“Maybe” schmaybe. Sunday night was a signed, sealed, delivered happy ending for “Maybe Happy Ending,” the stratospherically original South Korean gem about robots in love starring Darren Criss that deservedly won the Tony Award for Best Musical. What a stunning achievement for the little show that almost didn’t open. Gleeky Criss also earned his first Tony for … 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
Here comes a tense Tony’s. Last year, many of the major winners were a cinch to predict. This time, well, the bars at Radio City Music Hall will be doing big business. Everybody’s freaking out. Producers have been like pollsters the past two weeks, interrogating the 840 Tony voters about who they’ve chosen. “Maybe Happy … Read more
There’s never a shortage of drama on Broadway. However, this Tony season has taken things to a whole new level. And with records for both ticket prices and box-office grosses having been broken this year, there’s more at stake than ever for Sunday’s ceremony, which will be held at Radio City and air live on … Read more
The weather was rainy in New York last week. And on Broadway, when it rained, it poured. There was a torrent of activity in the race to the Tonys on June 8 — a lot of campaigning, some award shake-ups and the Broadway League’s Spring Road Conference. That’s when hundreds of out-of-town presenters, known as … 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
A lot of Hollywood’s A-list didn’t make the list for next month’s Tony Awards. Thursday’s nominations unceremoniously snubbed three Oscar winners: Denzel Washington (“Othello”), Kieran Culkin (“Glengarry Glen Ross”) and Robert Downey Jr. (“McNeal”). Washington’s co-star Jake Gyllenhaal didn’t make the cut either. Nor did Rachel Zegler for “Romeo + Juliet.” Denzel Washington didn’t make … Read more
“Sunset Boulevard” actress Grace Hodgett Young starred in a Broadway show before she ever saw one herself. After five months of performing six days a week in the musical The Post called “Broadway’s most exhilarating show in years,” she finally got to experience what it’s like to be in the audience on the Great White … Read more
Nicole Scherzinger has broken her silence following Liam Payne’s tragic death at the age of 31. On Friday, the 46-year-old shared an emotional Instagram tribute to Payne. Alongside Simon Cowell, Scherzinger is credited for forming the late singer’s boy band One Direction, which included Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson, in the 2010 “The X … Read more
Naomi Campbell has broken her silence on her ex-boyfriend Liam Payne’s tragic death at age 31. The British supermodel, 54, dated the late One Direction star for four months in 2019 when she was 48 and he was 25. On Friday, the catwalk icon took to social media to comment on her pal Nicole Scherzinger’s … Read more
Nicole Scherzinger was reportedly in touch with Liam Payne on Oct. 16, the same day he fatally plunged to his death. According to Andrew Lloyd Webber, who composed the music for her Broadway musical “Sunset Blvd.,” the Pussycat Dolls alum, 46, was texting the One Direction singer, 31, while he was in Argentina before his sudden … Read more
Yes, it’s a revival of a 31-year-old musical that’s based on a 74-year-old black-and-white movie. And both are as fuzzily remembered by young audiences as the main character, Norma Desmond, is by cruel Hollywood. Theater review SUNSET BOULEVARD 2 hours and 35 minutes with one intermission. At the St. James Theatre, 246 West 44th Street. … Read more
It’s the Great Fright Way. Nicole Scherzinger shocked onlookers on West 44th Street Saturday night when she emerged from the St. James Theatre to sign autographs — barefoot, wearing a black gown and covered in fake blood. No, the former Pussycat Doll didn’t get into a fist fight in Shubert Alley — she’s the star … Read more
A few years ago, a well-known Broadway producer stood outside the Carlyle Hotel — fuming. He had just won a coveted Tony Award, and yet the big shot was appalled to discover that he was not on the door list for the hottest afterparty in town. Meanwhile, the cast of his play was inside the … Read more
A yeti, a leopard and a seahorse walk into a room … It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it’s the “Masked Singer” exhibit at the Paley Museum in Midtown. Running through May 19, the exhibit (called “The Masked Singer: Behind the Mask! Spotlighting the Show and the Costumes That Captivated America”) features … Read more
Get ready, Mr. DeMille. The London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “Sunset Boulevard,” starring Nicole Scherzinger, will arrive on Broadway later this year, a spokesman for the production said on Thursday. The sensational Scherzinger of the Pussycat Dolls will be back, alongside her talented West End co-stars: Tom Francis as Joe Gillis, Grace Hodgett-Young … Read more
That giant and crumbling Hollywood mansion on Sunset, home to the greatest star of all, has undergone a major renovation. Director Jamie Lloyd has ripped out the interior walls and chucked the lavish adornments. He’s emptied the closets of Gloria Swanson’s favorite outfits and installed high-tech cameras. The house is almost unrecognizable. Theater review 2 … Read more
Fans were disappointed “all night long.” Lionel Richie was slammed by viewers of King Charles’ coronation concert over his lackluster performance for the newly-minted monarch on Sunday. Richie, 73, took the stage in front of 20,000 people and belted his greatest hits such as “All Night Long” — which skyrocketed the Alabama native to fame … Read more
Don’t cha wish you were performing at the coronation concert like her? Nicole Scherzinger had a “real-life” Disney princess moment Sunday as she belted out “Reflections” from the classic Disney movie “Mulan” on the grounds of Windsor Castle at the coronation concert for the freshly crowned King Charles III, 74, and Queen Camilla, 75. The … 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. It’s been 70 long years since Queen Elizabeth’s 1953 Coronation. At her royal event, she kept the entertainment light and classical — some of the highlights included performances of … Read more