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Menzel, a fan favorite since "Rent," is back on Broadway in "Redwood," and this time she's climbing conifers.
Seaview, whose buzzy shows include "Romeo + Juliet," has seized a chance to have its own theater by taking over Second Stage's former Off Broadway home.
The stage employees union accused the nonprofit theater of stalling talks. The strike forced the cancellation of Sunday performances of two new plays.
Over three decades, Sally Vahle has played Scrooge, ghosts and many of the other characters in Dallas Theater Center's annual production of the Dickens classic.
"Dead Outlaw," a musical about the mummified body of a bandit, will open at the Longacre next spring, following a successful Off Broadway run.
The new musical, about a shipwreck and its aftermath, opened Nov. 19 at the Longacre Theater.
The Broadway League, an industry trade organization, named Jason Laks as its new president. "I think our mission has to be more than to make it 2019 again," Laks said.
The troupe is also closing its Chicago company, but continues to perform in Berlin, Boston, Las Vegas and, soon, Orlando.
With less touring, it's been a while since all the world has been its stage, but the troupe is working with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater " where it has family ties.
Well-reviewed in London but poorly received in New York, the musical with an Elton John score will end its run on Dec. 8.
The first domestic TKTS outpost outside New York comes at a time of rising concern about ticket prices and theater economics.
The award-winning production will begin performances in February as part of Brooklyn Academy of Music's next season.
Theatergoers and other performing-arts lovers are noticing the practice seems to have become the rule, not the exception.
The enduring Andrew Lloyd Webber musical will begin a multiyear tour in Baltimore in November 2025.
The musical, which opened in London three years ago, is still going strong there and touring North America, while productions are planned in Japan and on a cruise ship.
The Connelly Theater has suspended operations after its church landlord began more carefully scrutinizing show scripts and its general manager resigned.
He collaborated with Eisa Davis to make a concept album inspired by the 1979 movie. One big change: the main gang is made up of women.
Kimberly Belflower's "John Proctor Is the Villain" will be directed by Danya Taymor, who won a Tony this year for "The Outsiders."
James Morgan, who has been with the small New York theater company for 50 years, blamed the effects of a stroke for his behavior.
The musical, created by Shania Taub, announced that it will play its final performance on Jan. 5 and start a national tour next fall.
The landlords also said they would reconsider their process for determining who to honor with full and partial dimmings.
"Just in Time," a new musical about the "Mack the Knife" pop singer, will open next spring at Circle in the Square in Manhattan.
The "Succession" actress plays all 26 characters in a London stage production of the Oscar Wilde novel.
The musical, based on the best-selling novel, featured dazzling acrobatics and puppetry. Its final performance will be Dec. 8.
The show is about a real World War II episode in which British intelligence planted disinformation on a dead body to fool the Germans.
