911 stories by "Michael Riedel"
NBC's live broadcast of "The Sound of Music" last year drew 22 million viewers. The betting at the network and on Broadway is that Thursday's live broadcast of "Peter Pan,"...
I’m flattered that Sting's taken my advice, dispensed here a couple of weeks ago: He'll be joining the cast of "The Last Ship" from Dec. 9 to Jan. 10, playing...
Back in 1982, the Broadway-bound musical "My One and Only" was in trouble during its Boston tryout. The creative team, exhausted and starving after working 24 hours straight trying to...
Diva alert! Donna Murphy is playing Norma Desmond in a reading of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Sunset Boulevard" this week at the Roundabout Theatre Company. I'm of two minds about this...
With Times Square shining brighter than ever, there's no place for the lovably shabby. And so the Café Edison on West 47th Street, which has been feeding Jewish comfort food...
When I was a kid and left my room a mess, my mother would say: "Who do you think I am " Hazel?" If you're over 45 or ever watched...
Sting is appearing in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade " not as a float, but probably on one, singing songs from his new musical, "The Last Ship." You have to...
Broadway’s slate of musicals this season is by no means set in stone. "The Last Ship," as I reported last week, is listing like the Concordia. "Side Show," though likely to...
Of this I'm certain: Sting will receive a Tony nomination for his score for "The Last Ship." The critics praised his lyrics and music, using nearly identical words and phrases...
News flashes from the Rialto today (very Walter Winchell): Theater people know how send off one of their own, and the Nov. 17 tribute to Elaine Stritch at the Al...
If you grew up watching the Bob Hope specials on NBC as I did, your image of the comedian is Mr. Southern California " a rich old Republican clad in...
The best movie about Broadway is " and I will brook no discussion " "All About Eve." "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night" is a...
Garth Drabinsky, Broadway's real-life Max Bialystock, is hanging around the stage door again. Out on parole after serving three years in a Canadian clink for fraud and forgery in connection.…
Many thanks to Kevin Spacey for taking over this space last week and delivering a fine tribute to his former acting teacher, Marian Seldes. His column generated plenty of e-mail,...
Of all the Broadway divas, my favorite " and my good friend " is Betty Buckley. She won a Tony singing "Memory" in "Cats," and she broke my heart as...
Whenever Roger Moore, who will be 87 on Tuesday, gets depressed thinking about all his movie friends who have gone to "that great cutting room in the sky," he recalls...
I went up to Cambridge, Mass., last weekend to play on Harvey Weinstein's turf, "Finding Neverland." Today he plays on mine, "Hunsecker-land," as in J.J. Hunsecker, the Broadway gossip colum…
For a nation that broke away from the British Empire with quite a bit of fanfare, we still love all things English, especially the Monarch. Chelsea Clinton's pregnant? No one...
I'd just finished my 50th lap in the Equinox pool when somebody jumped into my lane. It turned out to be John Slattery, the "silver fox," as my girlfriend calls...
The gossip at the American Theatre Wing's classy salute to Angela Lansbury Monday night centered on the spat between the producers of "American Psycho" and their former partner, off-Broadway…
Let's shine the spotlight today on a show nobody's ever heard of but everyone's talking about. Well, those in the know (which now includes you, dear reader) are talking about...
On paper, the character must have seemed campy, to the point of ridiculousness. "The Spy Who Loved Me," the 1977 Bond movie starring Roger Moore, perhaps sought to capitalize on...
“There are enough dim lights on Broadway and they're all at the League." That's one producer's assessment of the Broadway League, which set off a social media firestorm this week...
Joan Rivers, God bless her, was here because of Ray Bolger. Bolger, the Scarecrow from "The Wizard of Oz," once starred in an old Frank Loesser musical called "Where's Charley?"...
Me thinks Harvey Weinstein is preparing to put out the plank again on the good ship "Finding Neverland." The victim this time? Jeremy Jordan, who's playing J.M. Barrie in the...
