Actress Rachel Zegler will not keep her opinions to herself, no matter how unpopular. Yesterday, Zegler " who became better known thanks to Steven Spielberg's "West Side Story " Tweeted out …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:35AM[SHARE]Carol Burnett, who's now 92, starred Off Broadway in 1959 in "Once Upon A Mattress." Her performance as Princess Winifred, coupled with her regular appearances on "The Garry Moore Show," mad…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:31PM[SHARE]Roman Roy and Saul Goodman are coming to Broadway. Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk will top line David Mamet's short but sour "Glengarry Glen Ross" next spring on the big stage. Comedian Bill…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:21AM[SHARE]Fifty years ago on Wednesday (last night) Philippe Petit made history walking on a highwire between the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center. It was illegal, of course, but it made headline…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:22AM[SHARE]The Patti Lupone- Mia Farrow play coming to Broadway this month has some news. Famed director Jack O'Brien, age 86, is getting a young, perky assistant director. Marsha Mason, who's only 82,…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:40AM[SHARE]Um, like, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are really going to star in a Broadway play. The former stars of "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" movies will play Estragon and Vladimir in Samuel …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:18PM[SHARE]You want tickets to this off Broadway show? Fuhgeddabout it. Adam Driver will star in Kenneth Lonergan's new play, "Hold on to Me, Darling" at the Lucille Lortel Theater beginning in Septemb…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:28AM[SHARE]Eddie Redmayne is outta here. The Oscar winner opened in "Cabaret" this past winter with hopes of winning a Tony award. He was signed up for a year. But despite a nomination, Redmayne's Oliv…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:06PM[SHARE]If you want to see "Merrily We Roll Along" on Broadway this week, be prepared to pony up. The revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical is seeing ticket prices up to over $5,200 on StubHub. Lo…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:42AM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:12PM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:42PM[SHARE]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 …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:06PM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:48PM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:48AM[SHARE]"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…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:32AM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:12PM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:32PM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:54PM[SHARE]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 …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:32PM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:06AM[SHARE]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,…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:06AM[SHARE]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 …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:54PM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:18PM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:32PM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:24PM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:32AM[SHARE]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 …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:18PM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:12AM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:24PM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:12PM[SHARE]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, …
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