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Monday, August 26, 2013

Broadway Box Office: Orlando Bloom Romances in Previews by Gordon Cox

Broadway's fall season launched a bit early this year, with Orlando Bloom topliner "Romeo and Juliet" bowing to strong numbers in a late-summer week that saw overall sales continue to slow i…

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Victoria Clark, Danny Burstein Join Broadway's 'Snow Geese' by Gordon Cox

Tony winner Victoria Clarke and Danny Burstein, nommed for Tonys in each of the last two seasons, are among the thesps signed on to appear alongside Mary-Louise Parker in the upcoming Broadw…

SOURCE: Variety at 02:01PM[SHARE]
Friday, August 23, 2013

Broadway's 'Spider-Man' Ready to Sling Web Around Theater World by Gordon Cox

Freed at last from the show's long-running legal dramas, producers can finally get moving on potential incarnations across the country and around the globe.

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Thursday, August 22, 2013

Green Day Documentary 'Broadway Idiot' Hits Theaters in October by Gordon Cox

“Broadway Idiot,” the documentary feature chronicling the creation of the legit musical version of Green Day album “American Idiot,” is on tap for release this fall i…

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Broadway Tries Out a Cinema Series by Gordon Cox

Broadway is making an exploratory attempt at a digital cinema series, with stage-to-screen production company Broadway Worldwide pacting with distributor SpectiCast for a fall series of thea…

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'Baggage Claim' to Open 2013 Urbanworld Film Festival by Gordon Cox

"Baggage Claim," the David E. Talbert movie starring Paula Patton, Derek Luke, Taye Diggs, Jill Scott and Adam Brody, will open 2013 Urbanworld Film Festival in New York. The 17th annual eve…

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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

'Dames at Sea' Musical Targets Broadway Bow by Gordon Cox

Add one more production to the list of shows vying for a Broadway theater in 2014: Producers of a new staging of “Dames at Sea,” the 1968 Off Broadway tuner that launched the car…

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Kenneth Branagh to Bring 'Macbeth' to New York by Gordon Cox

  Call it a hat-trick of Scottish plays: The Kenneth Branagh-toplined staging of “Macbeth,” which bowed in a much-lauded U.K. run earlier this summer, will make the move …

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Monday, August 19, 2013

Broadway Box Office: The End of Summer Sales is in Sight by Gordon Cox

Every summer must come to an end, and box office numbers indicate that last week might have been the beginning of the end of this year’s annual summer boom on Broadway. Nearly every pr…

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Tyne Daly Books Broadway Return in Terrence McNally Play by Gordon Cox

Tyne Daly and playwright Terrence McNally are reteaming  for their next Broadway effort with the latest play by McNally, “Mothers and Sons,” targeting a spring run on the Rial…

SOURCE: Variety at 03:06PM[SHARE]
Friday, August 16, 2013

Safety Issues Retake Center Stage at Broadway's 'Spider-Man' by Gordon Cox

After a long stretch without any high-profile actor injuries, "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" is grappling once again with issues of actor safety in a high-tech stage production: A performan…

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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Broadway Review: 'Soul Doctor' by Gordon Cox

Lots of luck marketing “Soul Doctor” to a general audience.  This worshipful musical biography of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, the so-called “Rock Star Rabbi” credit…

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Play by 'Matilda' Writer Books an Off Broadway Bow by Gordon Cox

Manhattan Theater Club has added “Taking Care of Baby,” a 2007 play by “Matilda” Tony winner Dennis Kelly, to its Off Broadway slate this fall. Off Broadway stalwart …

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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Daniel Radcliffe: Harry Potter Is a World Away by Gordon Cox

While cherishing his 'Harry Potter' experience, Daniel Radcliffe eagerly tackles projects far across the creative spectrum.

