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Broadwaypocalypse
broadwaypocalypse
June 9, 2010
Hair to CloseGet a job, hippies!
By Lane Brown
ragtimepocalypse
Dec. 31, 2009
Ragtime Granted Stay of ExecutionThe shuttering musical will stay open a week past its previously announced closing date.
By Lane Brown
broadwaypocalypse
Dec. 31, 2009
By Adam K. Raymond
broadwaypocalypse
Dec. 6, 2009
Altar Boyz Throwing in the TowelThe Off Broadway musical survived almost five years.
By Adam K. Raymond
ragtimepocalypse
Dec. 2, 2009
Out of Ragtime ? It’s dunzo on January 3, says Michael Riedel.
By Lane Brown
broadwaypocalypse
Dec. 1, 2009
By Adam K. Raymond
broadwaypocalypse
Dec. 1, 2009
Julia Stiles Fails to Save Broadway Surely there must be some way to pin some of the blame for the failure of ‘Oleanna’ on Jeremy Piven, right?
By Mark Graham
broadwaypocalypse
Oct. 28, 2009
Abigail Breslin Is Coming to New York Little Miss Sunshine will make her Broadway debut.
By Adam K. Raymond
broadwaypocalypse
Oct. 28, 2009
Matthew Broderick Given Another Week to Learn His Lines If last night was any indication, he’s going to need it.
By Mark Graham
broadwaypocalypse
Oct. 21, 2009
Shrek to Be Shuttered’Shrek: The Musical’ will play its final performance on January 3, 2010.
By Lane Brown
broadwaypocalypse
Sept. 17, 2009
Regina Spektor: No Sleep Till Broadway She’ll be writing the music for the musical adaptation of the play ‘Beauty.’
By Mark Graham
broadwaypocalypse
Aug. 11, 2009
By Mark Graham
broadwaypocalypse
July 29, 2009
9 to 5 Closing’9 to 5’ will play its final performance sometime around Labor Day.
By Lane Brown
broadwaypocalypse
July 9, 2009
By Mark Graham
broadwaypocalypse
June 29, 2009
The Nutty Professor Is Coming to BroadwayFortunately, there’s no word yet on ‘Norbit: The Musical.’
By Mark Graham
broadwaypocalypse
June 29, 2009
Avenue Q Ending Its Broadway RunThe massively popular (and profitable) play will stage its last show on September 13.
By Mark Graham
broadwaypocalypse
June 18, 2009
August: Osage County ClosingAfter 648 performances and three Violet Westins, the Tony- and Pulitzer-winning ‘August: Osage County’ will drop its final curtain on June 28.
By Lane Brown
tonypocalypse
June 8, 2009
Reasons to Be Pretty Killed by TonysThanks to a Tony shutout, Neil LaBute’s play will close this Sunday.
By Lane Brown
broadwaypocalypse
May 27, 2009
Broadway Lives Though it had its problems, the 2008–2009 Broadway season set a new record for total grosses.
By Lane Brown
broadwaypocalypse
May 15, 2009
Tony Snub Kills Desire Under the Elms But there’s good news for ‘The Norman Conquests’!
By Lane Brown
broadwaypocalypse
Feb. 27, 2009
By Lori Fradkin
Mourning Mourning Becomes Electra Another Broadway play gets canned.
By Lori Fradkin
broadwaypocalypse
Feb. 23, 2009
Will Chase Can’t Catch a Break His latest, ‘The Story of My Life,’ closed yesterday, just days after its official opening on Thursday.
By Lori Fradkin
broadwaypocalypse
Feb. 12, 2009
Broadwaypocalypse Averted? There are signs of life in theater land.
By Michael Alan Connelly
broadwaypocalypse
Feb. 9, 2009
Photograph of Presidential Penis Threatens Broadway “An anonymous but age-appropriate public domain Internet penis” that Will Ferrell is presenting to be the former president’s is causing an uproar.
By Mark Graham
broadwaypocalypse
Feb. 4, 2009
Ponzi Scheme: The Musical Possibly Headed for BroadwayApparently, there’s renewed interest in the original Bernie Madoff.
By Mark Graham
broadwaypocalypse
Dec. 18, 2008
By Mark Graham
broadwaypocalypse
Dec. 15, 2008
Gypsy to Cease Entertaining You in JanuaryThe Broadway revival was supposed to close in March, but its run will end next month instead.
By Lori Fradkin
broadwaypocalypse
Dec. 5, 2008
Nothing to Cheer About: Vanities Broadway Opening Delayed The show will not open in February as previously announced.
By Lori Fradkin
broadwaypocalypse
Dec. 4, 2008
Come January, Grease Will No Longer Be the Word Like every other show on Broadway, it’s closing.
By Lori Fradkin
broadwaypocalypse
Nov. 25, 2008
Shuttering of ‘Young Frankenstein’ Practically the Greatest Thing That’s Ever Happened The ‘Times’ reports that the shuttering of ‘Frankenstein’ is causing ‘unusual guilty glee’ among theater fans.
By Lane Brown
broadwaypocalypse
Nov. 24, 2008
It’s Not Alive! ‘Young Frankenstein’ to Close in January Too Mel Brooks’s ‘Young Frankenstein’ will play its final performance on January 4.
By Lori Fradkin
Middle-School Musical ‘13’ to Be Dismissed in January It will have played 11.67 times more regular performances than ‘American Buffalo.’
By Lori Fradkin