911 stories by "Michael Riedel"
Bono is now captain of the Titanic.
After keeping a low pro file for months while director Julie Taymor was steering "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark" into the iceberg, Bono is spearheading…
The Lion Queen is being dethroned.
As I reported last week, the producers of "Spider-Man: We Are Lost in the Dark" are indeed throwing Julie Taymor under a bus.
The new director is lik…
It may be small consola tion, but Jeffrey Tam bor should know he wasn't the first TV actor to come a cropper as Georges, the dapper nightclub owner in "La Cage aux Folles." (Tambor quit the …
The cast and crew of "Spider-Man: Please Go Away" are await ing an announce ment that the March 15 opening will likely be scrapped for a date in June -- though the year has yet to be determi…
There's trouble in St. Tropez.
The delightful Tony-winning re vival of "La Cage aux Folles" has two new romantic leads -- Harvey Fierstein, as Albin, the high-strung drag queen, and Jeffr…
As we head toward March, Broadway's beginning to perk up.
The Duke Studios on West 42nd Street are a hive of activity, with half a dozen shows in various states of rehearsal.
Walk arou…
Producers of the beleaguered $65 million musical, "Spider-Man:Turn Off the Dark," appear to be losing faith in their director Julie Taymor, creator of the "Lion King," and are looking to hir…
Linda Lavin knows how to make an en trance.
As Silda, a sharp- tongued, recovering alcoholic in Jon Robin Baitz's hit play "Other Desert Cities" at Lincoln Center, she doesn't appear unti…
On the strength of terrific reviews last week for her per formance in "The Children's Hour" in London, the lovely Keira Knightley is likely to be the leading box-office draw on Broadway in t…
The elephant gun I trained on "Spider- Man: Turn Off the Dark" seems a little excessive for today's target -- Frank Wildhorn's "Wonderland."
A popgun should do.
The musical, which begi…
I rest my case.
"Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" is no longer an out-of-control curiosity in which somebody might get killed.
Now, buried under an avalanche of mostly negative reviews, it's j…
Which comes first -- the music or the lyrics?
That question is always asked of songwriters, and their standard answer is that it's impossible to say because songwriting is such a collabor…
Mormons! Catholic Leaguers! Freedom Partiers!
The time has come to get out the signs and rev up the protesters.
"The Book of Mormon" starts previews at the Eugene O'Neill on Feb. 24, a…
With the success of "Glee," Broadway mu sicals are a hot subject for television.
HBO tried to produce a series called "The Miraculous Year," about a brilliant but nasty composer modeled o…
I'm sick of "Spider-Man."
So let's talk about something that's supposed to be good -- "Matilda," a new musical that opened last month in Stratford-Upon-Avon, Bill Shakespeare's hometown. …
After Hugh Jack man, Broadway's go- to leading man is Harry Connick Jr.
He gave a winning performance a few years ago in the revival of "The Pajama Game," and last summer played a sold-ou…
On Jan. 31, the New York Drama Critics Circle has one last chance to check its slide into irrelevancy when it comes to "Spider-Man, We're Postponing Again."
The critics meet that day, and…
Get ready for the Jersey Girls.
A jukebox musical about the Shi relles called, naturally, "Baby, It's You" will open in the spring at the Broadhurst.
The nostalgia-dripping show is aim…
The final performances of "Dracula" last weekend played less like a Gothic thriller and more like the backstage farce "Noises Off."
The antics -- which Tony-win ning costume designer Willa K…
Vampires aren't the only dead things in "Dracula."
The show's designers say the pro ducers are dead, too -- deadbeats.
The designers -- including Tony winner Willa Kim (costumes), Dana…
The role of Mama Rose in "Gypsy" has always attracted great divas, from Ethel Merman to Angela Lansbury, Tyne Daly to Patti LuPone.
And now comes word that the greatest diva of them all -…
Broadway lost some great theater people in 2010. I went hunting in The Post's archive for in terviews with some of them. Raise a glass and enjoy.
* LENA HORNE
In 1981, her movie and nigh…
The management of the Foxwoods The atre, home to the be leaguered "Spider- Man: Turn Off the Dark," has admitted that at least some sections of the orchestra are unsafe.
And to whom did m…
Bono is one of the world's great philanthropists, speaking out for the oppressed, the sick and the poor.
But where's Mr. Humanitarian when it comes to the disaster that's "Spider-Man: Tur…
Nathan Lane's missives
And Fiona Shaw's britches
Kelsey's French kisses
And Spider-Man's glitches . . .
Those were four of my favorite things in the theater this year, and before the ho…
