Michael Riedel

New York

Co-Host at Len Berman and Michael Riedel In The Morning

I have covered Broadway for 20 years, 10 of them for The New York Post. I am also the co-host of Theater Talk.

Articles

Andrew Durand Of 'Dead Outlaw' On His Tony Nomination & Theater Rituals

1 week ago | bustle.com | Michael Riedel

On stage, Andrew Durand is a real stiff. In Dead Outlaw, which is up for the Tony Award for Best Musical, Durand plays Elmer McCurdy, a real-life bandit who was killed in a shootout in Oklahoma in 1911. Through bizarre twists of fate chronicled in the show, McCurdy’s mummified body became a sideshow attraction, eventually ending up at an amusement park in Long Beach, California, until it was discovered in the 1970s and given a proper burial.
Rechtliche Regeln für die Mitarbeiterabwerbung

1 month ago | haufe.de | Michael Riedel

Auch in der Krise suchen Unternehmen nach Fachkräften und werfen nicht selten den Blick auf die Talente der Konkurrenz. Die Mitarbeiterabwerbung unterliegt jedoch rechtlich klaren Regeln. Wann Abwerben beim Wettbewerber erlaubt ist und wie Unternehmen sich selbst vor Abwerbeversuchen schützen können. Fachkräfteknappheit und gleichzeitig betriebsbedingte Kündigungen? Klingt paradox, schließt sich aber nicht aus. Viele Unternehmen stellen sich gerade neu auf und bauen dabei gezielt Personal ab.
Gloria Gaynor Talks About 'I Will Survive' & Life At Age 28

1 month ago | bustle.com | Michael Riedel

In 1971, when she was 28, Gloria Gaynor was singing at a Manhattan nightclub called Play Street. She was surrounded by go-go dancers, one of whom fancied herself a singer. “She wasn’t very good,” Gaynor says, but she had a manager who knew Clive Davis, then the powerful head of Columbia Records. The dancer’s manager arranged for Gaynor to meet Davis. “He had me sing for him five times,” she recalls. “I said, ‘This man just likes my voice.
Cameron Mackintosh On Stephen Sondheim And His Rivalry With Andrew Lloyd Webber

2 months ago | airmail.news | Michael Riedel

As he struggled to write what would turn out to be his last musical—Here We Are—Stephen Sondheim turned to his friend of 45 years, the producer Cameron Mackintosh, for help. He was, he admitted, drying up artistically and was unable to complete the second act. “He was worried that what he’d written sounded like his other songs,” Mackintosh says.
‘Smash’ Was a Cult TV Hit. Now Steven Spielberg and Friends Are Bringing It to Broadway

Feb 11, 2025 | vanityfair.com | Michael Riedel

In May 2022, theater writers Bob Martin and Rick Elice organized an informal reading of their stage adaptation of the television series Smash. More than a decade before, Smash had debuted on NBC in a prime slot: February 6, 2012, the night after Super Bowl XLVI. The show was a handsomely produced comedy-drama about the making of a Broadway musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe.
Remuneration of works councils under German law

Nov 7, 2024 | deutscheranwaltspiegel.de | Michael Riedel |Lisa Brix

German Law International Labor Law MagazineDownload (PDF)In companies with at least five permanent employees, employees may elect a works council. Millions of employees in Germany make use of this right. More than 1/3 of employees in Germany are represented by a works council. In larger companies with hundreds or thousands of employees, the existence of a works council is even the absolute norm. If a works council has been elected in a company, the committee must be involved in numerous decisions.
Dense Investigation of Variability in Affect (DIVA): A Neuroimaging Study of Premenopausal Female Participants

Apr 20, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Katherine L. Bottenhorn |Taylor Salo |Julio A Peraza |Michael Riedel

AbstractThe rise of large neuroimaging datasets and multi-dataset mega-analyses brings the power to study interindividual differences in brain structure and function on a heretofore unseen scale. However, unknown and poorly characterized intra-individual variability continues to undermine the detection of robust brain-behavior associations and, ultimately, our understanding of the brain on the whole.
As a ‘Cabaret’ Revival Comes to Broadway—The Untold Origin Story

Mar 26, 2024 | vanityfair.com | Michael Riedel

As director Rebecca Frecknall was rehearsing a new cast for her hit London revival of Cabaret, the actor playing Clifford Bradshaw, an American writer living in Berlin during the final days of the Weimar Republic, came onstage carrying that day’s newspaper as a prop. It happened to be Metro, the free London tabloid commuters read on their way to work. The date was February 25, 2022. When the actor said his line—“We’ve got to leave Berlin—as soon as possible. Tomorrow!”—Frecknall was caught short.
Rex Reed, the Last Great Movie Critic, Talks Shop

Mar 15, 2024 | airmail.news | Michael Riedel

The Oscars are over, but Rex Reed is still smarting from the telecast. “It was so incredibly boring,” he says. “They have to stop thinking of new ways to improve the Oscars. Just show them and get them off the air.”At 85, Reed, once known as the hazel-eyed hatchet man for his tough reviews, is still swinging the axe. He’s especially furious at this year’s “In Memoriam” segment: “Those stupid dancers dancing around those tiny pictures of the people who died.
The the heat and humor behind 50 years of Oscar nights

Mar 9, 2024 | nypost.com | Michael Riedel

Meryl Streep was six months pregnant when she struggled to fit into her seat at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for the 55th Academy Awards in 1983. Her dress, which she bought off the rack in the basement of Saks, was ill-fitting. It was too short in the front to hide her protruding belly, so she wore it backwards and covered her midriff with a little train. “People didn’t have stylists and designers and all that stuff,” she said.