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Wednesday, August 15, 2018

From Shakespeare To Elton John: Composer Shaina Taub Gets Ready To Wear 'Prada' " On Theater by Greg Evans

Composer, actress and accordion player Shaina Taub will hang up her squeezebox – temporarily, rest assured – this Sunday when her acclaimed Shakespeare in the Park musical adapta…

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Hollywood's Dolby And Pantages Theaters Partner On Pact To Bring Broadway To Oscar's Home by Greg Evans

Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre, home to the Academy Awards, America’s Got Talent, movie premieres and concerts, will begin hosting Broadway touring productions in 2020, the venue̵…

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Monday, August 13, 2018

Broadway's 'Gettin' The Band Back Together' Cranks Up Jukebox Hero Pipe Dreams: Review by Greg Evans

Middle-age urges to re-live old garage band pipe dreams are typically best kept to dank basements and sound-proofed garages, and Broadway’s Gettin’ The Band Back Together doesn&#…

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'Pretty Woman' & 'Boys In The Band' Break House Records As Broadway Box Office Hits $37M by Greg Evans

Pretty Woman: The Musical and The Boys in the Band broke house records last week as Broadway’s box office held steady into the summer’s dog days. Total b.o. for the 31 s…

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Thursday, August 9, 2018

'Chicago P.D.' Star Amy Morton To Stage All-Female 'Glengarry Glen Ross' On Broadway by Greg Evans

An all-female cast will hit Broadway in David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Glengarry Glen Ross next year under the direction of Chicago P.D. actress Amy Morton. The new producti…

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Times Square Revitalizer Cora Cahan To Step Down From Long-Running Role In Nonprofit Group by Greg Evans

Cora Cahan, a key figure in the transformation of Times Square from porn wasteland to New York’s premiere family-friendly tourist destination, will step down next year from her positio…

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Broadway's 'Tootsie' Musical Announces Venue, Sets Opening Date by Greg Evans

Tootsie, the musical adaptation of the hit 1982 Dustin Hoffman comedy, has announced its opening date and Broadway venue: Director Scott Ellis’ staging will begin previews March 29,…

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Derek DelGaudio Conjurs Life After His Off-Broadway Smash 'In & Of Itself'; Hollywood's Been Watching by Greg Evans

When Derek DelGaudio's 72-week, four-time-extended Off Broadway run of his accurately titled In & Of Itself vanishes August 19 from the 150-seat Daryl Roth Theatre, the one-man-show will…

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Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Bryan Cranston Set For Mad-As-Hell Role With Broadway Transfer Of Ivo Van Hove's 'Network' by Greg Evans

Bryan Cranston will bring his Olivier Award-winning performance of mad-as-hell Howard Beale to New York in November when director Ivo Van Hove’s acclaimed London production of Network …

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Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Michael C. Hall Plans Off Broadway Run In Solo "Thom Pain (Based On Nothing)" by Greg Evans

Michael C. Hall will hit the stage solo in an Off Broadway revival of Thom Pain (based on nothing), Will Eno’s 2004 monologue and Pulitzer Prize finalist. The Signature Theatre prod…

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Monday, August 6, 2018

Broadway B.O. Dips To $36M; 'Pretty Woman' Musical Stays In Millionaires Club by Greg Evans

Broadway’s Pretty Woman: The Musical passed the $1 million box office mark for the second consecutive week – no doubt the beginning of a habit – playing seven previews, inc…

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Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Hugh Dancy Cast Opposite Stockard Channing In Off Broadway 'Apologia' by Greg Evans

Hugh Dancy will join the previously announced Stockard Channing in this fall’s Roundabout Theatre production of Apologia, Alexi Kaye Campbell’s West End hit. Also newly cast in t…

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Tuesday, July 31, 2018

'Twelfth Night' Review: Shakespeare In The Park Dazzles With Musical Re-Imaging by Greg Evans

New Yorkers couldn’t ask for a sweeter summertime lift than Free Shakespeare in the Park’s vibrant, contemporary and very funny musical adaptation of Twelfth Night. Conceived by …

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Monday, July 30, 2018

Broadway's 'Pretty Woman' Tops $1M In Seven-Show Week; 'Head Over Heels' Totters by Greg Evans

Pretty Woman played seven previews to nearly SRO audiences and Mean Girls set another house record, but the Go-Go’s musical Head Over Heels just couldn’t find its footing as it o…

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Thursday, July 26, 2018

'Head Over Heels' Review: The Go-Go's Musical That Isn't by Greg Evans

For better or worse, Broadway’s Head Over Heels is stuck with being known as “the Go-Go’s musical” – better because of the good will floating on stage with all …

