Wednesday, June 8, 2011
The 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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The stars of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” Reeve Carney and Jennifer Damiano, are doing their all to sell the new version that opens next week.
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“Balm in Gilead,” in a Brooklyn warehouse, was the sort of theatrical hot mess, done with the blessing of Lanford Wilson’s estate, that rarely happens on such a scale in New York nowad…
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The 2006 indie film "Once" will receive a downtown production at New York Theater Workshop in November, with Broadway a possibility after that.
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St. Ann’s Warehouse, the Brooklyn theater whose plan for a new home was blocked, is facing an uncertain future: It is scheduled to leave its current home next May, but now has no alternati…
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President Obama's re-election campaign has chosen the production for his first major Broadway fundraiser for the 2012 cycle.
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The revival, originally been aiming to open on Broadway in the summer of 2008, will be staged at Circle in the Square, with previews to begin on Oct. 13 and an opening night scheduled for No…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:35PMBefore his death this month, Arthur Laurents gave his blessing to a new film version of “Gypsy,” possibly starring Barbra Streisand, and finished a full-length play and his third memoir.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33PMJoe Mantello, a two-time Tony winner for directing, returned to acting for the role that resonates the most with him, Ned Weeks in “The Normal Heart.”
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The stage version will largely re-tell the movie plot about a Seattle widower, his son, and a woman who becomes obsessed with their heartbreak.
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Mr. Allen described his play, “Honeymoon Motel,” as “a broad comedy, for laughs, no redeeming social value.”
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Kristoffer Diaz's play "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity," a comic drama about televised professional wrestling and identity politics, won the Obie award for best new American play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:15PMWith all the changes to the plot of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," the Broadway musical's creative team didn't fiddle with its super-power earning potential, raking in almost $810,000 for …
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Local 802 is going after “Priscilla Queen of the Desert,” hoping to undercut the use of recordings in theater.
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The smash Broadway musical “The Book of Mormon” took a tortuous route to the stage, including the departure of a director, before earning 14 Tony nominations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:35AMThe musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” resumed performances on Broadway after an unusual, three-and-a-half week hiatus and creative overhaul.
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NBC has picked up the musical comedy "Smash," about the making of a Broadway show, for the 2011-12 television season, according to an executive involved with the new series.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:00PMThe credits for "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" reflect the changes to the $70-million musical's production and creative team.
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Heather Hitchens, presently the executive director at the New York State Council on the Arts, will take on that role at the American Theater Wing, which is a presenter of the Tony Awards.
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The New York Drama Critics' Circle awarded best play to "Good People," by David Lindsay-Abaire, and best musical to "The Book of Mormon."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00PMThe British actor Simon Russell Beale will return to the New York stage this summer as a London taxi driver in Atlantic Theater Company's production of "Bluebird
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When “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” returns to previews on Thursday, several of Julie Taymor’s characters and ideas will be gone, its creators say.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:30PMThe project's commercial producers expressed optimism that they would move the show to New York after its premiere run at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass.
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At a rehearsal for "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" on Friday, the actor Christopher Tierney returned to the scene of an accident that nearly killed him during a performance on Dec. 20.
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