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The adage that you can’t make an audience go to a show it doesn’t want to see has proved true once again with this evening’s announcement that a revival of Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie, starring Forest Whitaker in his Broadway debut, will shutter early at a total loss of nearly $3 million. A 55-minute one-act that is…

The very fine actor Frank Wood is already onstage when we take our seats at the Booth Theatre for Hughie, perched nearly motionless behind the front desk of a New York hotel whose glory days are beyond memory. Predawn light suffuses the spooky lobby of Christopher Oram’s ornate, monumental set with a grim pallor, even…

Stars are shooting up like spring peepers as Broadway begins to warm after a cold winter. Recent additions to the Street-wide cast list include Forest Whitaker, previewing in Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie; Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams, previewing in David Harrower’s Blackbird; and Laura Benanti and Zachary Levi in She…

Despite the frigid blast that walloped Manhattan over the Presidents Day weekend, Broadway rebounded in the 38th week of the 2015-16 season, ringing up $25.7 million in tickets sales, a 22 percent forward flip over the previous week. That was with little holiday stunting: Only one show — the Peter Pan origin tale Findi…

Forest Whitaker (Southpaw, The Last King Of Scotland, Bird, etc.) announced in August the plan to make his Broadway debut this season in a revival of Eugene O’Neill’s dark two-hander, written in 1941 but not presented until after the playwright’s death. Now he and director Michael Grandage (Red, Frost/Nixon) have…