911 stories by "Michael Riedel"
Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber have been in town to inspect their revivals of "Evita" and "Jesus Christ Superstar."
Lloyd Webber had to postpone his visit to "Evita" this week due to a flo…
'Evita" and "Newsies" are the clear front-runners in the spring's box- office sweepstakes.
"Evita" " which is being revived on Broadway for the first time since Hal Prince's celebrated 1979 …
'Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark" is going global.
The producers of the $80million musical, thumbing their nose at director Julie Taymor's attempts to scuttle future productions, are shipping …
The most duplicitous character in the wildly popular television series "Smash" " full disclosure: My cameo is coming up soon! " is Ellis, composer Tom's cute young personal assistant.
Ellis,…
Composer Michael Garin was getting ready to decamp to Los Angeles to work on the new musical "Sleepless in Seattle" when his girlfriend looked up from her computer and said, "You've been can…
Within one year, Mike Nichols saw two Broadway plays that changed his life.
In December 1947, his last year of high school, he attended the second night of "A Streetcar Named Desire." What h…
It's February, but it feels like spring " and spring in theater land means activity.
Some shows are in rehearsals, some in previews. Deals are being signed and the Tony Awards are starting t…
The Public Theater just can't shake its Broadway habit.
Once an engine of risky, innovative work, the downtown nonprofit theater is now so enamored of the Great White Way that much of its pr…
Before he choked to death on a bottle cap at the Hotel Elysée in 1983, Tennessee Williams hoped to stage a comeback with a new play called "Masks Outrageous and Austere."
He'd written sever…
A hit musical to producers is like red meat to carnivores.
When one comes along, they scrap and claw for a hunk and then tear into it with abandon.
The show they're salivating over right now…
I received a batch of e-mails in response to my column two weeks ago about Nicol Williamson, the brilliant but troubled Scottish actor who died in December.
He was as famous for his off-stag…
Jordan Roth, the 36-year-old head of Jujamcyn Theaters, was working the phones like an old pro yesterday in an effort to salvage "Clybourne Park," the Pulitzer Prize-winning play that, after…
In his heyday, David Merrick was the most powerful producer on Broadway. He had taste. He was prolific. He knocked out hits " "Look Back in Anger," "Hello, Dolly!" "42nd Street."
And he coul…
In London, Nicol Williamson is remembered for celebrated performances in "Hamlet," "Waiting for Godot" and "Inadmissible Evidence."
But around Broadway, he'll always be remembered for his bi…
Hal Prince has long been one of the most influential figures on Broadway. He produced "West Side Story," directed "The Phantom of the Opera" " which plays its 10,000th performance Feb. 11 " …
Buried in the deliciously nasty lawsuits between Julie Taymor and her former "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark" colleagues is a tussle over a behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of t…
When Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Love Never Dies" opened in London in March 2010, the West End Whingers, England's most influential theater bloggers, dubbed it "Paint Never Dries."The musical, a …
The key to "Rebecca" is cash.
With their first preview only a couple of months away, the producers of the Broadway musical "Rebecca" are still scrambling to raise the money to build Manderla…
Not to beat a dead horse " but "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" is headed for the glue factory.
Last week, I reported that the producers of "Leap of Faith," having picked up the scent of…
Those who slogged through the $12 million revival of "On a Clear Day [You Can See How Bad It Is]" leave saying the same thing: Never have they seen a star " in this case, Harry Connick Jr. "…
Pop quiz 2012! Look into your crystal ball. What do you see?1. Hugh Jackman raised thousands for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS auctioning off his sweaty T-shirts. What will Ricky Martin …
The theater world lost some giants in 2011, not the least of whom was playwright and former Czech President Vaclav Havel. Let's start with the most glamorous woman show business has ever kno…
Get out of the way, Hugh Jackman.
You're about to be upstaged by an actor " a great actor " who's decided to bless Broadway with his own one-man show.
This is a show so good it's going to ma…
The original 1965 production of "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" lasted 280 performances.
The producers of the 2011 revival are hoping " praying " they can squeak along for 238 " that's …
Did the producers of "Once," the delicate new musical at New York Theatre Workshop, get a little ahead of themselves?
The show was generating such strong word of mouth in previews " as well…
