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EXCLUSIVE Spring Awakening, the 2006 emotionally powerful, sexually frank and Tony-winning musical by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, has been staged around the world, and now for the first time is heading to China. Yes, the South Park-hating, frequently censoring and much in the news China. Set for a limited…

A Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway success known for musicals including High Fidelity and Next to Normal, Tom Kitt has over the past several years followed his passion for the world of film and television, making inroads on projects including Pitch Perfect and Penny Dreadful before finding a very…

We have five senses but only rarely do we experience the gift of having them heightened to a point of ecstasy. A Broadway musical, with its controlled delirium of sight and sound, can do that. A Broadway musical enhanced by, say, a particularly skilled interpreter of American Sign Language, adds not just the…

Whether it was out-of-town crowds avoiding Manhattan traffic with the double whammy of Pope Francis’ visit and the UN General Assembly, the Jewish High Holy Days, or all three, Broadway had a lousy Week 18. Unless, that is, your name is Alexander, Carole or Elder — in which case, some religious leader who’s a fan put…

After celebrated runs in Los Angeles, Deaf West’s transfixing revival of Spring Awakening arrives on Broadway with its fresh energy, hormonal heebie-jeebies and furious poignancy intact. Reconceived by director Michael Arden along the same lines as this company’s boundaries-bursting 2003 revival of Big River, this…

The Wallis Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts, whose profile in the cultural life of Los Angeles has risen substantially since opening two years ago, today named Paul Crewes as its first artistic director. He will leave the Cornwall, England-based Kneehigh Theatre, where he is chief executive and executive…

With three new shows in previews, the Broadway box office showed a bit more spark in Week 17 of the 2015-16 season. Meaty increases included An American In Paris, up $140K to $1.4 million at the Nederlanders’ Palace; Chicago, up $92K to $725K at the Shuberts’ Ambassador; Finding Neverland, up $75K to $881K at the…

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…

Jeremy Gerard has covered the shifting fortunes of Jujamcyn Theatres since it became a formidable competitor to the larger Shubert and Nederlander organizations in the late 1980s. In 2013 producer Jordan Roth became Jujamcyn's majority owner and the Street's youngest power broker. In this weekly email conversation…

As Deadline reported exclusively last week, a revival of Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater’s musical will move from Los Angeles to Broadway in the fall. Ken Davenport, producing the transfer with Cody Lassen, Hunter Arnold and Deaf West Theatre (Artistic Director, David J. Kurs), said Tuesday morning that the 2007 Tony…

UPDATE, 10:50 AM: News of the move that will bring a revival of Spring Awakening to Broadway in the fall renewed talk about Duncan Sheik’s new musical-in-waiting, American Psycho, based on the Bret Easton Ellis novel about New York in the throes of ’80s greed. Telsey & Co. has been casting that show, which had its…