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☆⚑

Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda Freestyle Rap Apology for "Hamilton" Snow Closure by Roger Friedman

Lin-Manuel Miranda, on point as ever: #snowmaggedon2016 freestyle from @LacketyLac & old man Miranda pic.twitter.com/f1dAjRFvDp — Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) January 23, 2016C…

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 5:33pm on January 23, 2016☆⚑

Broadway League Cancels All Shows Today, A Half Hour Before Matinees Begin by Roger Friedman

The Broadway League had to acquiesce to Bill deBlasio and cancel all shows today– a half hour before scheduled 2pm matinees. deBlasio Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 5:33pm on January 23, 2016☆⚑

Bette Midler Hints She May Be Coming to Broadway in "Hello, Dolly!" (Scott Rudin Producing) by Roger Friedman

Well HELLO! This Dolly has an announcement coming tomorrow ! Stay tuned! (A little update: Scott Rudin is producing which makes sense. Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 1:39am on January 19, 2016☆⚑

Source: Alan Rickman Had Pancreatic Cancer, And Not For Very Long" Came to NY in December by Roger Friedman

EXCLUSIVE We are all saddened by Alan Rickman’s passing yesterday since no one — almost no one– knew he was ill. Sources Categories: Celebrity Featured Movies Theater(…

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 4:26am on January 15, 2016☆⚑

Mike Nichols Tears Up Talking About Meryl Streep in Wonderful PBS American Masters Doc by Roger Friedman

I guess it had to be something from Elaine May, his oldest friend, and their mutual pal, Julian Schlossberg. On January 29th, Categories: Celebrity Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 3:56am on January 14, 2016☆⚑

Broadway: "School of Rock" Breaks House Record, But One Kid Is Already Being Replaced Because He's Too Old by Roger Friedman

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SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 4:34pm on December 28, 2015☆⚑

91 Year Old Fiddler on the Roof Co-Writer Sheldon Harnick: Donald Trump "Shouldn't See the Show…He Should Play the Constable" by Roger Friedman

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SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 5:21am on December 21, 2015☆⚑

Broadway: "Color Purple" Scores a Huge Hit Opening with Jennifer Hudson and Overnight Star Cynthia Erivo by Roger Friedman

“The Color Purple” played on Broadway from 2005 to 2008 and no one really liked it. Good actors appeared in it, including Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 6:10am on December 11, 2015☆⚑

Broadway: NY Times Critic Jumps the Gun, Raves About "Color Purple" Two Days Early by Roger Friedman

Whoops. We don’t have to wait til Thursday night to see what Ben Brantley thinks about the “revival” of “The Color Purple” Categories: Featured Music Theate…

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:42pm on December 8, 2015☆⚑

Broadway: Starry Night As School of Rock Lures Real Rockers Sting, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood by Roger Friedman

It was a big night on Broadway as Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber returned with his adaptation of the movie “School of Rock”– Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 3:59am on December 7, 2015☆⚑

Exclusive: Kelsey Grammer, Kelli O'Hara Eyeing Julie Andrews-Directed "My Fair Lady" by Roger Friedman

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SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 3:56am on November 23, 2015☆⚑

Review: Bruce Willis Makes an Inauspicious Broadway Debut in "Misery," or the new Les Mis by Roger Friedman

What happened to the great jive talkin’, smooth as silk Bruce Willis? Oh for the days when David Addison couldn’t shut up Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 3:22am on November 16, 2015☆⚑

Tony Bennett Wants to Celebrate 90th Birthday with Central Park Concert, New Lady Gaga Album by Roger Friedman

Swingin’ Tony Bennett, 89, came to the Broadway opening night of Gloria Estefan’s “On Your Feet” with wife Susan and a lot Categories: Featured Theater(Read more..…

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 4:13am on November 6, 2015☆⚑

Monty Python's Eric Idle, John Cleese Among Performers Set for Mike Nichols Memorial by Roger Friedman

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SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 3:27pm on November 3, 2015☆⚑

Broadway: A List Stars Miss the Best Night of Theater This Season in "King Charles III" by Roger Friedman

Where was everyone Sunday night? None of the usual A listers showed up at the Music Box Theater for an absolutely brilliant Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 2:39am on November 2, 2015☆⚑