911 stories by "Michael Riedel"
The play's the thing this spring on Broadway. To the competitive roster of non-musicals I spoke about last week " all-star revivals of "King Lear" and "All My Sons" among them " add Heidi Sc…
Ring out the old, ring in the new: Here's my countdown to the 10 personalities, shows and backstage dramas I'm looking forward to in 2019. 10. Glenda Jackson delivered an unforgettable perfo…
Broadway lost some boldface names in 2018. Let's give them an encore, in their own words. William Goldman made his name in the movies, writing the screenplays to "Butch Cassidy and the Sunda…
An array of Broadway types populates the new musical comedy, "The Prom": the self-absorbed diva, the exasperated press agent, the vain leading man. And then there's the jaded chorus girl, wh…
Like many theater-mad kids who grew up in the '60s, songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman know every note and word from "Mary Poppins." "I listened to, and continue to listen to, that a…
"It would have been the first play ever to open and close in the Southern District Court."
"Girl From the North Country," the brooding musical fashioned around Bob Dylan songs, is moving to Broadway this season, but not to the theater it wanted. The producers of the show, which vi…
Bruce Springsteen has paved the way for a host of legendary music acts to play the Great White Way in 2019. A group of powerful entertainment companies " Live Nation, Creative Artists Associ…
Never mind those Curtiss Helldiver fighter planes circling the Empire State Building in "King Kong." The real threat to Broadway's big ape may be those vicious drama critics. They strafed th…
I'm going to be a yenta and give you the plotke on "Fiddler on the Roof." The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene's revival down at the Museum of Jewish Heritage is headed uptown to off-Broa…
The ladies who lunch are booking a table in New York. The gender-bending revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Company," which won rave reviews in London, will open on Broadway next fall, several t…
Just in time for Halloween, there's no shortage of monsters and villains lurking around Shubert Alley. My Tony for Best Baddie goes to Mr. Muldoon, the sinister IRA boss in Jez Butterworth's…
A little tip if you want to see a show before it takes off and prices go sky-high: It ain't too soon to grab tickets to "Ain't Too Proud." This new musical, about the Temptations, has been m…
Tituss Burgess, enjoying small-screen fame as the struggling actor of Netflix's "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt," is also the driving creative force behind "The Preacher's Wife," a new musical ba…
Bob Dylan has signed off on moving "Girl From the North Country," a new musical fashioned around his song catalog, to Broadway in the spring, sources tell The Post. The musical, which debute…
The American Theatre Wing threw a jolly bash Monday night honoring Andrew Lloyd Webber, who's endowed a program to bring arts into schools. Lloyd Webber had the best line of the night when h…
Tourists have King Kong, Daniel Radcliffe and a show about Cher this season. Theater buffs and lovers of classic comedy have something even better: Elaine May's first Broadway appearance in …
With only a couple of previews in Chicago under its corset, "Tootsie" is shaping up to be a hit. Buzz was building during rehearsals for Santino Fontana, as the main character, and it explod…
Penn Badgley didn't mean to step away from the spotlight for six years. But since "Gossip Girl" ended in 2012, he hasn't had another starring TV role until now. "I didn't anticipate that [my…
Time to raise the curtain on the shows headed to Broadway this season. Here are some notable titles: Get tickets now Kenneth Lonergan's plays age well. Last season's revival of "Lobby Hero,"…
Neil Simon was the most successful playwright in Broadway history, racking up some 9,000 performances " and many millions of dollars " with hits such as "The Odd Couple," "The Sunshine Boys,…
Not to drop a name, but I was at a dinner party once with Robert De Niro (thump!) who said the actress he admired most was Barbara Harris. De Niro was a student at the Actors Studio in New Y…
Without a star above the title, it's hard for a new American play to get to Broadway. That's the number-one gripe that producers, agents, investors and actors have about the business. Yes, t…
Les Moonves, the embattled head of CBS, once told me: "The Tony Awards are part of this network's heritage. The telecast is a money-loser for CBS, but there are certain things that are more …
Moolah-la: They're sure spending a lot of money on "Moulin Rouge! The Musical." The stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's vertigo-inducing movie musical is budgeted at $30 million " and that do…
