Broadway
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Books
As the Tonys Head Uptown, Step Inside the United Palace ‘Dream World’
The ceremony honoring Broadway’s top shows and performers will take place at the majestic former “Wonder Theater” in Washington Heights.
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Newyork
Todd Haimes, Who Rebuilt Roundabout Theater Company, Dies at 66
After rescuing the company from bankruptcy, he turned it into a major player on Broadway and one of the largest nonprofit theater companies in the country.
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Newyork
How the Broadway Community Is Trying to Block a Times Square Casino
A new coalition, organized by the Broadway League, has formed to defeat a casino proposal backed by Caesars and Jay-Z.
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Newyork
The Broadway Star Phillipa Soo Sings Her Favorite Pop Song
In a new revival of “Camelot,” updated by Aaron Sorkin, the actress finds humanity in the legend of King Arthur and Guenevere.
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Books
In ‘Thanksgiving Play,’ the Pageantry of ‘Well-Meaning’ White People
As Larissa FastHorse worked with the Broadway cast of “The Thanksgiving Play,” which centers on four white people trying to put on a “culturally sensitive” holiday production, one of the actors, Katie Finneran, spoke up in a rehearsal with a ...
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Books
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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Newyork
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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Books
‘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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Books
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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Books
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.