By Drew Grant 12/14/12 12:25pm

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Foxwoods Theatre (Wikipedia)

Michael Riedel Gleefully Dances Over Pre-Sale Grave of Foxwoods

New York Post theater critic Michael Riedel (whom we usually just refer to as “our fiancé“) is getting his Christmas present early this year: Live Nation has put the Foxwoods Theatre on the auction block. This is despite the fact that the world’s biggest concert promoter (Live Nation Entertainment, the company born from the merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster) announced yesterday that it predicted a higher demand for its events in 2013, thanks to a poll showing a potential 37 percent increase in ticket buyers. Read More

By Drew Grant 2/01/12 12:43pm

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Michael Riedel with Alan Cumming and guest (Patrick McMullan)

New York Post Theater Critic Michael Riedel on ‘Brilliantly’ Playing Self in Smash

People keep coming up to me and telling me, “I didn’t know Michael had a mother!” exclaimed Mrs. Riedel, proving once and for all that the famously divisive theater critic Michael Riedel was not hatched out of an  egg of searing criticism. We were discussing her son after the Theatre Communication Group’s  Salon Evening at The Players club, which Mr. Riedel had moderated.

“I get that a lot,” she smiled. We smiled back at our future mother-in-law. Read More

By Marshall Heyman 6/09/03 12:00am

Broadway Snarls at New Butcher, Michael Riedel

On March 31, New York Post theater columnist and Theater Talk host Michael Riedel settled into balcony seats at the Shubert Theater. His friend and long-suffering co-host, Susan Haskins, was somewhere else in the theater that night; they were there to take in the first preview of Gypsy , the much-anticipated revival directed by Sam Read More