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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

On Broadway And Off, Playwright A.R. Gurney Is On The Roll Of A Lifetime by Jeremy Gerard

Following rapturous reviews for a Broadway revival and another one off-Broadway, A.R. Gurney is having a moment in the sun. It's only taken the veteran playwright " whose The Dining Ro…

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Universal, Penguin Random House In 2-Year First-Look Pact by Jeremy Gerard

Penguin Random House and Universal Pictures said today that the studio has signed a two-year first-look production agreement with the newly minted mega-publisher. Peter Gethers, Pre…

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Monday, September 22, 2014

Exposé! Neil LaBute Discovers Hollywood 'Me'-ism, Finds It Vapid; 'Scenes From A Marriage' Deconstructed: N.Y. Stage by Jeremy Gerard

Neil LaBute's new play is called The Money Shot and how depressing refreshing is it that I overheard so many people patiently telling so many other people outside the theater the meaning of …

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Broadway B.O. Steady At $22.3 Million As Newbies Gather Steam by Jeremy Gerard

Broadway stayed the course last week as five new shows played previews and the Mia Farrow/Brian Dennehy revival of Love Letters opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre to rapturous reviews. Th…

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Hakuna Matata, Baby: Disney Claims Record $6.2 Billion Gross For 'Lion King' by Jeremy Gerard

Disney Company's global blockbuster The Lion King has surpassed The Phantom Of The Opera as the highest grossing show of all time, the company announced today. Broadway, touring and internat…

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Sunday, September 21, 2014

Note To Glenn Close, Hugh Jackman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rupert Grint: Broadway's Not A Whistle Stop by Jeremy Gerard

The most shocking stage news of the week was that Angela Lansbury is getting her Noel Coward act together and taking it on the road. Having filled theaters on Broadway and the West End ov…

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Saturday, September 20, 2014

Polly Bergen, 'Cape Fear' Star Who Never Got Older, Only Better, Dies At 84 by Jeremy Gerard

UPDATES, 1:45 p.m. with more information, below: Screen and stage actress, songbird and survivor Polly Bergen, first known as the terror-stricken wife in the original Cape Fear, died S…

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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Novice 'American Psycho' Producer Finds Broadway Label Has More Cachet Than Nonprofit by Jeremy Gerard

The unholy alliance between commercial theater producers and subsidized theaters " where shows often try out en route to Broadway " took a bizarre twist Wednesday with news that Duncan…

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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

New York Film Fest Will World Premiere Laura Poitras' Edward Snowden Docu 'CITIZENFOUR' by Jeremy Gerard

NYFF director Kent Jones  announced today that the Film Society of Lincoln Center has added the world premiere of Laura Poitras's CITIZENFOUR to its Main Slate lineup. The presentation…

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Broadway Box Office: Expanding Roster, New Fall Models Boost Bottom Line by Jeremy Gerard

Like shiny new cars in showrooms, the latest Broadway models have begun to raise their curtains as the 2014-2015 season begins gathering steam, evidenced by a 12% rise in total grosses over …

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Monday, September 15, 2014

Carole King Musical 'Beautiful' Recoups $13 Million Broadway Capitalization As Tony Winner Mueller Re-Ups by Jeremy Gerard

Beautiful " The Carole King Musical has recouped its production costs after about 10 months on Broadway. Capitalized at $13 million, the biotuner-slash-jukebox show starring Tony wi…

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Sunday, September 14, 2014

Will Beatle Paul Twist & Shout For Broadway-Bound Musical About Unknown Legend Bert Berns, Tunesmith? by Jeremy Gerard

Mention "Twist And Shout" to a Boomer and you'll get a shake of the thinning hair or shaved scalp along with recollections of the Fab Four on The Ed Sullivan Show. The more knowing respon…

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Friday, September 12, 2014

'American Psycho' Musical Shut Down Ahead Of U.S. Bow by Jeremy Gerard

The Second Stage Theatre just announced that it will no longer be producing the new musical American Psycho, the adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel and feature film that is trying to …

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Thursday, September 11, 2014

Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin Debut On Broadway; Off-Broadway 'Booty' Star Is Born by Jeremy Gerard

No play ever celebrated arrested development quite so amusingly as Kenneth Lonergan's This Is Our Youth, a shambling off-Broadway hit from 1996 now revived starring Michael Cera, Kieran C…

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Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Richard Gere & Ethan Hawke Will Be Feted At New York Film Festival's 'An Evening With…' Tributes by Jeremy Gerard

Ethan Hawke and Richard Gere will hold pride of place at the 52nd New York Film Festival. The Film Society of Lincoln Center will host Hawke on September 30 and Gere on October 8 for "An Eve…

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Sigourney Weaver Anchors Weekly Public-TV Series On Low-Key Gotham Legit by Jeremy Gerard

