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Producers are considering moving the puppet comedy "Hand to God," which will return for more shows Off-Broadway in new year, to a Broadway theater.
"The London Merchant," about the downfall of a young man led astray by a prostitute, focused on the British working classes and was popular in the 1700s
When the tourists go home, struggling Broadway shows start closing their doors. This year some successful ones are shutting down soon too. On the horizon: Some promising openings.
Only 20 to 30 percent of Broadway shows ever turn a profit, but even the flops can make millions on the road. And few cities are as profitable as Buffalo, mainly because of Shea's Performing…
Patrick Healy looks at the top stories in theater for 2011, more than a few of which are related to "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark."
Mr. Klugman will play the role of Juror 5 in a new production at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, N.J.
The musical, based on the 2004 film about J.M. Barrie, represents the first show that the Weinstein Company has developed and its first outing as lead producer.
Tourists appear to be favoring long-running shows over new musicals.
Substantial runs for shows like "Venus in Fur," "War Horse" and "Anything Goes" can mean fewer offerings for subscribers.
A group of veteran theater producers plans to bring a musical version of "Flashdance" to New York next fall.
"Private Lives" closing at end of year, five weeks early
Staged presentation of "Tuck Everlasting" raises hopes for Broadway production
Gideon Lester has been named the new head of theater programs at Bard College.
The actor (and former college basketball player) Tug Coker has been cast in the role of Larry Bird in the play "Magic/Bird."
A lead producer of the Frank Wildhorn musical said that performances beyond Dec. 30 have been canceled, though a closing notice for the show has not been posted.
"Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella," based on the 1957 television musical starring Julie Andrews, will be reconceived with the intent of bringing it to Broadway in 2012.
Casting director says she didn't choose white actors to play Latino in "Mother... With the Hat" at Hartford Theater Works.
With a new complex of its own being built in Hell's Kitchen, MCC Theater expects to offer more productions and longer runs.
Kelli O'Hara to star, Bartlett Sher to direct workshop of "Bridges of Madison County" musical.
And besides the psychic rewards, Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg have a stairway named after them.
The stars of the film "Once" and those of the stage musical discuss what is similar " and what is not " about the two versions.
In a rare attack by a playwright on a professional production of his own work, Stephen Adly Guirgis took to Facebook on Wednesday to assail the casting of two white actors as Puerto Rican ch…
"Mormon" is the first commercially successful musical from the 2010-11 season, which had an unusually large number of original musicals open, such as the still-running "Sister Act" and "Pris…
The show is to begin previews in March.
Mr. Parsons, the "Big Bang Theory" star, will take on the role of Elwood, the genial eccentric who claims to see a six-foot-tall white rabbit named Harvey.
