I was watching the great film, “The Reader,” the other night and wondering what its director, Stephen Daldry, was up to. Now
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:25AMI told you on January 31st that Jujamcyn Theaters would merge with Britain’s Ambassador Theater Group. And it has happened this morning.
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:40AMFive famous Broadway houses may be changing ownership today. The rumor on the Rialto, as the late Earl Wilson would say, is
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:28AMThe Madonna movie ain’t happening. Variety says Universal has cancelled the project, which was announced two years ago. The reason given is
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:22PMI’m sorry it took so long for me to get to LaTanya Richardson Jackson‘s “The Piano Lesson.” Now that I’ve seen her
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:42PMTimes Square is overflowing with people. And Elmo’s. The grotesque pedestrian mall has brought looky-loo’s from all over, but they’re not going
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:12PMThe audience at Broadway’s Helen Hayes Theater turned out en masse for actor/rapper Common making his debut in the hit, Between Riverside
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:42PMIt’s 2:28pm. A half hour ago, two Broadway shows didn’t start their matinees. According to Twitter account BroadwayCovers, both “A Strange Loop”
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:54PMAlmost four years ago I ran into the great actor Wendell Pierce sitting in the lobby of the Four Seasons hotel in
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:32PMBroadway is surviving the kinda recession, pandemic, and bad weather with good news, bad news. “Funny Girl” has gone from a disaster
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:36PMThere will not be a Sondheim vs. Sondheim cage match at the 2023 Tony Awards, after all. Stephen Sondheim’s “Merry We’ll Roll
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:48PMEarlier today, the Broadway crowd got very excited for a few precious minutes. On Twitter came the news that an unproduced show
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:32PMThe Shubert Theater was ringing with ovations and applause Sunday night. That’s because everyone’s favorite comedy, Billy Wilder’s 1959 hit, “Some Like
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:06AMYou know that Audra McDonald has six Tony Awards, she’s only 52 so more are coming. And tonight, the 7th was lined
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:54AMOh come on, you knew “Leopoldstadt” wasn’t going anywhere. The sensationally moving and profound Tom Stoppard play has just been extended through
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:48PMI am sad to report that there is very little salvageable in the new musical that opened last night about singer songwriter
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:24AMI told you all about David Byrne and Fat Boy Slim’s “Here Lies Love” back in 2014. It was a sensation at
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:03AMHow badly can this group maim “The Great Gatsby”? Weren’t two movies enough? And yet, here comes a “Gatsby” musical from the
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:12PM“Phantom of the Opera” will not go away. As soon as the Andrew Lloyd Weber musical announced that it was closing in
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:32PMTheater news: MARIAH CAREY has added her name to the new musical version of “Some Like it Hot” as a producer. This
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:06PMYou’ve got to watch this video. Last night at “The Music Man” Nicole Kidman donated $100,000 to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. She
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:42PMAlan King, Don Rickles, Jackie Mason, Shecky Greene. They were among the legendary giants of Borscht belt Jewish humor. What was the
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:32AMThe biggest problem I could see last night with Valerie Simpson’s insanely jubilant show at Sony Hall was that every song sounds
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:42PMMost of the 500 people who filed into historic St. Thomas Episcopal Church on Fifth Avenue today were still in shock after
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:03PMJessica Chastain doesn’t take a minute off from interesting work. This year’s Oscar winner for Best Actress is returning to Broadway this
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:36PMPlaybill is off Twitter. The Broadway bible has over 400,000 followers. Read below. Keep refreshing… To our dear friends and valued followers,
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:48PMI am in shock and a lot of people are this afternoon. Just last week I told you about my friend Doug
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:54PMThe great 2000 movie, “Almost Famous,” is now a sensationally fun musical on Broadway. It’s wildly entertaining with a totally energetic cast,
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:42AMIf you’re looking for signs of a recession, or even worries about Times Square, last week’s Broadway grosses may provide some answers.
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:32AMI often feel when I read memoirs or see one-actor shows like “Everything’s Fine” that I’ve led a sheltered life. In 1971,
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:13PMIt was a throwback night of celebration in New York tonight as Lincoln Center opened its stunning new David Geffen Hall with
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:55AM
