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The Broadway producers of "The Audience," with Helen Mirren, have turned down $400,000 to let "It's Only a Play" continue next year in the Schoenfeld Theater.
Bradley Cooper's turn in "The Elephant Man" and Hugh Jackman's role in "The River" helped both shows to strong sales for early performances.
Mr. Morrison will play J.M. Barrie in the show about the creation of "Peter Pan"; he and Jeremy Jordan have both played the role in earlier productions.
The Tony Award-winning director John Rando, who has earned recent acclaim for staging "On the Town," is in negotiations to direct the musical "King Kong" that is aimed for Broadway.
Hugh Jackman continues his performance in "The River" after cutting his finger.
The festival in January will present "Cineastas," created by the Argentine theater director Mariano Pensotti, along with works from around the world.
Saying that he's ready for a detour, Hugh Jackman embraces an eerily enigmatic role in "The River," now in previews on Broadway.
Playwrights Horizons, a leading New York company, is now paying authors for meetings and helping with health insurance.
Ticket sales were sluggish for many of the 34 shows running on Broadway.
Jim Simpson, one of the founders of the 18-year-old Flea Theater in Lower Manhattan, said it was time for a new vision.
"It Shoulda Been You," with music by Barbara Anselmi and a book and lyrics by Brian Hargrove, turns on warring mothers squaring off at a wedding. David Hyde Pierce will direct.
The production was first produced by the National Theater of Scotland last year, and then in London to great acclaim.
The Broadway revival of Edward Albee's "A Delicate Balance," with Glenn Close and John Lithgow, broke the box-office record at the Golden Theater last week in the play's first set of preview…
The faith-based musical "Amazing Grace," about the redemption of a slave trader, is drawing applause in Chicago and aiming at Broadway.
Emma Stone joins the cast of "Cabaret" as Sally Bowles, if a bit later than originally expected.
A new Rockettes show, "New York Spring Spectacular," is the latest attempt to create an annual springtime attraction with the drawing power of the "Radio City Christmas Spectacular."
Ms. Maslany, the star of "Orphan Black," will make her New York stage debut opposite Thomas Sadoski in the world premiere of Neil LaBute's play "The Way We Get By."
"Hand to God," a dark comedy about a demonic sock puppet that wreaks havoc on relationships and faith in a small Texas town, is an unusual entry in the Broadway season.
Ms. Ripley will star in "A Christmas Memory," a musical based on an autobiographical short story by Truman Capote, in a production by the Irish Repertory Theater.
The "Marathon Variety Show" at the Metropolitan Room will feature dozens of artists performing for 60 hours of nonstop cabaret.
A new American Express card will allow holders to collect points that can be exchanged for Broadway shows.
The fourth annual TEDx conference devoted to Broadway and theater will be held on Feb. 23 and focus on the question, "What is the best Broadway can be?", producers said.
The two-character play, "China Doll," is about a billionaire and his assistant.
Onstage, in the same play, "Smokefall" at the Goodman Theater in Chicago, Mike Nussbaum plays a man who is 77 and in another scene, in his 50s. Offstage, he is 90.
"The Lion King" and "Aladdin" both had strong sales in a week when family fare dominated.
