This has not been an easy Broadway season for new shows. Closing on December 15th is "Swept Away," the really strange musical that combined seafaring, folk music, and cannibalism. Yes, I sai…
The movie version of "Wicked" is not just a hit at the box office. On the iTunes Top 100, fans are downloading the songs and the soundtrack album like crazy. "Defying Gravity" and "Popular" …
The movie and Broadway show, "Pretty Woman," is about a hooker who gets picked up by a rich guy and is paid $3,000 for a weeks' worth of work. Allegedly, former congressman Matt Gaetz, now a…
Frank Sinatra is coming to the famed Apollo Theater on Thursday for a very special evening Producers of "Sinatra, The Musical," as well as the Chairman of the Board's estate, are bringing th…
Elton John's "Tammy Faye" Musical opened on Broadway last night to a an A List audience. It also brought a bunch of terrific new songs from Sir Elton, and high powered performances from a gr…
Come next March, George Clooney will make his Broadway debut in "Good Night and Good Luck." (It's the same thing he said to Joe Biden earlier this summer.) This is a stage adaptation of Cloo…
Honestly, I did not think much would come of an original enw musical starring Darren Criss of "Glee" TV show fame. I was very wrong. "Maybe Happy Ending" is the most charming new show I've s…
Paul Mescal is going to be very busy in March 2025. His hit London production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" is coming to Brooklyn's BAM Theater after a run at the Almeida Theater in Islingto…
Sting led his Broadway cast of "The Last Ship" through a semi-private show last night at 54Below. The Tony nominated score in concert was supposed to serve as a 10th anniversary tribute to r…
"Q" is what everyone called him. Quincy Jones, the greatest of the great, composer, conductor, producer, has died at age 91. He was a giant. There's no other word to describe him. He was mus…
Forget "meet-cute," the winning rom-com trope that made writer Delia Ephron's career. In "Left on Tenth," Ephron's play based on her memoir at the James Earl Jones Theater about finding love…
"Romeo and Juliet." How could you screw it up with hot young people in the leads? Reviews are in from last night's Broadway opening of the Sam Gold production. Yikes. According to didtheylik…
Thornton Wilder won a Pulitzer Prize for "Our Town" in 1938, it was one of his three Pulitzers. It went on to become a staple of American theater, but sometimes we forget its powerful gut pu…
Al Pacino's "Sonny Boy" memoir is the most refreshing celebrity autobiography I've read since Keith Richards' "Life." Pacino just lets loose on everything like lots of girlfriends and romanc…
After a contentious social media war, the Broadway League has capitulated. They will dim the lights at all theaters for Maggie Smith. Gavin Creel, and Adrian Bailey. No word yet on Ken Page.…
Who deserves to have Broadway's bright lights dimmed when they pass away? There's now an all out war between the theater community and the Broadway League over decisions concerning two popul…
The indefatigable Woody Allen opened a play Friday night in, of all places, Budapest, Hungary. "Brooklyn Tale" is about a gangster and his family who somehow obtain a painting by Raphael, th…
Sarah Snook is coming to Broadway! The forever Shiv Roy of "Succession" is bringing her one woman "Picture of Dorian Gray" here in March 2025. Get the Tony Award shined up! Snook plays 26 ch…
It's a good news, bad news year for Robert Downey Jr. The former "Iron Man" won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar this year for "Oppenheimer." It was a moment that capped an unusual career that …
This should be an instant sell out. John Mulaney is coming to Broadway in December in a new comedy. "All In: Comedy About love by Simon Rich" will have a rotating cast of all stars performin…
The audience at Alicia Keys's Broadway show got a surprise Tuesday night. Before the intermission the show suddenly stopped. The lights went up and the stage manager appeared on stage. Tony …
The great and legendary writer-director-performer Elaine May did something very unusual on Tuesday afternoon. The Tony Award winning actress, two time Oscar nominee, winner of a Lifetime Osc…
Actress Rachel Zegler will not keep her opinions to herself, no matter how unpopular. Yesterday, Zegler " who became better known thanks to Steven Spielberg's "West Side Story " Tweeted out …
Carol Burnett, who's now 92, starred Off Broadway in 1959 in "Once Upon A Mattress." Her performance as Princess Winifred, coupled with her regular appearances on "The Garry Moore Show," mad…
Roman Roy and Saul Goodman are coming to Broadway. Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk will top line David Mamet's short but sour "Glengarry Glen Ross" next spring on the big stage. Comedian Bill…