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 …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:36PM[SHARE]Monday, July 31, 2023
Theresa Rebeck's I Need That, a world premiere play starring Danny DeVito, his daughter Lucy DeVito and Ray Anthony Thomas, will begin Broadway previews at the American Airlines Theatre on F…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:26PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: A two-day, invitation only reading of the in-development musical adaptation of John Berendt's 1994 non-fiction novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil will feature recent To…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 27, 2023
Julian Barry, whose 1971 Broadway play and 1974 movie, both titled Lenny and telling the story of legendary comic Lenny Bruce, died Tuesday at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 92. His death…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:25PM[SHARE]Jerome Coopersmith, who wrote more than 30 installments of the classic 1960s-70s police drama Hawaii Five-O and received a Tony Award nomination for his book for the 1965 Harold Prince-direc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PM[SHARE]Emmy-winning actor Sarah Paulson will return to Broadway this fall for the first time in 13 years when she stars in the Second Stage Theater production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' darkly come…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Mark Simon, a longtime casting director for stage productions on Broadway and at Los Angeles' Center Theatre Group, died July 16 in Los Angeles. He was 70. His death was confirmed by Broadwa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 25, 2023
EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment company Madison Wells Live, LaChanze and Taraji P. Henson have joined the producing team of Manhattan Theatre Club's Jaja's African Hair Braiding, a world premiere p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:45PM[SHARE]Air-conditioned Broadway held its own as New York City plunged ever deeper into a hot summer last week, with total box office receipts keeping steady at $31,520,593, a tiny increase of 2% ov…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:49PM[SHARE]Monday, July 24, 2023
Pamela Blair, who originated the role of the surgically enhanced Valerie Clark in the Broadway smash A Chorus Line, died Sunday at her home in Phoenix, Arizona, following a lengthy illness. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:43PM[SHARE]New York, New York, the John Kander & Fred Ebb musical that arrived on Broadway last spring to considerable anticipation, will play its final performance on Sunday, July 30, having playe…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 20, 2023
Disco despotism isn't exactly a new genre " Cabaret hinted the way, Evita made it clear, American Psycho, in its fashion, added a variation, all in service of social horrors offset by catchy…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]Friday, July 14, 2023
Actors' Equity president Kate Shindle is urging stage actors to "proactively and aggressively avoid breaking" the SAG-AFTRA strike by inadvertently accepting struck work. In a message to mem…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 13, 2023
Actors' Equity Association, the union representing stage theater actors and stage managers, expressed solidarity with the SAG-AFTRA actors strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:36PM[SHARE]Loretta Devine will step in for her old Dreamgirls co-star Jennifer Holliday in the upcoming New York City Center gala presentation of Pal Joey starring Ephraim Sykes. Holliday had been prev…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Stage actor James Beeks has been acquitted of all charges stemming from his participation in the Jan. 6th Capitol riots, with U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta concluding today at a Washingt…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:35PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Tony Award nominee Vanessa Williams has joined the lead producing team for the Broadway-aimed A Wonderful World, a bio-musical about jazz icon Louis Armstrong starring James Monro…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Box office for most Broadway shows last week wilted a bit as June's Tony glow gave way to plain old New York summer heat, though a couple newcomers were among the handful bucking the downwar…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:57PM[SHARE]The Olivier Award-winning West End revival of Cabaret is coming to Broadway: Producers announced that the acclaimed musical will begin previews at the August Wilson Theater in spring 2024. N…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 10, 2023
Ain't No Mo star and playwright Jordan E. Cooper, KPOP composer Helen Park, and Ojibwe and Oneida performance artist Ty Defoe are among the new members of the Tony Award nominating committee…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:27PM[SHARE]Producers of A Transparent Musical, the stage adaptation of the Amazon Studios series that recently completed its world premiere run at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, plan to bring the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PM[SHARE]The first, star-packed Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along has extended its engagement by two months, giving ticket buyers until March 24, 2024 to s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 6, 2023
Matthew Serino, who with business partner Nancy Coyne cofounded one of Broadway's leading advertising and marketing agencies in Serino Coyne, died June 19. He was 79. His death was confirmed…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:39AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 5, 2023
Back To The Future: The Musical landed on Broadway last week in overdrive: The stage adaptation starring Casey Likes and Roger Bart scored a dizzying $1,035,256 with just four sold-out previ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:46PM[SHARE]A very cool teaser trailer for the upcoming Stranger Things stage adaptation The First Shadow doesn't give away much by way of plot details, but we do see some clips of the TV series' early …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 4, 2023
Rather than list the Broadway shows that have canceled performances due to the July 4th holiday " and the competition from the 47th annual Macy's Fourth of July fireworks celebration, it'll …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:14AM[SHARE]Friday, June 30, 2023
In the latest example of a nationwide funding crisis for nonprofit regional theaters, Chicago's Tony Award-winning Lookingglass Theatre has announced a year-long pause in new productions and…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 28, 2023
Aaron Sorkin's adaptation of the classic musical Camelot will ends its Broadway run on Sunday, July 23, producer Lincoln Center Theater has announced. The Tony-nominated musical revival, dir…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Broadway continued on its post-Tony glow last week, with the 32 productions grossing $34,004,232, about 3% more than the previous week and 10% over the same week last season. In all, attenda…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:27PM[SHARE]Monday, June 26, 2023
Alex Edelman has built quite the reputation over the last few years, with sold-out comedy shows and knock-'em-dead late-night performances, honing material for a Broadway debut that does his…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]A stage musical adaptation of the Fannie Hurst novel Imitation of Life and its film versions is under development at Universal Theatrical Group, with Lynn Nottage writing the book and John L…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PM[SHARE]Loading more stories…
