Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Demented Donald Trump is a very sick man. He’s threatening to demolish the Kennedy Center. He’s lying about its physical condition more than he his his own deteriorating body. Trump is s…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Broadway has a new prince: Ari Emanuel, Hollywood power player, former chief of William Morris Endeavor (and still involved as CEO of WME Group). Ari, whose brother is Chicago politician and…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:45PM[SHARE]Monday, August 10, 2026
Julianne Moore has an Oscar, lots of other accolades, and awards. I saw her on stage almost 40 years ago at the Louisville Theater festival. Now, she’s coming back to New York theater some…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:20AM[SHARE]Friday, August 7, 2026
A year ago next week, the Kennedy Center Honors were announced. The recipients ranged from weird to strange, with Sylvester Stallone. country music icon George Strait, legendary rock band KI…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 6, 2026
The Rosie O’Donnell Renaissance is in full swing. Going to Ireland for a bit seems to have been the right move. A year and a half later she’s performing her one woman show, “Common Kno…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:05PM[SHARE]Friday, July 31, 2026
This week, the New York Times published an article about the free tours at the Kennedy Center. They said that despite the Kennedy Center having no shows scheduled, life went on, and the publ…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 14, 2026
There was a time when Ellen Stewart’s theater, La Mama, was the cutting edge of off Broadway. These days, La Mama is still going, but it doesn’t get much publicity. It sure will now! Osc…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:55PM[SHARE]Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber has his knickers in a twist. His latest iteration of the annoying musical, “Cats,” is closing in two weeks, much sooner than he expected even though it (mysteriou…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Four time Emmy nominee Danny Glover tells NBC’s Lester Holt he has Alzheimer’s Disease. Glover was diagnosed in 2022, around the time he won a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the M…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 25, 2026
Here comes the rain again. Broadway will see its first official revival of Richard Greenberg’s “Three Days of Rain” next February.. “Superman” actor David Corenswet, “Heated Riva…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 23, 2026
We all love Cafe Carlyle on the Upper East Side. It’s the rare gem of the city, with lots of stars performing to intimate crowds. Now a Cafe Carlyle type experience heads to the Hamptons t…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:05PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 20, 2026
The Kennedy Center’s final musical, for now, is a road company of “Moulin Rouge.” Ticket sales are terrible. Most shows are sold at 45%. There are chunks of empty seats everywhere, for…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 08:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Broadway is in the middle of a clearing out. Soon, around a dozen plays and musicals will be gone. Some exits were planned up front. Some are sad surprises. The latest news is that “Celebr…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 11, 2026
It’s good news and bad news for this year’s Tony Awards. Ratings were the same as last year – 5 million viewers. The difference is that this year there was no competition at all for th…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 10, 2026
“The Last Ship” has docked at the Metropolitan Opera for just nine performances. Sting’s Broadway musical, with a Tony nominated score, opened last night for nine performances in a tri…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:05PM[SHARE]Monday, June 8, 2026
The two words you didn’t hear on stage at last night’s Tony Awards. They were “Scott Rudin.” The producer of “The Book of Mormon” and also “Death of a Salesman” was not surpr…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 4, 2026
Sunday’s Tony Awards on CBS are set for huge ratings. The show has no sports competition or anything else of note running against it. Luckily, the NBA finals are off that night. Singer Pin…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:15PM[SHARE]Friday, May 29, 2026
Let’s cut to the chase. Donald Trump is surrendering his campaign to rename the Kennedy Center and to shut it down for renovations. He’s been forced by the court to stop everything and t…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 27, 2026
First, the good news: “The Book of Mormon” will celebrate its 15th anniversary on the Tony Awards June 7th on CBS. A live performance will feature Tony Award nominees Josh Gad, Andrew Ra…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Broadway is contracting pretty fast. It had already been announced that “Moulin Rouge” would shut down at the end of August. Then “Death Becomes Her,” based on the movie, announced a…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:50AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 12, 2026
