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Monday, December 23, 2013

ArtsBeat: Expensive Seats Prove Popular as Broadway Starts Raking In the Holiday Dollars by Patrick Healy

Ticket sales for premium-priced seats rose last week for popular Broadway musicals.    

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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

ArtsBeat: New Stars Named for McNally’s ‘Mothers and Sons’ by Patrick Healy

Frederick Weller and Bobby Steggert will join the Tony Award winner Tyne Daly on Broadway this winter in Terrence McNally’s “Mothers and Sons.”    

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ArtsBeat: ‘Iceman Cometh,’ With Nathan Lane, to Play Brooklyn Academy of Music by Patrick Healy

The production, which originated in Chicago, costars Brian Dennehy and is directed by Robert Falls.    

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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

ArtsBeat: Valisia LeKae Departing ‘Motown’ for Health Reasons by Patrick Healy

The 34-year-old actress played Diana Ross in the hit musical.    

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Monday, December 16, 2013

ArtsBeat: Connecticut School’s Production of ‘Rent’ Is Back On by Patrick Healy

The principal of Trumbull High School in Trumbull, Conn., said he was reversing his decision to cancel a student production of “Rent.”    

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Thursday, December 12, 2013

ArtsBeat: Broadway Producer To Head Public Theater Board by Patrick Healy

Arielle Tepper Madover, who won Tonys for “Red” and “Spamalot,” joined the board in 2009.    

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ArtsBeat: ‘Velocity of Autumn’ Finds Broadway Home by Patrick Healy

The two-character play, starring Estelle Parsons and Stephen Spinella, will begin performances at the Booth Theater on April 1.    

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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

ArtsBeat: Apple Family Plays to Be Filmed for PBS by Patrick Healy

WNET will record the Richard Nelson cycle for broadcast at a future date.    

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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

ArtsBeat: ‘Heathers’ Musical Will Play Off Broadway in March by Patrick Healy

A musical adaptation of the dark comedy will begin performances in March at New World Stages.    

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Monday, December 9, 2013

ArtsBeat: Strong Week for Broadway’s Carole King Show, Still in Previews by Patrick Healy

“Beautiful,” the new Broadway musical about Ms. King’s early years, has seen strong sales in the show’s first weeks of preview performances.    

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ArtsBeat: Fran Drescher to Join ‘Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella’ by Patrick Healy

Ms. Drescher will make her Broadway debut as the cruel stepmother, replacing Harriet Harris.    

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Sunday, December 8, 2013

ArtsBeat: A New Play Brings the Deepwater Horizon Disaster to the Stage by Patrick Healy

The production, based on interviews with people affected by the Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion in 2010, is to have its premiere this spring.    

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Saturday, December 7, 2013

Musicals Couldn’t Be Hotter Off Broadway (by 7,000 Miles) by Patrick Healy

Seoul, South Korea, has become a boomtown for American musicals, with producers opening Korean-language versions of hits and flops alike.    

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Thursday, December 5, 2013

ArtsBeat: Marin Mazzie to Star in ‘Bullets Over Broadway’ by Patrick Healy

Ms. Mazzie will play the role of the diva Helen Sinclair in the stage adaptation of Woody Allen’s 1994 film.    

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Wednesday, December 4, 2013

ArtsBeat: Connecticut High School Cancels Student Production of ‘Rent’ by Patrick Healy

The principal of Trumbull High School in Trumbull, Conn., canceled a planned drama-club production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical.    

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ArtsBeat: Mandy Greenfield to Become Artistic Director of Williamstown Theater Festival by Patrick Healy

Ms. Greenfield, the artistic producer of Manhattan Theater Club, will succeed Jenny Gersten beginning September 2014, the festival announced.    

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Monday, December 2, 2013

ArtsBeat: Veteran Broadway Press Agent To Close Up Shop by Patrick Healy

The Hartman Group, which represents such hit shows as “Wicked” and “Rock of Ages,” will close in January.    

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ArtsBeat: A Record Holiday Week for Broadway by Patrick Healy

Ticket sales for the 32 musicals and plays running last week hit $31.5 million, a record for Thanksgiving week.    

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ArtsBeat: New Terrence McNally Play Finds a Theater by Patrick Healy

“Mothers and Sons,” a new play by Mr. McNally starring Tyne Daly, will begin performances at the Golden Theater in February.    

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ArtsBeat: ‘Pippin’ Revival Recoups Investment by Patrick Healy

The Tony Award-winning revival of “Pippin” has recouped its $8.5 million capitalization after about eight months of performances.    

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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Conor McPherson Prepares ‘The Night Alive’ by Patrick Healy

Conor McPherson’s “The Night Alive” opens at the Atlantic Theater Company in a production he directed.    

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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

ArtsBeat: Tough Week at the Broadway Box Office by Patrick Healy

“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder,” which has drawn good reviews, saw modest sales, like some other new musicals this fall.    

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ArtsBeat: Franco and O’Dowd Confirmed for ‘Of Mice and Men’ on Broadway by Patrick Healy

James Franco and Chris O’Dowd will make their Broadway debuts in a production of John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men.”    

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Monday, November 25, 2013

ArtsBeat: Sutton Foster to Star in Roundabout Theater Revival of ‘Violet’ by Patrick Healy

Ms. Foster will play a disfigured woman on a journey to meet her father in the Roundabout Theater Company’s Broadway production of the 1997 musical “Violet.”    

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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

‘Spider-Man’ Investors Shaken by Projected $60 Million Loss by Patrick Healy

When the Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” closes in January, it will have leave investors with historic losses.    

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Monday, November 18, 2013

‘Spider-Man’ to Close on Broadway by Patrick Healy

A somewhat revamped version of the musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” is planned for Las Vegas in 2015.    

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Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Hudson Valley Town Is a Playwright’s Home and Template by Patrick Healy

The playwright Richard Nelson’s cycle of plays, at the Public Theater this fall, features real places in Rhinebeck, N.Y., where he lives.    

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Friday, November 1, 2013

Amanda Peet, Playwright, With ‘The Commons of Pensacola’ by Patrick Healy

Amanda Peet turns playwright, with “The Commons of Pensacola,” starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Blythe Danner.    

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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Louis Hobson Leaves Broadway for Seattle’s Balagan Theater by Patrick Healy

Quickly grabbing Broadway credits wasn’t enough for Louis Hobson. He’s now returned to Seattle, where he is artistic director of the Balagan Theater.    

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Bruce Norris’s ‘Domesticated’ Takes On Politics and Monogamy by Patrick Healy

Bruce Norris takes a look at monogamy through the prism of a political marriage in “Domesticated,” the latest in a string of dramas centering on sex scandals.    

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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

ArtsBeat: Revamped ‘Les Mis’ Finds Its Valjean and Javert for Broadway by Patrick Healy

Ramin Karimloo will play Jean Valjean and Will Swenson will be Inspector Javert in the reconceived Broadway production of “Les Misérables.”    

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