Michael Riedel

Michael Riedel spent over two decades as a theater columnist for the New York Post, a perch from which he became the most closely watched, and perhaps the most feared, reporter on Broadway. His writing investigates the mechanisms of power behind Broadway’s biggest hits, but his real subject is the irresistible, human comedy of it all. Riedel’s two books on Broadway offer a comprehensive history of the iconic theater scene. Razzle Dazzle: The Battle for Broadway—winner of the Marfield Prize for arts writing—chronicles the power struggle that transformed the Shubert Organization and the streetscape of Times Square across two decades of reinvention. Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway picks up the story in the 1990s, when a new generation of shows, producers, and audiences remade Broadway.