Saturday, January 10, 2026
There will be no opera in the Melania Trump Opera House. It's all over as the fat President sings. The Washington National Opera says it's leaving the Kennedy Center after 45 years. They don…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 8, 2026
Comedian John Mulaney has postponed his shows in Minneapolis set for this weekend. It's not a surprise considering the civil unrest over the murder by ICE of young mother Renee Good. He tell…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Don't let anyone fool you. The dance troupe "Shen Yun" returns to the Kennedy Center tonight. They are part of a cult that includes right wing conspiracy newspaper, The Epoch Times. Janice T…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Broadway is suddenly booming, which is good news for everyone. "Stranger Things: The First Shadow" was doing lackluster business all year until… The TV series ends tomorrow night. New epis…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:24PM[SHARE]Monday, December 29, 2025
The Kennedy Center is going to be very quiet this winter and spring. The only show of note coming in for the next six months is a national tour of "Chicago," from March 29th. Otherwise, the …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 25, 2025
It wasn't bad enough that Tuesday night's Kennedy Center Honors garnered the lowest TV ratings in the history of the show. Now it turns out that there was no Christmas Eve jazz show, as plan…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:12AM[SHARE]Friday, December 19, 2025
Kerry Kennedy, daughter of the real Robert F. Kennedy, is tailing against Donald Trump renaming the Kennedy Center. On Twitter she wrote: "Three years and one month from today, I'm going to …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:18PM[SHARE]Friday, December 12, 2025
Broadway producer Scott Rudin's big comeback project has failed. "Little Bear Ridge Road," starring Laurie Metcalf, was supposed to play through February 2026. Instead, the Road will close o…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:36PM[SHARE]The Kennedy Center's holiday season is a mess. They're giving away tickets to shows, and claiming "sold out" performances. But even the shows with no price for tickets aren't drawing audienc…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 11, 2025
What do you when your theater gets a bomb threat over a dance company? Why, invite them back! Last year Shen Yun, the colorful dance troupe that may be a front for money laundering, kicked o…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:02PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 29, 2025
Magnificent playwright Tom Stoppard has died in London at age 88. A statement from United Agents said: "We are deeply saddened to announce that our beloved client and friend, Tom Stoppard, h…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Tonight at the Kennedy Center, "Christmas in Belfast" starts shows through Sunday. Want to go? Why not? The theater is brimming with available tickets at all prices, on all levels, at all ti…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:02PM[SHARE]Monday, November 24, 2025
On Broadway, that's it for "The Queen of Versailles." The musical based on a documentary about lavish living starred Kristen Chenoweth and F. Murray Abraham. The show opened last week to neg…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 23, 2025
Daniel Craig will finally get to do his favorite project. In 2016, he played Iago to David Oyelowo's "Othello" off Broadway at the New York Theater Workshop. I was lucky enough to see the Sa…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 20, 2025
I told you yesterday that the Kennedy Center's holiday show, "Noel: jesus is Born!" was a dud at the box office. This afternoon, there are 1,350 seats available for December 17th. The show i…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:02PM[SHARE]Poor Richard Grenell. He's driven the Kennedy Center into the ground. A stooge for Donald Trump, Grenell has seen Kennedy Center ticket sales plummet all year as he's erased anything interes…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:36AM[SHARE]Tom Hanks's play "This World of Tomorrow" opened off Broadway last night. The reviews were mixed to not good. The Washington Post headline is The Tom Hanks Play Is Bad. Ok? Got the picture? …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Sting is a music man for all seasons. The rock star of stars opened his Broadway musical, "The Last Ship," back in October 2014. Now it will have its first New York revival at the famed Metr…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Boffo Broadway last week at the box office! Total was $40.7 million, up more than $7 million from last week. Not bad. "Hamilton" with Leslie Odom Jr continues to lead the way with almost $3.…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 9, 2025
Listen, Sting never cancels a show. But two in Florida " tomorrow and Tuesday " had to be rescheduled because he says he's under the weather. The shows in Tampa and Jacksonville are sold out…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:06PM[SHARE]Friday, November 7, 2025
I told you a couple of times this season, tickets to Tom Hanks's off Broadway play were not selling. Two time Oscar winner Hanks has co-written a play he also stars in called "This World of …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 6, 2025
This is a funny complaint because personally, I don't care. Do you? After taking over the Kennedy Center last winter, Donald Trump sent lackey Richard Grenell out to do press. In the New Yor…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Daniel Radcliffe already has a Tony Award for "Merrily We Roll Along." Apparently he wants another one. He's coming to Broadway this winter in a limited run of a one man show. "Every Brillia…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:18PM[SHARE]Two time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is coming to off Broadway this week. Performances begin tomorrow night for his play, "This World of Tomorrow," co-starring Kelli O'Hara and Ruben Santiago Hud…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 28, 2025
It's hard to know why Matt Damon hasn't done more work in theater. Last night, he absolutely killed it as the lead of an all star cast in a reading to raise money to save a NYC Landmark. Dam…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 23, 2025
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…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2025
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…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 9, 2025
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 …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 8, 2025
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…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 7, 2025
"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…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 16, 2025
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…
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