Big night for Billy Crystal. The beloved actor-comic-director-etc made a historic appearance on Stephen Colbert's Late Show from the Ed Sullivan Theater. Billy got his start there decades ag…
Scott Rudin is back tonight on Broadway. "Death of Salesman" is the second play he's producing in his post-cancellation phase. The first one, "Little Bear Ridge Road," starred Laurie Metcalf…
Why not, I guess? Singer PINK has been chosen to host the Tony Awards this year. She's never been on Broadway or acted in a production. She's a pop star. (And also a trapeze artist.) But Pin…
Broadway had a great week last week. Box office receipts were up about $5 million from last week. But they were also a notch behind last year on this date even though there were more shows. …
Usually no one on Broadway can agree on anything. But the Broadway debut of "Becky Shaw" last night has brought everyone together. There are no negative or even mixed reviews. Two-time Pulit…
A new Broadway play took a pasting last night with reviewers. "Dog Day Afternoon," based on the famous Sidney Lumet movie starring Al Pacino and John Cazale, went down in flames. The play, a…
Tough night for rapper Megan Thee Stallion. She just joined the cast of Broadway's "Moulin Rouge." Tonight's performance was suddenly stopped when Megan had to be taken to the hospital. Her …
Maybe there's a budding super couple coming to "Days of our Lives." The Peacock soap got a shout out from Ryan Gosling this week during an interview for "Project Hail Mary." He praised star …
You can't make this up. Trump is live now giving a rambling talk at the cabinet meeting. This is just part of the insane stuff spewing out of his head. He's just railing against everyone. Wh…
Last week was pretty, pretty good on Broadway. Receipts were up almost $5 million thanks in part to school being out in a lot of places. "Hamilton" and "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" le…
There's no question that John Lithgow is one of our finest actors whether on stage or screen. So only he could pull off a dazzling performance as an absolutely vile person with no redeeming …
"Tricky Dick" Richard Grenell is OUT at the Kennedy Center. After just about burning the place to the ground, Grenell has essentially been fired as head of the facility by Donald Trump. Than…
Sting is coming to the Metropolitan Opera House. Last night, the famed rocker performed two songs from his show, "The Last Ship" on Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show. "The Last Ship" sails June 9t…
You can still buy tickets to see David Copperfield in Vegas this spring and summer. The ticketing machine in Las Vegas is so complicated that it hasn't caught up with last night's abrupt ann…
Magician David Copperfield is disappearing himself. Copperfield announced tonight that he's suddenly wrapping a 25 year run at Las Vegas's MGM Grand Hotel at the end of April. Copperfield's …
Bad weather is Broadway's biggest enemy. The numbers are in for last week, and the total box office was down by $2 million from the previous week. The total was $31.5 million. Some of that i…
There will be no "Wicked" tonight on Broadway. The coming blizzard has knocked out the 8 show that play on Sunday night including "Wicked," "Book of Mormon," "And Juliet," "Chicago," "Oh Mar…
Broadway is revved up. The great Matthew Morrison, of "Glee" fame and "Finding Neverland," is coming back. He's taking over from Tony winner Jonathan Groff for three weeks in "Just in Time,"…
Effie White is back " as a producer. Jennifer Hudson has joined the team producing the new Broadway revival of "Dreamgirls." The show will be directed and choreographed by Camille Brown. Hud…
LOL Trump has made such a disaster of The Kennedy Center that he had to close it. No one will perform there while he's president. It's a total failure for him and his tacky lackey Tricky Dic…
On January 16th, the Kennedy Center hired a new artistic programming chief. Yesterday, he resigned. Kevin Couch is gone. He gave no reason for resignation. For a laugh, I'll say that JD Vanc…
You know, it's the 50th anniversary of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." I used to go to the Exeter Theater in Boston, and then the 8th St. Playhouse in New York to see midnight showings in i…
There's not much left on the Kennedy Center schedule. Famed composer Philip Glass is now removing the premiere of his "Lincoln" Symphony from the Center. He says the values of Lincoln are in…
Trump, on TruthSocial, has suddenly posted this odd statement of possible retreat: He writes, out of nowhere: "People don't realize that The Trump Kennedy Center suffered massive deficits fo…
The cold wind was whipping off the Hudson River Friday afternoon. But it was pretty hot at Boulevard Carroll, just off the river on West 55th St. That's where a rehearsal room was packed to …