‘Mnemonic’ coins profit
"Mnemonic" looks set to pay back its Off Broadway production costs this week, two months into a 9-1/2 week run entered into for reasons of love, not lucre. The Theatre de Complicite piece about…
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Legit
Stepping into Streisand’s shoes
Strands
Review: ‘Ghosts’
"Ghosts" gets the full ghost story treatment in Robin Phillips' eye-rolling revival of Ibsen's 1891 play, which is so busy cueing a response from the audience that it often makes little inherent…
Review: ‘God Only Knows’
You've got it to hand it to Derek Jacobi, the furiously game star of the new Hugh Whitemore play "God Only Knows'': Even panting his way in pajamas and bedroom slippers about John Gunter's attractive…
Hayes nods fete D.C. theater
Professional theater in D.C. was saluted last week during the 17th annual Helen Hayes Awards, which honored artists and productions from 11 different theater companies. Signature Theater's production…
‘Time’ taking toll on Wells
Army Archerd: Just for Variety
Disney playing its ‘Hunch’ on ABC
ABC is actively developing a live-action musical version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" for the net's "Wonderful World of Disney" franchise.
This ain’t the Tonys
Why are the Lucille Lortel Awards more fun than the Tonys? Because they do things there that they just don't on Broadway.
Review: ‘Sorrows and Rejoicings’
Having developed a productive and fruitful bond in recent years with the McCarter Theater and its artistic director, Emily Mann, South African playwright Athol Fugard's back again for the world preem…
‘Search’ will close May 20
On Monday, Jane Wagner's "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe," starring Lily Tomlin, received its Tony nod, and on Wednesday, a closing notice for the show was posted. It will…
Biz off; ‘Seuss’ 524g
Broadway grosses dropped in Week 48 (April 23-29), bringing in a total net of $15,299,731, a decrease of 7.4%. Total attendance was 285,379.
