PARTON AND A FRESH TUNE

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• PRINCE: PUT ART BACK ON B'WAY

  CREATIVITY LOST AMID MONEY, DIRECTOR SAYS

  September 3, 2008 - HAL Prince was watching the Screen Actors Guild awards on TV last January when he turned to his wife and started babbling. "Get dressed," she said. "We're going to the hospital...more >

• B'WAY BUZZES ABOUT 'FELA!'

  August 29, 2008 - THE fun of covering Broadway is that, just when you think you've got the lay of the land, out of no where comes a show to shake up the terrain. A year ago, the buzz was all about "Young...more >

• OSMENT: I SEE B'WAY AUDIENCES

  YOUNG STAR OF 'SIXTH' SENSE' IN MAMET PLAY

  August 27, 2008 - CASTING is complete for the starry Broadway revival of "American Buffalo." Joining John Leguizamo and Cedric the Entertainer in David Mamet's crackling drama will be sweet-faced...more >

• B'WAY SMELLS FRESH 'HAIR'

  'GODSPELL' IS DEAD, PARK HIT HAS NEW LIFE

  August 22, 2008 - THE "Hair" transplant is under way. Veteran producer Elizabeth I. McCann has been meeting with theater owners, looking to see which houses will be available after the first of the year...more >

• OGRE AND ABOVE

  'SHREK' IMPRESSES PREVIEW CROWDS

  August 20, 2008 - BROADWAY hyenas lying in wait for DreamWorks to stumble are going to have to find some thing other than "Shrek" to gnaw on this fall. The $20 million musical began previews last week...more >

• B'WAY FEELS MONEY SLUMP

  SHOWS SCRAPPED AS BACKERS HOLD BACK

  August 13, 2008 - DARK clouds of recession are gathering over Broadway. Producers, after a drink or two, admit raising money is becoming very difficult. One complains that backers who regularly used to cut checks...more >

• 'BRISCOE' KID'S OUTRAGE

  WIDOW OF 'LAW' STAR ORBACH 'SHUCKED' HIS EYES & GOUGED ME: SON

  August 10, 2008 - THE son of beloved "Law & Order" actor Jerry Orbach, who died of cancer in 2004, has lashed out at his father's widow, claiming in a vitriolic letter that she manipulated her...more >

• NEW HIT: $25 FOR AISLE

  PATRONS KICKED IN WALLET

  August 8, 2008 - THE city is careening toward recession, and what do the ater owners do? Raise ticket prices! Variety announced this week that Jujamcyn Theaters, the third-largest landlord on Broadway, has tacked...more >

• FORGING A LITERARY PATH

  DISGRACED BIOGRAPHER FINDS CRIME PAYS NICELY

  August 6, 2008 - I'VE never forgotten the day Lee Israel, biographer and literary forger, showed up at my office with a haunted look in her eyes and begged me for the $150 we owed her. It was 1992 and I was...more >

• DENNEHY HAS O'NEILL DOWN

  August 1, 2008 - STRATFORD, Ontario, Canada - Since the death of Jason Robards in 2000, Brian Dennehy has become the American actor most closely associated with the plays of Eugene O'Neill (although Kevin...more >