Skyrocketing budgets and falling profitability have driven a new form of offshoring, with U.S. producers staging shows across the Atlantic.
Category: Theater (Broadway)
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Fed Up With High Costs, American Theater Takes a Trip to London
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How Lesley Manville Is Leaving ‘Oedipus’ Audiences Spellbound
Personal history emerges by painful degrees in “Oedipus,” whose language and story, the actress Lesley Manville says, “wreck me every time.”
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Roger Allers Dies at 76; Helped Put ‘Lion King’ on Screens and Onstage
A Disney fan who once “flew” off his couch as a 4-year-old Peter Pan, he was a co-director of the animated film and a co-writer of the Broadway musical, both of them megahits.
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‘The Outsiders’ Musical Recoups on Broadway
“The Outsiders” is the first new musical to open since 2022 to become profitable.
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‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Will End Broadway Run and Open Overseas
Though the show will close in New York next month, a North American tour will continue, and productions in Australia, Germany and South Korea are planned.
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Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson to Star in ‘Fear of 13’ on Broadway
The play, about a man who spends decades on death row before being exonerated by DNA evidence, will have a 16-week run this spring.
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‘Bug’ Review: Carrie Coon Is Superb in an American Gothic Tale
Tracy Letts’s eerily topical, decades-old play about a woman’s descent into a world of conspiracy theories makes its nerve-rattling Broadway debut.
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‘The Queen of Versailles’ Bombed on Broadway. What Went Wrong?
The show reunited Kristin Chenoweth and Stephen Schwartz for the first time since “Wicked.” It wasn’t enough to counter poor word of mouth and other challenges.
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Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts Want to Get Under Your Skin
The couple are gearing up for the Broadway opening of “Bug,” about a descent into paranoia and psychosis in a squalid motel room.
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‘Beaches’ Was a Novel. Then a Movie. Next, It’ll Be a Broadway Musical.
A musical adaptation of the story will open at the Majestic Theater next spring. And yes, the score includes “Wind Beneath My Wings.”