NEW YORK – Weekend performances of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark will go on as scheduled after an accident causing a serious leg injury to a castmember forced Thursday night’s show to be halted.

That part is also notable because Spider-Man takes way, way longer to turn to dust than everyone else does. Most of the characters go from completely whole to pile of dust in about a second or so.

And yet, the biggest movie of the year left audiences with half their beloved heroes turned to dust, and Spider-Man himself fading away in what is still pop culture’s saddest moment. For those ...

Spider-Man turned the idea of mostly privileged humans using their wealth and power to become heroes on its head, she says. Spider-Man iterations, in the comics and in film, have appeared across ...

Regardless of how critics and audiences eventually responded, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark was always going to be one of the most-discussed shows in Broadway history. It had songs by U2's Bono ...

Turn off the dark, drop the curtain, and sweep the spider under the rug – it’s lights out for Spider-Man, at least in New York. It may not come as much of a surprise that the $75 million ...

By David Rooney Chief Film Critic As the dominant parent of the problem child Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Julie Taymor does herself no favors by including a program note about a mythological ...

Before movie franchises, Peter Parker (and his alter ego) began in the humble pages of comic books. To look back, we asked readers for some of their favorite adventures. By George Gene Gustines ...