The news from Broadway is not that great from this past week. “Chicago” fell back to Earth, dropping by $1 million after the departure of its reality stars. With Whitney Leavitt and Mark…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 08:15PM[SHARE]Wow. I did not think I’d wake up to this sad news. Rex Reed is gone. He was 87, and he was a New York superstar. Rex was maybe the most famous film critic ever in New York. A kid from Texa…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:10PM[SHARE]Now, this is a show I’d like to see. Weird Al Yankovic is coming to Broadway with a new musical. He’s written the songs with Scott Brown and Anthony King, of “Beetlejuice” fame. Al i…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 7, 2026
The Broadway Mormons will not be ringing doorbells for a couple of weeks. The Tony winning “Book of Mormon” will be shuttered at least until May 17th after a fire damaged the Eugene O’…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 5, 2026
The Tony Awards don’t like Broadway stars and they proved it this morning. The nominations are out, and they are brutal. Laurie Metcalf could have gone two nominations for Best Actress in …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:00PM[SHARE]Monday, May 4, 2026
Bad news on Broadway today. A three alarm fire has shut down the Eugene O’Neill Theater today, and for the foreseeable future. This means no shows for “The Book of Mormon,” which has b…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:45PM[SHARE]Friday, May 1, 2026
It’s been a terrible year for original musicals on Broadway. “Lost Boys,” “Beaches,” carrying the cake across Central Park, and so on barely hold a candle to last year’s Best Mus…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 29, 2026
The Drama Desk nominations are out, and they’re pretty stunning. The group snubbed almost anything to do with Hollywood stars. So Daniel Radcliffe, Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss Bacharach, Ad…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:00PM[SHARE]You have to hand it to Broadway producers Fran and Barry Weissler. The musical, “Chicago,” just had its biggest weekly box office ever. Ever! The musical has been playing for 30 years. �…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 23, 2026
EGOT* winner Liza Minnelli is getting an all star 80th birthday tribute in June. (*She has an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award. One of the few.) The show at Carnegie Hall on June 2th feat…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 21, 2026
It’s awards season in theater, and the annual shunning of movie stars on Broadway has begun. The Outer Critics Circle announced their nominees this morning, and the group looks like the mu…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:34PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 16, 2026
It's pretty much a throw of the dice to put on any Broadway play. But how about a new play? And one with movie stars who've never been on Broadway? Yikes. But two time Oscar winner Adrien Br…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 15, 2026
The Kennedy Center under Trump has finally found someone who doesn't mind performing there. That would be Tony Hinchcliffe, a right wing Trump supporting comedian labeled "racist" and deeply…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:12PM[SHARE]Big night for Billy Crystal. The beloved actor-comic-director-etc made a historic appearance on Stephen Colbert's Late Show from the Ed Sullivan Theater. Billy got his start there decades ag…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 9, 2026
Scott Rudin is back tonight on Broadway. "Death of Salesman" is the second play he's producing in his post-cancellation phase. The first one, "Little Bear Ridge Road," starred Laurie Metcalf…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:02PM[SHARE]Why not, I guess? Singer PINK has been chosen to host the Tony Awards this year. She's never been on Broadway or acted in a production. She's a pop star. (And also a trapeze artist.) But Pin…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Broadway had a great week last week. Box office receipts were up about $5 million from last week. But they were also a notch behind last year on this date even though there were more shows. …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Usually no one on Broadway can agree on anything. But the Broadway debut of "Becky Shaw" last night has brought everyone together. There are no negative or even mixed reviews. Two-time Pulit…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 08:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2026
A new Broadway play took a pasting last night with reviewers. "Dog Day Afternoon," based on the famous Sidney Lumet movie starring Al Pacino and John Cazale, went down in flames. The play, a…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:48PM[SHARE]Tough night for rapper Megan Thee Stallion. She just joined the cast of Broadway's "Moulin Rouge." Tonight's performance was suddenly stopped when Megan had to be taken to the hospital. Her …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:48PM[SHARE] 
