Thursday, June 23, 2011
The 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:41AMThe Wednesday night performance on Broadway was cancelled after a stagehand died from what the police said was a drug overdose he suffered backstage.
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Angela Bassett will appear in Katori Hall's drama "The Mountaintop," about Dr. Martin Luther King on the night before his assassination.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:01PMKristoffer Diaz won the honor for "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity," his satire of television wrestling and the ethnic stereotypes and political imagery of that industry.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:48PMMonday, June 20, 2011
Harold Prince, who has won 21 Tony Awards for producing and directing some of the most well-known musicals of the 20th centurey, is planning a return to Broadway in the fall of 2012 with a s…
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Julie Taylor, who was fired from “Spider-Man” in March, speaks out against theatrical focus groups and instant Web and twitter critics.
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In her first public comments about "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" since the opening of the $70 million Broadway musical, Julie Taymor described the new show as "much simpler" than the versi…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:16PMWhy has "The Book of Mormon" emerged as the hit musical of the year on Broadway, while another artistically ambitious show a few block away, "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," has struggled?
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Blair Underwood, known for his roles on TV shows like "L.A. Law" and "The Event," will be the star of a new multiracial production of "A Streetcar Named Desire."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:13PMThree years after a bitter offstage fight derailed its plans for Broadway, the new musical comedy "Nice Work If You Can Get It" is back on the drawing boards.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:13PMLinda Lavin will appear in "The Lyons," a new Nicky Silver play at the Vineyard Theater, and will not be part of coming Broadway transfers of "Other Desert Cities" or "Follies."
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The nation's theater critics, for the most part, described "Spider-Man" as improved but nowhere near good enough to justify its record-setting $70 million budget.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:02PMThe opening of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” came at last on Tuesday with the improbable reunion of Julie Taymor with Bono and the producers who ousted her.
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Monday, June 13, 2011
Bono and the Edge admitted they were ill-prepared for the rigors of putting Julie Taymor’s vision of “Spider-Man” on Broadway.
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“The Book of Mormon,” a smash-hit Broadway musical made out of the unlikeliest of elements — religious themes, jokes about AIDS, and dirty lyrics — emerged as the runaway prizewinner…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:00PM"Book of Mormon," the favorite for best musical, is in the running for three Tonys that will be announced before the telecast begins on CBS.
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Thursday, June 9, 2011
Interviews with voters — and a notebook’s worth of meals in the theater district — ground our annual forecast of the 2011 Tony Awards.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:54PMSignature Theater Company has chosen the celebrated South African playwright Athol Fugard as the focus of its first year in its new 74,000-square-foot home, known as Signature Center.
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Broadway's powerful stagehands' union is planning to hoist an inflatable rat and mobilize 400 members to protest a loss of work organizing the red carpet pageantry at the awards.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:38PMAfter months of rewrites, new lyrics and choreography, rehearsals fo new material by day and preview performances at night, the cast and crew of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" was relieved …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:21PMOn Wednesday the producers of the first New York revival of "Rent," which begins performances on July 14, announced a new list of names.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:23PMThe producers developing a Broadway revival of William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Picnic," about young love and growing older in small-town Kansas, held a private reading on Monday …
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