Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Tituss Burgess will return to Broadway for a stint in Moulin Rouge! The Musical, playing the role of club owner "Harold Zidler" from Tuesday, October 10 through Sunday, December 17. Eric And…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Lea Michele treated the final-night audience of Broadway's Funny Girl to an extra song Sunday, performing "My Man," popularized by Fanny Brice in 1921 but not included in the musical's origi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:29PM[SHARE]The stage musical adaptation of the 1992 film comedy Death Becomes Her will make its pre-Broadway debut in Chicago this spring, producers announced today. Starring Tony nominees Megan Hilty …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:58PM[SHARE]Franne Lee, a Tony-winning costumer and set designer who joined the fledgling Saturday Night Live and created the looks of some of the NBC's late-night show's most iconic characters, includi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:30AM[SHARE]Friday, September 1, 2023
Thursday night's audience at Broadway's Here Lies Love got a surprise bonus performance when DJ Fatboy Slim, who co-wrote the musical with David Byrne, took to the stage and spun a one-night…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:27PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 31, 2023
A Broadway fundraising concert next month for President Joe Biden will feature some of theater's biggest stars, including Josh Groban, Ben Platt, Sara Bareilles, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Cynthia …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:29PM[SHARE]Eighteen performing arts physical therapists, athletic trainers, and massage therapists employed on various live theatrical tours such as The Lion King, Wicked, and Moulin Rouge! have voted …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Good Night, Oscar, the Oscar Levant bio-play starring Sean Hayes, and El Mago Pop, the Broadway debut of Spanish illusionist Antonio DÃaz, ended their limited Broadway engagements on upsw…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:53PM[SHARE]Tina Howe, the celebrated playwright whose works included the oft-staged Painting Churches and Coastal Disturbances, died yesterday of natural causes after a short illness due to complicatio…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 24, 2023
Original cast members of the Broadway and Off Broadway hit Avenue Q will reunite tonight for a Stars In The House sing-through of the musical to benefit victims, both human and non-human, of…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:02PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Lloyd Webber and his The Really Useful Group have signed with CAA. The signing of the mega-successful theater composer, whose scores include The Phantom of the Opera, Evita…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 23, 2023
Producers of the struggling A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical are hoping for better attendance by breaking with a long-held Broadway tradition: Beginning next month, the musical wi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:57PM[SHARE]Lauren Pazienza, who deliberately and randomly shoved 87-year-old Broadway vocal coach Barbara Gustern to the ground on a Manhattan sidewalk in 2022 causing the elderly woman's death, change…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:52PM[SHARE]Covid seems to be making a return engagement on Broadway, even if in a limited capacity compared to the post-shutdown era of 2021 and 2022. Both Josh Groban and, now, Annaleigh Ashford, the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 22, 2023
Once Upon A One More Time, the revisionist fairy tale Broadway musical set to the hits of Britney Spears, continued its downward slide at the box office last week, with the latest figures su…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:02PM[SHARE]Monday, August 21, 2023
Once Upon a One More Time, the Broadway musical that uses Britney Spears hits to re-tell and revise various fairy tales and opened in June to mixed reviews, has announced an early closing. I…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:57PM[SHARE]The musical adaptation of the S.E. Hinton's classic 1967 teen novel (and Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 film) The Outsiders will begin Broadway previews at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on Satu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 10, 2023
There's at least one shark that's not showing up in New York City these days: Bruce, the famous mechanical predator of Steven Spielberg's sea horror classic Jaws, is the Godot-like presence …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Casting for Broadway's upcoming Spamalot revival is well underway, with James Monroe Iglehart, Michael Urie, Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer, Jimmy Smagula and Nik Walker set to reprise their roles…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie has signed on as a lead producer of the Broadway-bound musical adaptation of The Outsiders, the producing team announced today. Based on the 1967 novel b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Parade, winner of this year's Tony Award for Best Musical Revival, ended its Broadway run on a very high note Sunday, grossing a big $1,814,013 and selling out its special nine-performance w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:25PM[SHARE]Monday, August 7, 2023
Broadway Across America, a leading presenter of first-class touring productions in North America, has announced a new executive team, with current co-CEO Rich Jaffe named sole CEO. Also as p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:28PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Billy Porter has joined the producing team of the Broadway-aimed Billy Strayhorn: Something to Live, a new musical about jazz great Strayhorn set to make its world debut next mont…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:44AM[SHARE]Funny Girl, the Broadway revival with one of the strangest casting histories in recent theatrical memory, has recouped its $16.5 million capitalization, producers announced today. The musica…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 4, 2023
Mark Margolis, a veteran actor with hundreds of credits dating back to the 1970s but perhaps best known for his Emmy-nominated portrayal of Hector "Tio" Salamanca on TV's Breaking Bad and Be…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:29PM[SHARE]Casting will be announced at a later date.
The 1996 novel has sold millions of copies & adapted into a hit 2004 film.
The critically-acclaimed musical adaptation starring Tony winner M…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:56AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 3, 2023
Back To The Future: The Musical made me very nostalgic for that great time-traveling '80s movie, but Peggy Sue Got Married isn't available on any of my streaming services. That's not to disp…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Clifton Oliver, a stage actor who appeared on Broadway in The Lion King, In The Heights and Wicked, died yesterday following a lengthy illness. His death was announced by family and friends …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:56PM[SHARE]A new stage musical adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel The Notebook will arrive on Broadway this spring, with music and lyrics by multi-platinum singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson and …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 2, 2023
Monty Python's Spamalot is heading back to Broadway this fall. The revival, which follows a sold-out run at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., begins previews Tuesday, October 31, at th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Broadway box office held steady last week, with most shows either keeping apace with the previous week or showing some increases. In all, the 28 shows grossed $31,189,129, about the same as …
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