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Broadway ticket sales continued their usual end-of-summer downward trend and a couple of legendary rockers departed during Week 16 of the 2015-2016 Broadway season, which ended Sunday. Mamma Mia! which opened in October 2001 at the Shubert-owned Winter Garden Theatre and moved to the Shuberts’ smaller Broadhurst 12…

It’s not exactly a collapse worthy of prompting mass defenestrations, but Broadway business echoed the financial malaise sending shivers through the equities markets this week. Of course, there also was competition from a great show going on in Times Square for free as news organizations sent cameras and crews to docum…

It went out there a chorus boy and came back a rock star. Having shattered all expectations with a limited run that turned into a 76-week, Tony-winning smash hit Hedwig And The Angry Inch will exit Broadway’s Belasco Theatre after the Sunday matinee on September 13, after 22 previews and 506 performances. Launched…

John Cameron Mitchell added “starred on Broadway” to the long list of credits attached to his trailblazing musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch that already included written by, co-created (with Stephen Trask), starred in the original off-Broadway production, and directed and starred in the film adaptation. In…

Clive Owen will make his Broadway debut in a revival of Harold Pinter’s Old Times, directed by Tony Award winner Douglas Hodge (La Cage Aux Folles). Previews for the Roundabout Theatre Company production will begin September 17, followed by the official opening on October 15. "My first season with Roundabout included O…

As rock stars on Broadway go, it looks like John Cameron Mitchell has more pull with ticket buyers than Sting. Mitchell, the co-creator and original off-Broadway star of Hedwig And The Angry Inch, joined the hit Broadway revival of the rock tuner, where his role was first re-created to great acclaim by Neil Patrick Har…

Continuing its hit run at the Belasco Theatre into the spring, Hedwig And The Angry Inch will welcome John Cameron Mitchell starting Wednesday, January 21 for eight weeks. Mitchell co-created the role — an unsung rock star after her semi-botched sex-change — with composer-lyricist Stephen Trask. He starred in the 1998…

David Binder, lead producer of the 2014 Tony-winning best musical revival Hedwig And The Angry Inch, has joined the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT) as Artistic Associate. He’ll develop international projects and collaborations from his New York base. Binder worked with LIFT this past summer to produce D…

Michael C Hall will replace Andrew Rannells in the title role of Hedwig And The Angry Inch beginning October 16. The show won Tony Awards in June as best musical revival and for the production’s originating star, Neil Patrick Harris, among other kudos. Rannells, a Tony nominee for his performance as Elder Price in The…

UPDATE 9/11: Updates information about Hedwig gross, below: Any question about the drawing power of Neil Patrick Harris was put to rest with the release of Broadway’s latest box office tally. In the first week since Harris’ departure from the Tony Award-winning Hedwig And The Angry Inch, receipts dropped a whopping…

Andrew Rannells, a Tony nominee for his performance in The Book Of Mormon, will take over the title role in Hedwig And The Angry Inch when Tony winner Neil Patrick Harris departs the show in August, producer David Binder says. Harris leaves on August 17 and Rannells, also a regular on the HBO series Girls, takes over…

EXCLUSIVE: Call her Yitzhak. Lena Hall, Tony-nominated for her co-starring role opposite Neil Patrick Harris in Hedwig And The Angry Inch, has signed with ICM Partners. She previously appeared in Kinky Boots. She also fronts rock band The Deafening. As Yitzhak, she plays the object of Hedwig’s odd affections in the…