Monday, October 31, 2011
Movie star Hugh Jackman’s solo musical show took in $1.2 million in its first week on Broadway. It finished 5th for the week, behind big deal musicals “Wicked,” “The …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:13PMMonday, October 24, 2011
Roland Emmerich’s “Anonymous” opens this week. It should be called “Preposterous.” The film makes a case that William Shakespeare didn’t write his plays. …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:29PMFriday, October 21, 2011
The trio of one act plays called “Relatively Speaking” is a hit–opening last night on Broadway with contributions from Woody Allen, Elaine May, and Ethan Coen. And it’…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:25AMWednesday, October 19, 2011
Exclusive: Kirstie Alley–newly slimmed down, but still a dieting Scientologist–is planning a Broadway debut. I’m told that Kirstie has agreed to do a three month run in a n…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:35PMFriday, October 14, 2011
What a night on Broadway: “The Mountaintop” opened, with incendiary performances from Samuel L. Jackson respectively as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Angela Bassett as a maid (…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:26AMTuesday, October 11, 2011
“The King’s Speech” is headed to Broadway. But readers of this column know I broke this story last year–that David Seidler wrote the script as a play, then converted …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:44AMTuesday, October 4, 2011
Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick learned a lot about dinosaurs last night. So did about 200 people who came to the American Museum of Natural History to support Mike Nichols and Cy…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 08:46PMAlicia Keys — Grammy winner, newcomer from a decade ago–has really spread her wings in showbiz. She’s now writing music for the new Broadway play “Stick Fly.” K…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:25PMFriday, September 23, 2011
Broadway’s $70 million “Spider Man: Turn off the Dark” actually started performances in mid November 2010, if you recall. Coming up on the year anniversary, two leads from …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 08:40PMWednesday, September 7, 2011
Alicia Keys is producing a Broadway play. Why not? She’s conquered pop music, that’s for sure. The play, “Stick Fly,” will star Ruben Santiago Hudson, Mekhi Phifer (&…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:50PMMonday, September 5, 2011
I read with some amusement in the last few days that Oscar nominated actor James Franco “backed out” of doing “Sweet Bird of Youth” on Broadway this fall. This isn…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:29PMMonday, August 15, 2011
Reeve Carney can really thank Julie Taymor now. He’s been plucked from his grueling job playing Peter Parker in “Spider Man: Turn off the Dark” to star in the official bio …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:20PMSaturday, August 6, 2011
I told you first, and quite a while ago, that “The King’s Speech” would head to Broadway after its run as a film. Then it won the Oscar. Now I’m told that David Seidl…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:28AMTuesday, July 26, 2011
Exclusive: The revival of “Funny Girl” is on its way to Broadway, but without “Glee” star Lea Michele. There was talk that Lea was going to star as Fanny Brice, the p…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:59PMFriday, July 15, 2011
This is how not to succeed in business: Broadway’s “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” had to shut down for two nights last week so Daniel Radcliffe could be…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:12AMThursday, July 14, 2011
Poor little Lea Michele. Imagine getting fired from your wildly popular TV show and the news breaks while you’re sitting in a Broadway premiere. A premiere, by the way, filled with pre…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:36AMWednesday, July 13, 2011
What a night for the cast of Broadway’s “Baby, It’s You”! The one and only Queen of Soul, Miss Aretha Franklin, arrived a couple of minutes late at the Broadhurst The…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:50AMFriday, July 1, 2011
Not many modern stars find their names in a Shakespeare play. It’s usually Henry the fourth and Richard the third. But last night Broadway and film star Bill Irwin got a surprise when …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:39AMTuesday, June 28, 2011
“Spider Man: Turn off the Dark” is bigger than ever. Defying the critics and naysayers, the troubled Broadway musical is troubled no more. Having actually opened on June 14th, th…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:20PMThursday, June 16, 2011
David Geffen is a busy man. He’s obviously too busy to watch an entire play. Last night he left the revival of “Born Yesterday” at the intermission. Geffen, accompanied by …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:13AMWednesday, June 15, 2011
And so the “Spider Man” after party meant what seemed like thousands of people tried to jam into the Bowl Mor lanes on West 44th St. The queue ran up the block from BowlMor to th…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:27AM“Spider Man: Turn off the Dark” finally opened last night, and it is better. There’s no question that some needed editing, rearranging, and adding of a couple of key scenes…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:55AMMonday, June 13, 2011
One of the big topics last night at the Tony Awards: word that Matthew Broderick will replace Harry Connick, Jr. in a long planned “new” Gershwin musical. “Nice Work If You…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:20AMSunday, June 12, 2011
Tonight: the Tony Awards on CBS. Don’t miss ‘em. You’ll see the best of the past Broadway season. But once the parties and fun are over, get ready for closing notices. R…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:03PMWednesday, June 8, 2011
Christie Brinkley — supermodel, ex wife of Billy Joel, TV aerobics pitchwoman. Broadway musical star. Huh? Gorgeous Christie is 57, looks 20 years younger, and has never sung or danced…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:02AMThursday, June 2, 2011
“Spider Man: Turn off the Dark” finally opens–yes, opens– on June 14th after a wild winter and spring of previews, the sidelining of creator Julie Taymor, and a three…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 08:46AMTuesday, May 17, 2011
Hello, Wall Street Journal. Woody Allen is indeed returning to Broadway. I told you this news back on March 28th. Woody, Elaine May and Ethan Coen each have one act plays coming to Broadway.…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PMSaturday, May 7, 2011
“Spider Man: Turn off the Dark” returns to Broadway next Thursday, May 12th after a three week break. It still hasn’t opened officially and won’t until June 14th. Sti…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:57PMThursday, May 5, 2011
Everyone on Broadway thought Arthur Laurents would live to be 100. But he died Thursday night at 93 from complications of pneumonia. Two years ago, when “West Side Story” was in …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:40PMTuesday, May 3, 2011
Broadway loves the money Hollywood stars bring to the Great White Way. But awards? That’s another story. Now that the Tony nominations have been announced, the reality of movie actors …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:58PMNominations for the 2011 American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards® Presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing Best Play Good People Author: David Lindsay-Abaire Produce…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:57AM 
