Welcome to Great Adaptations, the Book Review’s regular multiple-choice quiz about books that have gone on to find new life as movies, television shows, theatrical productions and more. This week’s challenge is focused on globally popular French novels that went on to become big-screen adventures — and more. Just tap or click your answers to … Read more
My, my, how can we resist you? For the first time since 2013, the mega “Mamma Mia!” marquee returned to the Winter Garden Theatre on 50th Street, where it lit up the block for 12 years. Giddy friends of mine snapped photos of the famous poster of a beaming girl in a white dress like … Read more
“Snow White” star Rachel Zegler has sparked controversy yet again, this time with her West End stage debut. The actress, 24, stars as Eva Perón in Jamie Lloyd’s new production of “Evita” at the London Palladium in the UK. She is playing former First Lady of Argentina in the show, which debuted in 1978 and … Read more
Can “Wicked: For Good” be “Wicked: As Good”? That’s the pressure facing the filmmakers behind the sequel to “Wicked,” which set a box-office record as the highest-grossing movie adaptation of a Broadway musical after its release last November. “Everybody’s thrilled that the first movie was so incredibly well received and had such cultural impact,” composer … Read more
Behind every musical is a hot mess. “Smash,” the Broadway play that opened at the Imperial Theatre on April 10, has abruptly announced its final show date after struggling at the box office and suffering a 2025 Tony Awards shutout. Executive producers Steven Spielberg, Robert Greenblatt and Neil Meron made the closing announcement on Tuesday. … Read more
Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Featured pricing is subject to change. Cue the fireflies. After netting ten Tony nominations, “Maybe Happy Ending” walked away from this year’s awards ceremony with six trophies including … Read more
Nicole Scherzinger is the greatest star of all. The former Pussycat Dolls singer took home the award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical at the 2025 Tony Awards on Sunday, June 8, beating record-breaking six-time winner Audra McDonald. Scherzinger, 46, stars as the faded silent film star Norma Desmond … Read more
Broadway caps a record-breaking season when the New York theater community bestows its annual Tony Awards during a gala ceremony on Sunday night with an array of nominees that leans into originality, diversity and artistic invention. Buoyed by a post-pandemic rebound, the 2024-25 season grossed a record $1.89 billion in revenue and drew 14.7 million attendees, the … Read more
Usually, the week before the Tony Awards is a joyful time to celebrate the wonderful work of the Broadway season. Not this year! Two big shows were fuming Tuesday that they’re being left out of the Tony Awards broadcast on CBS Sunday night: “Boop! The Betty Boop Musical” and “Smash.” “Smash,” starring Robyn Hurder, was … Read more
Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Featured pricing is subject to change. A desperate young screenwriter stumbles into the mansion of a nearly forgotten actress. Fate unfolds, and the two rustle up a plan … Read more
Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Featured pricing is subject to change. Broadway musicals typically don’t receive mid-show standing ovations. However, sometimes songs within these professional productions are so good, so powerful and so … Read more
Singer-songwriter Aimee Mann is on the road again this summer with a tour of the East Coast that will take her to the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn and out to the East End of Long Island this June. Known for her witty, personal lyrics and clear, melodic voice, she’s playing the hits from … Read more
NEW YORK — Three-time Tony Award-winner Charles Strouse, Broadway’s industrious, master melody-maker who composed the music for such classic musical theater hits as “Annie,” “Bye Bye Birdie” and “Applause,” died Thursday. He was 96. Strouse died at his home in New York City, his family said through the publicity agency The Press Room. In a … Read more
Much is unrecognizable about the Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Sunset Boulevard” at the St. James Theatre. The Norma Desmond is a former pop star, Nicole Scherzinger, the scenery has been swapped for a crisp giant screen and the costumes are a glossy black. But “Sunset” aficionados will also hear a difference: An entire … Read more
Andrew Lloyd Webber never thought he’d get Nicole Scherzinger to Broadway. “I always remember when she did ‘Don’t Cry for Me Argentina’ on a TV show some years ago,” Lloyd Webber told me during an hour-long sit-down. After her performance on that 2013 ITV special, “Cats” director Trevor Nunn excitedly rang him up and said, … Read more
She’s in her mom era. Rebel Wilson plays Juliet’s mother in the new musical drama “Juliet & Romeo” (hitting theaters Friday, May 9). “Seeing me in these Hollywood glossy comedies, you wouldn’t expect me to do a turn as Lady Capulet. But I was a new mother when I got offered this role, and Lady … Read more
Not a day goes by that Bernadette Peters doesn’t miss her old friend Stephen Sondheim. “I do think of him every day,” she told me over lunch at Cafe Luxembourg. “I’m singing his music, you know. And I’ve had dreams about him. He should be here. He should be here.” Peters is back on Broadway … Read more
Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Featured pricing is subject to change. Your next month has officially been mapped out, theatergoers. The Tony Awards just announced their 2025 nominees — ahead of this year’s … Read more
Theater review DEAD OUTLAW One hour and 40 minutes, with no intermission. At the Longacre Theatre, 220 West 48th Street. There’s a nagging similarity between the 20th-century criminal Elmer McCurdy and “Dead Outlaw,” the eccentric musical about him. McCurdy was killed in a shoot-out with police after a bungled train robbery in 1911. And then, … Read more
Theater review JUST IN TIME Two hours and 20 minutes, with one intermission. At the Circle in the Square Theatre, 235 West 50th Street. That a musical about the too-short life of Bobby Darin, the 1950s and ‘60s crooner who notched a string of hits before dying young at 37, would turn out to be one … Read more