Michael Riedel

I Contour My Lips On TV Tonight!

I'm really ruling PBS this week. First, the documentary about performer/writer Charles Busch, which I appear in, aired a whole bunch of times. The doc about the legendary Florent restaurant, which I similarly blab throughout, is also getting shown this week. And now I'm caught dramatically doing ... More >>

My Tony Predictions Will Air Tonight On Theater Talk

Tonight at 1 A.M. on Channel 13, the long-running Theater Talk presents its usual array of experts offering educated guesses as to who'll cop the Tony awards on June 10. Jesse Green (New York magazine), Patrick Pacheco (LA Times, NY 1), and I offer our picks as to whether it'll be:

How's This For A Happy Face?

Whenever I see a TV camera approaching, my face lights up like a Halloween pumpkin and all the hanging skin inflates like a Thanksgiving Day float based on a long-running animated character. I basically become a holiday parade float of a giant, gay, papier-mâché suckerfish.

My Salmon Jacket Looks Great On Theater Talk Tonight

​Isn't it a theatrical experience unto itself? And beyond that, Patrick Pacheco (NY 1, L.A. Times), Jesse Green (New York magazine), and I offer sparklingly dramatic and in fact award-worthy comments about last Sunday's Tony Awards telecast, the best one in ages.

Chris Rock's F**king Title Problem

​No-holds-barred comic Chris Rock is currently starring on Broadway in a gritty play called The Motherf**ker With The Hat. It's a title that's simultaneously raunchy and coy, and according to today's Michael Riedel column in the Post, the producers originally thought it would work for them as ... More >>

All of the Mean Words in the New York Times Review of the Spider-Man Musical

​Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark sounds like a disaster. Practically a national tragedy at this point, the new, super-expensive musical has yet to be officially released, trapped in the purgatory of "previews," in which a Broadway show works out all of its kinks. This one might be hopeless, if early ... More >>

'Spider-Man' Dish From Its Biggest Hater

Chatting with the Post's Michael Riedel about the show he loves to hate

How Did I Do As The Lion?

​Last night was my big performance in Project Shaw's all-critics reading of Androcles and the Lion at the Players Club, performed after one rehearsal. Instantly, I could tell why they cast me as the king of the jungle--they needed someone with sharp claws! And I thought I did pretty well in ... More >>

Streisand In Talks To Do Gypsy!

​It's a gay man's wet dream. Singer, Oscar winner, star, and Donna Karan wearer Barbra Streisand is in negotiations to play the fiercely tunnel-visioned Mama Rose in a movie of Gypsy, according to The Post's Michael Riedel. Normally I'd say "Enough with Gypsy!" but the chance to see Streisan ... More >>

The New York Post Reads Runnin' Scared!

​We'd like to congratulate our intern, Leslie Minora, whose last today with us is sadly today. You know you've made it when the New York Post is just openly jacking your shit without attribution.

'Sondheim' Won't Do Coke Anymore

​The upcoming HBO series The Miraculous Year has a lead character who is a sophisticated, gay Broadway composer who lives in a townhouse, writes acclaimed but not always solvent shows, and suffers a heart attack sparked by coke abuse. But that last part has been cut out, according to the Post ... More >>

Tony Awards Dish Coming on Theater Talk

left to right: Healy, Riedel, Green, Haskins, me​On this Friday night's Theater Talk (1230 that night on PBS), legendary thesper Marian Seldes appears to talk about her illustrious career. Marian's the one who gave no acceptance speech at all for her special Tony--she simply looked bemusedly ... More >>

I'm The Deposed King of Broadway!

​This Friday night at 1230 on PBS, Theater Talk engages me in a Tony predictions conversation with hosts Susan Haskins and Michael Riedel and fellow guests Patrick Pacheco and Jesse Green. And what we agree on is... virtually nothing, except the fact that the omission of my ballot from the vo ... More >>

I Helped Crown The New Dame Edna

​Yesterday morning, I judged a p.r. stunt, I mean a contest, whereby an honorary understudy for Dame Edna was chosen out of an array of gladioli-wielding drag queens, all to promote Broadway's upcoming All About Me show starring Edna and Michael Feinstein. There were also two biologically fem ... More >>

Tony Awards Committee Drops Critics from Voter Rolls

The Tony Management Committee has stopped letting critics vote on the Tony Awards for achievements in Broadway theater, on the grounds that the reviewers have a conflict of interest -- as opposed to actual theater artists and producers who, we guess, monkishly abstain from allowing personal relation ... More >>

Who Should Play Bridget Jones on Broadway?

Bridget Jones's Diary may be turned into a stage musical, possibly with a score by Elton John, according to the New York Post's Michael Riedel. So assuming this happens, who should play Bridget this time around? Remember all the media fuss about how the screen Bridget, Renee Zellweger, wasn't actua ... More >>

Porn Stars! Strippers! And More Jeremy Piven Dish!

Who says Montreal is cold? It's hot, baby.

Rent Star Lives La Vie Boheme

Male Parts, Female Parts—Parts for Everyone

Not only in Lady Chatterley, but also in Lake's and Polley's latest. (And even a role for tiny me.)

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