Goodbye “Seminar,” Hello “Fools”: Theresa Rebeck Moves On
Failing to snag a Tony nomination for “Best Play,” the producers of Theresa Rebeck’s “Seminar” announced that the show would be closing on Sunday, May 6th, after 191 performances and 26 previews. The...
View ArticleEpic Broadway Musical “Rebecca” Postponed Yet Again
A scene from "Rebecca"/© VBW, Alexander Ch.Wulz, Vienna, 2006 Some shows are snakebit. “Rebecca,” a musical based on the classic 1938 Daphne du Maurier novel, was originally supposed to open last March...
View ArticleNo Goldrush at the Box Office for “Chaplin”
Rob McClure as Charlie Chapin/© 2012 Joan Marcus The majority of reviews for “Chaplin,” which opened on Broadway on Monday were no laughing matter. The New York Times’s Ben Brantley was dismissive,...
View ArticleArrest is Made in the Strange Saga of “Rebecca”
In a twist that Alfred Hitchcock would have loved, Mark C. Hotton, a former Long Island stockbroker, was arrested on Monday morning and charged with fraud for creating fictitious investors for the...
View ArticleThe Producers of “Rebecca” Face A Crucial Deadline
If the producers of “Rebecca,” who are the victims of one of the most mystifying frauds in Broadway history, do not manage to open the epic musical on Broadway by the end of this year, they will be...
View ArticleShia LaBeouf Has Beef With Alec Baldwin and Departs “Orphans”
Explained in a welter of emails that Shia LaBeouf posted on his Twitter account, the actor’s sudden departure from the Broadway revival of “Orphans” sent the producers scrambling for a last-minute...
View ArticleIntrigue and Murder Surround the Papacy in “The Last Confession”
As the College of Cardinals gather to elect a new pope amid scandalous rumors, there probably couldn’t be a better time to revive Roger Crane’s 2007 drama “The Last Confession.” The murder mystery,...
View ArticleAs “The Revisionist” Considers Broadway, Anger Over a Redgrave Biography
One of the hottest tickets in New York right now is “The Revisionist,” starring Vanessa Redgrave and Jesse Eisenberg (“The Social Network”), who also wrote the play. Part of the rush to the box office...
View ArticleTom Hanks Celebrates, “Vanya” Extends, Cyndi Lauper Nears Landmark Status
Tom Hanks (“Lucky Guy”) may have lost the Tony Award to Tracy Letts (“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”), but he wasn’t crying into his beer at the post-telecast celebration at Sardi’s, which the...
View ArticleWill Renewed Scrutiny Hurt Woody Allen’s “Bullets Over Broadway”?
The allegations of child molestation once more raised against Woody Allen — this time by the purported victim Dylan Farrow Previn — has unleashed a spate of articles and threads on theater chat rooms...
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