Broadway
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Arts
For Burt Bacharach, ‘Promises, Promises’ Was One Broadway Hit Too Many
The perfectionist composer was content with being a one-hit musical-theater wonder, calling the experience the hardest thing he had ever done.
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World
The Black Musical That May Have Inspired Gershwin
I have, over the transom, received the paperback edition of a book that escaped me last year, to my regret. It is “When Broadway Was Black” by Caseen Gaines, and it is important first in that it recounts the story of a Black-created musical of 1921 ...
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Arts
‘Ohio State Murders,’ Starring Audra McDonald, to Close on Broadway
The 75-minute memory play by Adrienne Kennedy had been scheduled to run until Feb. 12; it will close on Jan. 15.
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Arts
British Comedy ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ Plans Spring Broadway Bow
The farce, by the team behind “The Play That Goes Wrong,” is about a bumbling theater company attempting to stage the popular children’s play.
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Arts
New Broadway Labor Agreement Includes Pandemic-Prompted Changes
The deal, ratified by members of Actors’ Equity, provides salary increases for performers and stage managers, and allows producers to make short-term hires.
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Arts
‘Merrily We Roll Along’ Will Transfer to Broadway Next Fall
Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez and Daniel Radcliffe, now starring in an Off Broadway revival, will lead the Broadway production as well.
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Arts
Tony Awards to Be Staged in Manhattan’s Washington Heights
The annual ceremony honoring Broadway’s top productions and performers is moving to the New York neighborhood where “In the Heights” was set.
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Arts
‘Ain’t No Mo’’ to Close on Broadway
The play, a biting comedy by Jordan E. Cooper, will have its final performance on Dec. 18, just over two weeks after opening.
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Arts
‘Fat Ham,’ a Pulitzer-Winning Riff on ‘Hamlet,’ Is Broadway-Bound
The play, by James Ijames, will be at the American Airlines Theater starting March 21.
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Arts
Courtroom Drama: New Legal Battle Over ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
Three years ago a new Broadway play based on the classic Harper Lee novel tried to prevent regional stagings of an earlier dramatization. Now, the roles are reversed.