Broadway: "Disaster!" Musical to Close Sunday, More"without Tony Noms" to Come by Roger Friedman

No Tony nods, can’t stay open. It happens every year. “Disaster!” a funny musical parody by Seth Rudetsky, was not loved by Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:57am on May 4, 2016☆⚑

Tony Awards: "Hamilton" Scores Big Time with 16 Nominations by Roger Friedman

The Tony nominations are out and “Hamilton” has scored 16 of them. That’s more than 1 in some categories. “Hamilton” is on Categories: Featured Theater(Read …

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:48pm on May 3, 2016☆⚑

Tony Awards Shoot Down "Shuffle Along," Classified Original, Will Lose to "Hamilton" by Roger Friedman

“Shuffle Along” is cooked at the Tonys. The Tony committee has announced they consider the George C. Wolfe musical new and original, Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 5:58pm on April 29, 2016☆⚑

Review: "Shuffle Along" Is the Black "42nd Street" with No Plot and a Star Who Leaves in June by Roger Friedman

The official title of the new musical “Shuffle Along: Or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and Everything that Followed” Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:36pm on April 28, 2016☆⚑

Broadway: Drama Desk Snubs Most Big Name Black Actors Like Audra McDonald, Lupita Nyong'o, Forest Whitaker by Roger Friedman

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SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 5:31pm on April 28, 2016☆⚑

Broadway: "Tuck Everlasting" Hits the Bottom of the Tony Awards Season Barrel by Roger Friedman

You know, I’m pretty fair to most Broadway musicals. I wasn’t wild about either “American Psycho” or “Waitress,” but there were excellent Categories: Fe…

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 5:02am on April 27, 2016☆⚑

Broadway: "Waitress," With Songs by Sarah Bareilles, Pushes Tony Award Season into Final Week by Roger Friedman

Sunday night: “Waitress,” based on Adrienne Shelley’s hit movie starring Keri Russell, opened on Broadway. Sara Bareilles wrote the songs. Jessie Mueller, Categories: Fea…

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 4:39am on April 25, 2016☆⚑

Prince Gets Tributes from Broadway Casts of "Hamilton," "The Color Purple" by Roger Friedman

Two Broadway shows offered moving tributes to Prince last night at the conclusion of their shows. The Color Purple: Hamilton:Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 4:08pm on April 22, 2016☆⚑

Exclusive: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller Likely Team Up for Broadway "Philadelphia Story" by Roger Friedman

EXCLUSIVE The word is that the fall season, or perhaps next spring 2017, could bring a dynamic duo to Broadway. And the Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 3:12am on April 20, 2016☆⚑

Broadway: "Shuffle Along" Producers Tell Ask to Be Excused from Awards: "Not Ready" by Roger Friedman

“Shuffle Along” was not included in today’s Outer Critics Circle nominations. That’s because producer Scott Rudin told the group the multi million Categories: Featu…

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 3:20pm on April 19, 2016☆⚑

Broadway: "Hamilton" Wins Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Lin-Miranda Manuel "Grateful" by Roger Friedman

The best of this year’s Pulitzer Prizes goes to “Hamilton,” the genius of a musical by Lin-Miranda Manuel. When he heard the Categories: Featured Media Theater(Read mor…

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 8:57pm on April 18, 2016☆⚑

Paris Jackson and Pals Take in "Finding Neverland" on Broadway: "Moved Me To Tears" by Roger Friedman

Paris Jackson celebrated her 18th birthday and whirlwind trip to New York with a performance of “Finding Neverland” on Broadway. How appropriate Categories: Celebrity Featured…

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:31pm on April 10, 2016☆⚑

Theater: "Walking Dead" Star Dani Gurira's "Familiar" Needs a Move to Broadway by Roger Friedman

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SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 5:43am on April 8, 2016☆⚑

Broadway: Jennifer Hudson Leaving "The Color Purple" Next Month, Heather Headley Coming In by Roger Friedman

Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson has done yeoman service playing Shug Avery in the revival of “The Color Purple.” Now it seems she’s Categories: Featured Theater(Read more..…

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 5:36pm on April 7, 2016☆⚑

Watch: Steve Martin, Edie Brickell and Cast of Broadway's "Bright Star" Perform Opening Night by Roger Friedman

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SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 2:16pm on March 25, 2016☆⚑

Broadway Review: Steve Martin, Edie Brickell Score A Hit with Bluegrass "Bright Star" by Roger Friedman

So yes a star studded crowd came to see what Steve Martin and Edie Brickell have been up to for the last Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 1:55am on March 25, 2016☆⚑

Broadway: Highly Touted "Shuffle Along" Shuts Down For Audra McDonald Sick Days, Etc by Roger Friedman

with updates It’s not easy putting on a new Broadway show. They’re learning that the old fashioned way at the Music Box Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 7:34pm on March 23, 2016☆⚑

Theater: John Legend Will Produce Joe Morton Starring as Dick Gregory Off Broadway by Roger Friedman

The coolest political humorist of all, Dick Gregory, is about to get profiled in an off Broadway play. John Legend and his Categories: Celebrity Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 1:19pm on March 23, 2016☆⚑

Broadway: Tony Awards Race Sharpens with Laura Benanti's Sublime "She Loves Me" Turn by Roger Friedman

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SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:45pm on March 17, 2016☆⚑

#BroadwaySoBlack: "Eclipsed" Joins "Hamilton," "The Color Purple," "Shuffle Along" in a Historic Tony Awards Race by Roger Friedman

You never know what’s going to pan out in a Broadway season. But now the Public Theater has sent us the likely Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 8:00am on March 7, 2016☆⚑

Broadway: "Hughie" With Oscar Winner Forest Whitaker Closing Ten Weeks Early by Roger Friedman

The bar is closing for Eugene O’Neill’s “Hughie” revival starring Forest Whitaker. The production will close on March 27th, ten weeks earlier Categories: Featured …

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 1:09pm on March 4, 2016☆⚑

Broadway: Sally Field Plots Return in "The Glass Menagerie" 12 Years After Hit DC Run by Roger Friedman

EXCLUSIVE Sally Field– we really, really like her. She has two Oscars (“Norma Rae” and “Places in the Heart”– rent ’em now) Categories: Featured …

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 1:08pm on February 23, 2016☆⚑

Tony Winner James Corden, of Late Late Show, Is Hosting the Tony Awards This Year" Hooray! by Roger Friedman

Great news. James Corden is hosting the Tony Awards this year. Well, of course he is. Corden, himself a Tony winner, already Categories: Featured Television Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:21am on February 2, 2016☆⚑

Broadway Legend Hal Prince, 87, Will Not Direct "The Band's Visit" After All by Roger Friedman

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SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 9:07pm on January 29, 2016☆⚑

Matthew Morrison Leaves "Finding Neverland" But the Show Has Plenty of "Glee" to Spare by Roger Friedman

I wondered what was going on with “Finding Neverland” at the Lunt Fontanne. Last night I stopped in to see Broadway star Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 1:06am on January 27, 2016☆⚑