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Thursday, July 17, 2014

Shuberts to Acquire New World Stages by Patrick Healy

The five-stage complex will help the Shubert Organization, owner of 17 Broadway theaters, to move into commercial Off Broadway productions.

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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

ArtsBeat: ‘Hedwig’ Recoups on Broadway by Patrick Healy

“Hedwig and the Angry Inch” has recouped its capitalization, with another month to go before Neil Patrick Harris departs.

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Monday, July 14, 2014

ArtsBeat: ‘Holler If Ya Hear Me’ to Close on Sunday by Patrick Healy

The Broadway show failed to attract theatergoers after six weeks of performances.

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ArtsBeat: ‘American Psycho’ Musical Coming to Off Broadway by Patrick Healy

A revamped version of the London production of the musical “American Psycho,” based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis, is coming to Second Stage Theater in New York early next year.

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Thursday, July 10, 2014

ArtsBeat: ‘Side Show’ Producers Discussing a Move to Broadway by Patrick Healy

The musical about conjoined twin sisters had a brief run on Broadway in 1997.

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Monday, July 7, 2014

ArtsBeat: For Broadway, a Tepid July 4 Week by Patrick Healy

Only three shows, all favored by tourists, were up at the box office compared to the week before.

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Thursday, June 26, 2014

ArtsBeat: New Group’s New Season Will Be Star-Studded by Patrick Healy

Holly Hunter, Bill Pullman, Dianne Wiest and Jesse Eisenberg are among the featured performers.

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Monday, June 23, 2014

ArtsBeat: Box Office Boom For ‘All the Way’ as Closing Nears by Patrick Healy

The play, starring Bryan Cranston, had its best sales week yet, one week before it is scheduled to close on Broadway.

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Sunday, June 22, 2014

Here Lies Progress: Asian Actors Fill the Playbill by Patrick Healy

Shows like “Here Lies Love” and the coming revivals of “The King and I” and “Miss Saigon” have increased the demand for Asian-American actors.

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ArtsBeat: ‘Newsies’ to Close in August by Patrick Healy

The hit Broadway musical will close on Aug. 24 after two-and-half years of performances, Disney Theatrical Productions announced on Sunday.

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Thursday, June 19, 2014

ArtsBeat: Price of a Tony Won’t Go Up for Prize Winners by Patrick Healy

Despite complaints, the organization putting on the awards ceremony will continue to raise money by selling the awards to all but a limited number of producers of winning shows.

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Monday, June 16, 2014

ArtsBeat: Best Week Yet for ‘Gentleman’s Guide’ After Tony Win by Patrick Healy

“A Gentleman’s Guide for Love & Murder,” which won the Tony Award for best musical, hit a new high in ticket sales last week.

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Call for Theaters to Produce More Plays by Women by Patrick Healy

Female writers and producers have put together a list of 46 recommended plays by women.

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ArtsBeat: Producers Aim to Bring ‘Love Letters’ to Broadway This Fall by Patrick Healy

Broadway producers want to revive A.R. Gurney’s play at the Vivian Beaumont Theater; casting is not yet set.

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Sunday, June 15, 2014

Tony for Best Musical Is Nice, but a Profitable Hit Is Better by Patrick Healy

Since “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder” won the Tony for best musical, its producers are changing their marketing strategy in the hope of turning an acclaimed show into a long-run…

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Saturday, June 14, 2014

ArtsBeat: ‘After Midnight’ to Close After 8 Months by Patrick Healy

The Broadway musical “After Midnight,” a revue of song-and-dance numbers from the Cotton Club era of the 1920s, will close on June 29 after more than eight months of performances, a spok…

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Thursday, June 12, 2014

ArtsBeat: Harris’s Run in ‘Angry Inch’ Won’t Get Any Longer by Patrick Healy

Despite a strong ticket demand, Neil Patrick Harris will not say in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” beyond his scheduled Aug. 17 departure.

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ArtsBeat: Tony Committee Decision to Drop Sound Design Awards Prompts Noisy Outcry by Patrick Healy

A committee that oversees the Tony Awards decided to eliminate future awards for best sound design of a play and of a musical.

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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

ArtsBeat: Tony Awards Committee Eases Limits on Promotional Swag by Patrick Healy

The panel also eliminated prizes for sound design in a play and a musical.

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ArtsBeat: Broadway ‘Raisin’ Recoups by Patrick Healy

The revival of “A Raisin in the Sun,” which won three Tony Awards, has recouped its entire $4.25 million capitalization.

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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

ArtsBeat: Tony Awards Face Criticism Over ‘In Memoriam’ Segment by Patrick Healy

The segment honoring those who died was cut from the television broadcast this year.

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ArtsBeat: ‘Disgraced’ Will Reach Broadway, Though Without Aasif Mandvi by Patrick Healy

Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play will open at the Lyceum Theater on Oct. 23.

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Monday, June 9, 2014

Jessie Mueller, as Herself, After a Starry Night by Patrick Healy

Jessie Mueller came to New York with fears that she would never get desirable roles again, but she made a splash in “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” and won a Tony.

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Sunday, June 8, 2014

Audra McDonald and Neil Patrick Harris Win Acting Honors by Patrick Healy

The awards, which honor Broadway’s best plays and performances, included a record win for Audra McDonald and honors for Neil Patrick Harris and Bryan Cranston.

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ArtsBeat: 2014 Tony Awards: Hugh Jackman on His Hosting Plans and Why He Prefers Musicals to Movies by Patrick Healy

Hugh Jackman discusses Sunday’s Tony Awards and explains why Neil Patrick Harris is a tough act to follow.

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Saturday, June 7, 2014

Bernard Telsey: The Shows Must Go On by Patrick Healy

As one of more than 800 Tony Award voters, the casting director Bernard Telsey gets invited to every new Broadway show that is eligible for an award, so he’s a regular at Sunday matinees �…

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Friday, June 6, 2014

ArtsBeat: Readers’ Choice: Who’ll Take a Tony? by Patrick Healy

New York Times readers predict that “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder,” Neil Patrick Harris and Audra McDonald will take prizes on Sunday night.

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Thursday, June 5, 2014

Shoo-Ins Are Few in Heated Tony Race by Patrick Healy

While most races in this year’s Tony Awards are fiercely competitive, interviews with 40 of 800 voters yield some informed predictions of who will triumph Sunday night.

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ArtsBeat: Tony Award Predictions: Readers (and Boldface Names) Weigh In by Patrick Healy

Celebrities and Times readers offer their Tony Award predictions.

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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

ArtsBeat: Channing, Abraham and Mullally to Join ‘It’s Only a Play’ on Broadway by Patrick Healy

Stockard Channing, F. Murray Abraham and Megan Mullally will join Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick in a revised version of Terrence McNally’s 1980s comedy.

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ArtsBeat: Tony Award Predictions: Leading Actress in a Play by Patrick Healy

Audra McDonald can make history on Sunday by winning her sixth Tony Award, the most ever in acting, for her performance as Billie Holliday in “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill.”

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