Michael Riedel (journalist)

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Michael Riedel (born December 24, 1966) is an American theatre critic, conservative broadcaster, and columnist. He was the co-host of "Len Berman and Michael Riedel in the Morning" on 710 WOR in New York City, weekdays 6 to 10 a.m. The last show was November 8, 2024. The show was dropped as part of a series of layoffs by iHeartMedia. Reidel has been a Broadway columnist of the New York Post for more than 20 years. Riedel's book Razzle Dazzle: The Battle for Broadway won the 2015 Marfield Prize for arts writing. His second book, Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway, was published by Avid Reader Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, on November 10, 2020.

Riedel's skewering of Broadway shows and personalities in his column have made him a controversial figure on the New York theater scene. He has been called "the terrible infant of the New York press".^[1]