- Has covered Broadway for twenty years, as of 2011.
- New York Post theater columnist.
- Has worked for the N.Y. Post for ten years, as of 2011.
- Friend of Rob Bartlett.
- Favorite songs: "Hey Big Spender" from "Sweet Charity", "Rhinestone Cowboy" by Glen Campbell.
- Co-host, with Susan Haskins, of Theater Talk (1996).
- While at Columbia, he acted in plays and regularly appeared on a radio show devoted to musical theater.
- In November 2020 he published "Singular Sensation: The Triumph Of Broadway.".
- His father was the athletic director for SUNY Geneseo and his mother was a grade-school librarian.
- The summer after his sophomore year at Columbia he interned for Liz McCann while she was producing the Broadway production of Les liaisons dangereuses.
- His book "Razzle Dazzle: The Battle For Broadway" won the 2015 Marfield Prize for arts writing.
- He initially enrolled at Johns Hopkins University, but transferred after a year to Columbia University where he graduated in 1989 magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in History.
- After graduating from Columbia he served as Managing Editor of the now-defunct TheaterWeek magazine until it folded.
- He is the co-host of "Len Berman and Michael Riedel in the Morning" on 710 WOR in New York City, weekdays 6-10am.
- Joined the Young Republicans at 12 and originally planned to become a lawyer and politician.
- In 1993 he was hired as a gossip columnist for The Daily News and subsequently launched his now-famous column reporting the latest news and speculation about the Broadway theater scene. In 1998 he moved his column to the New York Post,.
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content