"The Outsiders" won two big Tony Award tonight " Best Musical and Best Director. It didn't win any acting prizes, or its music or writing. The musical based on S.E. Hinton's famous young adu…
The Tony Awards are on tonight, from 8 to 11pm. In the middle at 9pm, HBO debuts season 2 of "House of the Dragon." This morning the Tonys are pushing a performance by Jay Z with Alicia Keys…
EXCLUSIVE I told you a couple of weeks ago, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York has charged the chief financial officer of the Epoch Times with trying to launder…
For Idina Menzel, it's not "If/When," it's spring 2025. The former star of "Wicked" will return then to Broadway in a new musical called "Redwood." It's the story of a grieving woman who dri…
The Tony Awards " coming this Sunday " are acquiescing to a big public complaint. At first it seemed like they were not going to allow the play with music, "Stereophonic," to perform on the …
Congrats to two of our best actors and nicest people. Naomi Watts and Billy Crudup had their official wedding in Mexico this weekend. I told you they would back on May 15th. Naomi's brother,…
The Tony Awards are coming this Sunday on CBS. While this has been an excellent season on Broadway, the show " which begins at 8pm " is battling internal and external forces. Let's start wit…
Hello, I'm Dolly! Is the name of Dolly Parton's new musical. It will come to Broadway in 2026 with old songs, new songs, and a book by Dolly. We may learn a lot about Dolly's life and maybe …
The subject was families Saturday night in Sag Harbor, where John Slattery, his wife Talia Balsam, and and their son Harry opened the Bay Street Theater's news season in "The Subject Was Ros…
I just caught up with two new Broadway shows whose premieres I couldn't make " there were just too many openings this season! The first is "Suffs" an original musical from writer-star Shaina…
We're still waiting for word on the fifth and final season of "Stranger Things" on TV. Meanwhile, a prequel play called "Stranger Things: First Shadow" in London's West End has been a huge h…
Tony winner Sutton Foster, hot off "Sweeney Todd," is coming back to Broadway immediately. Foster will star in a summer revival of "Once Upon a Mattress," the musical that brought Carol Burn…
The Hollywood strikes last year are now turning into a big win for Broadway. Both George Clooney and Robert Downey Jr are coming to town next in plays for the first time. Clooney will star i…
Amy Herzog's tender play, "Mary Jane," about a mother raising an ill child, demands that we slow down, take in the drama of the day-to-day. Oscar nominee Rachel McAdams, a movie star " plays…
A little more from last night's elegant and funny one night only performance for Lincoln Center Theater (1000 times better than that low class Met Gala). Sigourney Weaver was deftly funnier …
Wow! Tuesday night Lincoln Center Theater put on the kind of star studded event that was a throwback to the good old days. To raise money, LCT produced " in two days " a retro staging of Chr…
In the world of the Tony Awards, musicals like "The Great Gatsby," "The Notebook," and "Back to the Future" are considered, well, "bad," and get no nominations. But in Broadway.com's Audienc…
I gather Sting's "Message in a Bottle," directed and choreographed by the remarkable Kate Prince, has had runs in the UK, Australia, and in some US cities. Last night it arrived at City Cent…
Alex Edelman is the toast of Broadway this morning. After one short run on Broadway in the summer of 2023, Edelman has been awarded an honorary Tony. "Just for Us," which lasted two months, …
The 2024 Tony Nominations are out, and it's not great for "The Great Gatsby." The musical based on the famed novel by F Scott Fitzgerald received just one nod. Its death is secured. On the h…
I don't know what the surviving members of Fleetwood Mac have made of "Stereophonic." The play about a mid 70s rock band taking three years to record their masterpiece has opened at the St. …
EXCLUSIVE A lot of A-listers and stars packed their way into the two opening nights of "Cabaret" this weekend. The show is sizzling, so it's understandable that it required two premieres. La…
On Broadway, The Drama League is not the Drama Desk. They're an outlier group like the National Board of Review that nominates everything so everyone will come to their dinner. So ouch! Toda…
By 10am you will not be able to get a ticket for the six month run of "Cabaret" on Broadway. The sensational revival, imported from London, features a thrilling and award winning performance…
Alicia Keys's musical, "Hell's Kitchen" " opening tonight " could not have more entertaining performers. Does its story hold up? Not so much. But don't think about it too hard. There's a lot…