The Wednesday night performance of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" was called off after a stagehand died shortly before the curtain was supposed to go up.
CNN's Maggie Lake talks to the man charged with turning the much maligned Broadway production around.
The first iteration of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," which started previews last November, became a national punchline thanks to its constant cast injuries, budget problems and an incoherent plot.
If "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" can rise above devastating reviews and headline-grabbing injuries, much of the credit will go to director Philip William McKinley.
The actress presents the top acting awards at Sunday's Broadway event
The best of Broadway is honored at the 65th annual Tony Awards.
"The Book of Mormon," a musical satire about religion written by the creators of "South Park," and "War Horse," a British play about a boy's search for his beloved horse, dominated the 65th annual Tony Awards Sunday night.
The injury-prone Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" has temporarily lost another cast member after the show's lead actress was hurt performing an onstage battle scene, according to a spokesman.
In 2010, critic Michael Riedel said "Spider-Man" on Broadway is chaos and the stunts are concerning for the actors.
Producers of the injury-plagued "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark" have replaced its director and pushed back the opening of the $65 million Broadway musical for a sixth time.
The Harry Potter star has new shoes to fill: the wingtips of a '60s corporate man
The director of the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark" responds to criticism over preview show glitches.
The injury-plagued Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark" has been cited for two safety violations by the State Department of Labor following a series of on-stage accidents, including a spill that hospitalized one of the show's actors in December.
The opening of the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark" has been postponed for the fifth time, making the new opening night March 15, its producers said.
In December, theatergoers coming out of the "Spider-Man" musical have mixed reactions to the high-flying experience.
A Broadway actor who fell more than 20 feet during an aerial stunt in the musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," will attend Friday's 8 p.m. performance as a spectator, according to show spokesman Sam Corbett.
CNN's Susan Candiotti talks to aerial dancers about safety in the wake of cast member injuries in "Spider-Man."
A Broadway actor who fell more than 20 feet during an aerial stunt in the musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," has been released from a rehabilitation center in New York, a show spokesman said.
Superhero creator Stan Lee finally gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame on Tuesday, a week after his 88th birthday.
A "Spider-Man" Broadway musical production has been plagued with problems. CNN's Brooke Anderson reports.
The Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" returned Thursday night after a string of stunt mishaps and a serious injury to one of the actors.
Performances of the troubled Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" are scheduled to resume Thursday evening after a performer was injured during a show, a spokesman said.
Four Irwindale, California, city officials are facing charges for allegedly attending Broadway shows and baseball games while in New York on city business, the Los Angeles district attorney's office said Wednesday.
The TV host wows the audience with an unexpected cameo in the musical Promises, Promises
The Idol alum and his girlfriend Angel Reed are expecting, and he says that's "a beautiful thing"
The actress is reveling in her first Tony Award - and recuperating from a throat virus
"We're crying quite a lot," says the star of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The two stars will honor the best featured actress at this Sunday's ceremony
"This has been a terrible blow to our family," husband Hal Holbrook says of the Designing Women star's passing
Plus: Find out why husband Ryan Reynolds missed her debut opposite Liev Schreiber
The former Destiny's Child member will take over Ashlee Simpson-Wentz's role in the hit musical
Jessica Simpson tweeted that watching Ashlee "made me the proudest sister in the world"
She's set to play Roxie Hart in the Broadway production beginning in December
Mildly favorable reviews surround her New York stage bow in After Miss Julie
But the new Broadway play featuring the two hot stars? Not so much
Catherine Zeta-Jones is limbering up for her Broadway debut.
Robert Williams, 12, wasn't worried about flying for the first time or visiting a big city. He was only concerned that his manners wouldn't be up to his grandmother's standards.
Catch Daniel Craig, Hugh Jackman, Jude Law and T.R. Knight on the Great White Way
The TV star returns to the New York stage as Mama Morton in Chicago
This year's Tony host says he's inspired by Jon Stewart - and advised to have fun
The Emmy- and Tony-winning actress weds in a private ceremony in New York City
The Emmy winner, who also starred on Broadway and on TV's Maude, was 86
The Private Practice actor and his Wicked star wife are getting ready for their first baby
Movie director John Landis is suing Michael Jackson, accusing the reclusive entertainer of fraud in his handling of profits from the iconic "Thriller" video the two made together more than 25 years ago.
Broadway dreams can come true. Just ask 10-year-old Nicholas Dayton.
Norbert Leo Butz and William H. Macy will replace the ill star in David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow
Van Johnson, whose boyish looks and earnest manner made him a Hollywood heartthrob in the 1940s and '50s, died Friday in an assisted-care facility, a friend told CNN.
