Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Underdog contender "Rocky" couldn't triumph over Broadway, where soft sales have led producers to post an Aug. 17 closing notice for the big-budget musical based on the Oscar-winning film.
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:19AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Underdog contender “Rocky” couldn’t triumph over Broadway, where soft sales have led producers to post an Aug. 17 closing notice for the big-budget musical based on the …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:30PM[SHARE]Joely Richardson, the English actress best known to U.S. audiences for her role in FX series "Nip/Tuck," will take on Emily Dickinson in an Off Broadway production of "The Belle of Amherst,"…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 04:28PM[SHARE]Joely Richardson, the English actress best known to U.S. audiences for her role in FX series “Nip/Tuck,” will take on Emily Dickinson in an Off Broadway production of  &…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:30PM[SHARE]Powered by a Tony-winning performance from Neil Patrick Harris, Broadway musical “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” has recouped its $5 million capitalization costs in about 15 weeks…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]Broadway's Tupac Shakur musical "Holler if Ya Hear Me" won't be heard after July 20, when the sales-challenged new show will close following several weeks of dire box office.Just last week p…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 04:57AM[SHARE]Monday, July 14, 2014
Broadway’s Tupac Shakur musical “Holler If Ya Hear Me” won’t be heard after July 20, when the sales-challenged new show will close following several weeks of dire box…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:02PM[SHARE]Some things old and some things new dominated the Broadway box office charts last week, as “Aladdin” and “Beautiful,” two of the strongest spring openers, muscled pas…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:11PM[SHARE]"American Psycho," the murderous musical that had its world premiere in London last year, has lined up a Stateside debut at Off Broadway's Second Stage Theater, where the tuner will have a s…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 02:14PM[SHARE]“American Psycho,” the murderous musical that had its world premiere in London last year, has lined up a Stateside debut at Off Broadway’s Second Stage Theater, where the t…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]Pulitzer-winning playwright-provocateur Bruce Norris ("Clybourne Park," "The Pain and the Itch") has proven himself an expert at depicting American middle class hypocrisy, exposing character…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:33AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 13, 2014
In “The Long Shrift,” Robert Boswell has written James Franco the flashy leading role of a hardened ex-con named Richard Singer who, as an awkward 18-year-old high school kid, wa…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Friday, July 11, 2014
“The Qualms,” the new play by Pulitzer winner Bruce Norris (“Clybourne Park”), has locked in a New York run at Off Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons just ahead of…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 10, 2014
Reviews were mixed and sales are downright dire. Which is why all of Broadway is wondering: When will "Holler If Ya Hear Me" throw in the towel?Not yet, according to Eric L. Gold, the Hollyw…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 04:38PM[SHARE]Reviews were mixed and sales are downright dire. Which is why all of Broadway is wondering: When will "Holler If Ya Hear Me" throw in the towel? Not yet, according to Eric L. Gold, the Ho…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM[SHARE]New plays by Bathsheba Doran and Nick Jones, two playwrights whose TV gigs include Emmy-nominated series “Masters of Sex” and “Orange is the New Black,” have…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Watching the infamous title character slash his way through his family tree en route to the throne in Shakespeare's "Richard III" tends to be like entering a maze: You know where it's headed…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PM[SHARE]The partnership between big-league Gotham nonprofit Manhattan Theater Club and scrappy new-work developer Ars Nova will yield its first full production with "By the Water," a new play by …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Independence Day didn't set off any fireworks at the Broadway box office last week -- but at least the Rialto held steadier than the cineplex.Compared to a dreadful weekend at the movies tha…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 07:28AM[SHARE]Monday, July 7, 2014
Independence Day didn’t set off any fireworks at the Broadway box office last week — but at least the Rialto held steadier than the cineplex. Compared to a dreadful weekend at th…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:09PM[SHARE]Pulitzer-winning playwright Lynn Nottage (pictured above) and director George C. Wolfe (“Lucky Guy,” “Angels in America”) have signed on to a brewing Broadway musi…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 3, 2014
After nabbing the title of America’s Favorite Dancer on “So You Think You Can Dance,” the next winner of the FOX reality competish might go out “On the Town.”…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Christmas, Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, Labor Day: A lot of holidays bring an annual sales spike at the Broadway box office. July 4 isn’t one of them. Unlike those other nationwide f…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Rehearsed in secret and only announced last week, within hours of initial verdicts being handed down in the Murdoch newspaper phone-hacking trial, "Great Britain," the National Theater's bol…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:32PM[SHARE]Monday, June 30, 2014
The star-driven Broadway play took its latest step last week into the big box office territory of splashy musicals, with the final frame of Bryan Cranston starrer "All the Way" breaking t…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:30PM[SHARE]Warren Adler’s play “The War of the Roses,” the divorce comedy based on his own 1981 novel, is gearing up for a run on Broadway, with a team of producers acquiring the r…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PM[SHARE]Friday, June 27, 2014
Mary Rodgers, the Broadway composer and children’s book author, died of heart failure June 26 in her Manhattan home. She was 83. The daughter of musical-theater legend Richard Rodge…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 26, 2014
America Ferrera will topline Second Stage Theater’s Off Broadway production of Terrence McNally’s 1991 play “Lips Together, Teeth Apart.” Ferrera, the “Ugly Bet…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:30PM[SHARE]Buckle up: Lindsay Lohan is speeding toward her West End debut in "Speed-the-Plow," the 1988 Hollywood comedy by David Mamet. She'll play an ambitious Tinseltown striver in a role created on…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:10PM[SHARE]"The Last Ship" sets sail in Chicago on its way to a Broadway launch in October, filled with all the hope and heartache and working class nobility of a lush, lovely original score from St…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PM[SHARE]Off Broadway's New Group has lined up a slew of stars for its 20th season, setting a 2014-15 slate that includes acting stints from Holly Hunter, Bill Pullman, Jesse Eisenberg and Dianne Wie…
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