Broadway Plots a Comeback: How the Theater Business is Digging Out From COVID Disruptions

NEW YORK -- The very setting of Neil Simon’s “Plaza Suite” is under threat, right from the opening scene.The mighty Plaza Hotel — an elegant castle overlooking Central Park — has a date with the wrecking ball. “Today it has to be new.

weirdly woke and clunky “And Just Like That.” And, for everybody else, Simon’s middle-drawer play is a relaxing vacation from our overly serious theater season. Running time: 2 and a half hours with one intermission. At the Hudson Theater, 141 West 44th Street.Parker and Broderick play a trio of couples over three acts (the comedy is a long one for modern attention spans): A distant husband and wife celebrate their 23rd anniversary; a New Jersey housewife secretly reunites with her high school beau who’s become a big-time Hollywood producer; and a long-married pair spar while their daughter has locked herself in the bathroom, refusing to get married.

Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite couldn’t seem better suited to the long-in-coming stage-taking of real-life couple Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker. What better way for two actors who got their early starts in the theater – she as a young star of Annie, he in Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues – than a vintage Broadway comedy with multiple roles for its leading man and woman?

red carpet moments every year at the Oscars, some of the best ones have been when couples walk the red carpet together. Remember Leonardo DiCaprio and Gisele Bundchen? Or Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise? Despite the fact many of them have since broken up, there’s nothing quite like commemorating some of Hollywood’s most glamorous pairings from years gone by. Especially when there are so many celebrity couples you might have forgotten were even together at all, like Jack Nicholson and Angelica Huston, or Sarah Jessica Parker and Robert Downey Jr.

Pamela Anderson is in a New York state of mind.The 54-year-old “Baywatch” bombshell packed three suitcases and left her ranch on Vancouver Island, Canada, last week to come to the Big Apple, where she’s making her Broadway debut April 12 as Roxie Hart in “Chicago.”  She’s already playing the part of a real New Yorker — taking daily jogs in Central Park, incognito.“That’s how I get my dose of dogs every day, because my dogs couldn’t come to New York,” she told The Post.And just as Anderson has embraced her adopted home for the next eight weeks, the city has also welcomed her with open arms. “I do get a lot of that when I walk around … like in the park …  People do say, ‘We can’t believe it!’” she said. “You feel like you’re in it together … These incredible people that have reached the pinnacle of their success are just waiting for someone to come in and be successful too.”Fans will get a chance to get even closer to Anderson, who said she’d “probably” be signing autographs at the stage door of the Ambassador Theatre.

Mae’s big day! Hilary Duff’s youngest daughter rang in her 1st birthday with a rainbow-themed party.

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Schneider (Broad City) has joined the cast of Paramount+’s upcoming esports series Players. The series hails from American Vandal co-creators Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, Funny or Die, Riot Games and CBS Studios.

The death last week of Broadway singing coach Barbara Maier Gustern has been classified by New York police as a homicide. Her attacker, who shoved the elderly Manhattan resident from behind, remains at large.

Andrew Bird has shared his upbeat new single ‘Atomized’ – you can listen to it below.The track was inspired by late journalist and author Joan Didion, who died last December.Didion wrote several novels and screenplays over the course of her career; she is best known for her non-fiction work, including the 1968 essay collection Slouching Towards Bethlehem which took its title from the poem The Second Coming by W. B.

As events continue to play out, “Z” has instantly become the most ominous symbol in the world’s culture and economy.

Gabby Barrett is co-hosting the ACM Awards this year and she has husband Cade Foehner by her side!

Three people have been arrested for violent disorder after a fight broke out inside a 'business premises' in Droylsden.

many COVID-19 mandates starting Monday.“Our current guidance is through April 30, and we are scheduled to update that guidance on April 1,” Broadway League president Charlotte St. Martin said in a statement.

Brad Falchuk is in great shape at 51!

Broadway continued its 2022 rebound last week, with 92% of available seats filled and box office receipts climbing 5% over the previous week to $23,004,259.

Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B has boarded Beetlejuice 2, Deadline has confirmed, bringing a new sense of life to a project that has long been in the works at Warner Bros.