In 2008, Disney's The Little Mermaid opens on Broadway.

Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG), the British-based live-theatre company that established a Broadway beachhead in 2014 with the purchase of Broadway's biggest theatre, the Lyric, and which has been expanding in the U.K. and the Far East, announced that it has signed a deal to purchase five more large-scale playhouses across the U.S., including one in Brooklyn, NY.

A British entrepreneur is planning to elbow his way into one of the most exclusive clubs in New York—ownership of Broadway theaters. The New York Post reports that Howard Panter of the London-based Ambassador Theatre Group is looking to expand his holdings in the Times Square area, having purchased the Lyric Theatre last year.

Second Stage wants $58 million for Christmas.

Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG), the British-based live-theatre company that recently announced plans to reopen and operate the 1903 vintage Hudson Theatre as a Broadway house, also will contain a "private British-style [theatre] club," according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG), the British-based live-theatre company that established a Broadway beachhead in 2014 with the purchase of Broadway's biggest theatre, the Lyric, has made good on its plans to expand its Broadway holdings. The company announced that it will reopen and operate the 1903 vintage Hudson Theatre on West 44th Street, east of Times Square, as a Broadway house.

Luck? Coincidence? Good sight lines? Short ladies' room lines? Outsized orchestra sections that can be sold at a premium price?

Actor James MacArthur, the son of late actress Helen Hayes and famed playwright Charles MacArthur, died Oct. 28 with his family by his side. The retired stage and screen performer was 72 years old.