ArtsBeat: Large-Scale Flop, Off Broadway
The Nashville-themed musical "Lucky Guy" is a Broadway-sized flop but one that took place Off Broadway.
The Nashville-themed musical "Lucky Guy" is a Broadway-sized flop but one that took place Off Broadway.
The 2006 indie film "Once" will receive a downtown production at New York Theater Workshop in November, with Broadway a possibility after that.
St. Ann's Warehouse, the Brooklyn theater whose plan for a new home was blocked, is facing an uncertain future: It is scheduled to leave its current home next May, but now has no alternative…
President Obama's re-election campaign has chosen the production for his first major Broadway fundraiser for the 2012 cycle.
"Rocky" musical is moving forward
Broadway had another billion-dollar season between late May 2010 and Sunday.
Can a Broadway flop be resurrected Off Broadway?
The revival, originally been aiming to open on Broadway in the summer of 2008, will be staged at Circle in the Square, with previews to begin on Oct. 13 and an opening night scheduled for No…
Before his death this month, Arthur Laurents gave his blessing to a new film version of "Gypsy," possibly starring Barbra Streisand, and finished a full-length play and his third memoir.
Joe Mantello, a two-time Tony winner for directing, returned to acting for the role that resonates the most with him, Ned Weeks in "The Normal Heart."
Plays are doing solid box-office business during Tony season.
'War Horse' and 'The Normal Heart' are also honored.
The stage version will largely re-tell the movie plot about a Seattle widower, his son, and a woman who becomes obsessed with their heartbreak.
Mr. Allen described his play, "Honeymoon Motel," as "a broad comedy, for laughs, no redeeming social value."
Kristoffer Diaz's play "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity," a comic drama about televised professional wrestling and identity politics, won the Obie award for best new American play.
With all the changes to the plot of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," the Broadway musical's creative team didn't fiddle with its super-power earning potential, raking in almost $810,000 for …
"The Book of Mormon" is named best new Broadway musical.
Local 802 is going after "Priscilla Queen of the Desert," hoping to undercut the use of recordings in theater.
The smash Broadway musical "The Book of Mormon" took a tortuous route to the stage, including the departure of a director, before earning 14 Tony nominations.
The musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" resumed performances on Broadway after an unusual, three-and-a-half week hiatus and creative overhaul.
NBC has picked up the musical comedy "Smash," about the making of a Broadway show, for the 2011-12 television season, according to an executive involved with the new series.
The credits for "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" reflect the changes to the $70-million musical's production and creative team.
Heather Hitchens, presently the executive director at the New York State Council on the Arts, will take on that role at the American Theater Wing, which is a presenter of the Tony Awards.
The New York Drama Critics' Circle awarded best play to "Good People," by David Lindsay-Abaire, and best musical to "The Book of Mormon."
The British actor Simon Russell Beale will return to the New York stage this summer as a London taxi driver in Atlantic Theater Company's production of "Bluebird