Biz off; ‘Mancha’ 668g
Broadway grosses dipped during Week 33 (Jan. 6-12) as the winter doldrums, and chilly weather, set in. With two fewer shows on the boards, grosses declined by 15.5% to $14,837,428, which was still…
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Lloyd Webber shifts back into gear
Andrew Lloyd Webber has a new stage musical in the works, a fresh version of a decades-old one ready to hit the West End in April, and two films in varying degrees of preparedness.
Manhattan transfer
Noises Off - Robert Hofler
B.O. dips; ‘Tick’ kicks off
Road grosses slipped by 4.7% to $14,054,770 during Week 33 (Jan. 6-12).
‘Metamorphoses’ dries up
The pool party is over. The Broadway production of "Metamorphoses" will close Feb. 16 to make way for "Life X 3," a new play by Yazmina Reza, starring Helen Hunt and John Turturro.
Review: ‘Runaway Home’
Up-and-coming playwright Javon Johnson was introduced to D.C. audiences last season with the taut drama "Hambone" at the Studio Theater. A protege of August Wilson, he similarly reaches for themes…
Review: ‘The Blue Demon’
Huntington Theater Co. artistic director Nicholas Martin says he was "utterly beguiled" by a free, open-air, non-Equity version of this fairy tale at the Williamstown Theater Festival in 1998. But…
Review: ‘Suburban Blight’
Playwright A.R. Gurney has scripted three short legiters that are little more than clever writing exercises posing as one-act plays. Kudos to helmer Craig Carlisle and a facile 7-member ensemble for…
‘Producers’ star Bart joins ‘Stepford’ pic
Roger Bart, the Tony-winning actor who has just taken the role of Leo Bloom in Broadway's "The Producers," will make his feature starring debut in "The Stepford Wives," the Frank Oz-directed remake…
Tonys rule on ‘Out,’ ‘Boheme’
There's no new music, and no book to speak of, but "Movin' Out" is indeed a new musical. And while "La Boheme" has never before been produced on Broadway, Baz Luhrmann's staging will nevertheless be…
