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American Psycho, its box office comatose for weeks since opening this spring, went out with a bang last week, posting a sales boost of $180K at the Shubert Organization’s Schoenfeld Theatre and taking in $620K. That was just shy of 60% of its potential for the Benjamin Walker vehicle, which arrived on Broadway with…

UPDATE Friday 1:30 P.M.: Adds producers’ statement of capitalization at $8.8 million, below. EARLIER: At once shocking in its finality and completely expected, American Psycho will play its last Broadway performance on Sunday, June 5 at the Shubert Organization’s Schoenfeld Theatre, one week before the Tony…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred. GERARD: I’m feeling unusually protective of my critical colleagues this week, and especially Ben Brantley and Charles Isherwood at The New…

Benjamin Walker wears clothes and almost no clothes with equal elan in American Psycho, the blood-spattered, label-obsessed musical that opened on Broadway tonight. Perhaps the star has a thing for blood; it was, after all, his gleefully free-form performance in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson that put him on the map…

Broadway returned from spring break to something approaching normalcy in Week 46 of the 2015-2016 season, with a downward shift of about 10% at the box office as new musicals strutted their stuff and holdovers worked hard to put on a fresh face for the smaller crowds. Four big musicals are in previews and slated to…

EXCLUSIVE: The team behind the 2000 cult classic American Psycho is reuniting for look at real-life American psycho Charles Manson. Director Mary Harron and screenwriter Guinevere Turner are set for The Family, an examination of the infamous Manson Family murders through the eyes of graduate student Karlene Faith as…

The Shubert Organization, with 17 houses Broadway’s biggest landlord, has landed one major catch for next season: Duncan Sheik’s musical adaptation of American Psycho. Producers Act 4 Entertainment (David Johnson & Jesse Singer), Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel, “in cooperation with Edward R. Pressman,” said…

UPDATE, 10:50 AM: News of the move that will bring a revival of Spring Awakening to Broadway in the fall renewed talk about Duncan Sheik’s new musical-in-waiting, American Psycho, based on the Bret Easton Ellis novel about New York in the throes of ’80s greed. Telsey & Co. has been casting that show, which had its…

The unholy alliance between commercial theater producers and subsidized theaters – where shows often try out en route to Broadway – took a bizarre twist Wednesday with news that Duncan Sheik’s musical adaptation of American Psycho was heading directly to Broadway. The change of plan, reported in the New York…

UPDATE, 2:40PM: Adds speculation about a direct move to Broadway, below: Off-Broadway’s Second Stage Theatre just announced that it no longer will be producing the new musical American Psycho, the adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel and feature film that is trying to make its U.S. debut. Benjamin Walker, who…

EXCLUSIVE: I’m hearing that Benjamin Walker, the much-lauded star of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and the loopy historo-musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, has landed the title role in the upcoming U.S. premiere of American Psycho the musical. The role of Patrick Bateman was created on film in 2000 by Christian…

Off-Broadway powerhouse Second Stage will present the U.S. premiere of the much praised (and much debated) American Psycho, the musical adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ 1991 novel (and 2000 Christian Bale-starring film) about excess, murder and flashing the right labels. The show — with music by Duncan Sheik, book by…