Theatre

How To Succeed Stagehand Dies Backstage, Ending Performance

4:35PM Seth Abramovitch | Any news story about a fatality on the Great White Way should instantly bring to mind everyone’s favourite web slinger, but while Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has maimed many, it has yet to actually kill anyone. (And let’s hope it stays that way.) More »

The Spider-Man Musical Is Still Pretty Bad, BTW

2:53AM Richard Lawson | The Broadway shitsplosion Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark finally, finally, officially opened last night, meaning this morning the (new) reviews came in. So where’d all that tweaking and Julie Taymor firing get them? Nowhere good, it seems. More »

Ousted Director, Bill Clinton Show Up At Spider-Man Musical Opening

3:05PM Max Read | Disastrous Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark finally, really, actually opened, believe it or not. No one died, or anything! Guess who showed up? Julie Taymor, the director who was forced out by producers just a few months ago. More »

How Much Is A Tony Award Worth, Exactly?

7:05AM Brian Moylan | Those mathematicians at the New York Times got out their abacuses (abaci?) and figured out just how much a Tony win is worth for a Broadway musical. You’d think that the least watched of all awards shows wouldn’t make a huge impact – and you would be wrong. More »

Made-Over Spider-Man Musical Manages To Not Kill Anyone On Its First Night Back

4:31AM Richard Lawson | After a nearly month-long hiatus for retooling, the beleaguered Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Broadway musicale resumed performances last night, and they didn’t fuck up once! Well, that’s not true. There were a few oopses, but mostly it sounds as though things went smoothly. More »

Oprah Determined To Save, Destroy Broadway Forever

6:15AM Richard Lawson | With her chat show ending on May 25, world’s most powerful woman Oprah Winfrey has her eyes set on the Great White Way. It’s long been a dream of hers to perform on Broadway, and soon it will become a terrifying reality. More »

Daniel Radcliffe’s (Fully Clothed) Broadway Singing And Dancing

4:28AM Richard Lawson | The last time we saw Harry Potter on the White Way, he was stark naked (talk about white!), running around and jumping up and down. Yup. This time, in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, he’s wearing suits and… running around and jumping up and down! In dance form. More »

What We’ve Learned From The Spider-Man Debacle

7:09AM Richard Lawson | Not only is director Julie Taymor supposedly leaving Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, but the whole production plans to shut down for a few weeks. Yikes! More »

Spider-Man Musical Finally Has An Ending

5:24AM Richard Lawson | Up until now, a curtain dropped abruptly and that was it. Now the trouble-plagued Turn Off the Dark is getting a real ending: more flying! That’s smart, having one last chance to get an accident in before everyone goes home.

Spider-Man Broadway Show Delayed Yet Again

3:10PM Adrian Chen | The opening night for the disastrous Spider-Man musical, Spiderman: Turn off the Dark, has been delayed for a third time, to March 15. The show was supposed to open last month. So, realistically, it will open June 3, 2014.