Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Five famous Broadway houses may be changing ownership today. The rumor on the Rialto, as the late Earl Wilson would say, is
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:28AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 24, 2023
The Madonna movie ain't happening. Variety says Universal has cancelled the project, which was announced two years ago. The reason given is
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:22PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 8, 2023
I'm sorry it took so long for me to get to LaTanya Richardson Jackson's "The Piano Lesson." Now that I've seen her
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:42PM[SHARE]Friday, December 30, 2022
Times Square is overflowing with people. And Elmo's. The grotesque pedestrian mall has brought looky-loo's from all over, but they're not going
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 29, 2022
The audience at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theater turned out en masse for actor/rapper Common making his debut in the hit, Between Riverside
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 24, 2022
It's 2:28pm. A half hour ago, two Broadway shows didn't start their matinees. According to Twitter account BroadwayCovers, both "A Strange Loop"
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:54PM[SHARE]Friday, December 23, 2022
Almost four years ago I ran into the great actor Wendell Pierce sitting in the lobby of the Four Seasons hotel in
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Broadway is surviving the kinda recession, pandemic, and bad weather with good news, bad news. "Funny Girl" has gone from a disaster
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:36PM[SHARE]Friday, December 16, 2022
There will not be a Sondheim vs. Sondheim cage match at the 2023 Tony Awards, after all. Stephen Sondheim's "Merry We'll Roll
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 15, 2022
Earlier today, the Broadway crowd got very excited for a few precious minutes. On Twitter came the news that an unproduced show
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:32PM[SHARE]Monday, December 12, 2022
The Shubert Theater was ringing with ovations and applause Sunday night. That's because everyone's favorite comedy, Billy Wilder's 1959 hit, "Some Like
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:06AM[SHARE]Friday, December 9, 2022
You know that Audra McDonald has six Tony Awards, she's only 52 so more are coming. And tonight, the 7th was lined
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 8, 2022
Oh come on, you knew "Leopoldstadt" wasn't going anywhere. The sensationally moving and profound Tom Stoppard play has just been extended through
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:48PM[SHARE]Monday, December 5, 2022
I am sad to report that there is very little salvageable in the new musical that opened last night about singer songwriter
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 4, 2022
I told you all about David Byrne and Fat Boy Slim's "Here Lies Love" back in 2014. It was a sensation at
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 1, 2022
How badly can this group maim "The Great Gatsby"? Weren't two movies enough? And yet, here comes a "Gatsby" musical from the
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 29, 2022
"Phantom of the Opera" will not go away. As soon as the Andrew Lloyd Weber musical announced that it was closing in
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:32PM[SHARE]Monday, November 28, 2022
Theater news: MARIAH CAREY has added her name to the new musical version of "Some Like it Hot" as a producer. This
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 27, 2022
You've got to watch this video. Last night at "The Music Man" Nicole Kidman donated $100,000 to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. She
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:42PM[SHARE]Alan King, Don Rickles, Jackie Mason, Shecky Greene. They were among the legendary giants of Borscht belt Jewish humor. What was the
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:32AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 19, 2022
The biggest problem I could see last night with Valerie Simpson's insanely jubilant show at Sony Hall was that every song sounds
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 17, 2022
Most of the 500 people who filed into historic St. Thomas Episcopal Church on Fifth Avenue today were still in shock after
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Jessica Chastain doesn't take a minute off from interesting work. This year's Oscar winner for Best Actress is returning to Broadway this
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:36PM[SHARE]Friday, November 11, 2022
Playbill is off Twitter. The Broadway bible has over 400,000 followers. Read below. Keep refreshing… To our dear friends and valued followers,
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:48PM[SHARE]Friday, November 4, 2022
I am in shock and a lot of people are this afternoon. Just last week I told you about my friend Doug
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:54PM[SHARE]The great 2000 movie, "Almost Famous," is now a sensationally fun musical on Broadway. It's wildly entertaining with a totally energetic cast,
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 3, 2022
If you're looking for signs of a recession, or even worries about Times Square, last week's Broadway grosses may provide some answers.
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 30, 2022
I often feel when I read memoirs or see one-actor shows like "Everything's Fine" that I've led a sheltered life. In 1971,
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:13PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 27, 2022
It was a throwback night of celebration in New York tonight as Lincoln Center opened its stunning new David Geffen Hall with
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:55AM[SHARE]Friday, October 21, 2022
When a show is good or bad coming to Broadway, you can smell it. Certainly the aroma of success was in the
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:37PM[SHARE]I'm very sad to report the death of Lucy Simon, Broadway composer of "The Secret Garden" and "Dr. Zhivago." She was also
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