Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Sir Ian McKellen says he’s ok after his fall off a London stage last night. He tumbled during a performance of “Player Kings,” a Shakespeare mashup. Audience members heard McKellen sho…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:06PMMonday, June 17, 2024
The Tony Awards ratings are in and they are bad. The early numbers indicate this year’s show dropped 15% from last year. The total so far looks like just 3.5 million viewers, down from 4.1…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:48PMTammy Faye Bakker (pronounced Baker) is back to looking for her Jim. Elton John’s musical about the televangelist couple has lost star Andrew Rannells just three months before the show is …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:48AM“The Outsiders” won two big Tony Award tonight — Best Musical and Best Director. It didn’t win any acting prizes, or its music or writing. The musical based on S.E. Hinton’s famous…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:32AMSunday, June 16, 2024
The Tony Awards are on tonight, from 8 to 11pm. In the middle at 9pm, HBO debuts season 2 of “House of the Dragon.” This morning the Tonys are pushing a performance by Jay Z with Alicia …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:12PMSaturday, June 15, 2024
EXCLUSIVE I told you a couple of weeks ago, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York has charged the chief financial officer of the Epoch Times with trying to launder…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:32PMThursday, June 13, 2024
For Idina Menzel, it’s not “If/When,” it’s spring 2025. The former star of “Wicked” will return then to Broadway in a new musical called “Redwood.” It’s the story of a grie…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:54PMWednesday, June 12, 2024
The Tony Awards — coming this Sunday — are acquiescing to a big public complaint. At first it seemed like they were not going to allow the play with music, “Stereophonic,” to perform…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:32PMTuesday, June 11, 2024
The Tony Awards are coming this Sunday on CBS. While this has been an excellent season on Broadway, the show — which begins at 8pm — is battling internal and external forces. Let’s sta…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:06AMCongrats to two of our best actors and nicest people. Naomi Watts and Billy Crudup had their official wedding in Mexico this weekend. I told you they would back on May 15th. Naomi’s brothe…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:06AMThursday, June 6, 2024
Hello, I’m Dolly! Is the name of Dolly Parton’s new musical. It will come to Broadway in 2026 with old songs, new songs, and a book by Dolly. We may learn a lot about Dolly’s life and …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:54PMMonday, May 27, 2024
I just caught up with two new Broadway shows whose premieres I couldn’t make — there were just too many openings this season! The first is “Suffs” an original musical from writer-sta…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:18PMWednesday, May 22, 2024
We’re still waiting for word on the fifth and final season of “Stranger Things” on TV. Meanwhile, a prequel play called “Stranger Things: First Shadow” in London’s West End has b…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:32PMFriday, May 17, 2024
Tony winner Sutton Foster, hot off “Sweeney Todd,” is coming back to Broadway immediately. Foster will star in a summer revival of “Once Upon a Mattress,” the musical that brought Ca…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:24PMWednesday, May 15, 2024
The Hollywood strikes last year are now turning into a big win for Broadway. Both George Clooney and Robert Downey Jr are coming to town next in plays for the first time. Clooney will star i…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:32AMWednesday, May 8, 2024
A little more from last night’s elegant and funny one night only performance for Lincoln Center Theater (1000 times better than that low class Met Gala). Sigourney Weaver was deftly funnie…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:18PMWow! Tuesday night Lincoln Center Theater put on the kind of star studded event that was a throwback to the good old days. To raise money, LCT produced — in two days — a retro staging of…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:12AMMonday, May 6, 2024
In the world of the Tony Awards, musicals like “The Great Gatsby,” “The Notebook,” and “Back to the Future” are considered, well, “bad,” and get no nominations. But in Broadw…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:24PMThursday, May 2, 2024
I gather Sting’s “Message in a Bottle,” directed and choreographed by the remarkable Kate Prince, has had runs in the UK, Australia, and in some US cities. Last night it arrived at Cit…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:12PMAlex Edelman is the toast of Broadway this morning. After one short run on Broadway in the summer of 2023, Edelman has been awarded an honorary Tony. “Just for Us,” which lasted two mont…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:02PMTuesday, April 30, 2024
The 2024 Tony Nominations are out, and it’s not great for “The Great Gatsby.” The musical based on the famed novel by F Scott Fitzgerald received just one nod. Its death is secured. On…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:18PMThursday, April 25, 2024
I don’t know what the surviving members of Fleetwood Mac have made of “Stereophonic.” The play about a mid 70s rock band taking three years to record their masterpiece has opened at th…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:18PMMonday, April 22, 2024
EXCLUSIVE A lot of A-listers and stars packed their way into the two opening nights of “Cabaret” this weekend. The show is sizzling, so it’s understandable that it required two premier…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:12PMOn Broadway, The Drama League is not the Drama Desk. They’re an outlier group like the National Board of Review that nominates everything so everyone will come to their dinner. So ouch! To…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:06PMBy 10am you will not be able to get a ticket for the six month run of “Cabaret” on Broadway. The sensational revival, imported from London, features a thrilling and award winning perform…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:54AMSunday, April 21, 2024
Alicia Keys’s musical, “Hell’s Kitchen” — opening tonight — could not have more entertaining performers. Does its story hold up? Not so much. But don’t think about it too hard.…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:32AMFriday, April 19, 2024
Last night I attended a press preview for Alicia Keys’s lively Broadway musical, “Hell’s Kitchen.” The Shubert Theater was packed except for two house seats just across the aisle. At…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 08:02PMTuesday, April 16, 2024
Jack Antonoff is making his Broadway debut. The Grammy winning pop producer of Taylor Swift, Lana del Rey, and many others will supply music for a new Broadway production of “Romeo and Jul…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:48PMFriday, April 12, 2024
You may have heard: Alicia Keys is debuting a Broadway musical this month. It’s called “Hell’s Kitchen.” The show is the story of her life leading up to signing with Clive Davis’s …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:24AMTuesday, April 9, 2024
“Monty Python” star John Cleese is on a short tour to eclectic cities, from the West Coast to Medford, Massachusetts. The tour began just six days ago, in Portland, Oregon, but already t…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:24PMThursday, March 28, 2024
I would guess a lot of people my age are suckers for The Who’s rock opera, “Tommy.” We loved it in 1969 as a double album, the 1974 movie, and in 1992 on Broadway with Michael Cerveris…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:03PM 
