- 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.
- Favorite songs: "Hey Big Spender" from "Sweet Charity", "Rhinestone Cowboy" by Glen Campbell.
- Co-host, with Susan Haskins-Doloff, 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,.
- Friend of Rob Bartlett.
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