Fifty years ago on Wednesday (last night) Philippe Petit made history walking on a highwire between the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center. It was illegal, of course, but it made headline…
The Patti Lupone- Mia Farrow play coming to Broadway this month has some news. Famed director Jack O'Brien, age 86, is getting a young, perky assistant director. Marsha Mason, who's only 82,…
Um, like, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are really going to star in a Broadway play. The former stars of "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" movies will play Estragon and Vladimir in Samuel …
You want tickets to this off Broadway show? Fuhgeddabout it. Adam Driver will star in Kenneth Lonergan's new play, "Hold on to Me, Darling" at the Lucille Lortel Theater beginning in Septemb…
Last night in the Hamptons: The great character actor and director Bob Balaban assembled a group of star actors to perform a collection of post-pandemic short plays to consider "The Pursuit …
Eddie Redmayne is outta here. The Oscar winner opened in "Cabaret" this past winter with hopes of winning a Tony award. He was signed up for a year. But despite a nomination, Redmayne's Oliv…
If you want to see "Merrily We Roll Along" on Broadway this week, be prepared to pony up. The revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical is seeing ticket prices up to over $5,200 on StubHub. Lo…
The 1993 hit movie, "Mrs. Doubtfire," starring the late brilliant Robin Williams, was a beloved family film " directed by Chris Columbus and co-starring Sally Field and Pierce Brosnan " that…
Another show posts a closing notice. The revival of The Who's "Tommy" will play its last performance on July 21st. The musical received good reviews and had ecstatic audiences, but was overw…
It was inevitable. Prince is coming to Broadway. The late purple rock star will be the subject of an estate approved musical based on his hit movie, "Purple Rain." The show will launch in Mi…
Sir Ian McKellen says he's ok after his fall off a London stage last night. He tumbled during a performance of "Player Kings," a Shakespeare mashup. Audience members heard McKellen shout in …
The Tony Awards ratings are in and they are bad. The early numbers indicate this year's show dropped 15% from last year. The total so far looks like just 3.5 million viewers, down from 4.1 m…
Tammy Faye Bakker (pronounced Baker) is back to looking for her Jim. Elton John's musical about the televangelist couple has lost star Andrew Rannells just three months before the show is su…
"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…