Larson grants under Wing
The 12-year-old Jonathan Larson Grants, which honor promising musical theater creatives, will now be administered by the American Theater Wing.
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Webber pulls for laid-off bankers
Andrew Lloyd Webber wants to cheer up laid-off Brit bankers by offering free ducats to two of the composer-producer's current West End tuners, "The Sound of Music" and "Joseph and the Amazing…
La Nacion names ‘Story’s’ Maria
"West Side Story" has found its Maria. That is, if you believe everything you read in the Argentine press.
Review: ‘R.R.R.E.D. The Redhead Musical Manifesto’
An overwrought tuner spoof inspired by a prediction that redheads will be extinct by 2100, "R.R.R.E.D" boasts an unimaginative book that wears out its welcome exhausts its veracity before the end of…
Helen Mirren to star in ‘Phaedra’
Helen Mirren will return to the National Theater in June to play the title role in Racine's tragedy "Phaedra," one of several new additions to the National's 2008-09 slate announced alongside the…
‘Xanadu’ skates off into sunset
"Xanadu" will roller skate off into the sunset next month, with the Broadway tuner setting a closing date of Oct. 12.
Sundance Theater Lab picks plays
A musical about Antoine de Saint-Exupery and a new production of "Woyzeck" have been selected for inclusion in the Sundance Institute Theater Lab's annual residency program at Florida's White Oak.
‘Chicago’ gets new national tour
This fall "Chicago" is launching a new national tour -- technically its 10th -- with a cast toplined by Tom Wopat in its first seven stops.
Stage outfits team on Alchemy
Two legit management and producing companies, One Viking Prods. and Theater Production Group, have united under the name Alchemy Production Group.
‘Priscilla’ will play West End
The tuner rendition of "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" has nailed down its West End dates and theater, playing the Palace beginning in March.
