Bette Midler is heading back where she belongs, returning to Broadway’s Hello, Dolly! for the final six weeks of the hit Tony-winning show that won her a Tony of her own. Bernadette Peters, who took over the role after Midler’s departure, will end her run as previously scheduled on July 15, with Midler taking the…

Like mortarboards on graduation day and lizards in Little Orphan Annie, happy critics tend to fling words in the air, leap into paroxysms of ecstasy and throw caution to the wind when something makes us happy. I probably speak for the general critical consortium when I say – duh! – that Bette Midler on Broadway makes…

What would we do without odd couples? Not just Neil Simon’s Oscar and Felix but all those mismatched friends, lovers, spouses, siblings, parents, partners, pets, cousins, exes, execs, scoundrels, thieves and other ill-suited collaborationists whose sum is more than the equal of their farce? With Ripcord, David Lindsay…

No surprise, a musical about the run-up to a wedding fraught with all sorts of incompatibilities, will shutter after the Sunday, August 9 matinee. The show, by Brian Hargrove (book and lyrics) and Barbara Anselmi (music), is staged by David Hyde Pierce and stars Daly and Harriet Harris as warring mothers-in-law-to-be…

Every Broadway season produces a punching bag or two (Moose Murders, which closed on opening night and became a synonym for flop; A Tale Of Two Cities, which ought to have closed on opening night to seal off the loss at a mere $16 million). Often the punching bag comes with a title that invites critical brickbats. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first look at Serino/Coyne ad agency’s TV spot for It Shoulda Been You, a long-shot new musical slated to begin performances March 17 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, with official opening on April 14. Staged by David Hyde Pierce (Frasier), the comedy stars Tyne Daly and Harriet Harris and centers…

The Tony and Emmy winner will head the cast of It Shoulda Been You, a new  musical slated for the spring that will also mark the Broadway directing debut of David Hyde Pierce. Set around an upcoming wedding uniting wildly different families, the show has book and lyrics by Brian Hargrove and music by Barbara Anselmi…

Emmy and Tony winner David Hyde Pierce (Frasier, Curtains) has been cast in a recurring role on the upcoming sixth season of CBS’ The Good Wife. Pierce will play a highly respected cable news legal commentator who is so disgusted by the corruption and murder rate in Chicago that he decides to run for office in order…

The two will play siblings this fall in Christopher Durang’s Vanya And Sonia And Masha And Spike. In the play, Durang takes characters and themes from Chekhov and places them in present-day Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It tells the story of Vanya (Pierce) and his stepsister Sonia (Kristine Nielsen) who have stayed home…