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Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group has hired former MGM TV executive Charles Farmer to the newly created role of CEO. The move and the simultaneously announced naming of Really Useful’s David Chance to the role of Non-Executive Chairman are designed, the company said, to increase the reach and impact of Lloyd…

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s six theaters in London’s West End are getting a collective re-brand. The venue division of Lloyd Webber’s company, until now known as Really Useful Theatres, has been renamed LW Theatres. The name change is designed to “end any confusion” between the theatre/venue division and the Really Useful Gr…

UPDATE, noon with more information throughout. EARLIER: As if she never said good-bye, Glenn Close is ready for her close-up — again. After weeks of rumors, Close announced today that she’ll reprise the role of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard on Broadway in the wake of knockout reviews for a London revival by the…

Ken Davenport, a Broadway multi-tasker as producer, ticket broker, blogger, event organizer, theater owner and general manager, has joined Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group as Executive Producer for North America, effective immediately. Davenport will report to RUG president Jessica Koravos, overseeing the…

Barney Wragg, a veteran music-industry executive appointed in 2011 with considerable fanfare to the newly created position of managing director of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group, will leave RUG in June, about half a year before the end of his five-year contract. Both sides describe the parting as amicable.…

Just in time for the dog days of summer, Andrew Lloyd Webber and T.S. Eliot’s Cats will return to Broadway this summer, the first revival since the original blockbuster closed after an 18-year run that began at the Winter Garden Theatre in 1982. The New York production is currently the fourth longest-running show in…