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The machinations of big business amount to so much small beer in "The Solid Gold Cadillac," the George S. Kaufman-Howard Teichmann comedy from 1953 that has creaked on to the West End like s…
After seeing overall grosses decrease for seven straight weeks -- a period plagued by the Republican National Convention and the closing of seven shows -- Broadway saw a 2.29% rebound during…
Broadway thesp Laura Benanti is making her first foray into TV series toplining the FX comedy pilot "Starved," which finished production last week.
Thank you, FX - after all these years, I finally have a reason to get cable...
Warren Beatty, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Elton John, Joan Sutherland and John Williams will receive the honor in December, the 27th year of the event.
DUBLIN -- Having just survived a threat to his leadership, Ben Barnes, the artistic director of the Abbey Theater, got himself into further hot water last week by sending out an email to int…
It wasn't the worst Labor Day week on record. Paid attendance in 2002 and 2003 was marginally lower than the 152,738 recorded last week. So much for the good news.
"Arts organizations throughout the world must learn to become more entrepreneurial as they reach out to private sources of funding, many for the first time," says Kennedy Center prexy Michae…
Road grosses fell 3.7% to $10,679,338 during Week 13 (Aug. 23-29) despite the addition of "Little Shop of Horrors" to the touring slate.
Dublin's Abbey Theater said Thursday that it's seeking to reduce its staff by 30%. It's the latest in a series of bad-news announcements from Ireland's national theater, which is floundering…
Although dollar figures aren't in on the Republican Natl. Convention's impact on legit, reports from the Theater Development Fund's TKTS booths in Times Square and at South Street Seaport sh…
Rudy Giuliani wowed them at the Republican Convention with his John Kerry-bashing speech Monday night. The day before, however, his "Kerry is a flip-flopper" screed drew nothing but raspberr…
Biz was so bad last week that tiny "Avenue Q" ($495,218) dropped a minor $7,561 and made the top 10 chart for the first time ever.
Road grosses decreased 3.4% to $11,093,440 during Week 12 (Aug. 16-22), a drop that can be blamed primarily on the two-week hiatus for "The King and I."
London's latest "Sweeney Todd" has turned into a "very significant hit," says lead producer Adam Kenwright.
Plus Barbara Cook on Hugh Jackman; and the death of critic Michael Owen.
Nora Dunn and Lynn Whitfield will star in the world premiere of "White Chocolate," an Off Broadway play by New Yorker cartoonist William Hamilton about a white, upper-class husband and wife …
Following in the footsteps of his "Riverdance," director John McColgan plans to bring another Irish extravaganza across the Atlantic. "The Shaughraun," a 19th-century melodrama by Dion Bouci…
MEXICO CITY-- Just as "Spider-Man 2" was breathing its last gasps here, sticking a few final pesos atop a $20 million local box office pile, the webslinger has found new life.
Tovah Feldshuh will exit the one-woman Broadway play "Golda's Balcony" Jan. 2 to bring the show to L.A.'s Wadsworth Theater beginning in early February.
The Broadway version's final closing date is still uncertain, however.
A dirt floor, stone walls and roof are all that remain of West L.A.'s Geffen Playhouse, as the former furniture store and lodge hall prepares for its extreme makeover.
Road grosses dropped 8.2% to $11,478,819 during Week 11 (Aug. 9-15).
"Bug" is the exception that proves the current Off Broadway rule, that commercial productions of new plays are a dicey investment.
