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Whenever it rains, big chunks of the ceiling crash into the mess of a kitchen. The husband smashes his loathed wife around and drives his car into the porch. One son vomits in the garbage, a…
As if there weren't enough new hot buttons being pressed by "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," the show has pushed a more familiar controversy back to the surface.
Now there are legal questions about the advertising for "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark."
The last thing Christopher Tierney remembers thinking was "Oh, God," as the Spidey double fell 30 feet from a platform during the Dec. 20 performance of Broadway's catastrophe-prone $65 mill…
Natalie Mendoza, who suffered an offstage concussion Nov. 28 during the first preview of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," has left the production, effective immediately, according to publish…
I broke Broadway's gentleperson's agreement with the media and bought a ticket for Thursday's preview.
It may be hard to remember right now, but this was more than the year "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" didn't open. This also was more than the year a terrorist bomb did not go off in the bus…
"Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" went on Thursday night without a hitch. After days of meetings about safety problems, the $65 million musical flew and danced and sang the way it was supposed…
Spider-Man didn't fly again last night.
The show may not go on Wednesday night. Although the producers of "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark" insisted Tuesday that the catastrophe-plagued mega-musical will perform Wednesday night, the…
Not for nothing is there an "official wine sponsor" at New York Theatre Workshop these days. Mass quantities of bottle red are passed down the rows of theatergoers, thus sharing the party mo…
The creators of the much-delayed "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" have set Feb. 7 as the new opening date for the problem-plagued $65-million musical. In a statement Friday, lead producer Mic…
It's off again for the on-and-off "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark." According to a source close to the production, the troubled $65-million musical has postponed its Jan. 11 opening at least …
I've been learning a lot at the theater lately, but please don't run away.
Natalie Mendoza, who suffered a concussion offstage during "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark," returned to the troubled show Wednesday and found some new daredevil work to do. According to a so…
You want Donny and Marie? You get Donny and Marie, lots and lots of hardworking Donny and Marie - singing, dancing, huffing, puffing, changing flashy costumes, flashing shiny teeth and revvi…
If moguls from Broadway, Hollywood and opera had wandered past a door in Indonesia in the late '70s, it is unlikely that any of them would have looked at the young American woman making pupp…
Agencies that look after the safety of performers said Friday that they are investigating an offstage accident that caused the concussion of Natalie Mendoza, who stars as the villainous spid…
The Greeks did it. Peter Pan and Mary Poppins do it. But nobody has done it faster, scarier or while carrying heavier baggage than the flying actors in "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark."
Natalie Mendoza, who stars as the villainous spider, Arachne, in the trouble-plagued "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark," has a concussion and will be out of the show at least through the weeken…
The show - or at least the work on the show - must go on. After the most scrutinized, most fraught, most technologically complex and most delayed first preview in Broadway history, "Spider-M…
The show - or at least the work on the show - must go on. After the most scrutinized, most fraught, most technologically complex and most delayed first preview in Broadway history, "Spider-M…
It feels awfully early - autumnal, even - to start measuring the winter chill on Broadway.
Neil LaBute gets religious on us - or does he? - in "The Break of Noon," the latest from the famously devious and prolific playwright at MCC Theater, where he is playwright-in-residence.
