Michael Riedel News

Don't Quit Your Night Job has become one of the 'must see' and 'it' things to do in New York City since its debut at Joe's Pub last year. The show has now moved uptown and opened at HA! Comedy Club. BroadwayWorld was there on May 17th to bring you this exclusive opening night video featuring scenes from the show and interviews with cast, creative and special guests including Jane Krakowski, Sutton Foster, Tovah Feldshuh, Hunter Foster, and more. Click now to watch!

Don't Quit Your Night Job, Broadway's new star-studded after hours revue, opened at HA! Comedy Club (163 46th St. at 7th Ave.) on Thursday, May 17th, and BroadwayWorld was there!

Tony Award-winner Norbert Leo Butz will return to Broadway next season in the farce Is He Dead?.

Roger Bart will reportedly star as Dr. Frankenstein in the highly anticipated Broadway-bound musical version of Young Frankenstein, with Christopher Fitzgerald as Igor

Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio, which began its current run at the Longacre Theatre on Thursday, February 15, 2007 and was recently nominated for the Tony, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League and Drama Desk award for Outstanding Revival of a Play, is continuing its series of post-show talkbacks with New York Post theater columnist and Theater Talk (WNET/Ch. Thirteen) co-host Michael Riedel.

On Thursday, May 10th, BroadwayWorld.com hosted a VERY special screening of SHOWBUSINESS: THE ROAD TO BROADWAY, an AMAZING new documentary film that we proudly presented the night before it opens to the public!

On Sunday, May 20th, Makor will offer a panel discussion featuring an opinionated group of theater writers discussing the upcoming Tony Awards.

'ShowBusiness' follows four hotly discussed musicals during the 2003-2004 Broadway season, 'Wicked,' 'Avenue Q,' 'Caroline, or Change' and 'Taboo,' as they develop from a fledgling workshop production into Tony Award contender...

Producer Jed Bernstein has leaked the line up of special celebrity guest stars for this week's performances of Don't Quit Your Night Job.

Cry-Baby, the new musical based on the popular 1990 John Waters film, will open in New York this March.

We are happy to announce that on Thursday, May 10th at 7:00 PM we'll be hosting a VERY special screening of SHOWBUSINESS: THE ROAD TO BROADWAY, an AMAZING new documentary film we're proud to be presenting the night before it opens to the public. As a special bonus, following the screening filmmaker and Tony-winning producer Dori Berinstein will be on hand for a panel discussion featuring Jeanine Tesori, Michael Riedel, Bobby Lopez, Rick Lyon and Dori Berinstein. Tickets on sale now...

The hit 1998 revival of Cabaret may be returning to Studio 54

The upcoming Broadway musical Spider-Man might trail a $30 million price tag behind it, prospectively making the show the most expensive musical in Broadway history

Gringold Theatrical Group is presenting George Bernard Shaw's Admirable Bashville, May 21 at The Players at Gramercy Park, 7PM.

Jed Bernstein, producer of Don't Quit Your Night Job, Broadway's new after hours revue, has announced the complete company of Broadway and comedy performers that will join the show

Jed Bernstein, producer of Don't Quit Your Night Job, Broadway's new after hours revue, has announced the complete company of Broadway and comedy performers that will join the show created and devised by Steve Rosen (Monty Python's Spamalot), David Rossmer (Nerds), Sarah Saltzberg (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) and Dan Lipton (The Coast of Utopia), on stage beginning April 26th

Tonight at 12:30 AM on Thirteen, 'Theater Talk' will welcome playwright/performer Charles Busch and actress Kate Mulgrew, who will discuss Busch's latest play, Our Leading Lady.

'Don't Quit Your Night Job,' Broadway's new after hours revue, will begin performances April 26th at HA! Comedy Club with Opening Night set for Thursday, May 17th at 9:30 p.m.

Broadway veteran Peter Bartlett, now starring as 'Underling' in the Tony Award-winning hit musical The Drowsy Chaperone, will be interviewed by 'Theatre Talk' hosts Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins this weekend in a segment devoted to favorite Broadway musical replacements also featuring The Producers star Lee Roy Reams.

Project Shaw, the Gingold Theatre Group's series which features readings of every one of George Bernard Shaw's plays, will continue with Androcles and the Lion, on April 23 at 7PM.