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NEW YORK (Variety) - Broadway's hottest tickets in Week 40 of the season (Feb. 24 -- March 2).
NEW YORK (Variety) - Michael Butler, the musical's original Broadway producer, has acquired the rights for a national tour of the rock tuner, beginning in September.
Playwrights at work on a stage version of 'Get Shorty' by Robert Hofler
NEW YORK (Variety) - One good club deserves another. "The Rhythm Club" opens its doors at the Manhattan Theater Club next season.
'Aida,' 'Beauty' fade at B.O. by Robert Hofler
NEW YORK (Variety) - Broadway appears to have gone Wall Street as March audiences are certainly bearish. Most of Broadway's 26 shows suffered big declines at the box office last week.
London's big West End theaters are forming a rare alliance with smaller playhouses to tackle the problem of racism in Britain's theater management.
First-time director Rob Marshall won the Director's Guild feature film directing award on Saturday for his musical "Chicago," making him the favorite in the battle for Oscar gold later this month.
Marshall thanked the star-studded cast of the Miramax musical as well as the directors of Hollywood's almost lost tradition of musicals including Robert Wise ("West Side Story") and Vincente Minnelli ("Gigi") and the Broadway choreographer of the original "Chicago," Bob Fosse.
"I stand here because of them," Marshall said.
NEW YORK (Variety) - "Oklahoma!" closed over the weekend. Then came word that "Flower Drum Song" sings its last performance on March 16.
Add the critically reviled production of "The Boys From Syracuse" last summer, and it was a tepid centennial for Richard Rodgers on Broadway.
NEW YORK (Variety) - The shows not only went on in true Broadway tradition, some of them actually sold out!
Gender-bending Bard play to hit at least 6 cities
"The Madness of George Dubya" -- which mercilessly satirizes British Prime Minister Tony Blair as well as Bush -- has proved such a success at a fringe theater in London that it is moving to…
LONDON (Reuters) - Novelist Salman Rushdie's masterpiece "Midnight's Children" is given its world stage premiere Wednesday by the Royal Shakespeare Company -- and now the author would love t…
The zany, staccato rhythm of 1930s screwball comedy "On the Twentieth Century" is successfully captured in Reprise's revival of Harold Prince's 1978 Broadway production.
NEW YORK (Variety) - With deep-pocketed friends like this, a show can get to Broadway.
Screenwriter Norman Panama, who with his colleague Melvin Frank wrote classic Hollywood films such as "White Christmas" and the hit Broadway musical "Li'l Abner," has died at age 88, family …
In the awards race, she could face stiff competition from home-grown star Emily Watson, praised for her performance in "Uncle Vanya."
NEW YORK (Variety) - The Tony Awards will take place on June 8, with CBS and PBS expected -- but not confirmed -- to telecast the ceremony from Radio City Music Hall.
An erotic scene in "The Blue Room," the play in which Hollywood star Nicole Kidman famously stripped on the London stage, may be toned down when it is performed in Northern Ireland.
DUBLIN - Fifty years have passed and Godot has yet to arrive, but Samuel Beckett's seminal work continues to pack theaters the world over.
NEW YORK (Variety) - Broadway did exactly what it was supposed to do during the Christmas session: the 33 shows set an all-time record of $21,350,633.
NEW YORK (Variety) - "Short Eyes" will return to Off Broadway next fall, 30 years after its world premiere there.
