Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' critically acclaimed play Appropriate, starring Sarah Paulson and Corey Stoll, will extend its limited engagement by 13 weeks with a transfer from its current home at…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 8, 2024
My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?), playwright/performer Rob Madge's acclaimed West End play, has canceled its imminent Broadway run. Producers say that the production will open on Broa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 7, 2024
The acclaimed Off Broadway cast of the Alicia Keys musical Hell's Kitchen will make the move to Broadway when the show begins previews next month, producers announced today. Starring in the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Tyne Daly was unexpectedly hospitalized on Friday and has withdrawn from her starring role in the Broadway revival of Doubt. She'll be replaced by Amy Ryan. The news was announced this after…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:13PM[SHARE]Purple Rain, the stage musical adaptation of the classic Prince album and film, will make its pre-Broadway premiere next year in Prince's hometown of Minneapolis, producers announced today. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:30PM[SHARE]Broadway will dim its marquee lights next week to honor the late, great Chita Rivera, the two-time Tony-winning star of the original West Side Story who died January 30 at the age of 91. The…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:01PM[SHARE]Broadway said goodbye last week to two well-regarded but underperforming productions, with both Harmony and Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch posting better-…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:32PM[SHARE]Tom Holland will tackle the Bard this spring when he plays Romeo in director Jamie Lloyd's West End production of Romeo & Juliet. Lloyd and Holland made the announcement this morning. Ro…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:36AM[SHARE]Friday, February 2, 2024
Waitress composer Sara Bareilles and Pulitzer finalist playwright Sarah Ruhl are teaming up on a stage musical adaptation of Meg Wolitzer's bestselling 2013 novel The Interestings. Bareilles…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 31, 2024
The Roundabout Theatre Company tonight renamed its Broadway venue " a 104-year-old building that began as the Selwyn and most recently went by the prosaic American Airlines Theatre " to hono…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Hinton Battle, a three-time Tony Award winning actor who originated the role of Scarecrow in Broadway's The Wiz, died yesterday. He was 67. His death was confirmed by his friend, the actor a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:56PM[SHARE]Chita Rivera, the beloved Broadway star of West Side Story, Chicago and Kiss of the Spider Woman, died today in New York following a brief illness. She was 91. Her death was announced by her…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:29PM[SHARE]Broadway box office held fairly steady last week, with Sweeney Todd's post-Groban slide at least partially offset by gains from most other shows. In all, the 25 productions grossed $24,615,7…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:35PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: British award-winning writer and director Robert Icke has signed with CAA. Icke, who has worked in theater, television, and film, won the Olivier Award in 2016 for his production …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 29, 2024
Gutenberg! The Musical! ended its Broadway run last night, but not before recouping its initial $6.75 million investment, producers have announced. The musical starring Josh Gad and Andrew R…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 28, 2024
It's easy to feel a bit smug early on in Days of Wine and Roses, as we know so much more " or at least have so much greater vocabularies " when it comes to things like toxic relationships an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 25, 2024
The Obie Awards, the venerable honors for outstanding Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway productions, is doing away with its annual ceremony and will instead use the funds to provide winners …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 24, 2024
The Lost Boys, the previously announced, in-development stage musical adaptation of 1987 horror classic, has set an invitation-only industry presentation for next month, with Frozen's Caissi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Broadway box office took a slide last week as receipts for Sweeney Todd fell by more than $1 million with the departures of Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford (and before the February 9 arriv…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:19PM[SHARE]Monday, January 22, 2024
Peter Morgan's play Patriots, the drama about the aftermath of the Soviet Union's fall, will transfer from a celebrated London run to Broadway this spring, with previews beginning April 1 at…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:15AM[SHARE]How to Dance in Ohio, the musical that made Broadway history by featuring a cast of seven autistic actors in its leading roles, will end its run at the Belasco Theatre on Sunday, February 11…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Martin McCallum, a British theatrical producer whose work on more than 500 Broadway and West End shows saw his participation in some of the most successful stage productions in modern theate…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:38PM[SHARE]Stereophonic, the critically lauded play by David Adjmi that struck a chord with Off Broadway audiences last year with its very Fleetwood Mac-esque tale of music-making and '70s-style excess…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:21AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Composer-actor Shaina Taub will lead the Broadway cast of her musical Suffs, reprising the role she played in the original, sold-out 2022 Off Broadway production. The casting make…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Harmony, the Barry Manilow/Bruce Sussman musical that opened in November to good reviews that never translated to big audiences, will play its final performance at the Barrymore Theatre on S…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:52PM[SHARE]Winter doldrums and a closing night be damned: Shucked just had a very good week, with news of a planned movie adaptation and its best-ever Broadway gross of $1,111,038. The Brandy Clark-Sha…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:38PM[SHARE]Charlotte St. Martin, whose 18-year leadership of the Broadway League has included both good times " record-setting revenue " and bad " the historic 18-month Covid shutdown " will step down …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:55AM[SHARE]A new musical adaptation of The Great Gatsby starring Smash's Jeremy Jordan and Hadestown's Eva Noblezada will open on Broadway this spring, producers announced today. The musical begins pre…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:35AM[SHARE]Complete casting for the upcoming The Heart of Rock and Roll featuring the songs of Huey Lewis has been announced: Newsies' Corey Cott and Wicked's McKenzie Kurtz will play the leads, a will…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 9, 2024
Recent events in Gaza could lead some to view Joshua Harmon's blistering, funny and heartbreaking Prayer for the French Republic as uncannily prophetic, but let's not give the playwright ove…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Broadway box office was back on earth last week following the previous week's unusual double-holiday surge, when both Christmas and New Year's Eve fell within the same theatrical window. For…
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