Thursday, January 3, 2013
After decades of journeyman work, Reed Birney has translated his recent Off Broadway success into his return to Broadway, in “Picnic.”
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The musical pulls in almost $2.95 million for nine performances, and ends 2012 as the highest grossing Broadway show for the ninth consecutive year.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:52PMBen Sprecher said the show's notoriety has made him more optimistic about raising the remaining money needed to stage it in New York.
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The production of "Cat," along with the Broadway revival of "Glengarry Glen Ross" (starring Al Pacino), were the highest-earning plays in a pre-Christmas week that is almost always dominated…
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The Broadway musical "Newsies" has recouped its $5 million capitalization, becoming the fastest of any Disney musical on Broadway to turn a profit, the show's producers said.
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Scarlett Johansson, gravitating toward portraying flintier characters than those she portrayed earlier in her career, has returned to Broadway in Tennessee Williams’s “Cat on a Hot Tin R…
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In "Totally Tubular Time Machine," audience members will be encouraged to ask personal questions of actors playing famous performers like Madonna and Justin Bieber.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:48PMThe inaugural commissions will go to Thomas Bradshaw ("Job"), Samuel D. Hunter ("The Whale"), and Sharyn Rothstein ("The Invested"); a fourth commission will be shared by Adam Bock ("A Small…
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The high gross for "Christmas Story" was partly the result of its producers adding a ninth performance last week; most other shows had only the usual eight.
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Producers declined to comment on whether negotiations with these and other actors to replace the departing Ricky Martin ever progressed.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Famed for its nudity, the show will play at an Upper West Side bar and lounge, with the producer hoping for a full run to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its Off Broadway opening.
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Mr. LaBeouf will make his Broadway debut as a petty thief who kidnaps a mobster, to be played by Mr. Baldwin, in the revival of Lyle Kessler's 1983 drama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:05PMMs. Mamet will star in Paul Downs Colaizzo's "Really Really," a drama about sexual politics and culture clashes among college students.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:09PMThe new $100,000 award was established in September by Jean Kennedy Smith to honor her brother Edward M. Kennedy.
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Out of 19 plays and musicals that opened in the second half of this year, only 2 are hits with ticket buyers.
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“Tarzan,” “The Lion King” and now “Rocky” are turning Hamburg into a profitable city for big, splashy musicals.
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Barry Weissler, the Tony Award-winning producer of the Broadway revival of "Chicago" and many other musicals, said on Thursday that he and his wife, Fran, along with producers Howard and Jan…
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The rapid fall of David Mamet’s new play, “The Anarchist,” raises questions about business on Broadway, especially the producer-playwright relationship.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:28PMA stage musical based on the 1976 movie “Rocky” has proved a hit in Hamburg, Germany. Now its producers hope to bring it to Broadway.
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"Scandalous" was the latest attempt by theater artists to create a musical that explored spiritual themes and aimed for audiences who might be drawn to stories about religious figures.
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The show's creator, Kathie Lee Gifford, and two of the lead producers, Dick and Betsy DeVos, have kept the show running in hopes that it will find a larger audience at the box office.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:33AMThe new musical, based on the famed movie about a rampaging ape, is first scheduled to open in Melbourne, but a New York run could come later.
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Beth Henley's play "The Miss Firecracker Contest" will be mounted on Broadway this spring and star the Emmy-nominated actress Amber Tamblyn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:23PMThe new space, which will focus on Jacobean works, will be named after the actor and director Sam Wanamaker.
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