The 1993 hit movie, "Mrs. Doubtfire," starring the late brilliant Robin Williams, was a beloved family film " directed by Chris Columbus and co-starring Sally Field and Pierce Brosnan " that…
Another show posts a closing notice. The revival of The Who's "Tommy" will play its last performance on July 21st. The musical received good reviews and had ecstatic audiences, but was overw…
It was inevitable. Prince is coming to Broadway. The late purple rock star will be the subject of an estate approved musical based on his hit movie, "Purple Rain." The show will launch in Mi…
Sir Ian McKellen says he's ok after his fall off a London stage last night. He tumbled during a performance of "Player Kings," a Shakespeare mashup. Audience members heard McKellen shout in …
The Tony Awards ratings are in and they are bad. The early numbers indicate this year's show dropped 15% from last year. The total so far looks like just 3.5 million viewers, down from 4.1 m…
Tammy Faye Bakker (pronounced Baker) is back to looking for her Jim. Elton John's musical about the televangelist couple has lost star Andrew Rannells just three months before the show is su…
"The Outsiders" won two big Tony Award tonight " Best Musical and Best Director. It didn't win any acting prizes, or its music or writing. The musical based on S.E. Hinton's famous young adu…
The Tony Awards are on tonight, from 8 to 11pm. In the middle at 9pm, HBO debuts season 2 of "House of the Dragon." This morning the Tonys are pushing a performance by Jay Z with Alicia Keys…
EXCLUSIVE I told you a couple of weeks ago, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York has charged the chief financial officer of the Epoch Times with trying to launder…
For Idina Menzel, it's not "If/When," it's spring 2025. The former star of "Wicked" will return then to Broadway in a new musical called "Redwood." It's the story of a grieving woman who dri…
The Tony Awards " coming this Sunday " are acquiescing to a big public complaint. At first it seemed like they were not going to allow the play with music, "Stereophonic," to perform on the …
Congrats to two of our best actors and nicest people. Naomi Watts and Billy Crudup had their official wedding in Mexico this weekend. I told you they would back on May 15th. Naomi's brother,…
The Tony Awards are coming this Sunday on CBS. While this has been an excellent season on Broadway, the show " which begins at 8pm " is battling internal and external forces. Let's start wit…
Hello, I'm Dolly! Is the name of Dolly Parton's new musical. It will come to Broadway in 2026 with old songs, new songs, and a book by Dolly. We may learn a lot about Dolly's life and maybe …
The subject was families Saturday night in Sag Harbor, where John Slattery, his wife Talia Balsam, and and their son Harry opened the Bay Street Theater's news season in "The Subject Was Ros…
I just caught up with two new Broadway shows whose premieres I couldn't make " there were just too many openings this season! The first is "Suffs" an original musical from writer-star Shaina…
We're still waiting for word on the fifth and final season of "Stranger Things" on TV. Meanwhile, a prequel play called "Stranger Things: First Shadow" in London's West End has been a huge h…
Tony winner Sutton Foster, hot off "Sweeney Todd," is coming back to Broadway immediately. Foster will star in a summer revival of "Once Upon a Mattress," the musical that brought Carol Burn…
The Hollywood strikes last year are now turning into a big win for Broadway. Both George Clooney and Robert Downey Jr are coming to town next in plays for the first time. Clooney will star i…
Amy Herzog's tender play, "Mary Jane," about a mother raising an ill child, demands that we slow down, take in the drama of the day-to-day. Oscar nominee Rachel McAdams, a movie star " plays…
A little more from last night's elegant and funny one night only performance for Lincoln Center Theater (1000 times better than that low class Met Gala). Sigourney Weaver was deftly funnier …
Wow! Tuesday night Lincoln Center Theater put on the kind of star studded event that was a throwback to the good old days. To raise money, LCT produced " in two days " a retro staging of Chr…
In the world of the Tony Awards, musicals like "The Great Gatsby," "The Notebook," and "Back to the Future" are considered, well, "bad," and get no nominations. But in Broadway.com's Audienc…
I gather Sting's "Message in a Bottle," directed and choreographed by the remarkable Kate Prince, has had runs in the UK, Australia, and in some US cities. Last night it arrived at City Cent…
Alex Edelman is the toast of Broadway this morning. After one short run on Broadway in the summer of 2023, Edelman has been awarded an honorary Tony. "Just for Us," which lasted two months, …