Emma Thompson Sheds Mary Poppins for Mrs. Lovett in Magnificent "Sweeney Todd"
I’d have paid double last night and would pay it again to see Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel in “Sweeney Todd” at Categories: Featured Music Theater(Read more...)
I’d have paid double last night and would pay it again to see Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel in “Sweeney Todd” at Categories: Featured Music Theater(Read more...)
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Broadway is buzzing in the middle of winter, believe it or not. The Carole King-Gery Goffin-Barry Mann-Cynthia Weil musical “Beautiful” broke a Categories: Celebrity Featured …
Michael Filerman, the popular and brilliant TV and Broadway producer, has passed away after a brief bout with cancer. Michael produced "Knots Landing" for 14 seasons on CBS, was involved thr…
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Anna Crouse, widow of playwright Russel Crouse and mother of actress Lindsay Crouse, has died at age 99. So far only a Categories: Celebrity Theater(Read more...)
Six time Tony Award winner Julie Harris, first lady of the American theater, got an all-star send off this afternoon from a Categories: Celebrity Featured Theater(Read more...)
A big Broadway day: over the weekend Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein’s “Kinky Boots” broke a house record at the Hirschfield Theater. Categories: Featured Theater(Read…
Not every show on Broadway will be remembered for something. But tonight “Spider Man: Turn off the Dark” marks three years since Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)
The Monty Python reunion has been extended to five shows from its original one. Please do remember my scoop about 100 shows Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)
Liv Tyler and Orlando Bloom (Arwen, and Legolas Greenleaf to you) came to celebrate Gandalf. Others came to cheer on the “X Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)
Bernie and Ruth Madoff probably never imagined they’d become the stuff of celebrity drama. First Woody Allen reinvented them for “Blue Jasmine” Categories: Featured Thea…
“Spider Man: Turn off the Dark” is closing in January. I told you twice. On August 22nd http://www.showbiz411.com/2013/08/22/broadway-spider-man-has-big-drop-from-last-week-while…
Broadway: The truly bad musical of the movie “Big Fish” will close on December 29th after 34 previews and 98 performances. How Categories: Celebrity Featured Theater(Read mor…
Hugh Jackman and wife Deborra Lee Furness, famed pop singer Darlene Love, Mary Louise Parker, and R&B star Freddie Jackson were just Categories: Theater(Read more...)
“Spider Man: Turn off the Dark” is now officially struggling at the box office. While November 28 will mark its third unofficial anniversary on Broadway, the $75 million show is …
EXCLUSIVE She’s been playing Tara Thornton on “True Blood” since day one. Now I’m told that the intensely talented Rutina Wesley is coming to off Broadway this fall. …
My favorite thing about the Broadway opening of “Big Fish” on Broadway last night–besides Norbert Leo Butz’s magnificent work as the younged down Albert Finney charac…
Gwyneth Paltrow, Oscar winner, website owner, cookbook author, is launching a new career. Paltrow has agreed to co-produce a Broadway musical. The show is based on the music of the GoGo's, t…
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I just got a press release saying that the off Broadway hit “Buyer and Cellar” has recouped its investment in record time– nine weeks. But the press release doesn’t m…
Circle April 24, 2014: Alan Cumming is returning to Broadway in “Cabaret” directed by Sam Mendes and choreographed by Rob Marshall. His Sally will be movie star Michele Williams,…
It’s an interesting turn of events in Marvel land. “Spider Man: Turn off the Dark” had the second biggest drop last week. It was down 7.1% from the week before, making just…
Why should we be left out? Hot on the news that there’s no one to play Freddie Mercury in his own biopic– Sacha Baron Cohen is out–comes news of a Queen musical in the U.S.…