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The New York Times reports that SPIDER-MAN Turn Off the Dark's new website text advertising their preview period has been considered by the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, and has been found to be satisfactory to warn potential ticket buyers that they will may not be attending a fully completed performance to date through March 15th.

Piers Morgan, whose show 'Piers Morgan Tonight' debuts tonight in the time slot previously occupied by the legendary Larry King, has discussed what he ideally plans to do with the show with the New York Post. This included Katie Holmes, star of the miniseries 'The Kennedys', a Twitter-themed show starring Twitter's founder Jack Dorsey and gossip columnist Perez Hilton, and the reality TV star Kardashian sisters. Producers of the new show are also, however, in talks to have the creators of SPIDER-MAN Turn Off the Dark on for an episode, including director Julie Taymor and songwriters Bono and the Edge.

National Jazz Museum in Harlem announces Jan. 17 - Jan. 23, 2011 Schedule

The Castillo Theatre (Dan Friedman, artistic director, Diane Stiles, managing director) held the first full cast rehearsal today for Fred Newman's MR. HIRSCH DIED YESTERDAY, which runs Friday, January 21 to Sunday, February 20 with an official press preview on Thursday, January 20. Directed by Woodie King, Jr. (founder and producing director of the New Federal Theatre).

The Public Theater's new Tony-winning production of HAIR is now on tour, currently playing the Pantages Theatre.

Well, the major critics haven't gone in (yet) but MTV has now posted their review of SPIDER-MAN: Turn Off the Dark, in two parts. The first, entitled 'Five Things We Liked' includes the Set Design, The Costumes, The Aerial Work, It's Family Friendly and 'Splash Page' the show's opening number.

According to the NY Times, SPIDER-MAN producers have been quick to defend their recent decision to again delay the show's official opening, postponing it until March 15. Producer Michael Cohl told NYT, 'The best idea to market the show would be to open.'

Just in from Rick Miramontez, Spokesman for SPIDER-MAN Turn Off the Dark 'The official position of the Spider-Man team is that critics should not review the production until invited by the production. We deem critics to be theater lovers, and to review the show before it is frozen is not, in any way, in the spirit of Broadway and all it represents.' BroadwayWorld.com reached out to multiple major critics after last night's announcement that the opening was being delayed (again) who have told us that they were talking to their editors and expect that given that the show will now have been seen by potentially 200,000 audience members before its opening night, that they will NOT wait until opening night to review the show and were instead looking at seeing the show near to the February 7th previously scheduled opening night.

National Jazz Museum in Harlem announces Jan. 17 - Jan. 23, 2011 Schedule

Continuing the 50-year anniversary celebration of Harper Lee's landmark book-turned-legend, ‘TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD' opens on January 14th, 2011 as THE PRODUCTION COMPANY unveils their new larger space, The Lex Theatre; 6760 Lexington Avenue, in Hollywood's Theatre Row.

Honoring the 50-year anniversary of Harper Lee's landmark book, 'TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD' inaugurates The Production Company's new The Lex Theatre

Lead producers Michael Cohl and Jeremiah J. Harris announced tonight that SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark has delayed its opening night (previously set for February 7, 2011) to Tuesday, March 15th to allow for more time to fine-tune aspects of the show, including the new ending. Also to that end, the scheduled performances on Tuesday, January 18 and Tuesday, January 25 have been cancelled, and all ticketholders for those performances will be offered refunds or exchanges. All other preview performances will go on as scheduled. Directed by Julie Taymor and featuring a book by Julie Taymor and Glen Berger, and new music and lyrics by U2's Bono and The Edge, SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark is now in previews at Broadway's Foxwoods Theatre (213 West 42nd Street). Last week, SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark was the number one box office grossing show on Broadway.

Deadline.com has just announced that SPIDER-MAN's Bono and The Edge have recruited British record producer Steve Lillywhite to assist the creative team in working with the cast on the multi-million dollar mega-musical. Lillywhite has collaborated with U2 on 8 of their hit albums. Writes Deadline's Mike Flemming: 'I'm told that he's been a fixture this week at the Foxwoods Theatre, helping the cast with the songs penned by Bono and The Edge as they prepare for the February 7 opening...'

Michael Colh, lead producer on Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark has revealed to the Wall Street Journal that the final version of the show's finale has yet to be incorporated into the show and has not yet been seen by anyone - himself included. Cohl tells the Journal: 'The actual ending that we have planned is still not in the show,' he said. 'Nobody's seen it - including us, by the way.' When asked if the show's February 7 opening date was still set, Cohl vaguely replied: 'It's life-I don't expect it to [change], but it's life.'

El barcelonés ejercerá las funciones de subdirector y preparador vocal. Joan Vázquez también participará en el programa como profesor de educación auditiva.

SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark is now in previews at Broadway's Foxwoods Theatre (213 West 42nd Street). Click below for a look at the production in montage, both behind the scenes and on stage! Much of this footage has been seen before in pieces during the (many) news segments about the show, but, you've been asking for it, so we've rounded it all up in one place for the first time.

The BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop announces its Winter Smoker, a semi-annual showcase for new songs from Workshop writers.

On January 12, Glenn beck weighed in on SPIDER-MAN via his audio show: Media Matters. In his review of the show, Beck states, 'This Is The Phantom of the 21st Century,' and 'Much Better Than Wicked.' Check out what he has to say by clicking below!

Directed with great care and blissful appeal, this spiritually buoyant new touring production of the 2009 Tony Award-winner for Best Musical revival, HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical revels in its naughty, raucous fun and its sonically adventurous musical soundtrack. A delightful hybrid of vaudeville high-jinks, rock concert, art house exhibition, and curiosity theater, this genuinely entertaining show rightly focuses less on its unstructured storyline, but more in its likable cast of characters and the celebratory, almost party-like atmosphere they share with us through song. The tour plays the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood through January 23, then leaps over to the Orange County Performing Arts Center for shows running January 25 - February 6.

The Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF) proudly announces this year's festival dates, Thursday, October 13 - Monday, October 17, 2011. The festival, which is usually held over Columbus Day Weekend, is launching one week later in 2011 in order to honor Yom Kippur, which falls during Columbus Day Weekend this year. HIFF plans to return to its regular Columbus Day Weekend dates in 2012 (October 4 - 8, 2012) to celebrate its 20th Anniversary.