Wednesday, August 3, 2011
The actress Lauren Ambrose, best known as the rebellious Claire Fisher in the HBO series "Six Feet Under," was not an obvious first choice for the Barbra Streisand role in the Broadway-bound…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:56PM"Lysistrata Jones," a musical comedy about sex and college basketball that had a well-received production Off Broadway in the spring, will transfer to Broadway.
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Darren Criss has become popular recently on the Fox series "Glee" playing a gay high school student and show choir member who exudes charisma and self-confidence.
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Shows including “Shrek the Musical” and “Legally Blonde” have found success in Europe after bombing on Broadway.
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John Lithgow will return to Broadway next spring to star in "The Columnist," playing the famous mid-century newspaperman Joseph Alsop in a new drama by David Auburn, who won both the Pulitze…
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Thursday, July 21, 2011
After the first two parts were presented at the Manhattan Theater Club, the last part will be at Atlantic Theater Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:45PMThe actress Rachel Griffiths will replace Elizabeth Marvel in Jon Robin Baitz's "Other Desert Cities" when the play moves from Lincoln Center Theater to Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:48PMMs. Friedman, echoing many Broadway producers, said virtually every production-related expense was more expensive in New York.
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James G. Watt, Secretary of the Interior in the Reagan administration, is the subject of the rock musical "Watt?!?"
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:00PMManhattan Theater Club announced on Wednesday that Cynthia Nixon, who won an Emmy as the uptight lawyer Miranda Hobbes on the HBO series, will play Professor Vivian Bearing in the first Broa…
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Monday, July 18, 2011
"How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" had its most profitable eight performances last week since beginning in February.
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A play by the Academy Award winner Dustin Lance Black, called “8,” consists mostly of verbatim dialogue and statements from the transcript of the trial over same-sex marriage in Californ…
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Turning children into hands-on heroes of “The Crash of the Elysium” and giving some of them their first taste of theater are among the goals of the Punchdrunk theater troupe.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:07PMFiasco Theater's highly inventive production of "Cymbeline," featuring six actors in 14 roles and an imaginative set that relied on just two crates, a sheet, and trunk serving many purposes,…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:15PMAndrew Lloyd Webber has long been a hands-on theater creator and producer, but lately, after a battle with cancer, he has been more content to let others interpret his work.
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Mr. Lane will play one of the stage's great dramatic characters, the doomed salesman Theodore "Hickey" Hickman, in the Goodman Theater's revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Iceman Cometh" in sprin…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:46PMA federal judge decided that approvals given to St. Ann’s Warehouse to occupy a site once designated parkland were granted in error.
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A $16 million musical production of "Rebecca," based on the classic 1938 novel by Daphne du Maurier, has been scaled down.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:30PMhe playwrights Theresa Rebeck, David Marshall Grant, Jacquelyn Reingold, and others working on the upcoming NBC series "Smash" - about the making of a Broadway musical - will do research nex…
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011
The National Theater in London is presenting Ibsen’s “Emperor and Galilean,” from 1873, that foreshadowed his more famous works.
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Radar L.A., a Los Angeles festival featuring international theater troupes, was organized by the producer of the Under the Radar festival in New York and partners in Los Angeles.
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The playwright Martin McDonagh and actors from the Druid Theater Company travel to Inishmaan, Ireland, to present “The Cripple of Inishmaan” there for the first time.
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Friday, June 24, 2011
Thursday, June 23, 2011
The Broadway revival of Larry Kramer’s 1985 play “The Normal Heart” draws varied reactions from gay people too young to remember the era in which it is set.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:42PMThe web is untangling to show how $75 million was spent on “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” more than twice as much as any production in Broadway history.
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