Michael Riedel has covered Broadway for 20 years, 10 of them for The New York Post. He is also the co-host of "Theater Talk" on PBS and CUNY-TV. He graduated from Columbia University with a BA in history.
The Broadway graveyard is full of flops that had great scores and bad scripts. An outstanding example is the 1965 musical "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever." The score -- music by Burton Lane, lyrics by Alan...
July 28, 2010 12:00 AMDALLAS -- While Bono, The Edge and Julie Taymor have been twisting and turning in that web of a mess called "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark," the Dallas Theater Center is soaring with a long-forgotten show about the Man...
July 23, 2010 12:00 AM
The script describes him as a "rich, snarky, manipulative, self-indulgent and wildly self-destructive Broadway composer. On the plus side, he's a genius." The composer lives in a gorgeous Manhattan townhouse and...
July 21, 2010 12:00 AM
On Broadway, they're calling it "the Denzel effect." Denzel Washington's tri umphant run in "Fences" -- which closed Sunday after breaking box-office records at the Cort Theatre and racking up a profit of nearly $3...
July 16, 2010 12:00 AM
The roster of new Broadway shows is filling up. One that's generating some nice buzz is the latest incarnation of "Catch Me If You Can." This show's been circling Broadway longer than a plane over La Guardia in a...
July 14, 2010 12:00 AM
The Tonys are movin' up town. Broadway's tarnished, conflict-riddled awards -- which once honored excel lence in the American theater but now honors "Memphis" -- will be handed out next year at the United Palace...
July 09, 2010 12:00 AM
At the opening-night party in London for Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Love Never Dies," the gossip was that Lloyd Webber was going to ask his old friend Hal Prince to help revamp the show before it headed to New York....
July 07, 2010 12:00 AMFrank Loesser, who was born 100 years ago this week, wrote a mother lode of standards -- "Baby It's Cold Outside," "Heart and Soul," "Once in Love With Amy" -- plus the classic Broadway musicals "Guys and Dolls" and...
July 02, 2010 12:00 AMIt's summertime, and the big Broadway players are all running around the Hamptons. So I'm afraid I'm going to have to pick on the little guys who are stuck in the city. But even that has its pleasures. Off...
June 30, 2010 12:00 AM
A fruitful collaboration is springing up between Liev Schreiber, perhaps the finest stage actor of his generation, and director Gregory Mosher. They scored last season with the critically acclaimed revival of "A...
June 25, 2010 12:00 AM
Hugh Jackman won his Tony Award swishing around Broadway in "The Boy From Oz" wearing tight-fitting leopard pants and singing "When my baby smiles at me, I go to Rio." His was some of the most intense swishing I've...
June 23, 2010 12:00 AM
The first major star to hit Broadway in the fall will likely be Samuel L. Jackson. As The Post reported last month, Jackson played Martin Luther King Jr. in a reading of "The Mountaintop," a new play by Katori...
June 18, 2010 12:00 AM
Although they won the Tony for Best Revival of a Musical, the producers of “La Cage aux Folles” were hardly in a “Best of Times” mood Sunday night. Far from it. When I caught up with them at the post-Tony “La Cage”...
June 16, 2010 1:57 AM
When a Broadway musical like "Fela!" — dynamic, inventive, ambitious — loses to a Broadway musical like "Memphis" — infantile, predictable, tedious — you know the Tony Awards no longer have anything re motely to do...
June 14, 2010 12:00 AM
Predictions today -- but first, a little Tony Award scan dale. Let's call it The Affair of the Red Carpet. In an effort to restrict access Sunday night at Radio City Music Hall, Tony organizers are issuing so...
June 11, 2010 12:00 AM
I'll be peering into my flawless crystal ball Friday to see who this year's Tony Award winners will be. But today I want to tip my Bob Fosse bowler hat to a few nominees who, due to heavy-duty competition in their...
June 09, 2010 12:00 AM
Kevin Kline, who could have been the finest stage actor of his generation had he bothered to work more, is suddenly on the prowl for new plays. A few weeks ago, he appeared, opposite Sigourney Weaver, in a reading...
June 04, 2010 12:00 AM
Paging Dr. Footlights: Catherine Zeta-Jones needs a pick-me-up to get her through awards season. The Tony-nominated star of "A Little Night Music" is showing signs of wear and tear, having missed five performances...
June 02, 2010 12:00 AM
Details of this year's Tony telecast, airing June 13 on CBS, are beginning to leak out. To the perennial question, "Who's on first?" the answer is: Everybody! The most important slot on the telecast has always...
May 28, 2010 12:00 AM
The parade of Hollywood stars headed to Broadway is getting longer. The latest to nose around Times Square is Samuel L. Jackson. He's in town this week for a reading of a new play about Martin Luther King Jr....
May 26, 2010 12:00 AM
You know the leading lady is a really big deal when she doesn't audition for the show -- the show auditions for her. That's the exalted state Reba McEntire lives in these days. On Tuesday, McEntire, whose star...
May 21, 2010 12:00 AM
I love a long lunch, but the New Dramatists group has taken what should be one of life's small pleasures and turned it into agonizing torture. Every spring, the New Dramatists -- which has something to do with...
May 19, 2010 12:00 AM
MY favorite $50 mil lion target is swinging back into view. "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" (and bankrupt the theater) will go into rehearsals this summer, begin previews in October and open in November, theater...
May 14, 2010 12:00 AM
Middle-aged, their careers on the wane, both Lynn Redgrave and Lena Horne engineered their comebacks on Broadway. For Redgrave, who died last week at 67 after a long battle with breast cancer, the launching pad was...
May 12, 2010 12:00 AM
You have to hand it to Broadway producer Jeffrey Richards. He's taken a beating this season with "All About Me," which closed after a few weeks, and "Enron," which closes Sunday. Such high-profile, back-to-back...
May 07, 2010 12:00 AM
I'm pretty adept at inflicting pain on theater people. But I'm no match for those sadists on the Tony Award nominating committee. Their snubs elicited squeals of pain and howls of outrage around Broadway yesterday....
May 05, 2010 12:00 AM
By now, everybody knows the Tonys are a hopelessly com promised, conflict- riddled award run by those two useless and bloated organizations, the American Theatre Wing and the Broadway League. What shred of...
April 30, 2010 12:00 AM
Christopher Walken was dangling from the Golden Gate Bridge when he looked up and saw Roger Moore. "Tell me," Moore said, cocking an eyebrow. "Do you always die in these kinds of movies?" "Yeah. Pretty much,"...
April 28, 2010 12:00 AMTheresa Rebeck is quickly becoming Playwright to the Stars. Alec Baldwin wants to do her new play "Seminar" and Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline are close to signing up for "Poor Behavior," which will open on...
April 23, 2010 12:00 AM
Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme is adept at creating suspense on the big screen with thrillers like "The Silence of the Lambs." But for audiences at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, where Demme's making his stage...
April 21, 2010 12:00 AM
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