Thursday, February 2, 2012
One of Broadway’s greatest flops, “Carrie” is being dressed up, and toned down, for another onstage dance.
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Lead producer Scott Rudin has pulled out of backing Bruce Norris's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Clybourne Park," calling into question whether it will open on Broadway this spring.
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Monday, January 30, 2012
Signature Theater Company opens its new home on Tuesday, an ambitious project undertaken in the midst of the recession.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:34PMThe gross of $682,879 for the standard eight performances was the lowest amount for "How to Succeed" since early preview performances last March.
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"Rebecca," one of the Broadway season's most expensive musicals, has postponed its opening after producers couldn't raise all the money to capitalize the show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:19PMJeanie O'Haire, the dramaturg for the Royal Shakespeare Company, will succeed playwright Paula Vogel as chair of the Yale Drama School playwriting department.
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"Follies" closes on Broadway without turning a profit, though the head of the Kennedy Center says it outdid expectations and will help the center in the long run.
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With shows like “War Horse,” “Rock of Ages” and “Chicago,” Broadway has come to embrace film adaptations as good for business.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:23PMJon Kern’s new play has been selected for the 2012 Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award, a generous theater prize that provides $50,000 to the author and $100,000 toward the production costs …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:53PMFor Broadway veterans, nothing less than pride is on the line when “Smash,” the prime-time soap about the making of a musical, opens on Feb. 6 on NBC.
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The 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner for drama by Bruce Norris will open on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theater on April 12.
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The producers of the Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” marshaled a muscular counteroffensive in federal court in Manhattan against a lawsuit by Julie Taymor, the show’s …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:12PMThe organizers also set April 26 as the cut-off date for Broadway shows to open and be considered eligible for Tony nominations and awards.
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The revival of the Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical, to be directed by John Doyle, will be the first musical in the 45-year history of the Classic Stage Company.
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"On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" is closing after two and a half months, making way for "Leap of Faith" to open at the St. James Theater.
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"Leap of Faith" would be the latest addition to a Broadway season that had a dearth of new original musicals only a few months ago.
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The Broadway adaptation of “Porgy and Bess,” opening Thursday, is just one of a series of attempts by composers’ estates to get the most out their work before copyrights expire.
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Jeffrey Seller and Kevin McCollum, the producing team behind "Rent," "Avenue Q" and "In the Heights," are amicably ending their professional partnership after 21 years.
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The upcoming Broadway revival of “The Heiress” has found its Catherine Sloper: Jessica Chastain, who received critical acclaim for film performances last year.
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The comic triple bill by Woody Allen, Ethan Coen, and Elaine May will close on Broadway at the end of January after 153 performances.
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"Lysistrata Jones" will have played 34 preview performances and 30 regular performances when it closes on Sunday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:50PMThe holiday week box office on Broadway saw 18 shows top the $1 million mark, with "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" making more in a week than any other show in history.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:31PMThe director of "Newsies," Jeff Calhoun recently told BroadwayWorld.com that "it'll be fun to be with Jeremy again," which was apparently an inadvertent slip on his part, since a moment late…
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Darren Criss has his Broadway opening on Tuesday night, the start of a three-week run in “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.”
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A progress report on some shows announced for Broadway that have yet to make their bows, and some of the factors that have caused delays.
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A look at some of the theatrical offerings of 2012, including Kevin Spacey in “Richard III,” Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis in “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess” and a revival of “Me…
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