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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

ArtsBeat: Shakespeare's Globe Sets 2014 Opening Date for Indoor Theater by Patrick Healy

The new space, which will focus on Jacobean works, will be named after the actor and director Sam Wanamaker.

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Monday, November 26, 2012

ArtsBeat: Musicals Draw Best During Thanksgiving Week on Broadway by Patrick Healy

Despite their casting film and television actors in lead roles, such plays as "The Heiress" and "Grace" draw modestly.

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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago in New Era With Chay Yew by Patrick Healy

The playwright Chay Yew has taken over a Chicago theater company and is changing everything — including the roster of writers.

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Monday, November 12, 2012

ArtsBeat: Battle Brewing Over Where to Stage Beau Willimon Play by Patrick Healy

The small Off Off Broadway Flea Theater and a powerful Hollywood agency are talking about mounting "The Parisian Woman," a new play about sexual politics in Washington, in a larger space tha…

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Thursday, November 8, 2012

ArtsBeat: Award Winner to Reprise Role as Schoolmistress in 'Matilda the Musical' by Patrick Healy

Bertie Carvel, an acclaimed theater actor in England, will once again play Miss Trunchbull in the adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's novel.

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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Katie Holmes and Norbert Leo Butz in ‘Dead Accounts’ by Patrick Healy

Katie Holmes (once Mrs. Tom Cruise, if you hadn’t heard) and Norbert Leo Butz are among the Midwesterners in “Dead Accounts,” a play set in Cincinnati and opening this month on Broadwa…

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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

ArtsBeat: 'Glengarry Glen Ross' Pushes Back Opening by a Month by Patrick Healy

The show's producer says the unusual delay is a matter of logistics, not an effort to sell more tickets before critics weigh in.

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ArtsBeat: Broadway Box Office Takes an Estimated $8.5 Million Hurricane Hit by Patrick Healy

Losses due to performance cancellations were greater during Hurricane Irene, however.

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Monday, November 5, 2012

Richard Nelson Tweaks ‘Sorry’ at the Public for Election Day by Patrick Healy

“Sorry,” Richard Nelson’s real-time drama set on Election Day 2012, opens Tuesday night at the Public Theater.

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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Another Multiplex Multitasker by Patrick Healy

Harvey Weinstein, one of film’s most hands-on producers, is finally getting serious about Broadway.

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Paula Wagner Turns to Producing on Broadway by Patrick Healy

Paula Wagner, who went from actress to agent to Hollywood studio chief, has come to Broadway as a producer.

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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

ArtsBeat: Settlement Talks Continue in Court Battle Over 'Spider-Man' Musical by Patrick Healy

Negotiations continue, despite an October 30 deadline set by judge in dispute between show's producers and its former director, Julie Taymor.

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Monday, October 22, 2012

ArtsBeat: 'Glengarry Glen Ross' Off to a Hot Start at the Box Office by Patrick Healy

The production, starring Al Pacino, grossed $703,775 for its first four preview performances at the Schoenfeld Theater last week.

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ArtsBeat: Changes Afoot at TKTS Booth by Patrick Healy

In a pilot program, theatergoers will be able to purchase discount tickets for matinee and evening performances beginning in the morning, and some full-price tickets will be available at the…

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Friday, October 19, 2012

ArtsBeat: 'Rebecca' Producers Charge Fraud in $100 Million Lawsuit by Patrick Healy

The suit, against former stockbroker Mark C. Hotton and others, alleges that their scheme to fake investors in the musical may be "responsible for its destruction."

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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Katie Finneran Takes on ‘Annie’ by Patrick Healy

With a much-anticipated role in a much-anticipated revival, Katie Finneran is seeking the right balance for Miss Hannigan in “Annie.”

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Ben Sprecher, ‘Rebecca’ Producer, Explains His Fallen Dream by Patrick Healy and William K. Rashbaum

Ben Sprecher, now clear of any suggestion he did anything untoward to cause the musical’s collapse, has begun to spell out how it could have happened.

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Thursday, October 11, 2012

ArtsBeat: Tom Hanks To Star on Broadway in 'Lucky Guy' by Patrick Healy

The Oscar-winning actor will make is Broadway debut in Nora Ephron's play about the late tabloid journalist Mike McAlary.

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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

ArtsBeat: Andrea Martin Joins Cast of 'Pippin' Revival by Patrick Healy

The Tony-winning actress will play the scene-stealing grandmother in the musical, which will open at the American Repertory Theater and has attracted the attention of Broadway producers.

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ArtsBeat: 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' Headed to Broadway by Patrick Healy

"Truman Capote's 'Breakfast at Tiffany's,'" a new stage adaptation by Richard Greenberg, will begin performances on Broadway in February.

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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

ArtsBeat: 'Heiress,' 'Annie' Draw Well in Early Previews on Broadway by Patrick Healy

"Lion King," "Wicked" and "Book of Mormon" top the box office in a period helped by the long holiday weekend.

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Monday, October 8, 2012

City Room: Inquiry Finds That Four 'Rebecca' Investors Did Not Exist by William K. Rashbaum and Patrick Healy

The lawyer for the lead producer of the Broadway musical, which collapsed after the reported death of a mysterious investor, said on Sunday that the investor and three others who were brough…

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Friday, October 5, 2012

Commission Was Involved in $4.5 Million Financing for ‘Rebecca’ by William K. Rashbaum and Patrick Healy

It seems increasingly likely that a fund-raiser fabricated the four investors whom producers were relying on, according to a lawyer for the Broadway musical’s lead producer.

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Thursday, October 4, 2012

2nd U.S. Inquiry Centers on ‘Rebecca’ Go-Between by William K. Rashbaum and Patrick Healy

Mark C. Hotton, a stockbroker who introduced a producer of the musical to the mysterious investor Paul Abrams, is the subject of an unrelated federal fraud investigation.

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Specializing in Secrets and Their Dear Cost by Patrick Healy

The playwright Simon Stephens is hoping for his breakout moment in New York with “Harper Regan,” which is in previews at Atlantic Theater Company.

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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

‘Rebecca’ Go-Between Is at Center of Separate U.S. Inquiry by William K. Rashbaum and Patrick Healy

Mark C. Hotton, a stockbroker who introduced a producer of the musical to the mysterious investor Paul Abrams, is the subject of an unrelated federal fraud investigation.

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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

L.I. Man Said to Have Connected ‘Rebecca’ Producer With Investor by Patrick Healy and William K. Rashbaum

A man with a history of civil fraud complaints against him steered the lead producer of “Rebecca” to the investor, according to a person who learned about the middleman from the producer.

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ArtsBeat: 'Rebecca' Producer Denies Inventing Mystery Investor by Patrick Healy and William K. Rashbaum

As criminal investigation proceeds, Ben Sprecher says he is still looking to stage the musical on Broadway or elsewhere.

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ArtsBeat: 'Hands on a Hardbody' Sets Broadway Opening Date by Patrick Healy

Based on a documentary about an endurance contest in Texas, the show features music by Trey Anastasio (of Phish) and Amanda Green.

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Monday, October 1, 2012

‘Rebecca’ Cancellation Sets Investors’ Lawyers in Action by Patrick Healy

A lawyer for the lead producer of the recently canceled musical “Rebecca” said that criminal investigators had interviewed his client about the murky circumstances surrounding the loss o…

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Sunday, September 30, 2012

ArtsBeat: 'Rebecca' Faces Broadway Postponement by Patrick Healy

An executive involved with the musical said the show would be postponed because lead producers were unable to close a $4.5 million gap in a $12 million budget.

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