911 stories by "Michael Riedel"
The Tony telecast is shaping up and the big winner could well be " "After Midnight." No, it's not going to make off with the award for Best Musical. That,...
Heeeere's Johnny! Two shows are in the works about the king of late-night talk, Johnny Carson. One is being developed by the Carson Entertainment Group, a production company that owns...
It's been a swirl of cocktail parties, lunches and celebrity shoulder-rubbing this week for road presenters " the hundred or so people who present Broadway shows in cities across the...
I'm a little late in wishing Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber happy birthday. The giants of the musical theater were both born on March 22 " Steve in 1930,...
Every producer on Broadway wants Hugh Jackman to star in a show. The Shuberts pursued him for years to play Littlechap (Littlechap!) in "Stop the World " I Want to...
Bialystock and Bloom are coming back to Broadway. Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, who helped make "The Producers" one of the best musical comedies of all time, are reuniting in...
The Tony nominators are forbidden to speak to me or anyone else in the press under pain of being forced to sit through Will Eno's "The Realistic Joneses" again. But...
The Tony nominations are out Tuesday, but let me get a jump on things with my nomination for trouper of the year " LaTanya Richardson Jackson, who jumped in at...
David Javerbaum, the former head writer on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" " he co-wrote the musical "Cry- Baby," too " collaborated with God on His memoir last year,...
Today, every Broadway cast member is given a tutorial on social media. Press agents drill into actors' heads what they can and, more importantly, can't say on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram...
Well, well, well " everything's up for grabs! The mixed reviews last week for Woody Allen's "Bullets Over Broadway" " once touted by pundits as the show to beat this...
Last week, Stephen Sondheim e-mailed me to say that his letters to his collaborator Arthur Laurents are available to anyone who "cares enough to go down to the Library of...
Alan Wasser was a young company manager in New York when he got an assignment: Go to San Francisco and manage some new show at the Curran Theater that was...
It isn't often you pick up some juicy gossip coming out of the Library of Congress. But here's the dish: Arthur Laurents, who wrote "West Side Story" and "Gypsy," left...
The big "get" this year isn't the Tony Award. It's the first spot on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon." And the winner is … "Cabaret." Alan Cumming and the...
Spring is here " time to rev up Tony Award fever. A major issue facing the Tony eligibility committee is what to do with the Roundabout's revival of the Roundabout's...
Before Andrew Lloyd Webber came to town with "Cats," the richest composer on Broadway may well have been Mitch Leigh. Leigh, who died Sunday at 86, wrote one hit, "Man...
RAT-a-tat-tat! That machine-gun fire you hear coming from the St. James Theatre is the sound of a hit. "Bullets Over Broadway" has been in previews just three days, and already...
Here’s a good idea for a musical: A girl is struggling to make ends meet. She's selling all that she has. A man comes along and is willing to buy...
On Broadway, the oldies are still the goodies. As the spring season swings into view, the two shows selling the most tickets are revivals. On the musical front, "Les ÂMisérables,"...
James Earl Jones shot to fame as boxer Jack Jefferson in Howard Sackler's 1967 play "The Great White Hope." Jones won the Tony and, two years later, was nominated for...
Jimmy Fallon's much-publicized decision to move "The Tonight Show" to New York City has Broadway producers and press agents salivating at the prospect of late-night exposure. Fallon, who gre…
In 1996, I was having lunch at Sette Mezzo with Peter Stone, who wrote the musicals "1776" and "The Will Rogers Follies." I asked him what he was up to,...
Myfavorite American play is Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" A close second is Albee's other masterpiece, "A Delicate Balance," which premiered on Broadway in 1966. So I'm pl…
My favorite popular singer is " Goldfinger! " the great Shirley Bassey. And so it gives me tremendous pleasure to report that the producers of "After Midnight" are wooing the...
