Category: theatre

The producers who recently fired director Julie Taymor from the ever-more-expensive Broadway musical have so far decided on “scaling back the villainess Arachne, dropping the ‘Deeply Furious’ number of shoe-wearing spider-ladies, and reshaping the Geek Chorus of narrators.”

Spider-Man joins a long line of shows that didn’t make it…

Josie Rourke will take up the position on January 1, 2012, taking over for Michael Grandage who will step down at the end of this year after a decade in the role, the theater announced on Thursday.

Broadway group sales offices were being inundated Thursday with complaints and concerns from organizers who had planned trips to New York to see “Spider-Man” after its previously scheduled March 15 opening.

Theatre in the Open “hopes that giving up the box office revenue will generate larger audiences, more community involvement, more donations, and more grant money.”

“The Public Theater parted ways with its executive director, Andrew D. Hamingson, last month because in the theater’s transfer of shows to Broadway and London’s West End he had exposed it to financial risks without fully informing the board, people involved with the productions say.”

“The producers of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark are planning a significant overhaul of the $65 million Broadway musical that would involve shutting down performances for two to three weeks, as well as delaying its scheduled opening on March 15 for about three months.”

“Schemes such as tickets for a fiver and free tickets may well have attracted young professionals to theatre but its done little to reach out to ethnically diverse audiences.”

In advance of the National Theatre’s simulcast of Frankenstein, two theatre professionals debate the proposition.

The citations were issued in response to the injuries of four separate cast members in Sept., Oct., Nov., and Dec. 2010.