911 stories by "Michael Riedel"
I go away for a couple of weeks, and what happens?"Rebecca" is out of money!Plus ca change . . .The "Rebecca" marquee at the Broadhurst is looking pretty forlorn these days, especially since…
Page Six's favorite movie mogul " Harvey Weinstein " is in England trying to become David Merrick.
Weinstein's pulling out all the stops in an effort to become a big-time theatrical impresar…
LONDON " Is Broadway big enough for two little girls?
A juicy rivalry is shaping up this season between "Annie," which begins previews next month at The Palace, and "Matilda," a West End hit…
Feb. 22, 1983: A night that will live in Broadway infamy.
It was the night a 28-year-old writer named Arthur Bicknell opened his first (and last) Broadway play, a mystery-farce called "Moose…
The fall season is technically under way, but since the first musical was "Bring It On," which opened over the summer, I'm calling for a do-over.
Just when you thought Broadway musicals coul…
Go, "Tootsie," go!
Well, not so fast, my dear.
Sony Pictures announced last week that it has struck a deal with Broadway producer Scott Sanders ("The Color Purple") to turn some of its famou…
'Wall Street" meets "Good-fellas" " that's how they're describing Chazz Palminteri's new play "Human," which is slated to open on Broadway in the spring.
Palminteri, who got his start with "…
I can't say much for Ricky Martin's performance as Ché in the revival of "Evita" at the Marquis. With his jaunty cap and peppy demeanor, he looks more like a newsboy in Disney's…
To the tune of Stephen Sondheim's "No One Is Alone" " or, if you don't know it, "The Candy Man" (they're practically interchangeable) " let's all sing an ode to the Public Theater's misbegot…
It's always fun, this time of year, to scan the credits of upcoming musicals to learn the names of the latest crop of suckers " I mean, investors! " about to try their luck on the Great Whit…
Marvin Hamlisch wrote the musical that saved Broadway.
The year was 1973, and Hamlisch, New York-born, Juilliard-trained, was out in Hollywood, collecting Oscars. He won three for movies tha…
Though best known for his novels and essays, Gore Vidal, who died this week at 86, had a decent run on Broadway. Between 1957 and 1972, he wrote five plays, including two hits, "A Visit to a…
The American Theatre Wing, one of Broadway's longest-running institutions, has a dapper new chairman " William Ivey Long, the celebrated costume designer of such shows as "Chicago," "Hairspr…
SUMMERTIME " and the gossip is sparse.
So thank heavens for the first preview this week of "Into the Woods" in Central Park.
At last, something to swing my ax at.
"Disaster."
"Train wreck."
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The venerable Players Club may soon have to part ways with one of its oldest members.
Now that she's ditched Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes is going to reinvent herself on the Great White Way. The actress will appear at the Music Box Theatre this fall in a new comedy…
The Village People, the biggest boy band of the disco era, are the subject of a new Broadway musical.
The only trouble is, the first draft is like Ethel Merman's infamous disco album " a tra…
Ask anybody who works in show business to name his favorite book about the theater, and I'll lay you 10-to-1 the answer will be Moss Hart's autobiography, "Act One."
Woody Allen, NEA chairma…
If Berry Gordy Jr. can hit Broadway, why not Don Cornelius?
Gordy, as The Post reported last month, is developing a Broadway show based on his life and the story of Motown.
Now I hear throug…
The hype " much of it generated by this very column! " is already building for "Matilda," the London hit that will land at the Shubert Theatre in the spring.
Rave reviews, Tony Awards, nice …
It's polished, witty, tuneful and, if you've hit middle age, unsettling.In the 23 years since it debuted at off-Broadway's Cherry Lane Theatre, "Closer Than Ever," Richard Maltby Jr. and Dav…
Nora Ephron was working right up until the end.
Just a couple of weeks ago, she was still polishing her much-anticipated play "Lucky Guy," about the late newspaper columnist Mike McAlary.
"I…
The tour of Larry Kramer's "The Normal Heart," which won the Tony for Best Revival of a Play in 2011, just opened in Washington, DC, to rave reviews.
Kramer sent a packet of those notices to…
Here's a show that, if it's any good, should make your head spin: "The Exorcist."
The play, which has been adapted from William Peter Blatty's 1971 novel, begins performances next month at t…
Helen Mirren won an Oscar as Elizabeth II in "The Queen."
So why not wear the crown again?
Mirren's doing readings in London this week of a new play called "The Audience," which chronicles E…
