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Vanessa Hudgens departed quietly, after a game but losing run in the title role of Gigi, where even a $101K spike in the final week only lifted receipts at the Nederlander-owned Neil Simon Theatre to 46% of gross potential. Two more stars, Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan, closed out their run in the best play revival…

SECOND UPDATE, March 17: Clarifies the role of Community Board Five, which does not administer the Theater Subdistrict Fund, below. UPDATE 8 PM: Adds more about Shubert ownership in sixth paragraph. EXCLUSIVE: As Team de Blasio considers ways to plug loopholes in the various federal and local tax laws that cost New…

Jonathan Larson’s groundbreaking musical about artists, squatters and AIDS in New York’s Alphabet City in the 1990s will open on Christmas Eve in Havana for a three-month run. The Spanish-language production is being produced by Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment in partnership with the Cuban National Council of…

Motown The Musical, the tuner loosely based on label founder Berry Gordy’s memoir, will play its final performance at Broadway's Lunt Fontanne Theatre on January 18, 2015, a few months shy of its second anniversary. The musical has yet to recoup its $18 million capitalization but will, according to a New York Times…

EXCLUSIVE Updates with more information: Harvey Weinstein’s well-tended production of Finding Neverland has booked a Nederlander theater and will open on Broadway in the spring, I’ve learned. Weinstein was not available for comment, but the show officially opens tonight at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge…