Ticket sales for premium-priced seats rose last week for popular Broadway musicals.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:15PMFrederick Weller and Bobby Steggert will join the Tony Award winner Tyne Daly on Broadway this winter in Terrence McNally’s “Mothers and Sons.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:59AMThe production, which originated in Chicago, costars Brian Dennehy and is directed by Robert Falls.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36AMThe 34-year-old actress played Diana Ross in the hit musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:42PMThe principal of Trumbull High School in Trumbull, Conn., said he was reversing his decision to cancel a student production of “Rent.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:08PMArielle Tepper Madover, who won Tonys for “Red” and “Spamalot,” joined the board in 2009.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:56PMThe two-character play, starring Estelle Parsons and Stephen Spinella, will begin performances at the Booth Theater on April 1.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:27PM“Beautiful,” the new Broadway musical about Ms. King’s early years, has seen strong sales in the show’s first weeks of preview performances.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:52PMMs. Drescher will make her Broadway debut as the cruel stepmother, replacing Harriet Harris.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:52PMThe production, based on interviews with people affected by the Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion in 2010, is to have its premiere this spring.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:00PMSeoul, South Korea, has become a boomtown for American musicals, with producers opening Korean-language versions of hits and flops alike.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:30PMMs. Mazzie will play the role of the diva Helen Sinclair in the stage adaptation of Woody Allen’s 1994 film.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:30PMThe principal of Trumbull High School in Trumbull, Conn., canceled a planned drama-club production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:43PMMs. Greenfield, the artistic producer of Manhattan Theater Club, will succeed Jenny Gersten beginning September 2014, the festival announced.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:48AMThe Hartman Group, which represents such hit shows as “Wicked” and “Rock of Ages,” will close in January.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:45PMTicket sales for the 32 musicals and plays running last week hit $31.5 million, a record for Thanksgiving week.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:10PM“Mothers and Sons,” a new play by Mr. McNally starring Tyne Daly, will begin performances at the Golden Theater in February.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:15PMThe Tony Award-winning revival of “Pippin” has recouped its $8.5 million capitalization after about eight months of performances.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:50AMConor McPherson’s “The Night Alive” opens at the Atlantic Theater Company in a production he directed.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:17PM“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder,” which has drawn good reviews, saw modest sales, like some other new musicals this fall.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:31PMJames Franco and Chris O’Dowd will make their Broadway debuts in a production of John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:01AMMs. Foster will play a disfigured woman on a journey to meet her father in the Roundabout Theater Company’s Broadway production of the 1997 musical “Violet.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:01AMWhen the Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” closes in January, it will have leave investors with historic losses.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:25PMA somewhat revamped version of the musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” is planned for Las Vegas in 2015.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:02PMThe playwright Richard Nelson’s cycle of plays, at the Public Theater this fall, features real places in Rhinebeck, N.Y., where he lives.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:20PMAmanda Peet turns playwright, with “The Commons of Pensacola,” starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Blythe Danner.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMQuickly grabbing Broadway credits wasn’t enough for Louis Hobson. He’s now returned to Seattle, where he is artistic director of the Balagan Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:15PMBruce Norris takes a look at monogamy through the prism of a political marriage in “Domesticated,” the latest in a string of dramas centering on sex scandals.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:09PMRamin Karimloo will play Jean Valjean and Will Swenson will be Inspector Javert in the reconceived Broadway production of “Les Misérables.”
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