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HERE comes a hit -- "One Man, Two Guvnors," another winner from the Na tional Theatre in London that's headed to Broadway in the spring. Under the leadership of Nicholas Hytner, the Nation…
The fate of "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" was still up the air yesterday as the production team weighed the risks of opening a show in New York that's been maligned by two of the most infl…
Here come the hunks!
Jude Law and Hugh Jackman, two guys who can sell out a theater in about 30 seconds, are coming back to Broadway.
Jackman's first up, opening Oct. 25 at the Broadhurs…
The Roundabout's scrambling to find a musical in the fall for Studio 54, one of its prime houses.
The nonprofit company announced plans to revive Bob Fosse's 1978 revue "Dancin' " there i…
The creators of the up coming Broadway re vival of "Porgy and Bess" -- still raw from the bucket of acid Stephen Sondheim doused them with the other week -- are bracing for more potential tr…
AS anyone who saw his terri fic performance in "The Motherf**ker With the Hat" can attest, Bobby Cannavale is one of our finest dramatic stage actors. But he's not content to rest on this y…
Twitter Watch has a useful feature, broadwayworld.com: Every time a Broad way personality tweets something newsworthy, those "Glee"-obsessed show geeks post it.
The latest tantalizing tid…
Is Broadway big enough for two Spider-Men?
Over at the Fox woods Theatre, we've got Reeve Carney still slogging it out as the title character in Bono and The Edge's $75 million "Spider-Ma…
Harvey Weinstein's maiden voyage as a Broadway impresa rio has run into choppy waters.
The producer, who released the Oscar-winning "The King's Speech," is the driving force behind a new …
The new musicals this season aren't exactly blockbuster central.
Douglas Carter Beane's "Lysistrata Jones" is campy and fun, but it's not going to topple "The Book of Mormon."
"Nice Wor…
The Broadway musical "Carrie" is remarka bly durable.
It opened -- and closed -- in May 1988.
All these years later, it remains the gold standard of Broadway fiascos, despite the best …
The Royal Shake speare Company's in town -- performing five shows in reper tory at the Park Ave nue Armory -- so it seemed a fine time to talk with Roger Rees about the 22 years he spent the…
Paula Wagner, a Holly wood big wig who ran Tom Cruise's production company for years, is headed to Broadway. She's got the rights to William Inge's "Bus Stop" and is putting up a staged read…
Is this perfect casting or what? Nicolas Cage -- who's al most as celebrated for his nutty outbursts as he is for his string of lousy movies ("The Wicker Man") -- playing Randle Patrick McMu…
Strolling through the West Village the other night, I ran into Duncan Sheik, who, with lyricist Steven Sater, wrote the Tony-winning "Spring Awakening."
He'd just come from Poughkeepsie, …
Hugh Jackman's one-man show opened in Toronto this week -- and boy, is it hot.
I wrote about "Hugh Jackman in Concert" in May, when it opened in San Francisco, and while the reviews were …
Critics may snigger all they want to at Andrew Lloyd Webber's music, but the great songwriter Cy Coleman ("Witchcraft," "Hey, Big Spender") once told me, "There isn't a Broadway composer al…
Judging from his salary demands, Harry Connick Jr. must think he's Nathan Lane.
The crooner from New Orleans, who got his start in New York playing the piano at Chez Josephine, could pu…
Everybody knows Col umbo from television.
But in fact, the beloved disheveled detective made his first appearance in a stage play called "Prescription: Murder," by the now-legendary writi…
Oh, you're going places, Alice. You're going -- straight to Broadway!
Though it sounds like one of Ralph Kramden's cockamamie schemes to get out of Brooklyn, there is, in fact, an invitat…
Playwright Douglas Carter Beane -- who, with director Jerry Zaks, turned "Sister Act" into an unexpected treat -- always makes me laugh.
On the eve of the Tonys, I wrote that you could te…
'Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark" pulled off a miracle this week: It opened.
But for all the hoopla surrounding the show's troubled preview period (which began in the Pleistocene Epoch) and…
It's casting from heaven.
Kristin Chenoweth, the only Christian fundamental ist I know of on Broadway, played the mascara-en crusted Tammy Faye Bakker last week in an invitation-only readin…
Mitt Rommey should take a page out of "The Book of Mormon."
Because if he can sweep the Republican primaries next year the way "Mormon" swept the Tonys last night, he'll be the first Morm…
The Tony Awards are tonight, and approximately 12 people will be watching.
Broadway's big award show on CBS is always ratings challenged, lagging far behind sporting events and reruns of "M…
