EXCLUSIVE: Kristin Scott Thomas is set to star in Paramour, a story of seduction and extortion, from director Alexandra-Therese Keining (Girls Lost). London-based Protagonist Pictures is launching international sales on the title in Cannes next week, with ICM Partners handling North American rights. The film is…

Easter Week was especially springlike for Broadway as five musicals surpassed the $2 million mark at the box office, boosting overall sales to $41 million. That’s a 17 percent incline from the week before. With total sales to date of $1.28 billion, the 2016-17 season is looking at 3.6 percent growth over 2015-16, even…

UPDATE, 1:30 PM with more information throughout: Paramour, the first show developed by the Montreal-based behemoth Cirque du Soleil specifically for Broadway, will shutter April 16 at the Lyric Theatre, exactly a year after it began previews. The theater then will undergo renovations, according to the announcement…

Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron’s Fun Home was something of a miracle, a small stall in the noisy Broadway bazaar selling intimacy, feeling and a coming-of-age tale on a scale that seldom attracts uptown crowds and Tony Awards. And yet this transfer from the Public Theater went on to recoup quickly, win five Tonys…

The Broadway box office took another August dip last week, thanks at least in part to the reduced schedule at the Street’s biggest theater, the Lyric. That’s where Cirque du Soleil’s gypsies-and-gymnasts fusion show Paramour shut down temporarily, shaving off three performances this week (and a few more next week) as…

Producer Scott Rudin’s big gamble — moving Tony winner The Humans from the intimate Helen Hayes to the larger Gerald Schoenfeld — kicked off on a high note with its first $600K week since opening last spring. The Stephen Karam drama, with more Tony Awards than stars, posted sales of $603.8K when the number of seats…

Cirque Du Soleil’s first made-for-Broadway venture, Paramour, launched the 2016-2017 season last week with a post-opening boost of $219K over Week 52 (notwithstanding a slew of downbeat reviews), ringing up $1.127M at the 1,896-seat Lyric Theatre box office. With the June 12 Tony Awards looming, the Street was up some…

The lovestruck heart doesn’t merely leap in Paramour. It flips, flies, frolics, flits, flounces, trips to the moon on gossamer wings, beats like a boogie and jumps like a bean — everything exactly as one should expect from romance as filtered through the prism of Cirque du Soleil. Officially starting the 2016-2017…

The Cirque du Soleil brand looks like a boon for the Lyric Theatre which, with 1,896 seats in its current configuration, is Broadway’s biggest house. A highly regarded name, familiar to a wide audience, is essential when you’ve got nearly 15,000 seats to fill each week. Cirque has installed Paramour, its first…

Paramour, the first made-for-Broadway venture from Cirque du Soleil, got off to a rousing start last week in the Street’s biggest house, the Ambassador Theatre Group’s Lyric Theatre, selling out all 1,896 seats and taking in a hair’s breadth shy of full potential for its first preview. The tally was $190,774, at an…

Rehearsals got underway Monday for Paramour, Cirque du Soleil Theatrical’s first show created specifically for Broadway. The global entertainment giant resolved an intriguing labor issue by negotiating separate deals with Actors Equity Association, which represents actors and stage managers, and the Americn Guild of…