Where In The World Is Michael Riedel?

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 9/4/22 at 11:23pm

Maybe he's gone into Witness Protection?

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 9/4/22 at 11:29pm

He's the host of Len Berman and Michael Riedel in the Morning on WOR710. He also got married this summer. Very rarely he contributes a piece to the NY Post or another outlet (he did a piece on Music Man for Vanity Fair), but for the most part is focused on radio & books.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 9/5/22 at 10:41am

Does he still talk about theatre and broadway on his show?

[Impeach2017]

Posted: 9/5/22 at 5:35pm

Narcissist or sociopath?  I always get those two confused.  

[BETTY22]

Posted: 9/5/22 at 8:56pm

He's a major local radio host on I heart.

Plus, he has been doing some freelance writing for Vanity Fair.

Theatre news/gossip, doesn't do well at The Post - even when it runs on Page SIX. 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 9/5/22 at 10:04pm

BETTY22 said: "Theatre news/gossip, doesn't do well at The Post - even when it runs on Page SIX."

Tell that to Johnny Oleksinski who seems to be trying to be both a gossip columnist, a theatre critic, and a film critic in those hallowed pages of the Post.

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 9/5/22 at 10:52pm

It just seems quite a turn-around.  People used to wait or dread what he might print.  

[nativenewyorker2]

Posted: 9/6/22 at 12:12am

Locked in a secret location with his former cohost Susan Haskins, trying to teach her how to pronounce theater performers names correctly after twenty years

[HogansHero]

Posted: 9/6/22 at 1:26am

Patti LuPone FANatic said: "It just seems quite a turn-around. People used to wait or dread what he might print."

They did? LOL

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 9/6/22 at 12:36pm

nativenewyorker2 said: "Locked in a secret location with his former cohost Susan Haskins, trying to teach her how to pronounce theater performers names correctly after twenty years"

The noise I just let out at my desk.

[John936]

Posted: 9/7/22 at 3:49pm

My teenage son has watched every episode of Theatre Talk he can.  I listened to both his books twice.  I hope he is off writing another book.  

[RippedMan]

Posted: 9/7/22 at 4:42pm

HogansHero said: "Patti LuPone FANatic said: "It just seems quite a turn-around. People used to wait or dread what he might print."

They did? LOL"

I loved his column. 

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 9/7/22 at 5:01pm

I interviewed him (twice) recently for my forthcoming podcast exploring what went wrong with Dance of the Vampires. He was an unexpectedly charming guy who gave the impression his shtick in the Post and on Theatre Talk was somewhat of an act he loved living up to. (He put it in no uncertain terms, paraphrasing of course, that he saw the money in writing was in the vitriol and the gossip, so why not be Addison DeWitt.)

Don't get me wrong, it was still abundantly clear personality-wise why David Leveaux would take him to fist city in a bar; it was all I could do not to ask the guy who was a Young Republican at 12 if he felt at all vindicated by the TV success of Family Ties. But it was a more or less pleasant experience, regardless.

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 9/9/22 at 3:40am

Does anyone know what happened to Ken Mandelbaum? Always loved his book "Not Since Carrie".

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 9/9/22 at 11:23am

I mean, if you want to know, I've been in touch recently. He seems fine. (There may be a loose relation between his infamous archive and the "aurora spiderwoman" YouTube channel, if anyone's curious...)

[Kad]

Posted: 9/9/22 at 8:04pm

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "BETTY22 said: "Theatre news/gossip, doesn't do well at The Post - even when it runs on Page SIX."

Tell that to Johnny Oleksinski who seems to be trying to be both a gossip columnist, a theatre critic, and a film critic in those hallowed pages of the Post."

And failing at all three. What’s the opposite of a triple threat? 

[HogansHero]

Posted: 9/9/22 at 10:38pm

Kad said: "What’s the opposite of a triple threat?"

Strike three and you're out.

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 9/11/22 at 7:08pm

Kad said: "ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "BETTY22 said: "Theatre news/gossip, doesn't do well at The Post - even when it runs on Page SIX."

Tell that to Johnny Oleksinski who seems to be trying to be both a gossip columnist, a theatre critic, and a film critic in those hallowed pages of the Post."

And failing at all three. What’s the opposite of a triple threat?"   A triple failure?