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By Daniel D'Addario 12/05/12 12:18pm

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Kathie Lee Gifford (Drew Friedman)

The Anarchist, Scandalous Close on Broadway

Two shows are departing the Great White Way before the competitive holiday season even begins. Onetime Observer cover girl Kathie Lee Gifford is saying goodbye to her charismatic-Christian-themed passion project Scandalous, which will have played 31 previews and 29 regular performances when it says goodbye on Sunday. It departs this weekend, allowing Ms. Gifford to return her full energies to broadcasting the famously wine-drenched fourth hour of Today each morning.  Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 7/07/11 4:59pm

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Normal Heart Going, Master Class Arriving On Broadway

It’s a week of mixed results for theater lovers–the much-decorated revival of The Normal Heart is to close, as scheduled, on Sunday, after a 12-week run that was bedecked with Tonys and brought playwright Larry Kramer to a level of cultural prominence unprecedented in recent years.

Theatergoers looking for gay fantasia to replace the much-loved Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 6/12/11 7:40pm

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Andrew Rannells performs a song from "The Book of Mormon" at the Tonys. (Getty Images)

The 2011 Tonys—Liveblogged

The Tonys—theater’s annual celebration of its most glamorous, high-flying self—is underway. Keep refreshing for updates on The Book of Mormon‘s trophy tally, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark performance, Neil Patrick Harris‘s hosting duties, and (naturally) all the other winners and losers. Read More

By Jesse Oxfeld 3/15/11 11:49pm

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Peter and the Starcatcher: ‘Pan’ Prequel Pleases!

Philip William McKinley and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa should get themselves to East Fourth Street. They are the director and playwright charged with transforming the newly de-Taymored $65 million (and surely rising) Broadway extravaganza Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark into something entertaining, understandable and enjoyable. And it turns out that down at the tiny New York Read More