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The Tony winner for best musical, about a high school girl with a rare genetic disorder and a criminally dysfunctional family, will begin a national tour in September.
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The musicals of Stephen Sondheim often struggled at the box office during his lifetime, but since his death several have become huge hits on Broadway.
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David Landay, an author of the 1982 stage musical, reworked a kidnapping scene for a 2021 production. Now he’s suing the estates of his coauthors for the right to keep going.
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The small theaters that help make the city a theater capital are cutting back as they struggle to recover from the pandemic.
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The musical, now midway through a sold-out Off Broadway run at the Public Theater, will transfer to the Shubert Theater in March.
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A show about the televangelist, with songs by Elton John and Jake Shears, had a run in London last year and plans to open in New York next season.
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The production, a new translation by Heidi Schreck, will also star Alison Pill, William Jackson Harper, Alfred Molina and Anika Noni Rose.
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Monday, October 30, 2023
Rachel Chavkin of “Hadestown” will direct the show, which had developmental productions in Massachusetts and California.
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A new production, directed by Kenny Leon, will feature a diverse cast and will aim to speak to contemporary America.
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Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Heidi Schreck’s play will have at least 16 productions around the country; last season’s most-produced play, “Clyde’s,” came in second.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:43PMThe musical, about early-20th-century efforts to win the right to vote for women, will open in April at the Music Box Theater.
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The show said Thursday that it would play a final performance at the Nederlander Theater on Jan. 14, but did not rule out continuing elsewhere.
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“Hell’s Kitchen,” a musical inspired by the singer-songwriter’s teenage years in New York, is set to open Off Broadway.
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Starting with the next academic year, the drama school will eliminate an “unrealistic burden” for graduate acting students.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:13AMSondheim said days before his death in 2021 that he did not know when it would be finished, but the musical, now called “Here We Are,” begins performances Thursday.
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His pending departure, in 2025, means that there are job openings for the top artistic positions at three of the four nonprofits operating Broadway theaters.
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The nonprofit, a singular institution in New York’s theatrical ecosystem, has presented acclaimed works like “Between Riverside and Crazy” and “Next to Normal.”
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The Congresswoman was asked to leave after being accused of being loud and recording the show at a moment when many theaters are debating how to deal with raucous audience behavior.
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The prominent Los Angeles nonprofit chose the playwright to oversee its artistic programming at a time of crisis for American theaters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:04PMThe show, with a group of circus artists as part of the cast, is adapted from Sara Gruen’s best-selling novel.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:37AMThe theme “No Place Like Home” will drive shows and festivals in both large cities and rural locales of this country on July 27, 2024.
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Wednesday, September 6, 2023
“Mother Play,” set in the 1960s, will feature Lange as a mother raising two children, played by Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger.
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The subscription model, in which theatergoers buy a season’s worth of shows at a time, had long been waning, but it fell off a cliff during the pandemic.
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