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Producers reverse their decision to keep the show open after Ricky Martin and his costars leave.
Mr. LaBeouf will make his Broadway debut as a petty thief who kidnaps a mobster, to be played by Mr. Baldwin, in the revival of Lyle Kessler's 1983 drama.
Deirdre O'Connell will take the role in Hamish Linklater's play, opening at the Flea Theater.
Ms. Mamet will star in Paul Downs Colaizzo's "Really Really," a drama about sexual politics and culture clashes among college students.
The new $100,000 award was established in September by Jean Kennedy Smith to honor her brother Edward M. Kennedy.
Mr. Bice, a runner-up to Carrie Underwood on "American Idol," will be part of the show's six-person cast.
Out of 19 plays and musicals that opened in the second half of this year, only 2 are hits with ticket buyers.
"Tarzan," "The Lion King" and now "Rocky" are turning Hamburg into a profitable city for big, splashy musicals.
The rapid fall of David Mamet's new play, "The Anarchist," raises questions about business on Broadway, especially the producer-playwright relationship.
A stage musical based on the 1976 movie "Rocky" has proved a hit in Hamburg, Germany. Now its producers hope to bring it to Broadway.
"Scandalous" was the latest attempt by theater artists to create a musical that explored spiritual themes and aimed for audiences who might be drawn to stories about religious figures.
The show's creator, Kathie Lee Gifford, and two of the lead producers, Dick and Betsy DeVos, have kept the show running in hopes that it will find a larger audience at the box office.
The new musical, based on the famed movie about a rampaging ape, is first scheduled to open in Melbourne, but a New York run could come later.
The festival of four productions will include a world-premiere musical, "Stu for Silverton."
The New York production of the show will close in December.
Beth Henley's play "The Miss Firecracker Contest" will be mounted on Broadway this spring and star the Emmy-nominated actress Amber Tamblyn.
The new space, which will focus on Jacobean works, will be named after the actor and director Sam Wanamaker.
Despite their casting film and television actors in lead roles, such plays as "The Heiress" and "Grace" draw modestly.
The playwright Chay Yew has taken over a Chicago theater company and is changing everything " including the roster of writers.
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…
Bertie Carvel, an acclaimed theater actor in England, will once again play Miss Trunchbull in the adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's novel.
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 Broadway.
The show's producer says the unusual delay is a matter of logistics, not an effort to sell more tickets before critics weigh in.
Losses due to performance cancellations were greater during Hurricane Irene, however.
"Sorry," Richard Nelson's real-time drama set on Election Day 2012, opens Tuesday night at the Public Theater.
