911 stories by "Michael Riedel"
Margaret Thatcher was, like her good friend Ronald Reagan, a politician with theatrical flair. She gave one of the best performances I've ever seen " in the House of Commons right before she…
Bond is coming back to Broadway, this time with his better half.
And I don't mean Blofeld! Daniel Craig, the reigning 007, will star opposite his wife, Rachel Weisz, in a revival of Harold …
Richard Griffiths was an actor from the old school. And by that I mean he liked a little nip before going onstage.
I met him a couple of times at Angus McIndoe's, a bar across the street fro…
Broadway is about to be gripped by spring fever, with 15 openings scheduled between now and the cutoff date for Tony Award nominations at the end of April.
Shia LaBeouf's "Orphans" meltdown …
Thirteen years after his death, Roald Dahl is enjoying a theatrical comeback.
In London, the "Hairspray" team of MarcShaiman and Scott Wittman areworking on "Charlie and the Chocolate Factor…
I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for "Annie."
It was my very first Broadway show, and I saw it from the last row of the balcony of the Alvin Theatre (now the Neil Simon).
And though…
Christine Quinn may be the Democratic front-runner for mayor, but there's one patch of New York where she'd face some formidable competition: Broadway, an area that would handily be won by H…
As loyal readers of this column know " hi, Mom! hi, Dad! " I've taken to dispensing advice about how to improve the new crop of Broadway shows.
And the results, I must say, have been pretty …
We're on the cusp of what's shaping up to be a busy spring on Broadway " 19 productions are on the way " and producers are already playing the Tony sweepstakes.
As they survey the competitio…
* A few quick hits today:
THE Nederlanders recently announced that they've teamed up with Gloria Estefan and her husband, Emilio, to bring the couple's life story to Broadway.
The Estefans …
Ever since Feinstein's shut down at the Regency, Michael Feinstein has been on the hunt for a new place to tickle his ivories.
I hear he may make a bid on 54 Below, that fine new cabaret and…
Former New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton will make his Broadway debut in "Lucky Guy," the new Nora Ephron play about newspaper columnist Mike McAlary, starring Tom Hanks.
The ci…
And the Jeremy Piven Award for Best Meltdown by a Performer Who Will Never Work Again on Broadway goes to . . . Shia LaBeouf, who was fired this week from "Orphans."
LaBeouf has been tweetin…
One of my favorite plays of the past 10 years is "Frost/Nixon," Peter Morgan's riveting historical drama about the clash between the disgraced Richard Nixon and the British television person…
Maybe she should sing.
Tickets went on sale last week for "I'll Eat You Last," a one-woman play starring Bette Midler, but there were no fireworks at the box office.
Backers were confident t…
What better song for Simon Cowell to sing than "Falling in Love With Myself"?
That's the big second-act number in "The X Factor Musical," which had an invitation-only workshop two weeks ago …
'Motown: The Musical" was loading into the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre yesterday, but there was one thing I couldn't find amid the trucks, trolleys and crates: a script.
The $12 million musi…
In the matter of "Rebecca: The Broadway Scandal," we learned this week that it was the press agent " Marc Thibodeau " who sent the poison-pen e-mail to an "angel investor" about to pony up $…
TOOT, toot " we have our "Rebecca" whistle-blower!The man who brought the curtain down on Broadway's biggest fiasco in years is none other than the show's very own press agent, Marc Thibodea…
The first inkling of trouble came Tuesday night, right after Barry Manilow finished the first performance of his Broadway concert at the St. James.
The curtain came down, the house lights we…
'Viva Forever!"?
If producer Judy Craymer has anything to say about it, it'll be "Viva, at Least for a While!"
"Viva Forever!," the much-ballyhooed Spice Girls musical, opened in London last…
My theatrical consulting business is taking off faster than even I could have imagined!
At the rate I'm going, I'll soon be floating stock on the NASDAQ exchange. I haven't settled on a name…
Almost a year ago, when I was attending the Holders Festival in Barbados " one of the Caribbean's leading performing arts festivals " I had a nice chat with Andrew Lloyd Webber, who has a ho…
What do you do when you have a star who should be selling like hot cakes selling like lukewarm cakes?
Scream at the people who designed the poster!
I'm told there's been some shouting matche…
It's follow-up Wednesday, so here's the latest on a couple of my Shubert Alley-shattering scoops.
Our old football buddy, Ghost Skipper, is still, I regret to say, "haunting" director Rob As…
