Thursday, December 5, 2019
“Tootsie” flopped on Broadway. It’s a terrific show, but its early closing is scaring the hell out of “Mrs. Doubtfire,” another musical whose leading man is also a leading lady. Ba…
Linked From The New York Post at 06:26PMTuesday, December 3, 2019
This tiny dancer is twirling her way into the history books. When Misty Copeland became the American Ballet Theater’s first black principal dancer four years ago, she shattered racial barr…
Linked From The New York Post at 12:56PMFriday, November 29, 2019
He’s been the leading man in so many Broadway shows, it’s hard to believe there’s anything left on his bucket list. And yet, Brian Stokes Mitchell says, there is: “Sweeney Todd.” M…
Linked From The New York Post at 01:54PMThursday, November 21, 2019
It may not recoup its $9.5 million investment.
Linked From The New York Post at 06:42PMBroadway found its Gloved One — and he’s coming fresh from the Temptations. Ephraim Sykes, currently kicking up his heels in Broadway’s “Ain’t Too Proud — the Life and Times of T…
Linked From The New York Post at 12:46PMSunday, November 17, 2019
While some ignorant millennials snipe “OK boomer” at anyone with a gray hair, a new play is clapping back.
Linked From The New York Post at 08:54PMThursday, November 14, 2019
“Tootsie” had everything going for it: great title, terrific reviews, star-making turn by Santino Fontana, snappy score by David Yazbek and a hilarious book by Robert Horn. And yet one o…
Linked From The New York Post at 10:48PMThursday, November 7, 2019
If you want to relive Tina Turner’s prime, you can’t get much better than Adrienne Warren. The star of “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical,” which opened Thursday night on Broadway, has t…
Linked From The New York Post at 10:42PMIn 2003, the rock band the National released an album called “Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers.” That would also make a good title for their new musical, “Cyrano,” which opened off-Broadwa…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:24PMThursday, October 31, 2019
The delightful Ian McKellen, who turned 80 this year, has a message for anybody who wants to see him on stage: “Run!” New Yorkers have that chance Tuesday at the Hudson Theatre, where Mc…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:54PMTuesday, October 29, 2019
The stage lights go up and there, standing against a shower door holding a big red hat, is … Bella Abzug? Actually, it’s Harvey Fierstein, the writer and also the star — Patti LuPone a…
Linked From The New York Post at 03:12PMThursday, October 24, 2019
The buzziest show in London right now is “Lungs,” starring Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. Or, as they’re known in real life, Claire Foy and Matt Smith, the royal couple of Netfl…
Linked From The New York Post at 04:51PMFor nearly six years, Carole King has watched her life — the early years, anyway — flash before her eyes at “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” which ends its Broadway run Sunday. …
Linked From The New York Post at 04:01PMDarren Criss is returning to Broadway in next year’s revival of “American Buffalo,” starring Laurence Fishburne and Sam Rockwell. Criss, 32, will play Bobby, a young man enlisted to he…
Linked From The New York Post at 11:36AMMonday, October 21, 2019
The “Pinball Wizard” is pinging rock opera back to Broadway. The Who’s “Tommy” is on its way back to the Great White Way, Rolling Stone reports. The return comes more than 50 years…
Linked From The New York Post at 08:18PMThose who remember him as TV’s John-Boy Walton are often shocked to find that Richard Thomas is a lifelong Manhattanite. “It confuses people all the time,” says Thomas, 68, who spent m…
Linked From The New York Post at 10:09AMThursday, October 17, 2019
Suddenly Seymour is standing beside you. Like, right beside you. “Little Shop of Horrors,” which opened Thursday night off-Broadway, is getting a much more intimate staging than when it …
Linked From The New York Post at 11:24PMEileen Atkins is the only Dame of the English theater who hasn’t been invited to lunch with the Queen at Sandringham House. All the other Dames — Judi (Dench), Maggie (Smith), Diana (Rig…
Linked From The New York Post at 06:03PMWednesday, October 16, 2019
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Want to escape the 24-hour news cycle for a little while? Then head to the Public Theater, where Hillary Clinton tap-dances and twerks, and a gun-toting chorus sings “Make America Great Ag…
Linked From The New York Post at 10:48PMAs a wise frog observed, it’s not easy being green. But, boy, Kermit — it’s sure fun to play a man-eating plant. So say the puppeteers behind Audrey II, the star — with Jonathan Grof…
Linked From The New York Post at 02:01PMThursday, October 10, 2019
Brian Cox had no intention of tackling a meaty character like Lyndon Baines Johnson in Robert Schenkkan’s “The Great Society.” He’d moved away from big theater roles to focus on part…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:03PMMonday, October 7, 2019
For a show that inspired a Change.org petition to have it canceled when it played downtown, the “Slave Play” that opened Sunday on Broadway delivers less a theatrical punch in the gut th…
Linked From The New York Post at 02:04AMThursday, October 3, 2019
Cameron Crowe ran into Elton John last year at a party thrown by David Geffen. “I hear you’re doing a musical version of ‘Almost Famous,’” John said. “I love Tom Kitt” – Crow…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:31PMWhat do the Man in Black of “Westworld,” a former Evan Hansen and a recurring “Fargo” figure have in common? Starting Nov. 5, they’ll all be in Broadway’s “To Kill a Mockingbir…
Linked From The New York Post at 03:49PMWant some fries with that murder? The fragrance of fast food is all over “Scotland, Pa.,” the Roundabout Theatre Company’s riff on “Macbeth.” Like the quirky, 2001 film of the same…
Linked From The New York Post at 12:11PMTuesday, October 1, 2019
Money can’t buy you love — or a healthy sex life. Just ask Long Island-born actress Lois Robbins. She’s one of those girls who seems to have it all: a wealthy upbringing, a rich husban…
Linked From The New York Post at 05:33PMThursday, September 26, 2019
“Little Shop of Horrors” may be the most adorably creepy — and enduring — musicals of all time. It opened in 1982 at the small WPA Theater in Chelsea, then moved to the Orpheum on Se…
Linked From The New York Post at 02:40PMWednesday, September 25, 2019
The self-proclaimed "showgirl" is making her Broadway debut.
Linked From The New York Post at 01:33PMThursday, September 19, 2019
Who knew Loki and Daredevil are the biggest theater geeks in town? Tom Hiddleston (Loki) and Charlie Cox (Daredevil) are starring in the spare — but scorching — revival of Harold Pinter…
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