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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

ArtsBeat Blog: Workshop Production May Help 'Yank!' March on Broadway by Patrick Healy

The show gained a following during its Off Broadway run last year.

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Monday, September 19, 2011

ArtsBeat Blog: Five Playwrights Named in Signature Theater Initiative to Stage New Works by Patrick Healy

The program guarantees productions and provides cash and health insurance benefits.

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Friday, September 16, 2011

This Time It's Crosswords (Not Cross Words) That Surface From Sondheim by Patrick Healy

Earlier this week, some online chat sites devoted to puzzles began to buzz about a Web site that included scans of 19 crosswords that were apparently the Sondheim mother lode.

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Thursday, September 15, 2011

ArtsBeat Blog: 'La MaMa Cantata' To Celebrate Ellen Stewart by Patrick Healy

The composer and writer Elizabeth Swados has created a new musical work, "The La MaMa Cantata," comprising decades of quotations by the founder of La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, Ellen St…

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ArtsBeat Blog: Sticking to His Web: Carney Extends Run as Spider-Man by Patrick Healy

Instead of leaving in November Reeve Carney will stay through next May.

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The New Season: New Layers for Broadway-Bound Musical Revivals by Patrick Healy

Four musical revivals are coming to Broadway this fall, with a couple offering extensive reinterpretations of the original works.

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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

ArtsBeat Blog: It Is Necessarily So: Revamped 'Porgy and Bess' Will Come To Broadway by Patrick Healy

Previews are to start in December with opening night set for Jan. 12.

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ArtsBeat Blog: Producer Hopes To Send 'Vera Stark' To Broadway by Patrick Healy

The theater producer Elizabeth I. McCann said that she had acquired the rights for a Broadway production of Lynn Nottage's satire about black actresses and typecasting in Hollywood.

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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

ArtsBeat Blog: Hugh Jackman Will Sing and Dance Again on Broadway by Patrick Healy

Hugh Jackman is returning to Broadway in a concert show.

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ArtsBeat Blog: It's No Con: Bobby Cannavale to Play Nick Arnstein in 'Funny Girl' Revival by Patrick Healy

Mr. Cannavale, a Tony Award nominee and Emmy Award winner, will make his musical theater debut opposite Lauren Ambrose in the revival.

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ArtsBeat Blog: New Take on Chekhov to Highlight Soho Rep Season by Patrick Healy

Annie Baker reunites with the director Sam Gold for her updating of "Uncle Vanya."

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Monday, September 12, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011

ArtsBeat Blog: '[title of show]' Team Will Return to Vineyard With Newest Show by Patrick Healy

The creators of the critically acclaimed but short-lived Broadway musical "[title of show]" will mount their new project "Now."

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National Theater Offers Hits, Including 'War Horse' by Patrick Healy

The National Theater in London, which receives a subsidy from the British government, has gained box-office success with hits like "War Horse."

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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011

Shows Like 'Sister Act' and 'Priscilla' Struggle on Broadway by Patrick Healy

While "The Book of Mormon" sets records, lesser-known musicals are seeking ways to draw an audience.

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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

George Lee Andrews to Leave 'Phantom' After 23 Years by Patrick Healy

George Lee Andrews, 68, will give his final performance in "Phantom of the Opera" on Saturday night, his 9,382nd.

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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Monday, August 29, 2011

ArtsBeat Blog: Flooding Changes Plans for World Premiere Musical in Vermont by Patrick Healy

Hurricane Irene may have shuttered Broadway over the weekend, but the worst havoc to a theater occurred roughly 230 miles to the north in flood-ravaged Vermont.

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Friday, August 26, 2011

Ireland Gets Its Own Acting Academy at Trinity College Dublin by Patrick Healy

The new National Academy of Dramatic Art at Trinity College Dublin mixes public and private money for degree-granting programs.

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Thursday, August 25, 2011

ArtsBeat Blog: New Revenue and Better Management Help Cherry Lane Theater by Patrick Healy

Angelina Fiordellisi said new revenue and changed to the way the Cherry Lane Theater was operating has enabled her to cut the theater's deficit and put off plans to sell its Greenwich Villag…

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St. Ann's Sets Schedule for Final Season in Dumbo by Patrick Healy

The Brooklyn-based theater company announced its 2011-12 program for its final season in its Dumbo home.

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Monday, August 8, 2011

Hopefuls Sing Out From Afar as Broadway Scouts Go Online by Patrick Healy

The advent of YouTube, Skype, Facebook, Flip cameras and widely available video equipment has given technology a greater role in theater casting.

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Sunday, August 7, 2011

Downsizing 'Rent' for a New Run by Patrick Healy

Three years after its Broadway run ended, the rock-opera "Rent" is returning to New York, this time Off Broadway at New World Stages, and with little in the way of radical reinvention.

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Friday, August 5, 2011

Arts & Leisure: It Ain't Necessarily 'Porgy' by Patrick Healy

Diane Paulus, who had success with "Hair," is working on a version of "Porgy and Bess" that she hopes will be more palatable to modern Broadway audiences.

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Thursday, August 4, 2011

ArtsBeat: For Chicago Actress, A Broadway Debut Opposite Connick in 'On a Clear Day' by Patrick Healy

The revival's producers on Thursday announced the casting of both Ms. Mueller and the actor David Turner.

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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

ArtsBeat: Star Departs Roundabout's 'Death Takes a Holiday' by Patrick Healy

Julian Ovenden, whose powerful tenor and leading-man looks positioned him as a star attraction in the new Off Broadway musical "Death Takes a Holiday," has departed the Roundabout Theater Co…

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ArtsBeat: Lauren Ambrose Will Be Fanny Brice in 'Funny Girl' by Patrick Healy

The actress Lauren Ambrose, best known as the rebellious Claire Fisher in the HBO series "Six Feet Under," was not an obvious first choice for the Barbra Streisand role in the Broadway-bound…

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