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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

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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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

A Superhero's Day (and a Damsel's) Never Ends by Patrick Healy

The stars of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," Reeve Carney and Jennifer Damiano, are doing their all to sell the new version that opens next week.

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Monday, June 6, 2011

A Theater Is Conjured, Then Leaves Only Memory by Patrick Healy

"Balm in Gilead," in a Brooklyn warehouse, was the sort of theatrical hot mess, done with the blessing of Lanford Wilson's estate, that rarely happens on such a scale in New York nowadays.

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ArtsBeat: Large-Scale Flop, Off Broadway by Patrick Healy

The Nashville-themed musical "Lucky Guy" is a Broadway-sized flop but one that took place Off Broadway.

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Sunday, June 5, 2011

ArtsBeat: Stage Version of 'Once' Will Start Downtown by Patrick Healy

The 2006 indie film "Once" will receive a downtown production at New York Theater Workshop in November, with Broadway a possibility after that.

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Friday, June 3, 2011

St. Ann's Warehouse Scrambles to Find a New Home by Patrick Healy

St. Ann's Warehouse, the Brooklyn theater whose plan for a new home was blocked, is facing an uncertain future: It is scheduled to leave its current home next May, but now has no alternative…

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Thursday, June 2, 2011

ArtsBeat: A Night for the Faithful: 'Sister Act' On Tap For Obama Re-Election Fundraiser by Patrick Healy

President Obama's re-election campaign has chosen the production for his first major Broadway fundraiser for the 2012 cycle.

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Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

ArtsBeat: How to Succeed in (Show) Business: Broadway Season Box Office Up Nearly 6 Percent by Patrick Healy

Broadway had another billion-dollar season between late May 2010 and Sunday.

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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

ArtsBeat: 'Prepare Ye The Way of the Lord': 'Godspell' Revival Coming to Broadway by Patrick Healy

The revival, originally been aiming to open on Broadway in the summer of 2008, will be staged at Circle in the Square, with previews to begin on Oct. 13 and an opening night scheduled for No…

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Laurents Left Book, Play and Plan for 'Gypsy' Film by Patrick Healy

Before his death this month, Arthur Laurents gave his blessing to a new film version of "Gypsy," possibly starring Barbra Streisand, and finished a full-length play and his third memoir.

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A Return to Acting That's From the Heart by Patrick Healy

Joe Mantello, a two-time Tony winner for directing, returned to acting for the role that resonates the most with him, Ned Weeks in "The Normal Heart."

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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011

'Book of Mormon,' 'Anything Goes' Lead Drama Desk Winners by Patrick Healy

'War Horse' and 'The Normal Heart' are also honored.

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Thursday, May 19, 2011

ArtsBeat: 'Sleepless in Seattle' Musical To Awaken at Pasadena Playhouse by Patrick Healy

The stage version will largely re-tell the movie plot about a Seattle widower, his son, and a woman who becomes obsessed with their heartbreak.

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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

ArtsBeat: A Triple Bill by Woody Allen, Elaine May, Ethan Coen Heading to Broadway by Patrick Healy

Mr. Allen described his play, "Honeymoon Motel," as "a broad comedy, for laughs, no redeeming social value."

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Monday, May 16, 2011

ArtsBeat: 'Chad Deity' Takes Obie For Best New American Play by Patrick Healy

Kristoffer Diaz's play "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity," a comic drama about televised professional wrestling and identity politics, won the Obie award for best new American play.

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ArtsBeat: Earning Power of 'Spider-Man' Undiminished by Patrick Healy

With all the changes to the plot of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," the Broadway musical's creative team didn't fiddle with its super-power earning potential, raking in almost $810,000 for …

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Sunday, May 15, 2011

Broadway Union Takes on 'Priscilla' Over Music by Patrick Healy

Local 802 is going after "Priscilla Queen of the Desert," hoping to undercut the use of recordings in theater.

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Friday, May 13, 2011

Arts & Leisure: The Twisty Road to Uganda and Broadway by Patrick Healy

The smash Broadway musical "The Book of Mormon" took a tortuous route to the stage, including the departure of a director, before earning 14 Tony nominations.

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Revamped 'Spider-Man' Returns, With Just a Few Glitches by Patrick Healy

The musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" resumed performances on Broadway after an unusual, three-and-a-half week hiatus and creative overhaul.

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Thursday, May 12, 2011

ArtsBeat: Curtain Up: Broadway-Set 'Smash' Gets a Spot on NBC's Roster by Patrick Healy

NBC has picked up the musical comedy "Smash," about the making of a Broadway show, for the 2011-12 television season, according to an executive involved with the new series.

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ArtsBeat: A Web of 'Spider Man' Credits by Patrick Healy

The credits for "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" reflect the changes to the $70-million musical's production and creative team.

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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

ArtsBeat: New York State Arts Official to Run the American Theater Wing by Patrick Healy

Heather Hitchens, presently the executive director at the New York State Council on the Arts, will take on that role at the American Theater Wing, which is a presenter of the Tony Awards.

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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

ArtsBeat: Deliberative Theater Critics Honor 'Good People' by Patrick Healy

The New York Drama Critics' Circle awarded best play to "Good People," by David Lindsay-Abaire, and best musical to "The Book of Mormon."

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ArtsBeat: Simon Russell Beale to Drive London Taxi on New York Stage by Patrick Healy

The British actor Simon Russell Beale will return to the New York stage this summer as a London taxi driver in Atlantic Theater Company's production of "Bluebird

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Monday, May 9, 2011

A More Familiar 'Spider-Man' Is Back, Hoping to Bury the Dark by Patrick Healy

When "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," returns to previews on Thursday, several of Julie Taymor's characters and ideas will be gone, its creators say.

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ArtsBeat: High Hopes for 'Porgy and Bess' on Broadway by Patrick Healy

The project's commercial producers expressed optimism that they would move the show to New York after its premiere run at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass.

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Friday, May 6, 2011

ArtsBeat: Lots of Drama, but No Fall, During Spider-Man Rehearsal by Patrick Healy

At a rehearsal for "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" on Friday, the actor Christopher Tierney returned to the scene of an accident that nearly killed him during a performance on Dec. 20.

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