Philip William McKinley News

When they haven't been on stage, some Spider-Man cast members and the PigPen Theatre Co. of The Old Man and the Old Moon have recently taken field trips to see each other's shows. Check out photos of the casts together from both visits below!

SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark is now in its 2nd smash year on Broadway, and has been seen by more than 1 million audience members from around the world. It features music and lyrics by 22-time Grammy® Award-winners Bono and The Edge, direction by Philip William McKinley (The Boy From Oz), and a book co-written by Julie Taymor, Glen Berger(Underneath The Lintel) and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Fantastic Four and Spider-Man comics, "Big Love"). The cast just took part in a photo shoot for the show's 2013 calendar and you can check out a behind the scenes video below!

Broadway's SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark has announced the Foxwoods Theatre as a New York Cares Coat Drive public collection site. From November 15 - December 31, 2012 patrons can drop off coats outside the box office at 213 West 42nd Street between 10:00 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., and during show hours on performance days.

Jake Epstein, best known as the star of the hugely popular teen series "Degrassi: The Next Generation," will make his Broadway debut as the Peter Parker / Spider-Man Alternate in Broadway's SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark. Epstein will play Saturday and Sunday matinee performances beginning on December 8, 2012 at the Foxwoods Theatre (213 West 42nd Street).

SPIDER-MAN just celebrated its second year on Broadway; hear what Jujamcyn Theatres owner Jordan Roth had to say on the show's success, plus upcoming shows CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, LUCKY GUY, MANILOW ON BROADWAY and more, below!

SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark is now in its 2nd smash year on Broadway, and has been seen by more than 1 million audience members from around the world. It features music and lyrics by 22-time Grammy® Award-winners Bono and The Edge, direction by Philip William McKinley (The Boy From Oz), and a book co-written by Julie Taymor, Glen Berger(Underneath The Lintel) and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Fantastic Four and Spider-Man comics, "Big Love"). The show just celebrated its second year on Broadway and you can check out photos from the celebration below!

SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark celebrates the second anniversary of its very first performance on Broadway today, and hits the milestone as one of the Top 20 highest grossing Broadway shows of all time (with a total gross of $145,781,262 million and counting).

SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark has just unveiled a 2013-2014 calendar featuring the talented, athletic men who bring the world's most recognizable super hero to life on Broadway each night with breath-taking aerial stunts and acrobatics. The 14-month calendar made its debut during a segment featuring Reeve Carney ("Peter Parker") and the performers on ABC's "Good Morning America" this morning, November 15 at 8:30 am EST. The cast showed up in support of the appearance. Check out photos of them below!

Almost a dozen SPIDER-MAN cast members invaded Times Square on this morning's GOOD MORNING AMERICA on ABC to talk about their efforts to raise funds for victims of Hurricane Sandy. Check out their appearance below!

SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark will unveil a 2013-2014 calendar featuring the talented, athletic men who bring the world's most recognizable super hero to life on Broadway each night with breath-taking aerial stunts and acrobatics. The 14-month calendar will make its debut during a segment featuring Reeve Carney ("Peter Parker") and the performers on ABC's "Good Morning America" tomorrow, Thursday, November 15 at 8:30 am EST.

SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark, the record-breaking Broadway spectacular, held a Halloween safety press conference earlier today at the Foxwoods Theatre. Hosted by Spider-Man (Reeve Carney) and the Green Goblin (Robert Cuccioli), also in attendance were members of the "Sinister Six" and two members of New York's Finest. Spider-Man outlined the NYPD's official Halloween Safety Recommendations to remind parents and guardians of trick-or-treaters ways to help ensure a safe Halloween experience. Check out photos from the event below!

According to the New York Times, playwritght Glen Berger, who recently worked alongside Julie Taymor, Bono and the Edge on Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, will write a book on the whole saga, titled "Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History."

On October 14, the cast of SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark made an appearance at the 2012 New York Comic Con. Whilethey were there they performed "Boy Fall from the Sky", followed by an interactive presentation and demo by the Spider-Men for kids in the audience. Check out phtos from the evnt below!

Just last night, Reeve Carney, Robert Cuccioli, Rebecca Faulkenberry, and the cast of SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark welcomed Command Master Chief Matthew E. Danforth of the USS Micahel Murphy, the late Lt. Michael Murphy's mother, and the crew of the USS Michael Murphy. Check out photos from the special curtain speech below!

SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark on Broadway has announced that its digital app has soared past 500,000 downloads and is now the most active daily app on Mobile Roadie.

This morning, Reeve Carney, Robert Cuccioli, and Spider-Men from SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark visited the American Museum of Natural History, where they met with curator Norman Platnik in the "Spiders Alive!" exhibit. Check out full photo coverage from the event below!

This morning, Reeve Carney, Robert Cuccioli, and Spider-Men from SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark visited the American Museum of Natural History, where they met with curator Norman Platnik in the "Spiders Alive!" exhibit. Check out a photo preview of the event below, and check back later for full coverage!

Just last month, Olympian Danell Leyva visited Broadway's SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK, where he met with leading man Reeve Carney and the 9 Spider-Men from the show. Now according to the New York Post, he is in talks to join the production. An insider told NYP that 'the producers are excited about the idea of Danell joining the show.'

Today we are focusing a super-special spotlight on one of the Fall's most intriguing musical entries trying out in New York, the York Theatre Company's lab mounting of the new Paul Jabara jukebox musical LAST DANCE, by talking to the show's lead, recognizable TV and film star Rob Morrow, and the show's lead producer, noted comedic shepherd and filmmaker Robert D. Wachs, whom filled me in on all aspects of the show in a comprehensive chat late last week just prior to this week's start of rehearsals. In this all-encompassing conversation, Morrow, Wachs and I discuss the genesis of the new disco-themed musical celebrating the life and career of Jabara, the accomplished Emmy, Grammy and Academy Award-winning composer of Broadway shows (RACHAEL LILY ROSENBLOOM… AND DON'T YOU EVER FORGET IT), movie songs ("Last Dance" from THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY; the titular "The Main Event") and numerous pop/rock/disco hits, such as "It's Raining Men" by The Weather Girls, Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer's epic disco duet "Enough Is Enough (No More Tears)" and his many solo hits, as well as the finer points of the story, concept, casting and the ultimate goals of the new Philip William McKinley-directed production, which features a book by Shaun McKenna. Additionally, Morrow and Wachs each generously share showbiz tales from their storied careers involving such big names as Eddie Murphy, Michael Bennett, Jonathan Larson, Tony Scott and many more and both copiously convey their infectious enthusiasm for the forthcoming fully-produced lab presentation of the new musical that will play for five performances beginning September 20 as they prepare for its first viewing before a paying audience. All of that and much, much more awaits!

According to the Associated Press, ex-Spidey director Julie Taymor just today reached a tentative settlement regarding her lawsuit against the producers of Broadway's SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK. Details of the deal have not been released to the public.