Lincoln Center Theater to present prod'n; Honeyman helms
"Nothing but the Truth," a play about post-apartheid South Africa by playwright-actor John Kani, will kick off the fall season at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. Opening night will be Dec. 8.
'Beautiful Child' to show beauty in March
New plays by Paula Vogel, Christopher Shinn and Nicky Silver highlight the Vineyard's 2003-04 season.
'Aida,' 'Beast' see biggest B.O. rise
Broadway marked time last week, its overall receipts for 23 shows up only $87,823 from the previous session.
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Evans named director of artistic development
Scribe exercises acting chops in 'Palindromes'
'April' going dark in Gotham, run will continue out West
And then there will be only one. Come September, Richard Greenberg's "Take Me Out" will be the only play performing on Broadway.
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Baldwin, MacLachlan ride Roundabout to B'way
Prod'n is satiric depiction of 3 middle-class teenagers
'Avenue Q,' 'Men' take alternate routes
The Off Broadway musical may soon be an endangered species. As legit lawyer John Breglio bluntly puts it, "You can't really intelligently structure, from an economic point of view, an Off Broadway musical."
Play may graze Almeida on way to London Pasture
Waters pic gets tuner treatment; prod'n to land in 2 years
Imagine chairman Brian Grazer is ready for his Broadway debut. Grazer and the producing team behind the Tony-winning "Hairspray" will turn the 1990 John Waters film "Cry-Baby" into a Broadway-bound stage musical.
Classic production last hit stage in 1950
Alec Baldwin is expected to return to Broadway this season, courtesy of the Roundabout.
Griffith entry jazzes up 'Chicago' perf on B'way
Thesp to play Mick in 'Caretaker'
Kyle MacLachlan will make his Broadway debut this fall in the Roundabout's revival of "The Caretaker." He joins the previously announced Patrick Stewart and Irish actor Aidan Gillen in the Harold Pinter drama.
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'Nine,' 'Journey,' 'Aida' avoid holiday letdown
Broadway felt its first significant post-Tony slump last week, bringing in $12,839,123, down $829,384 or 6.1% from the previous week. The drop was due in part to the Fourth of July holiday, which typically sees ticket sales slow; theaters were mostly dark on Friday night.
Preem of 'Bright' to open, LaBute's 'Distance' closes
The MCC Theater has announced its 2003-04 season, during which it will present plays by Neil LaBute, Eric Coble and Bryony Lavery.
Boards boom to $14.8 mil, includes eight sellouts
Two dozen shows brought in a record-setting cume of $14,758,690 last week -- an especially impressive feat considering that recent past seasons have seen 29 to 30 productions on the boards during the late-June session.
MacDonald: 'We're going after theatergoers'
Adam Sandler did it to promote his 1999 bigscreen laffer "Big Daddy." Now, to advertise her upcoming tuner "Taboo," Rosie O'Donnell is also opening the floodgates of questionable taste in using the image of a man relieving himself.
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