ArtsBeat: 'King Kong' Will Stomp Onto Broadway in December, Producer Says
The chairman of the Australian production company mounting the musical made the announcement in a Melbourne radio interview.
The chairman of the Australian production company mounting the musical made the announcement in a Melbourne radio interview.
A town hall meeting was called in response to frustration with the preponderance of lower-paying tours for musicals.
An adjusted version of the Tony-winning musical will play down Asian stereotypes that caused concern.
Actors' Equity members are organizing against a touring system for Broadway shows that treats and pays some members handsomely and others far less so.
Will Eno's Broadway debut will go into the theater where the Janis Joplin biomusical is now playing.
The disco-inflected musical about Imelda Marcos will be a commercial production in space rented from the Public.
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At an overflow membership meeting of the stage actors union, concerns were expressed about the pay " lower than past norms " to performers on coming tours.
A brief vacation for the actor Michael Urie is handing Clancy O'Connor the opportunity every understudy dreams of: proving himself to audiences and power brokers.
The Actors' Equity union will hold a town hall meeting to discuss salaries and pay contracts for touring musicals.
The Broadway double-bill of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" and "Richard III" will be treated as two separate shows for the purposes of the Tony Awards.
Mr. Price has led the company since 1968, producing more than 200 shows and sending 19 of them to Broadway.
A double bill of "Twelfth Night" and "Richard III," starring Mark Rylance, has recouped its $3.1 million capitalization, the producers said.
The show, which is inspired by the late rapper but is not a biographical treatment of his life, is scheduled to open on June 19.
The play, an adaptation of Mark Haddon's best-selling novel, has been a hit in London, and will open this fall at the Barrymore Theater in a new production.
The critically acclaimed revival, with Zachary Quinto and Cherry Jones, has recouped its $2.6-million capitalization, the play's producers announced.
The $75 million production of "Spider-Man," the most expensive musical in history and one of the most troubled, ended a run of three years and two months.
Hilary Mantel's two Man Booker-winning historical novels, "Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up the Bodies," are being adapted and condensed for the stage in Britain.
With Broadway musicals finding success in Seoul, Korean producers are starting to get in on the front end of the financing in New York.
"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamboat" with a celebrity K-pop presence: That's the sort of musical that's selling on stages in Seoul.
The venerated acting teacher Wynn Handman, 91, is celebrated in a new book, "Wynn Place Show," and by former students like Chris Cooper.
She took in a Los Angeles performance of the one-person show, which stars Bette Midler as Sue Mengers, Ms.Streisand's former agent.