The Broadway League and unions representing actors, stage managers and musicians are trying to negotiate new contracts, but workers are increasingly frustrated.
Category: Theater (Broadway)
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Lauren Greenfield, Bard of Excessive Wealth, on Seeing Her Work on Broadway
The artist’s 2012 documentary on a particular pursuit of excess arrives on Broadway when, she says, “we have gotten farther and farther away from the value of modesty.”
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‘Waiting for Godot’ Review: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter on Broadway
Jamie Lloyd’s pristinely chic Broadway revival of the existential tragicomedy casts the “Bill & Ted” stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as Samuel Beckett’s clowns.
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The Broadway Musical Is in Trouble
With the cost of staging song-and-dance spectacles skyrocketing and audiences drawn to older hits, none of the musicals that opened last season has made a profit. Fewer are planned this season.
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‘Dreamgirls’ Will Return to Broadway After Global Star Search
A revival of the much-loved 1981 musical is planned for next fall, directed by Camille A. Brown.
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Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Are Ready for ‘Godot’
After years of training (clowning, Butoh and more), the longtime friends take on Samuel Beckett’s towering drama on Broadway.
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The Queen of Versailles Puts Her Life in the Hands of a ‘Wicked’ Diva
A 2012 documentary asked if Jacqueline Siegel was a benefactor or victim of American greed. A new musical starring Kristin Chenoweth raises doubts.
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Longest-Running Rafiki Says Goodbye to ‘The Lion King’
After more than 9,000 performances as the shaman in the Broadway show, Tshidi Manye prepares to hang up her baboon costume.
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In London, She Became Musical Theater Royalty. Now She’s Back on Broadway.
Marisha Wallace, headlining the final months of “Cabaret” in New York, returns to the city with Olivier nominations and newly minted British citizenship.
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Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle to Star in Broadway ‘Proof’ Revival
The play, by David Auburn, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 2001.
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Onstage and Onscreen, The New York Times Is Ready for Its Close-Up
The recognizable masthead has been portrayed in a Betty Boop musical on Broadway, a Marvel movie and many other creative works.