As you may have heard, it's crazy in New York right now. Our three remaining mayoral candidates participated in another televised debate tonight, and got nowhere. Manhattanites and older peo…
Broadway was boffo this past week. The Columbus Day holiday brought a spectactular $8 million rise to the box office numbers for all shows in total. "Hamilton" is out of control, with $4 mil…
It was only a few months ago that theater fans were outraged by ticket prices to see Denzel Washington in "Othello" and George Clooney in "Good Night and Good Luck." Producers were charging …
Last year, Jennifer Lopez " aka JLo" had a lovely turn in the Amazon MGM movie, "Unstoppable." When the movie played in Toronto, there was some Oscar buzz. If "Unstoppable" had had a real re…
"Hamilton" is on fire. It's all because of Leslie Odom, Jr. The Tony winning star of "Hamilton" is back playing Aaron Burr for a limited run. Odom began on September 9th. Since then, the box…
Tonight, "Art" returns to Broadway. Yazmin Reza's play about friendship and art and how three friends value each, comes back with a new trio of actors. Bobby Cannavale " so good right now in…
Wolverine is having a lot of trouble selling tickets. Hugh Jackman's shows this weekend coming up at Radio City Music Hall are a mixed bag. The evening shows on Friday and Saturday are mostl…
Alicia Keys is standing her ground. She's going to perform live on stage for anyone who buys a ticket to her "Hell's Kitchen" musical after the show is over on September 26th and 27th. The s…
Eve Ensler, a remarkable playwright who invented The Vagina Monologues, calls herself "V" now. But for the purposes of publicity, most fans know her as Eve Ensler. V has written a new work c…
Exclusive: Evidently no one wants to work at the Kennedy Center. They're currently listing 31 jobs on LinkedIn, from Senior Vice President Artistic Programming ($340,000 per year) to Shuttle…
When the late New Yorker movie writer, Lillian Ross, revealed the story of her affair with the magazine's fabled editor, it blew the minds of the literati. Now the late William Shawn's son, …
UPDATE: A new report also says an investor is suing the producers. As I wrote below, the show cost $24.25 million, it's a total loss. Billy Porter may have sepsis or is just smart about aban…
"Hamilton" is a hit in theaters. Thursday and Friday audiences brought in almost $4 million. The Tony Award winning Broadway musical's filmed version " which has been playing on Disney Plus …
The "Hamilton" 10th anniversary marketing campaign rolls on. Last night, Lin Manuel Miranda and a lot of his original Broadway cast came to Shakespeare in the Park's Delacorte Theater for a …
EXCLUSIVE: Sue Gilad aka Suzanne Gilad has her name on dozens of Broadway shows. She's listed as a "producer," but she's an investor, who's got " or had " her claws in hits like "Moulin Roug…
How much more damage can Trump and his lackeys inflict on the poor Kennedy Center? In a further move to the right, Richard Grennell and his pack of thugs have fired the dance programmers. Th…
Aunt Ada from "The Gilded Age" is coming to Broadway. She may run into Mrs. Russell. I told you this week that Carrie Coon will be on the boards this fall in Tracey Letts' "Bug." Now Cynthia…
They say if you bring big stars to Broadway, the audience will show up. But so far the fall season is looking tenuous at best even with three big names about to hit the stage. Shows starring…
When we last saw Bertha Russell, she was aghast that her husband left her. That was on "The Gilded Age." Now Mrs. Russell's portrayer, Carrie Coon, is coming to Broadway this fall. She'll st…
There were so many stars in the opening night audience last night for Jeff Ross's Broadway debut that it was dizzying. Ross, famous for being a "roast master," pulled off a coup with his one…
It hasn't been an easy summer on Broadway. While Times Square is filled with thousands of people milling around taking pictures with Elmo, the theater district has struggled. Last week's box…
I know, Putin and Trump are rolling in the hay but back in Washington, the Kennedy Center is still mired in trouble. The New York Times reported today that Jeffrey Finn, the long time produc…
Mira Sorvino is coming to Broadway. The Oscar winner will join the long running musical "Chicago" on September 15th as Roxie Hart. Roxie is kind of the musical version of Mira's award winnin…
It was just a short time ago that Gracie Mansion hosted the Made in NY Awards for the movie community. That was before Mayor Eric Adams was on the run, so to speak, from Zohar Mamdani in the…
"Hamilton" is coming to the big screen. Sort of. Disney will release the original filmed version of the musical on September 5th to theaters. This is the version that was shown on Disney Plu…