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Thursday, June 23, 2011

How the Numbers Add Up (Way Up) for 'Spider-Man' by Kevin Flynn and Patrick Healy

The web is untangling to show how $75 million was spent on "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," more than twice as much as any production in Broadway history.

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Stagehand's Death Leads to Cancellation of 'How to Succeed' Performance by Patrick Healy

The Wednesday night performance on Broadway was cancelled after a stagehand died from what the police said was a drug overdose he suffered backstage.

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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

ArtsBeat: Angela Bassett Will Star Opposite Samuel L. Jackson in 'The Mountaintop' by Patrick Healy

Angela Bassett will appear in Katori Hall's drama "The Mountaintop," about Dr. Martin Luther King on the night before his assassination.

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ArtsBeat: Times's Outstanding Playwright Award Goes to Kristoffer Diaz by Patrick Healy

Kristoffer Diaz won the honor for "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity," his satire of television wrestling and the ethnic stereotypes and political imagery of that industry.

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Monday, June 20, 2011

ArtsBeat: Broadway's Prince Revisits Material That Earned Him the Title by Patrick Healy

Harold Prince, who has won 21 Tony Awards for producing and directing some of the most well-known musicals of the 20th centurey, is planning a return to Broadway in the fall of 2012 with a s…

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Sunday, June 19, 2011

Taymor Tries to Reclaim a Reputation by Patrick Healy

Julie Taylor, who was fired from "Spider-Man" in March, speaks out against theatrical focus groups and instant Web and twitter critics.

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Saturday, June 18, 2011

ArtsBeat: Former 'Spider-Man' Director Calls New Show Much Simpler by Patrick Healy

In her first public comments about "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" since the opening of the $70 million Broadway musical, Julie Taymor described the new show as "much simpler" than the versi…

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ArtsBeat: One Musical Succeeds. One Struggles. Discuss. by Patrick Healy

Why has "The Book of Mormon" emerged as the hit musical of the year on Broadway, while another artistically ambitious show a few block away, "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," has struggled?

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Thursday, June 16, 2011

ArtsBeat: Broadway's Next Stanley Kowalski: Blair Underwood by Patrick Healy

Blair Underwood, known for his roles on TV shows like "L.A. Law" and "The Event," will be the star of a new multiracial production of "A Streetcar Named Desire."

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ArtsBeat: 'Nice Work' - and Matthew Broderick Gets It - in Broadway-Bound Show by Patrick Healy

Three years after a bitter offstage fight derailed its plans for Broadway, the new musical comedy "Nice Work If You Can Get It" is back on the drawing boards.

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ArtsBeat: Get a Sneak Peek at Revamped 'Carrie' Musical by Patrick Healy

The creators will talk about the show and cast members will perform.

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The Fine Art of Casting Hits on Broadway by Patrick Healy

Five Broadway casting directors discuss the challenges of matching actors and shows.

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ArtsBeat: 'Desert Cities' Coming To Broadway, But Lavin Chooses Off-Broadway Role Instead by Patrick Healy

Linda Lavin will appear in "The Lyons," a new Nicky Silver play at the Vineyard Theater, and will not be part of coming Broadway transfers of "Other Desert Cities" or "Follies."

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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

ArtsBeat: 'Follies' Is Coming to Broadway This Summer by Patrick Healy

The show is scheduled for a limited run but is expected to go at least through Christmas and New Year's.

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ArtsBeat: Untangling the Reviews For 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark' by Patrick Healy

The nation's theater critics, for the most part, described "Spider-Man" as improved but nowhere near good enough to justify its record-setting $70 million budget.

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As 'Spider-Man' Opens, Its Former Director Shows Up. And a Former President. by Patrick Healy

The opening of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" came at last on Tuesday with the improbable reunion of Julie Taymor with Bono and the producers who ousted her.

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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011

Superstars Never Guessed the Size of 'Spider-Man' Challenges by Patrick Healy

Bono and the Edge admitted they were ill-prepared for the rigors of putting Julie Taymor's vision of "Spider-Man" on Broadway.

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Sunday, June 12, 2011

'War Horse' and 'Mormon' Shine at Tonys by Patrick Healy

"The Book of Mormon," a smash-hit Broadway musical made out of the unlikeliest of elements " religious themes, jokes about AIDS, and dirty lyrics " emerged as the runaway prizewinner at the …

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ArtsBeat: A Pre-Show Clue to a 'Book of Mormon' Sweep by Patrick Healy

"Book of Mormon," the favorite for best musical, is in the running for three Tonys that will be announced before the telecast begins on CBS.

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Friday, June 10, 2011

ArtsBeat: Search for the New 'Funny Girl' Goes Online by Patrick Healy

Want to star as Fanny Brice? Here's your chance.

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Thursday, June 9, 2011

Book of Tonys: Anything Goes? by Patrick Healy

Interviews with voters " and a notebook's worth of meals in the theater district " ground our annual forecast of the 2011 Tony Awards.

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Signature Theater To Open New Home With a Celebration of Athol Fugard by Patrick Healy

Signature Theater Company has chosen the celebrated South African playwright Athol Fugard as the focus of its first year in its new 74,000-square-foot home, known as Signature Center.

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An Extra Week for 'Lysistrata Jones' by Patrick Healy

The show will now run through June 24.

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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Tony Awards May Bring Out Pickets, Along With Stars by Patrick Healy

Broadway's powerful stagehands' union is planning to hoist an inflatable rat and mobilize 400 members to protest a loss of work organizing the red carpet pageantry at the awards.

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ArtsBeat: 'Spider-Man' Frozen, and Actors Are Relieved by Patrick Healy

After months of rewrites, new lyrics and choreography, rehearsals fo new material by day and preview performances at night, the cast and crew of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" was relieved …

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ArtsBeat: The New Bohemians: Casting Announced for 'Rent' Revival by Patrick Healy

On Wednesday the producers of the first New York revival of "Rent," which begins performances on July 14, announced a new list of names.

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Melissa Leo, Hayden Panettiere Among Those Eyeing Broadway Roles in 'Picnic' by Patrick Healy

The producers developing a Broadway revival of William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Picnic," about young love and growing older in small-town Kansas, held a private reading on Monday …

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