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Monday, August 12, 2013

Off Broadway Review: 'Love's Labour's Lost' by Gordon Cox

Isn’t “Love’s Labour’s Lost” about Berowne and Rosaline, those intelligent, articulate lovers who carry on a fierce flirtation via a battle of wit and words? No…

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Broadway Box Office: 'Lion King' Reigns, With Help From its Theater by Gordon Cox

More than once this summer, Broadway musical "The Lion King" has done something impressive: It's beaten "Wicked" at the box office even when "Lion King" plays a traditional eight-perf week a…

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Jessie Mueller to play Carole King in Broadway 'Beautiful' by Gordon Cox

“Beautiful,” the incoming Broadway bio-musical of Carole King featuring tunes from the singer-songwriter’s canon, has found its Carole, with Jessie Mueller tapped to toplin…

SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM[SHARE]
Sunday, August 11, 2013

Shirley Herz, Longtime Broadway Press Agent, is Dead at 87 by Gordon Cox

Shirley Herz, the storied Broadway press agent, died of complications from a stroke Aug. 11 in New York. She was 87. Herz, who suffered the stroke July 18, repped close to 100 Broadway produ…

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Friday, August 9, 2013

Zachary Levi: Theater Is For Nerds, Too by Gordon Cox

For Zachary Levi, the musical “First Date” is indeed his first date " with Broadway. So he’s been getting acquainted. “I didn’t even know what previews were …

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Thursday, August 8, 2013

Broadway Review: 'First Date' by Gordon Cox

“First Date,” a romantic musical comedy about the horrors, humiliations and occasional happy surprises of blind dates, is cute (but not too cute) and sweet (but not too sweet).Â…

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Kevin McCollum: Fox Finds Its Stage Coach by Gordon Cox

The sentiment may not sound sexy, but it goes a long way toward explaining what led 20th Century Fox to tap Broadway producer Kevin McCollum for its new theatrical joint venture.

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But I Really Want to Direct: Broadway Producers Try Creative Role by Gordon Cox

But I really want to direct, goes the common refrain in Hollywood. And these days on Broadway too. Jeffrey Seller, one of the producers behind "Rent," "Avenue Q" and "In the Heights," stirre…

SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, August 7, 2013

London Legit Review: 'The Same Deep Water As Me' by Gordon Cox

Surprisingly cumbersome switches between designer Scott Pask's office and courtroom locations are an unintentional metaphor for the problem beneath "The Same Deep Water As Me." Nick Payne "…

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Katherine Oliver Scores Gotham Awards' Industry Tribute by Gordon Cox

The Independent Filmmaker Project has tapped Katherine Oliver, the commissioner of the New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, to receive the industry tribute at the 23rd an…

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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

New York Comedy Festival Sets 2013 Lineup by Gordon Cox

Bill Maher, Wanda Sykes, Kathy Griffin, Anthony Jeselnik and Whitney Cummings are among the comics lined up to perform as part of the 10th annual New York Comedy Festival in November. Five-d…

SOURCE: Variety at 03:18PM[SHARE]
Monday, August 5, 2013

Broadway Box Office: Strong Summer for Average Ticket Prices by Gordon Cox

As summer starts to wind down, so does the Broadway cume " but last week average ticket price actually climbed, in what's been a strong season so far in terms of the average price paid pe…

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L.A. Legit Review: 'One Night in Miami…' by Gordon Cox

Any playwright can stick celebrity facsimiles together in a room; it takes real talent not only to render those portraits believable but also to invest the encounter with dramatic weight. In…

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Friday, August 2, 2013

Booker Spies Opportunity in Off Broadway Tours by Gordon Cox

Longtime Off Broadway producer Edmund Gaynes has hung out a new shingle, launching Gaynes Theatrical Booking to rep Off Broadway touring properties. The road market for Off Broadway shows is…

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Thursday, August 1, 2013

It's Official: Denzel Washinton Back to Broadway in 'Raisin' by Gordon Cox

An upcoming Broadway revival of “A Raisin in the Sun,” touted by topliner Denzel Washington in the press but not yet confirmed, has locked in its details, booking the Ethel Barry…

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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Denzel Washington Talks Up Broadway Return by Gordon Cox

For anyone worried that all the really big stars would be packed onto Broadway in the fall, Denzel Washington has come along to add some wattage to the spring lineup. Nothing has been confir…

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Gotham Awards Set 2013 Dates, New Categories by Gordon Cox

The first film awards show of  the season, the Gotham Independent Film Awards, has booked a 2013 date and set two new competitive acting categories for a ceremony that has a track record …

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