Daniel Craig will finally get to do his favorite project. In 2016, he played Iago to David Oyelowo's "Othello" off Broadway at the New York Theater Workshop. I was lucky enough to see the Sa…
I told you yesterday that the Kennedy Center's holiday show, "Noel: jesus is Born!" was a dud at the box office. This afternoon, there are 1,350 seats available for December 17th. The show i…
Poor Richard Grenell. He's driven the Kennedy Center into the ground. A stooge for Donald Trump, Grenell has seen Kennedy Center ticket sales plummet all year as he's erased anything interes…
Tom Hanks's play "This World of Tomorrow" opened off Broadway last night. The reviews were mixed to not good. The Washington Post headline is The Tom Hanks Play Is Bad. Ok? Got the picture? …
Sting is a music man for all seasons. The rock star of stars opened his Broadway musical, "The Last Ship," back in October 2014. Now it will have its first New York revival at the famed Metr…
Boffo Broadway last week at the box office! Total was $40.7 million, up more than $7 million from last week. Not bad. "Hamilton" with Leslie Odom Jr continues to lead the way with almost $3.…
Listen, Sting never cancels a show. But two in Florida " tomorrow and Tuesday " had to be rescheduled because he says he's under the weather. The shows in Tampa and Jacksonville are sold out…
I told you a couple of times this season, tickets to Tom Hanks's off Broadway play were not selling. Two time Oscar winner Hanks has co-written a play he also stars in called "This World of …
This is a funny complaint because personally, I don't care. Do you? After taking over the Kennedy Center last winter, Donald Trump sent lackey Richard Grenell out to do press. In the New Yor…
Daniel Radcliffe already has a Tony Award for "Merrily We Roll Along." Apparently he wants another one. He's coming to Broadway this winter in a limited run of a one man show. "Every Brillia…
Two time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is coming to off Broadway this week. Performances begin tomorrow night for his play, "This World of Tomorrow," co-starring Kelli O'Hara and Ruben Santiago Hud…
It's hard to know why Matt Damon hasn't done more work in theater. Last night, he absolutely killed it as the lead of an all star cast in a reading to raise money to save a NYC Landmark. Dam…
As you may have heard, it's crazy in New York right now. Our three remaining mayoral candidates participated in another televised debate tonight, and got nowhere. Manhattanites and older peo…
Broadway was boffo this past week. The Columbus Day holiday brought a spectactular $8 million rise to the box office numbers for all shows in total. "Hamilton" is out of control, with $4 mil…
It was only a few months ago that theater fans were outraged by ticket prices to see Denzel Washington in "Othello" and George Clooney in "Good Night and Good Luck." Producers were charging …
Last year, Jennifer Lopez " aka JLo" had a lovely turn in the Amazon MGM movie, "Unstoppable." When the movie played in Toronto, there was some Oscar buzz. If "Unstoppable" had had a real re…
"Hamilton" is on fire. It's all because of Leslie Odom, Jr. The Tony winning star of "Hamilton" is back playing Aaron Burr for a limited run. Odom began on September 9th. Since then, the box…
Tonight, "Art" returns to Broadway. Yazmin Reza's play about friendship and art and how three friends value each, comes back with a new trio of actors. Bobby Cannavale " so good right now in…
Wolverine is having a lot of trouble selling tickets. Hugh Jackman's shows this weekend coming up at Radio City Music Hall are a mixed bag. The evening shows on Friday and Saturday are mostl…
Alicia Keys is standing her ground. She's going to perform live on stage for anyone who buys a ticket to her "Hell's Kitchen" musical after the show is over on September 26th and 27th. The s…
Eve Ensler, a remarkable playwright who invented The Vagina Monologues, calls herself "V" now. But for the purposes of publicity, most fans know her as Eve Ensler. V has written a new work c…
Exclusive: Evidently no one wants to work at the Kennedy Center. They're currently listing 31 jobs on LinkedIn, from Senior Vice President Artistic Programming ($340,000 per year) to Shuttle…
When the late New Yorker movie writer, Lillian Ross, revealed the story of her affair with the magazine's fabled editor, it blew the minds of the literati. Now the late William Shawn's son, …
UPDATE: A new report also says an investor is suing the producers. As I wrote below, the show cost $24.25 million, it's a total loss. Billy Porter may have sepsis or is just smart about aban…
"Hamilton" is a hit in theaters. Thursday and Friday audiences brought in almost $4 million. The Tony Award winning Broadway musical's filmed version " which has been playing on Disney Plus …