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opennews · Broadway and touringSigned in as Dana
Dana's Broadway roundup, issue 31
12 items kept from 39 collected · 9 sources
Openings and closings
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Stage Door Daily · news site
The revival of Harbor Lights sets its final Broadway performance for January 10
The production will have played 412 performances. Producers say a national tour is planned for fall 2027.
Read at Stage Door DailyMW
Marquee Weekly · newsletter
The Lantern Keeper announces a spring opening at the Hartwell Theatre
Previews begin March 3 and opening night is March 26. The cast from the Chicago run returns, except for the lead role.
Read at Marquee WeeklyTours coming to Ohio
CT
Columbus Touring Arts · season page
Columbus adds a second week for the Paper Moon tour in April
The tour now plays April 7 to 19 at the Ohio Center stage. Season subscribers can buy added dates from November 2.
Read at Columbus Touring ArtsA sample issue. The sources, shows and people are examples.
Every show Dana follows, in one email a week.
Dana Reyes teaches theatre at a high school in Columbus. She follows Broadway and the tours that come to Ohio. Scroll to follow how her roundup is made.
Before OpenNews
Marquee Weekly Thu
Closings, openings and a tour surprise
Stage Door Daily Thu
Harbor Lights sets its final bow
Curtain Call Digest Wed
Your weekly theatre wrap and 20% off tickets
Columbus Touring Arts Wed
Season news for subscribers
Shubert Alley Review Tue
Harbor Lights closing: what it means
Closings, openings and a tour surprise
From Marquee Weekly
Harbor Lights will close January 10. Third newsletter with this story.
A summer lottery result from August, sent again this week.
Four paragraphs about a film musical's casting.
The Columbus tour date sits under a ticket sale banner.
Dana reads six sites and three newsletters.
The same closing story arrives three times. The tour date she needs is the fourth thing in one email.
With OpenNews
opennews · Sources9 sources
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Stage Door Daily
stagedoordaily.example/feed
RSS feedFeed found
MW
Marquee Weekly
forwarded to dana@in.opennews
NewsletterReceiving
CT
Columbus Touring Arts season
columbustouring.example/season
Web pageWatching page
SA
Shubert Alley Review
shubertalley.example/atom.xml
Atom feedFeed found
OA
Ohio Arts Council grants
arts.ohio.example/grants
Government pageWatching page
https://Add source
Dana adds her sources once.
She pastes nine links. OpenNews reads the feed when a site has one and watches the page when it does not.
opennews · Filtered out27 of 39 items
All reasons 27
Duplicate 11
Older than 7 days 6
Off topic 10
Harbor Lights will close in January
Same story as Stage Door Daily, which was kept.
DuplicateRestore
Summer tour lottery winners announced
Published August 22.
Older than 7 daysRestore
Film musical adds two stars
About a film, not a stage production.
Off topicRestore
20% off tickets this weekend
A sale notice with no news in it.
Off topicRestore
Harbor Lights closing: what it means
Same story as Stage Door Daily, which was kept.
DuplicateRestore
OpenNews drops what Dana would skip.
This week it dropped 27 of 39 items. Each one shows the reason, and she can put any of them back.
opennews · Issue 3112 kept
SD
Stage Door Daily
The revival of Harbor Lights sets its final Broadway performance for January 10
The production will have played 412 performances. Producers say a national tour is planned for fall 2027.
KeepEditDrop
CT
Columbus Touring Arts
Columbus adds a second week for the Paper Moon tour in April
The tour now plays April 7 to 19. Season subscribers can buy the added dates from November 2. Student rush seats return for both weeks.
Editing the summarySave · Cancel
KeepEditDrop
SA
Shubert Alley Review
Five shows to watch at next year's award season
A list of predictions with no new announcements.
KeepEditDropped
Dana reads the summaries and keeps what she wants.
Each summary is two or three sentences with a link to the source. She can keep, edit or drop any item before the issue sends.
OpenNews <roundup@opennews> to Dana
Your Broadway roundup, issue 31
SD
Harbor Lights sets its final performance for January 10
The production will have played 412 performances. A national tour is planned for fall 2027.
Stage Door DailyMW
The Lantern Keeper opens at the Hartwell in March
Previews begin March 3. Most of the Chicago cast returns.
Marquee WeeklyThe roundup arrives as one email.
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