Friday, August 30, 2019
A revival of Stephen Sondheim's 1970 musical Company that played London's West End has announced its Broadway opening on March 22, 2020, with a cast headed by Patti LuPone and Katrina Lenk. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 18, 2019
EXCLUSIVE: Just as Hollywood studios did a generation ago, Broadway producers are now actively investigating the potential of China as a newly maturing marketplace with vast revenue potentia…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:02AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 9, 2019
Anyone watching the Tony Awards from the official media room got a clear sign that history was apt to be made: For the first time in recent memory, the small stage where winners would be tak…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:31PM[SHARE]James Corden got the Tony Awards off to an electrifying start with a nearly 10-minute song-and-dance extravaganza that persuasively extolled the virtues of the live stage while smuggling a c…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:38PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 16, 2019
TodayTix, a six-year-old purveyor of tickets for Broadway shows and theater and other arts and culture events in several international cities, has gotten a $73 million equity investment led …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 2019
The reactions to this year's Tony Award nominations didn't take long to materialize. Gayle King, who was emceeing this morning's announcement of the noms along with Bebe Neuwirth and Brandon…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 19, 2019
With the Broadway production of Frozen about to mark its first anniversary, Disney Theatrical Productions has announced versions of the show will be performed in Australia, London and German…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:45AM[SHARE]Monday, March 4, 2019
Morrissey, who will release an album of classic 1960s and '70s covers on May 24, has booked his first Broadway engagement May 2-11 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
The announcement of the gig d…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:13AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 27, 2019
In one of the more serious obstacles to broadcast networks’ recent run of live musicals, a serious ankle injury to actor Brennin Hunt has altered Fox’s plans for its version of R…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:43PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 24, 2019
WNET, the parent company of New York PBS stations Thirteen and WLIW21 and operator of NJTV, is launching a free, 24-hour broadcast and streaming channel dedicated to dance, film, literature,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Carol Channing, the star of Broadway classics like Hello, Dolly! who continued performing well into her 90s, has died of natural causes at her home in Rancho Mirage, CA. She was 97.
B Har…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:39AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 13, 2019
Carole King surprised the Broadway audience at last night’s fifth-anniversary performance of Beautiful, the musical about her journey through the music business, performing the title s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:52AM[SHARE]Friday, January 11, 2019
EXCLUSIVE: After acclaimed and sold-out runs in London and New York, current-events-based play The Jungle will have its West Coast premiere at the storied Curran Theater in San Francisco thi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:00PM[SHARE]Monday, January 7, 2019
EXCLUSIVE: As it continues to set records, the new Broadway production of To Kill a Mockingbird has released a new block of tickets through November 1. That will extend the run of the Scott …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 26, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: In its first full week of performances, producer Scott Rudin’s new production of To Kill A Mockingbird has broken the all-time weekly box office record for any Broadway play…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:47PM[SHARE]Monday, December 17, 2018
Concord Music has acquired 188-year-old theater publisher and licensing mainstay Samuel French, combining it with other assets in its burgeoning Concord Theatricals unit.
The deal, whose ter…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:08PM[SHARE]Monday, November 19, 2018
The Broadway adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! will begin its run on the boards next summer, producers announced, with previews starting June 28 and opening night on June 25.
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SOURCE: Deadline at 08:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Fox Stage Productions and producer Kevin McCollum have announced the creative team for Mrs. Doubtfire, which is headed by director Jerry Zaks, a four-time Tony Award winner.
John O’Far…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:01PM[SHARE]Monday, July 30, 2018
Melissa Benoist broke out on television, but her original show business ideal was being where she is right now: Broadway. Her summer stint playing the lead in the long-running Beautiful: …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 19, 2018
The Michael Jackson estate and Columbia Stage are developing a musical based on the King of Pop’s catalog, adding one more jukebox show to the Broadway boards.
Lynn Nottage, a Pulitzer…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:27AM[SHARE]Monday, June 11, 2018
While Broadway grosses for the week ending June 10 did not directly benefit from the Tony Awards (which were held June 10), the clear path for established titles saw many post week-to-week g…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 10, 2018
Students from Parkland, Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School took the Radio City Musical Hall stage to deliver a rendition of “Seasons of Love” from Rent that bro…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:08PM[SHARE]If you blinked, you might have missed it, but Bruce Springsteen did amble onstage and accept a special Tony Award recognizing the commercial powerhouse that he has been presenting in recent …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:58PM[SHARE]Monday, June 4, 2018
Broadway shuffled toward its biggest night, Sunday’s Tony Awards, with overall box office declining for the week ending June 3 compared with the prior week, according to figures from t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:10PM[SHARE]Friday, June 1, 2018
Anonymous Content has hired its first theater scout, Whitney Dibo, who most recently was working as director of development and acquisitions for The Weinstein Co.
Dibo’s new title at A…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Aided by a 53rd week in the year (added every seven years for statistical reasons), plus aggressive pricing of certain shows, Broadway box office ended 2017-18 up 17.1% over the prior year.
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SOURCE: Deadline at 06:33PM[SHARE]Monday, May 21, 2018
With Broadway in the final days of its statistically extended 2017-2018 year (53 weeks instead of 52, long story), grosses held steady for the week ending May 20, according to figures from t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:40PM[SHARE]Producers of the long-running Off-Broadway production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street said the intimate, immersive rendering of the Stephen Sondheim masterpiece will clo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 17, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: Mean Girls led the field by winning eight prizes, including Favorite New Musical, and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child won Favorite New Play in the 18th annual Broadway.com Au…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:49AM[SHARE]Monday, May 14, 2018
Strong grosses for several shows pacing the field of Tony Award nominees — including Angels in America, Mean Girls and SpongeBob SquarePants — nudged the Broadway box office last…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:51PM[SHARE]Monday, May 7, 2018
The return of Bruce Springsteen’s long-running engagement at the Walter Kerr Theatre, which was on hiatus last week, and the initial previews of a starry revival of The Boys in the Ban…
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