 2013
I can’t say Truman Capote is spinning in his grave exactly, but Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard surely are, and Tiffany’s will be disappointed. Last night’s premiere of “Breakfast …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:07AMWednesday, March 20, 2013
You may recall my review of Christopher Durang’s “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” from Lincoln Center’s Mitzi Newhouse Theater. The play was hilarious and fun, t…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:40AMMonday, March 18, 2013
Broadway: yes, perennials “The Lion King,” “Book of Mormon,” and “Wicked” were the top three highest grossers last week on the Great White Way. But number…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:21PMNora Ephron did a lot of things but she didn’t write plays. She did write, with her sister Delia, the omnibus “Love, Loss and What I Wore.” It was spoken, with scripts, by …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:54PMFriday, March 15, 2013
At long last here is the exclusive I am so happy to announce: “Beautiful” is the name of the absolutely much anticipated musical based largely on the music of Carole King. But th…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:16AMWednesday, March 13, 2013
Tonight Craig Lucas’s “Lying Lessons” opens off Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company on West 20th St.– and Bette Davis is back. In this play, it’s the early…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:32AMFriday, March 8, 2013
Big day on Barbara Walters’s “The View”: I can tell you exclusively that the likely new member of the panel is Brooke Shields. Sources say Barbara Walters really wants her.…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:39PMAt the Broadway premiere of Holland Taylor‘s tour de force performance as Ann Richards in “Ann,” Elaine Stritch confirmed the worst. A New York living legend, Stritch is pa…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:09AMTuesday, March 5, 2013
EXCLUSIVE It’s been a long time since Sarah Jessica Parker has been on stage. But the “Sex and the City” star is getting ready to shed Carrie Bradshaw, from what I hear, an…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:43AMMonday, March 4, 2013
Maybe you’ve seen the ads for Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella.” They are everywhere, without fail. That’s because putting this show on Broadway is a first…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:32AMSaturday, March 2, 2013
It’s not a review, just overheard– last night’s first preview of Nora Ephron‘s “Lucky Guy” is said to have been a total success. Tom Hanks plays late New …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:20AMFriday, January 18, 2013
Believe it or not, Scarlett Johansson already has a Tony Award– for her work as a featured actress in Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge.” That was in 2010. Now …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:34AMMonday, January 7, 2013
“Lucky Guy,” the play by Nora Ephron starring Tom Hanks, has gotten two big cast members– Maura Tierney from “ER” and the great Courtney B. Vance. Hanks plays t…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:22PMThursday, January 3, 2013
Broadway is a little short on original plays this season, so I am happy to pass on the news that Christopher Durang’s “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” may be moving th…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:49PMFriday, December 28, 2012
This time it’s no fun to be right. But I told you two weeks ago that “Dead Accounts,” the play with Katie Holmes as a featured player, was not going to make it. Yesterday p…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:10AMThursday, November 29, 2012
Freedom from her past constraints means Katie Holmes gets to kiss a guy for real on stage in “Dead Accounts.” The guy she kisses is Josh Hamilton, and you can tell she has a good…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:38AM 
