911 stories by "Michael Riedel"
About 4 a.m. on Dec. 12, 1976, Jack Cassidy, the suave, handsome char acter actor, poured himself a scotch and soda and settled down on the couch in his West Hollywood pent house.
He prob…
My friends at The Broadway League, the bloated and useless organization that runs the Tonys into the ground, are in crisis mode.
The reason? All the bad press about Broadway falling apart…
Had someone shouted "Is there a doctor in the house!" a few days ago at "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark," it would have been because yet another actor had broken something.
But safety insp…
In "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark," our dan gling hero vanquishes a parade of villains -- the Green Goblin, Swarm, Electro, Carnage, Swiss Miss and Kraven the Hunter.
But Spidey may have …
Not even Spider-Man could avert this disaster.
Last night's opening pre view of Broadway's most expensive production ever, "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," was an epic flop as the $65 mil…
Manhattan The ater Club, long an engine of new and ambitious plays, is getting into the risk-averse import business.
The nonprofit, taxpayer-subsidized company recently opened Lee Hall's …
'Pippin" -- Stephen Schwartz's perennially popular and tuneful 1972 musical -- is headed back to Broadway.
The production will be directed by Diane Paulus, who was nominated for a Tony fo…
Power lists are silly, gimmicky things that get everybody talk ing, especially those who don't make
the cut.
BroadwaySpace.com stirred the pot last week with its second annual list of t…
At the risk of turning this column into the Green Goblin Gazette, let's have an other go at "Spider- Man, Please Sign My Cast."
I've got my foot on its neck, and I'm having too much fun t…
It's a role he was born to play -- in fact, he wrote it.
Harvey Fierstein, one of the last of the bankable Broadway stars, will join the cast of "La Cage aux Folles" as Albin, the high-stru…
A very impressive en semble cast has come together for Stephen Adly Guirgis' new play "The Motherf - - - er With the Hat" -- hereafter known, for obvious reasons, as "Hat."
Bobby Cannavale,…
