Maia Hirsch’s affinity for fashion design doesn’t STEM from a lifelong love of luxe labels like Chanel, Hermès and Dior. While admittedly an appreciator of haute finery, Hirsch, 24, a mechanical engineer based in upstate Ithaca, is more fascinated with scientific systems and robotics than imported silks and lambskin leather. But when the pandemic erupted in … 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. Machine Gun Kelly is firing on all cylinders. The genre-defying performer — also known as MGK and his given name Colson Baker — … Read more
It was stoned cold. Wiz Khalifa accidentally had the puff of passage with two of Snoop Dogg’s sons, unknowingly smoking weed with them for the first time. In an interview with SiriusXM’s DJ Whoo Kid, the 37-year-old rapper revealed that he got Snoop’s sons Corde and Cordell high during the filming of their 2012 stoner … Read more
Ken Page, the formidable Broadway actor and voice of Oogie Boogie in the film “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” has died. He was 70. Page’s rep, Lance Kirkland, told TMZ that he died “very peacefully” in his home in St. Louis Monday. “He was a beautiful, talented man who was larger than life. Ken was loved … Read more
As a 17-year-old Brooklyn belter, Stephanie Mills didn’t exactly ease herself on down the road to Oz — and Broadway immortality — five decades ago in “The Wiz.” “My mother had to make me go to the audition because I didn’t want to go,” Mills, 67, told The Post about that fateful first tryout for … Read more
When it comes to Michael Jackson, you don’t wanna be startin’ somethin’ with Stephanie Mills — the R&B legend who originated the role of Dorothy in the Tony-winning musical “The Wiz” 50 years ago. The 67-year-old diva — who dated Jackson in the ’70s — remains fiercely loyal to the King of Pop and protective … Read more
Let me start with a confession: I’ve never liked “The Wizard of Oz.” But give me a retelling with, say, a Black Dorothy and Black Oz, and I’m immediately clicking my heels. When “The Wiz” debuted on Broadway in 1975, it was a colorful exclamation of Blackness on the stage. That’s to say a Black … Read more
My apologies to Evilene, the wicked witch in “The Wiz,” who famously demands in song that her henchmen bring her “no bad news.” Theater review THE WIZ Two hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission. At the Marquis Theatre, 210 W. 46th Street. Because I must unfortunately report that the new revival of that musical, … Read more
Schele Williams first saw “The Wiz” when a tour of the original Broadway production came through Dayton, Ohio. She was 7 years old, and recalled it being the most “beautiful reflection of Blackness that I had never seen.” Years later, she was cast as Dorothy in a high school production of “The Wiz,” and 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. This year’s senior superlative for “Most likely to go on a co-headlining tour” goes to Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa, Too $hort, Warren G, Berner and DJ Drama. From … Read more
“The Wiz” is about to ease its way down the road to Broadway once again. The beloved “The Wizard of Oz” show is slated to return to Great White Way in the spring of 2024, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show will be directed by Schele Williams and include additional material from writer Amber … Read more