911 stories by "Michael Riedel"
Broadway will be dimming its lights a lot in the coming weeks. Dick Latessa, who won a Tony for "Hairspray," died Dec. 19. Soon after, the theater lost Willa Kim, who designed the stylish an…
When Harvey Fierstein slipped on a housecoat to play Edna in "Hairspray," his co-star, Dick Latessa, told him he wasn't the first to do a musical in drag: "We did a number in the out-of-town…
As musical-comedy shrines go, it's hard to top the staircase off the lobby of the St. James Theatre. Every night in the spring of 2001, Mel Brooks and his creative team sat on those steps in…
On the menu today: Some Shubert Alley scuttlebutt. Everybody's wondering if "The Band's Visit," the new critics' darling down at the Atlantic Theater, will move to Broadway in the spring and…
Disgraced impresario Garth Drabinsky kicked off his comeback campaign in Toronto by hosting a press preview last week of his new musical, "Sousatzka." With the confidence of a veteran huckst…
Simon & Schuster just reissued Neil Simon's memoirs, 1996's "Rewrites" and 1999's "The Play Goes On," in one volume. I read them when they first came out, and they're terrific, both as s…
“Tough" may have been Edward Albee's favorite compliment. "If he came backstage after a show and said, 'That was a tough performance,' you could sleep well that night," says Mercedes R…
Nothing will bring a smile to your face faster this holiday season than the opening number of "La La Land," Damien Chazelle's new movie that's poised to reinvigorate the Hollywood musical. T…
Harry Potter waved his magic wand " and a Broadway theater everybody hates will be home to a show everybody loves. "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," a runaway hit in London, will open in …
Robert De Niro told Page Six earlier this month that he was "annoyed" that the producers of the musical adaptation of "A Bronx Tale" tapped Broadway vet Jerry Zaks to direct instead of him. …
Everybody on Broadway loves "The Best Worst Thing That Ever Happened," director Lonny Price's documentary about the reunion of the original cast of Stephen Sondheim's flop musical "Merrily W…
A reporter once asked Peter O'Toole, whose capacity for booze was legendary, if he ever turned up for work drunk. "The answer to that is not only drunk, but deliberately so," O'Toole said, l…
Florenz Ziegfeld. David Merrick. Cameron Mackintosh. And now . . . Gwyneth Paltrow. The Oscar-winning actress is poised to join the ranks of fabled theatrical impresarios if "H…
Nobody’s approached Bruce Springsteen about turning his acclaimed new memoir into a musical. But he's certainly open to the idea. I met Springsteen, briefly, at a party for his best-se…
Of all the new shows percolating out there, the one I'm most excited about is "Buñuel," Stephen Sondheim and David Ive s' adaptation of two Luis Buñuel movies, "The Discreet Charm of t…
If Donald Trump wins the White House on Tuesday, he'll be only the second United States president born in New York City. So while you're waiting for a National Historic Landmarks plaque to g…
There was a twinge of sadness at the opening Sunday of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses." Those associated with the original 1987 Broadway production couldn't help but think of two people who helpe…
Howard and Janet Kagan, the husband-and-wife producers of "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812," have managed to upstage theater critics as the most reviled people on Broadway. The…
'Young Frankenstein" is one of those movies that, when it crops up on TCM, you drop everything and laugh yourself silly till the credits roll. You know all the lines by heart: "What hump?" "…
I can tell you what Mel Brooks is doing for Halloween: re-animating his Broadway musical "Young Frankenstein." Brooks, along with co-writer Tom Meehan and director Susan Stroman, has taken a…
Joan Rivers achieved a lot: groundbreaking comedienne, popular TV personality, QVC entrepreneur, buckets of money. But the one thing she wanted above all else eluded her. As Leslie Bennetts …
Before the first preview of "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812" Tuesday night, producer Howard Kagan stood in front of his cast and crew and informed them that The Post was about…
"Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812," a musical inspired by Tolstoy's "War and Peace," takes place during Napoleon's invasion of Russia. But the feud among the producers of the sh…
Al Capone, public enemy No. 1 and the most powerful gangster of the Prohibition era, spent the last years of his life in seclusion at his house in Florida. He fished from his boat, doted on …
It must be nice to be Sonia Friedman and Colin Calendar , the producers of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," which has racked up $40 million in advance ticket sales in London. They're loo…
