911 stories by "Michael Riedel"
Manhattan Theater Club, long an engine of new and ambitious plays, is getting into the risk-averse import business. The nonprofit, taxpayer-subsidized company recently opened Lee Hall's "Th…
The management of the Foxwoods Theatre, home to the be leaguered "Spider- Man: Turn Off the Dark," has admitted that at least some sections of the orchestra are unsafe. And to whom did manag…
Joe Stein, a merry quipster with hair the color of Tang, died this week at the grand old age of 98.He was one of the last of Broadway's snappy bookwriters -- which is to say, Jewish guys bo…
Had someone shouted "Is there a doctor in the house!" a few days ago at "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark," it would have been because yet another actor had broken something. But safety inspec…
The very first day I arrived in New York in 1986 as an undergrad at Columbia, I headed to Broadway. (Actually, I headed north and got lost until a nice lady on 143rd Street turned me around.…
The $15 million London production of the Phantom of the Opera sequel, Love Never Dies, will not be seen in New York. Ever.
There's trouble in St. Tropez. The delightful Tony-winning re vival of "La Cage aux Folles" has two new romantic leads -- Harvey Fierstein, as Albin, the high-strung drag queen, and Jeffrey…
Which comes first -- the music or the lyrics? That question is always asked of songwriters, and their standard answer is that it's impossible to say because songwriting is such a collaborat…
About 4 a.m. on Dec. 12, 1976, Jack Cassidy, the suave, handsome char acter actor, poured himself a scotch and soda and settled down on the couch in his West Hollywood pent house. He probab…
When Patti LuPone takes her curtain call at the Belasco Theatre on Nov. 4 for the opening of “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” she might want to glance up at the priva…
Attention will be paid.Director Mike Nichols and Philip Seymour Hoffman are secretly -- well, not anymore! -- laying the groundwork for a revival of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" ne…
Power lists are silly, gimmicky things that get everybody talk ing, especially those who don't make the cut. BroadwaySpace.com stirred the pot last week with its second annual list of the 5…
It takes a comic genius like Charles Busch to milk laughs out of something as hoary as a bunch of nuns sing ing, dancing and cracking jokes. Busch has done it with "The Divine Sister." His …
Those soulful Lower East Side bohemians are coming back."Rent," Jonathan Larson's ground breaking 1994 musical, will be re vived next year, The Post has learned. The show, which will be sta…
Jeffrey Richards, the press agent and prolific producer, in troduced me to that great movie "Sweet Smell of Success," starring Burt Lancaster as the vicious Broadway gossip columnist J.J. Hu…
Insiders who attended the workshop of The Last Dance are still scratching their heads trying to figure out what the hell happened.
From London comes word that Keira Knightley, a sexy pirate wench, will be making her West End debut as a sexy suspected lesbian in Lillian Hellman's "The Children's Hour."Details are still …
It may be small consolation, but Jeffrey Tambor should know he wasn't the first TV actor to come a cropper as Georges, the dapper nightclub owner in "La Cage aux Folles." (Tambor quit the s…
Vanessa Redgrave is arguably the greatest living stage actress of her generation. What's inarguable is that "V," as friends call her, is the most eccentric of the lot. Anybody who's worked…
'Pippin" -- Stephen Schwartz's perennially popular and tuneful 1972 musical -- is headed back to Broadway. The production will be directed by Diane Paulus, who was nominated for a Tony for …
'Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark" is the most expensive and technically complex show ever produced on a Broadway stage. It may also turn out to be the most dangerous -- to both the actors and…
On the strength of terrific reviews last week for her per formance in "The Children's Hour" in London, the lovely Keira Knightley is likely to be the leading box-office draw on Broadway in …
Alec Baldwin, who rivals the late, great Jack Cassidy in his ability to play smug and arrogant, is in the hunt for a Broadway show.
Actors eye mass exit
As we head toward March, Broadway's beginning to perk up. The Duke Studios on West 42nd Street are a hive of activity, with half a dozen shows in various states of rehearsal. Walk around th…
