911 stories by "Michael Riedel"
Until "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" plays its first performance Nov. 14 -- a night that promises to be a landmark event in Broadway gossip-column writing -- we're going to be bored out of…
Hilarious, audacious—and guaranteed to offend just about everybody. That's how theater insiders are describing The Book of Mormon, the much-anticipated new Broadway musical from South …
When it comes to "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark" -- my favorite show since "Taboo" -- expect delays.The $65 million spectacle is scheduled to play its first preview Nov. 14. But there's suc…
Tommy Tune will receive a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award on June 7, but CBS still hasn't decided whether to air his speech that night. In the past, some lifetime achievers...
Dominic McHugh, a musicologist at England's University of Sheffield, was researching "My Fair Lady" at the Library of Congress in 2008 when he came across 15 boxes of material no...
Kenneth D. Laub, a real estate magnate who lives on the Upper East Side, stopped by Donohue's on Lexington Avenue the other night and told Maureen Donohue-Peters, the owner, he'd...
When it comes to the Tony Awards fashion police, Anna Wintour is the precinct captain. And boy is she getting the troops in line. Wintour attended the 2014 Tonys and...
Of the four nominees for Best Musical, only one is turning into a bona fide hit. Advance sales for "An American in Paris" have climbed past $10 million, theater sources...
There's always talk of a "British invasion" at the Tonys. Sure enough, plenty of this year's nominees come from that country we rebelled against 240 years ago " the actors,...
A critic once said the DCC in Drama Critics' Circle stands for "Damned Cranky Cobras." Well, some of those cobras have been especially cranky of late. Led by Marilyn Stasio...
Is it war between Harvey Weinstein and Broadway? The Tony nominators fired a big old cannonball into Weinstein's Peter Pan musical, "Finding Neverland," on Tuesday, by denying it a single...
The Tony nominators gave Harvey Weinstein the hook, the Captain Hook! Weinstein's $20 million Peter Pan musical "Finding Neverland" " his first foray onto Broadway " failed to receive a...
The hosts of this year's Tony Award telecast on CBS will be Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth. Both are Broadway babies. Cumming has just finished a sold out run at...
“Clear the flop wall at Joe Allen! We're going to need the space!" That's how one wag sizes up the situation on Broadway this week. To accommodate the coming bloodbath,...
Ian McKellen is one of the great Shakespearean actors of his generation. His portrayals of Macbeth, King Lear, Iago and Prospero are legendary in theater circles. And yet most of...
Broadway would be a little thin without the British. "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," this year's likely Tony winner for Best Play, is an import from...
In Wednesday's column, I paraphrased "It Might as Well Be Spring" " rather cleverly, I thought " to describe the Tony madness that's gripping Broadway. I credited the lyrics to...
Broadway is as restless as a backer at an opening. It's as jumpy as Bill Nighy on a stage. Larry Hart " of Rodgers and Hart " would say it...
“Mamma Mia!" " which turned everybody with a hand-held hair dryer into a Dancing Queen " will end its 14-year Broadway run Sept. 5. It is the eighth-longest-running show in...
For weeks, my spies in Siam were telling me that nobody at "The King and I" could understand a word Ken Watanabe was saying. And when I say nobody, I...
Set your alarm clocks: "Groundhog Day," the musical, is coming to Broadway. Based on the '93 movie starring Bill Murray as a man forced to relive the same 24 hours...
Broadway will dim its lights Wednesday night for Gene Saks, who died this week at 93. Best known for directing some of Neil Simon's biggest hits " "Lost in Yonkers,"...
Broadway's new Flo Ziegfeld " Harvey Weinstein " recently announced with much fanfare that his musical "Finding Neverland" hit $1 million last week at the box office. Naturally, Broadway ins…
If you happened to be walking through Times Square one spring day in 1978, you might have been surprised to see Eartha Kitt parading down Broadway on the back of...
Larry David is king of the Broadway box office this season in "Fish in the Dark." The show opened with $14 million in the bank, and the limited run at...
