Thursday, November 10, 2016
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
“Women of a Certain Age,” about this year’s presidential election, has its premiere on Tuesday. We spoke with the playwright hours before the actors got his final changes.
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Many New York plays, musicals and operas will take election night off, as audiences are likely to want prime seats for the biggest spectacle: the election.
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Hard feelings remain despite a decision to revise the show’s Playbill to give more specific credit to Ars Nova, which commissioned the play.
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The producers said they would agree to describe the nonprofit that commissioned the Broadway musical as it wished in the show’s program if the group would drop two legal claims.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:36PMResidents of Gander are treated to an early look at “Come From Away,” a Broadway-bound musical about how they welcomed travelers grounded amid the Sept. 11 chaos.
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The small nonprofit theater Ars Nova has accused Howard Kagan, the lead commercial producer, of violating an agreement over the show’s Playbill wording.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016
The work, by the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, explores the real-life story of a play that was shut down in part because it depicted a lesbian relationship.
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Ms. Close is bringing the role back to Broadway for 16 weeks beginning in February at the Palace Theater.
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Thursday, October 20, 2016
Andy Blankenbuehler, who has won Tonys for choreography of “In the Heights” and “Hamilton,” will direct this production, slated for an April opening.
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The nonprofit theater Ars Nova and the commercial producers of “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” are battling over the billing of the show.
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The play, by John Guare, will be directed by Trip Cullman, and will be Ms. Janney’s fourth Broadway show.
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Mr. Lloyd Webber announced Monday that his company had hired the Broadway producer Ken Davenport to the new post of executive producer.
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Theaters across the country have signed on to an initiative that makes unsold tickets available to student and professional writers.
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Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole are to star in the musical, which is to start previews on March 7 at the Nederlander Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02PMOskar Eustis, the artistic director of the Public Theater, helped create “Hamilton.” But alongside professional triumph came personal tragedy.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Kate Shindle will travel with the Tony-winning play while simultaneously leading Actors’ Equity. It’s a complicated juggling act.
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Brandon and Jason Dirden discuss how their different strengths go into playing Levee, the angrily striving trumpeter in Wilson’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”
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“The Dead, 1904” will be staged at a townhouse and will accommodate 42 people a night, at $300 each for the play, dinner and drinks.
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Three rental productions, including one that was to open Thursday, will have to be relocated or canceled.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:40PMA consortium of producers said Mr. Drabinsky’s production of “Sousatzka” would be staged in Toronto next year, aiming for a transfer to Broadway.
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Mr. Kline, 68, is expected to take on this new role in a revival of the Noël Coward play by at the St. James Theater next year.
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Mirroring similar theatrical efforts, Berkeley Rep stages an adaptation of a Sinclair Lewis novel about a vain nominee inveighing against a religious minority.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016
The irreverent play is being embraced by artistic directors in American nonprofit professional theaters, American Theatre magazine says.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016
This show, which has previously erased the lines between performers and audience in smaller venues, enters its biggest home.
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A musical version of the hit film will open on Broadway in April, just before the deadline to qualify for the Tony Awards. It’s now playing in London.
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