New York's major Public Broadcasting Service station, WNET-13, will begin presenting Theater Close-Up, a weekly series of top-tier off-Broadway show,s on October 2. Weaver, a screen star wit…

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Monday, September 8, 2014

Joan Rivers Gets Broadway Sendoff As Landlords Hem & Haw by Jeremy Gerard

The lights of five Broadway theaters will be dimmed Tuesday evening in memory of Joan Rivers " and in defiance of theater owners who earlier in the day decided not to give the comedien…

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R.I.P. 'Chicago Fire' Actress Molly Glynn by Jeremy Gerard

Molly Glynn, a mainstay of Chicago's supercharged theater scene, died Saturday after being struck by a tree while cycling with her husband during a sudden thunderstorm, according to the Chic…

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Broadway Box Office Off 13% As September Slump Settles In by Jeremy Gerard

UPDATES with the rest of the box office news. The brooms of Wicked ran out of fuel last week, as ticket sales fell an impressive $367,560 from the week before. The Oz prequel was one of 1…

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Michael C. Hall Will Be Broadway's 'Hedwig' As Andrew Rannells Ends 8-Week Run Post-Neil Patrick Harris by Jeremy Gerard

Michael C Hall will replace Andrew Rannells in the title role of Hedwig And The Angry Inch beginning October 16. The show won Tony Awards in June as best musical revival and for the producti…

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Sunday, September 7, 2014

Book Excerpt: John Lahr Talks To Sidney Lumet About Brando, Magnani & Tennessee Williams by Jeremy Gerard

EXCLUSIVE: Literary biographies tend to be either too literary or too biographical: so artful as to be ruined by artifice or so bogged down in minutiae they're a challenge to pleasure. The s…

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Friday, September 5, 2014

Carole King's 'Beautiful' Broadway Hit Slates London Stand, U.S. Tour by Jeremy Gerard

Beautiful " The Carole King Musical, which has been a consistent box office winner at Broadway's Stephen Sondheim Theatre, will hit the West End in February and launch a U.S. tour in Septemb…

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Thursday, September 4, 2014

Broadway's 'Cinderella' Posts Closing Date, National Tour by Jeremy Gerard

In 1957 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II musicalized the Cinderella story as a TV vehicle for Julie Andrews, sizzling from the success of My Fair Lady. When the show made its Broadwa…

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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Mike Bloomberg Returns to Bloomberg LP After 13-Year Vacation by Jeremy Gerard

Mike Bloomberg has found a job he'll never have to relinquish because of those annoying term limits: He announced Wednesday that he has returned full time to lead Bloomberg LP, the financial…

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Bill Nighy, Carey Mulligan Will Reprise Hit 'Skylight' Revival On Broadway by Jeremy Gerard

In the wake of rave reviews and a sold-out West End run, the revival of David Hare's drama Skylight will open on Broadway in the spring, with stars Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan repeating…

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Chicago's Steppenwolf Troupe Increases Broadway Presence With 'Airline Highway' by Jeremy Gerard

Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre collective, already repped on Broadway with This is Our Youth, now in previews, will have a second Tony-eligible show this season when the Manhattan Theatre …

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Publishing: Penguin Random House Reorganizes, Boosting Madeline McIntosh, Ousting Susan P. Kennedy by Jeremy Gerard

Penguin Random House has begun a major re-organization under CEO Markus Dohle, who announced today the appointment of Madeline McIntosh as head of the newly created Penguin Publishing Group.…

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Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Broadway B.O.: Super Duo Nathan Lane & Matthew Broderick Bolt From Starting Gate With 'It's Only A Play' by Jeremy Gerard

UPDATE, 12 noon: More Broadway b.o. news after first paragraph:  Broadway's summer season ended with a fast break out of the starting gate as previews of It's Only A Play, starring Nathan…

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Friday, August 29, 2014

Melissa Rivers Updates Mom's Status by Jeremy Gerard

Melissa Rivers released this update on the condition of her mother, Joan Rivers, hospitalized since yesterday at New York's Mt. Sinai Hospital: "My mother would be so touched by the tributes…

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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Garry Marshall's 'Double Indemnity' Play Will Star 'Mad Man' Pete Campbell by Jeremy Gerard

Off-Broadway's ever-fecund Vineyard Theatre has nabbed Vincent Kartheiser " who plays obnoxious ladder climber Pete Campbell on AMC's Mad Men " for its upcoming show about the filming of …

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Universal Takes Producing Stake In Bill Condon's Broadway 'Side Show' Revival by Jeremy Gerard

EXCLUSIVE: The much-ballyhooed Broadway revival of Side Show has a new above-the-title producer: Universal Pictures. Christopher Herzberger, U's executive, live theatricals, pushed the deal,…

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