Turn Off The Dark

Over the past three years, Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark has suffered through a staggering array of problems ranging from constant delays of its opening to the departure of director Julie Taymor to cast members being injured during the musical's complex stunts...

ComicsAlliance recently had an opportunity to attend a preview of the Spider-Man musical, oddly titled Turn Off the Dark, before the recent accident that sent one performer plunging two stories in an acrobatic accident. While we don't know what the future will hold for the beleaguered show, we know what we saw: a performance packed with so much spectacle and insanity that it seems as if every idea

It's more bad news for the beleaguered Spider-Man musical. Like all the arts, it's sometimes unfortunate to think about, but Broadway shows are as much a business as anything else. So when a troubled, ginormously-budgeted musical based on one of the world's most popular superheroes starts to struggle, a venue has to closely examine its bottom line...

At this point, the upcoming Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has been through so many mishaps and delays that it might as well have been produced by Bialystock & Bloom, but it seems like every week, we get a piece of news that shows it inching closer to actually coming out. Th...

Depending on your opinions of a number of potentially divisive concepts -- musical theatre, Julie Taymor, Bono -- the development of a Broadway musical based on Marvel Comics' flagship superhero, Spider-Man, is either tremendously exciting or unspeakably vulgar...