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Bruce on Broadway This is not a drill. Bruce Springsteen  is coming to Broadway. I repeat: Bruce Springsteen is coming to Broadway!!! The Boss will bring a scaled down version of his (amazing) concert to Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre for eight weeks this fall. Exact dates will be announced later. For now, fire up the record player, read through Springsteen's memoir, Born to Run , and save money for tickets because, obviously, you'll want to go every night. Broadway.com has more. Tony Awards Broadway's biggest night is now in the history books. Herein, all things Tonys: Red carpet looks Full list of winners Photos of all the winners Watch all the performances Anecdotes from the press room Photos of revelers at the official Tony Awards Gala Comings, Goings, and Extensions Extension —Hot off the heels of its win for Best Play, Oslo has extended its limited Broadway run. The play, written by J.T. Rogers and featuring (newly minted) Tony winner Mi...

Dave Malloy 's new show, Preludes , is "inspired by the music of Sergei Rachmaninoff." If only Rach knew the impact he would have he might not have gone through the tsuris that is the action of Preludes . The title is taken from Rachmaninoff's breakthrough work, but it's so much more. Preludes are a hint of what's to come, yet it's the very excitement created by that hint, that taste that paralyzes Rachmaninoff and makes him loathe to write more. As noted in the program, Rach's "Symphony no. 1 in D minor, opus 13" premiered when the composer was 24, and the performance was a disaster. He was so stung by the reception that he developed a three-years-long bout of writer's block. As Malloy ( Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 ) explores in his play, the icy reception wasn't the only thing keeping Rach from writing. Set inside Rachmaninoff's mind, Preludes is an imagination of what happened in Rach's sessions wit...