Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Broadway box office took a 7% slide in the week before the Thanksgiving holiday, with the 29 shows settling in at a total $27,060,113 in receipts. Attendance for the week ending Nov. 19 was …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:17PM[SHARE]Singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco will make her Broadway debut as 'Persephone' in the hit musical Hadestown, performing the role she originated on the 2010 studio-concept album by composer Ana…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 17, 2023
Tammy Faye, the Olivier-nominated Elton John-Jake Shears-James Graham musical about '80s-era televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, will premiere on Broadway during the 2024-25 Season. The musical…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 16, 2023
Spamalot opens on Broadway tonight, and it's safe to say the Middle Ages haven't been this funny since, well, the last time Spamlot opened on Broadway nearly 20 years ago. Perfectly cast and…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 15, 2023
A stage musical adaptation of The Queen's Gambit, Walter Tevis' best-selling novel which became a hit series on Netflix, is in the works, with Oscar-nominated singer-songwriter Mitski attach…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Broadway began its trek into the lucrative holiday season last week at a steady clip, with the 28 shows grossing a total of $29,163,440 for the week ending November 12. That's up about 10% o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:29PM[SHARE]Steve Carell will make his Broadway debut next spring in the title role of Lincoln Center Theater's Uncle Vanya, appearing with, among others, Alison Pill as Sonya, Alfred Molina as Alexande…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:20AM[SHARE]The upcoming Broadway revival of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People starring Jeremy Strong has landed two more heavy hitters: Michael Imperioli will costar opposite Strong, and Plan B, the produ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 13, 2023
Broadway loves a recognizable name, a famous band or singer that can fuel a jukebox musical on nostalgia and familiar tunes. To its credit, Harmony isn't that. If you've heard of the Comedia…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:18PM[SHARE]Friday, November 10, 2023
For the second consecutive year, Broadway cast albums made a clean sweep of the Grammy nominations for Best Musical Theater Album, shutting out both the West End and Off Broadway. Competing …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Carole Rothman, co-founder of the renowned New York theater company Second Stage responsible for such acclaimed productions as Dear Evan Hansen, Next To Normal, This Is Our Youth and The 25t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:53PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Adam Blackstone, who won a 2022 Emmy Award for his music direction of the memorable hip-hop Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show featuring Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem and others, has join…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:38AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Broadway producer Dale A. Mott (A Strange Loop, The Piano Lesson, Thoughts of a Colored Man) and real estate investor/philanthropist Charles D. Urstadt have formed Edgewood Entert…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 19, 2023
A trio of new shows joined Broadway last week to mostly decent box office figures as the fall season begins to take shape. Most impressive was Gutenberg! The Musical! starring Josh Gad and A…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 14, 2023
A Broadway revival of Anton Chekhov's classic Uncle Vanya, with a new translation by playwright Heidi Schreck, will be staged this spring by Lincoln Center Theater. Lila Neugebauer (The Wave…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Days of Wine and Roses, a musical adaptation of the classic 1958 teleplay and 1962 feature film about a married couple struggling to come to grips with alcoholism, will open on Broadway in J…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:49AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 12, 2023
The upcoming Broadway production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' play Appropriate starring Sarah Paulson will also feature Corey Stoll (House of Cards, Billions), Natalie Gold (Succession) and Al…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:31PM[SHARE]With Funny Girl off the boards last week and the impact of the 2-for-1 ticket prices of the Broadway Week promotion, Broadway box office receipts for the week ending Sept. 10 took an 18% tum…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:07PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Actor-rapper Common and hip-hop artist MC Lyte have signed on as co-producers in the all-new, Broadway-bound production of The Wiz, producers announced today. The musical revival,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30AM[SHARE]Water For Elephants, the new stage musical adapted from the acclaimed 2006 novel by Sara Gruen to be directed by Kimberly Akimbo director Jessica Stone, will open on Broadway this spring, pr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 11, 2023
A new Thursday matinee seems to be paying off for the Neil Diamond Broadway bio-musical A Beautiful Noise: Last week the show grossed more than $1 million, a nine-month high attributable at …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:15PM[SHARE]Oscar nominee Rachel McAdams (Spotlight) will star in the Broadway premiere of Amy Herzog's Mary Jane in a spring production directed by Anne Kauffman (The Sign in Sydney Brustein's Window).…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 7, 2023
EXCLUSIVE: Nashville's famed Bluebird Cafe, the renowned songwriter-friendly venue that gave an early musical home to Taylor Swift, Garth Brooks, Faith Hill and many other country and pop st…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger will star on Broadway this spring in a world premiere production of Paula Vogel's new Mother Play, to be directed by Tina Landau. The Secon…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]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 …
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