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Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Michael Grandage To Produce & Direct 'Jack And Lem' Kennedy Biopic by Greg Evans

Tony Award-winning director Michael Grandage will produce and direct Jack and Lem, a feature film chronicling the thirty-year friendship between John F. Kennedy and Kirk Lemoyne …

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Tuesday, July 24, 2018

'Hamilton' Filmed Performance With Lin-Manuel Miranda Could Hit Big Screen: Report by Greg Evans

A week after Netflix announced it will film Bruce Springsteen’s hotter-than-hot one-man Broadway show for streaming in December, a similar – but big-screen – plan reportedl…

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Monday, July 23, 2018

'Straight White Men' Review: Armie Hammer, Josh Charles & Paul Schneider In Broadway Debuts, Labels Be Damned by Greg Evans

Armie Hammer, Josh Charles and Paul Schneider, names and faces well-known to film and TV audiences, make self-assured Broadway debuts in Straight White Men. No sarcasm about artistic stre…

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'Pretty Woman' Musical Arrives To Full Houses; Broadway's Total B.O. Tops $36M by Greg Evans

Broadway’s Pretty Woman: The Musical showed other summer newcomers how it’s done. Though it performed only two previews during the season’s Week 8, the show with the big ti…

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Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Gary Beach Dies: Tony Award-Winning 'The Producers' Actor Was 70 by Greg Evans

Gary Beach, the Broadway actor who created the role of Lumiere in Disney’s Beauty and The Beast and won a Tony Award for his unforgettable turn as director Roger DeBris in Mel Brook…

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Bob Dylan Musical Announces Off Broadway Cast: Stephen Bogardus, 'The Affair's Mare Winningham by Greg Evans

The American cast of the London hit musical Girl From The North Country was announced by Off Broadway’s Public Theater today, with Mare Winningham (The Affair) taking the role that …

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'Springsteen On Broadway' Headed To Netflix In December by Greg Evans

Boss fans who can’t shell out hundreds of dollars for the most expensive theater ticket in New York are in luck: Springsteen on Broadway is coming to Netflix. Bruce Springsteen’s…

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Tuesday, July 17, 2018

'Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants' Sewn Up For Stage Musical Adaptation by Greg Evans

Those traveling pants sure do get around. Alcon Entertainment and Alloy Entertainment announced plans today to develop The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants film franchise as a stage musi…

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Broadway's 'School Of Rock' Musical Sets Date For Final Power Chord by Greg Evans

Broadway’s School of Rock – The Musical, Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage adaptation of the 2003 Jack Black film comedy, will end its run at the Winter Garden Theatre January 20, 2019…

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New Tom Stoppard Play Among Lincoln Center Theater Fall Offerings by Greg Evans

The Hard Problem, a new play by Arcadia playwright Tom Stoppard to be staged by his The Coast of Utophia director Jack O’Brien, will premiere next fall as a Lincoln Center Theater prod…

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Monday, July 16, 2018

'The Boys In The Band' Recoups $3.5M Investment As Total Weekly Broadway Box Office Hits $37M by Greg Evans

The Boys in the Band, the first Broadway show to open during the 2018-19 season, has also become the first to recoup its investment, according to a show spokesperson. The $3.5 million pro…

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Friday, July 13, 2018

Broadway's Gypsy Robe Gets New, Less Culturally Insensitive Name by Greg Evans

An old Broadway tradition has a brand new name: The “Gypsy Robe,” part of an opening night ceremony dating back to 1950, will now be called the “Legacy Robe.” The nam…

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Alan Johnson Dies: Mel Brooks 'Young Frankenstein' Choreographer Was 81 by Greg Evans

Alan Johnson, a three-time Emmy Award winning choreographer whose work spanned Broadway and Hollywood – and included four scenes from Mel Brooks’ comedies that became instant, ir…

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Thursday, July 12, 2018

'West Side Story' Returning To Broadway; Director Ivo Van Hove Will Stage Revival by Greg Evans

Director Ivo van Hove will stage a major new production of West Side Story for Broadway next season, with new choreography by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. The revival, produced by Scott Ru…

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Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Theatrical Company Center Stage Capital Launches With Portfolio Including 'Green Acres' Musical by Greg Evans

Theatrical producers Pam Laudenslager and Colleen Lober have announced the launch of a new entertainment company – Center Stage Capital, Inc. – to present a portfolio of producti…

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Fifteen Months In Heaven: Broadway's Nathan Stewart-Jarrett Reflects On 'Angels In America' by Greg Evans

When Angels in America finishes its Broadway run this Sunday, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, who plays Belize, acidic nurse to Nathan Lane’s toxic Roy Cohn, beloved friend to Andrew Garfie…

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