Julie Taymor

The many troubles of the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark have been fairly well chronicled in news reports over the past three years or so (including a few on this very website), but according new tell-all book by Glen Berger, we barely know the half of it.

W While the production drama associated with the Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark has seemingly passed, it seems that legal battles associated with the Broadway musical haven't been put to rest just yet. Former Turn off the Dark director Julie Taymor's lawsuit against producing company, 8 Legged Productions, now has an official court date...

It's been almost two years since the troubled Spider-Man musical, Turn Off The Dark, opened for previews for the first time, giving audiences a glimpse at a show at once ambitious and (dangerously) ill-considered. It's been just shy of eighteen months since original director Julie Taymor was ousted from the production amid last-minute revisions and rewrites...

Gaming: New screens from Transformers: Fall of Cybertron show Optimus Prime, Grimlock and other favorites in action. Legal: After being sued by Julie Taymor, the current producers of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark are suing the fired former director right back...

Legal: Julie Taymor is suing the Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark producers over for what she claims are creative rights violations and unpaid royalties. Digital: Amazon's Kindle Fire will officially ship with the Comics by comiXology app on November 15...

In the criminal justice system, great power comes with great responsibility... Joining the infamous ranks of the alleged O.J. Simpson murders and the alleged Michael Jackson child molestations and the alleged murder of JonBenet Ramsey by her parents is Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark...

Director Julie Taymor will leave Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, according to New York City's NY1. If that weren't traumatic enough for the hopelessly beleaguered Broadway musical based on the Marvel superhero, sources indicated that the show will now open in June, rather than next Tuesday (which will scuttle the production's chances for a 2011 Tony Award that it probably had little chance of winni

Following months of comprehensive coverage of every delay, financial setback, woeful critical review and cast-maiming, it is with an overwhelming sense of inevitability that we must inform you that Julie Taymor, the director of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, is presently in discussions with producers that may conclude with her ejection from the endlessly screwed up Broadway musical that still has

This Wednesday marks a full three weeks without reports of anyone being cut, scraped, bruised, broken or otherwise maimed on the set of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the injury-prone Broadway musical based on the Marvel Comics superhero. In honor of the occasion, The New Yorker has profiled the Julie Taymor-directed show, and wonders whether the consistently high ticket sales for preview performa

Performer Christopher Tierney has finally given his first interview about the terrible accident that put a temporary stop to Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and sent him to the hospital with four broken ribs, three fractured vertebrae, a fractured scapula, a fractured elbow, and a fracture to the back of his skull...