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Financial struggles can make Broadway producers' heads spin
Comic returns to LI for a gay old time by Peter Goodman
It's wall-to-wall in the back room at Don't Tell Mama; the walls seem to be shaking from the uproar, the hysteria, the sheer over-the-top joy of the crowd. Perched atop a bar stool on the small stage, one hand holding a mike, the other buried in the pocket of his sweatshirt, Nathan Lane is convulsing with laughter. "I've now become your straight man," he says. "It's come to this."
The star is Seth Rudetsky. Seth Rudetsky cracking wise. Seth Rudetsky the celebrity interviewer. It's his show "Seth's Broadway Chatterbox." Seth Rudetsky!
Aaron Latham brings 'Urban Cowboy' to Broadway - and that's no mechanical bull
"-- A," starring the formidable S. Epatha Merkerson and the magnificent Mos Def, is a powerful, altogether original piece of epic theater - heavily plotted, deeply felt and blithely unintere…
Relaxed, finally, about the future of Broadway? Feeling comforted by the weary but festive show-must-go- on solidarity displayed Tuesday when leaders of the musicians union and the Broadway …
'The Play What I Wrote,' a hit comedy from London, is a play what they love to be in
S. Epatha Merkerson plays an abortionist branded
Neil Donohoe has been the director and chair of the Theater Division at The Boston Conservatory for 18 years. He has directed nationally and in New England.
People don't come to Broadway to see efficiency. Broadway shows are already an economic anachronism. Why retail a show to a few hundred people a night when you can make one compact disc and …
The League of American Theatres and Producers Inc. and NYC & Co. are planning a promotional event within three weeks to encourage more theatergoers to come to Broadway, sources said.
The event will be called "Broadway Appreciation Week." More details may be announced within days.
It's tempting to leave at intermission, but don't. In the ambitious, immoderate and surprising new play "Dirty Story," it may take the entirety of the show's first act for audience members t…
A playwright sets the author to music, as he did with Joyce
There are two main paths into the pit of a Broadway musical: the "jazzer's route," taken mostly by the brass, and the "classical player's route," followed largely by the strings.
Leads producers, musicians back to bargaining table
Other shows profit while music stopped
Not every performer was as firmly ensconced in the musicians' camps. Corey Reynolds, who stars as Seaweed in "Hairspray," said an offer by producers Friday to put the orchestra minimum at 15 in the biggest theaters - up from their initial demand that there be no minimum - was a step in the right direction. "Both sides need to remember the key is compromise," he said.
Now run and tell THAT!
Many people are disappointed, some are even furious, about this weekend's strike against 18 Broadway musicals. But I am really proud.
18 musicals shut as acotrs, stagehands honor musicians walkout