Three Broadway revivals feature star turns by Kristin Scott Thomas and Frank Langella, plus Katie Holmes' stage debut
"It felt like Christmas," the actress tells PEOPLE after her opening night in All My Sons
Critics laud the Harry Potter star's dramatic performance in Equus
That infamous scene? It's only "about seven minutes," says the young actor
Cruise joins standing ovation for Holmes after her first preview performance of All My Sons on Broadway
It takes two hours-plus for actor Brian d'Arcy James to become the ogre
The Harry Potter star says his Equus role gives him "more confidence"
The new dad will reprise his role as Sir Robin in Monty Python's Spamalot
The actress was surrounded by her family in her Hollywood Hills home
The actors' union and Broadway theater producers have reached a
tentative agreement for a new 39-month contract that covers Broadway
shows and touring productions
While in N.Y.C., he'll star in Grease, but has yet to pick a baseball team
The high school musical has graduated from Oklahoma! -- and from High School Musical too
Citing a busy work schedule, the Oscar winner has left the movie musical Nine
Though one of Rodgers & Hammerstein's most popular shows, South Pacific has remained untouched by the revival mania sweeping Broadway - until now.
The Dancing with the Stars finalist is stepping into A Chorus Line
Avoid the mile-long lines at the Times Square TKTS booth by buying discounted Broadway tickets using one of these eight approaches.
The lights of Broadway will shine brightly again after stagehands and producers reached a tentative agreement Wednesday evening, ending a 19-day strike.
The lights of Broadway will shine brightly again after stagehands and producers reached a tentative agreement Wednesday evening, ending a 19-day strike.
The lights of Broadway will shine brightly again after stagehands and producers reached a tentative agreement late Wednesday, ending a 19-day strike.
Video courtesy Buena Vista EntertainmetJessica Alba confirmed Monday that she's in talks to star on Broadway in a revival of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow – the role that Madonna originated in the 1988 Broadway production.
Revelers in New York and Chicago rang in the holiday season with a Thanksgiving tradition.
Broadway producers canceled shows through the Thanksgiving holiday weekend after the Sunday night collapse of talks aimed at ending a nine-day-long strike by stagehands.
In the past, the bellowing cry of "the show must go on" has assured theater-goers that no matter what happens, someone, anyone, will appear on stage once the curtain opens.
So how did Jennifer Garner feel after making her Broadway debut Thursday night?
Handsome, big-voiced baritone Robert Goulet died Tuesday morning in a Los Angeles hospital while awaiting a lung transplant, according to a spokesman
Clay Aiken has found his Holy Grail: Broadway.
Can using a TV reality show to pick two stars for a musical revival really be bad for Broadway? Hardly
Producer Mel Brooks is charging a record high of $450 a seat for a weekend performance of his new Broadway musical, 'Young Frankenstein,' according to a newspaper report.
Jake Gyllenhaal is deciding whether he'll attempt to climb a peak even more treacherous than Brokeback Mountain - Broadway.
The first Broadway show that Christine Ebersole ever saw was not on Broadway, but in the auditorium of Skokie Junior High School in Winnetka, Illinois. It was Finian's Rainbow, and she sat in the orchestra pit, a dutiful student, violin at the ready. "I was so busy watching, it ended my career as a violinist," Ebersole says.
After a long break, John Travolta's got the music in him again.
CNNMoney: Enron: The Musicalupdated: Fri Feb 17 2006 14:36:00
A Houston theater company is taking on the most serious of subjects, setting a tragic story to a musical tune, in a play simply titled "Enron: The Musical."
It's impossible to imagine any movie getting as much advance publicity as Mel Brooks' "The Producers."
When singers and performers set out to sharpen their skills, some attend music conservatories, some go to a university with a strong performing arts program, and some take private lessons.
showbuzzupdated: Mon Feb 21 2005 11:04:00
Brenda Strong, who plays the deceased Mary Alice Young on ABC's "Desperate Housewives," has a long history of playing dead.
Tony Randall, the Emmy Award-winning actor who made the role of fussy neatnik Felix Unger his own in TV's "The Odd Couple," has died. Randall was 84.
Comedian George Carlin was launched into the upper echelon of humorists in the '70s by uttering seven words -- seven dirty words, to be exact. At 67 he still tells it like it is, which keeps censors (and other folks in positions of power) on their toes.
Well, you can say one thing about Rosie O'Donnell: She puts her money where her mouth is. She footed the entire $10 million bill for her recently opened Broadway musical Taboo and voiced her intent...
Basil Hero plans on being the next Ted Turner. At a time when potential investors are balking and theatergoers are shunning the Great White Way--and despite his Lower Manhattan office building havi...
In 1982, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, a stage version of the 1954 MGM movie musical, opened on Broadway. David Landay, producer and co-author of the show's book, had raised $1.25 million--nothi...
Theater fans may talk about the lullaby of Broadway, but there's nothing soothing about paying as much as $100 for an orchestra seat on the Great White Way, $199 a night for a hotel room in Times S...
Fortune: INSURING BROADWAYupdated: Mon Jan 28 1991 00:01:00
Meet Cicero and his understudy, ''B'' -- cockatoos currently appearing in Boston in the comedy La Bete and due to make their Broadway debut at the Eugene O'Neill theater on January 31. The birds ar...
Here's one more American-made product that's a hit in Japan: musicals like A Chorus Line and Dreamgirls, complete with their U.S. casts. Turns out Tokyo's trendier theatergoers much prefer U.S. mus...
Ever since the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis opened 25 years ago with a production of Hamlet, regional theater has been a powerful cultural force in America. Such hits as Agnes of God, Crimes of t...
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