Meryl Streep's funny and cynical memories are among the many stories in the new book, "50 Oscar Nights: Iconic Stars and Filmmakers on Their Career-Defining Wins."
In 1972, the hit Broadway musical "Grease" was ready to go on the road, which meant that a new cast had to be put together. In Los Angeles, an 18-year-old actor just breaking into the busine…
Stephen Sondheim, who died Friday at 91, was the most feted musical theater legend since Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
"Tick, Tick…Boom!" " an early musical by Jonathan Larson, who created "Rent" " was born of sadness, anger and frustration, friends and family members tell The Post.
There is going to be fury on Broadway tomorrow, and a lot of sighing, privately, from the people who run the real show.
The three-minute montage "This Is Broadway," narrated by Oprah Winfrey, captures the history -- and excitement -- of live theater and heralds the return of the Great White Way.
As Broadway claws its way back from an 18-month COVID shutdown, it could use a snappy new television commercial that captures the excitement of live theater. Currently, New York City is sink…
Ten years after the ill-fated "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" opened on Broadway, Michael Riedel takes a look back at the most expensive " and ill-fated " show in Broadway history.
Actress Lisa Banes was struck in a hit-and-run accident on the Upper West Side of Manhattan this weekend.
Christopher Plummer had a complicated relationship with "The Sound of Music" -- he even threatened to walk off the picture, which won the 1966 Oscar for Best Picture, at one point.
About once a month for a number of pre-COVID years, producer Scott Rudin, Philip J. Smith, the chairman of the Shubert Organization, and I would meet for dinner at Sette Mezzo on the Upper E…
Never in its 125 years has Broadway suffered the way it has in 2020.
Like the coronavirus pandemic, 9/11 brought Broadway to a standstill " until NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani took incredible steps to save it.
Like every theater producer, Chris Harper, who's behind the buzzy London revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Company," is bucking up his cast, holding his investors together, and waiting for Broa…
The coronavirus continues to devastate Broadway. Two highly anticipated plays " "Hangmen" and the revival of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" " have been scuttled. Actors are sick, among th…
As Broadway grapples with the coronavirus crisis, producers have concluded that the Great White Way will not reopen in April, as they'd hoped. The best-case scenario right now is the summer,…
With the coronavirus outbreak, Broadway is facing its worst crisis since 9/11. But it got a lifeline, albeit a thin one, from Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who yesterday prohibited gatherings of more t…
Broadway will shut down four to six weeks beginning tonight, due to the coronavirus outbreak, several sources told The Post.
Sophia Anne Caruso, the talented young star of "Beetlejuice," surprised a lot of the musical's fans when she announced on Instagram last week that she'd performed her last show. Actors rarel…
Boston theatergoers recently said they had "the best time of their lives" at the play.
As far as I can tell, the one and only time an Antônio Carlos Jobim song was heard on Broadway was in Twyla Tharp's "Come Fly Away." The song was "Wave," which, as I write this, makes me …
Bob Avian will never forget the moment Michael Bennett told him he had AIDS. The two had been friends since 1959, when they met as dancers on a tour of "West Side Story." "We were like broth…
The New York Musical Festival was created to give new writers a start. So isn't it "ironic," says Josh Canfield, whose "Alive! The Zombie Musical" played NYMF last year, that it "stabbed us …
The show may stand out because of its writer " Anthony McCarten, who's up for a 2020 Oscar for his movie "The Two Popes."
Stephen Sondheim has been a fan of director Marianne Elliott's ever since he saw her production of "Saint Joan" in London at the National Theatre in 2007. Sondheim knows a great director whe…