Thursday, May 18, 2023
Broadway will dim its marquee lights on June 1 in remembrance of the late Roundabout Theatre Company artistic director Todd Haimes, who died April 19 at age 66. "Todd Haimes was a force on B…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PM[SHARE]Tony winner Lena Hall is set to star in a new Broadway-aimed musical from the & Juliet writing and directing team and featuring the hit songs of rock & roll pioneer Roy Orbison. In D…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Lea Michele has tested positive for Covid again, and will be out of Broadway's Funny Girl until Tuesday, May 23, the production announced today. Julie Benko will play the role of Fanny Brice…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:17PM[SHARE]Tony nominations seem to have given a box office boost to at least some of Broadway's shows, with Some Like It Hot, Kimberly Akimbo, Parade and Leopoldstadt reporting noticeable bumps for th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:48PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Weber, the choreographer who recently received Tony Award nominations for her work on & Juliet and KPOP, has signed with UTA for representation in all areas. Weber is…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]The Outer Critics Circle has named Some Like It Hot as the year's Best New Broadway Musical and Leopoldstadt as Best New Broadway Play, the organization announced today. The Circle, made up …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:51AM[SHARE]Monday, May 15, 2023
No decisions were reached at today's emergency meeting of the Tony Awards Management Committee, a get-together in which contingency plans were discussed in light of last week's news that the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:51PM[SHARE]MJ, the Broadway musical about Michael Jackson and featuring his many hits, has recouped its initial investment, producers announced today. The $22.5 million production began previews at the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:23AM[SHARE]Friday, May 12, 2023
Succession's Jeremy Strong will star in playwright Amy Herzog's new Broadway adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People. Tony-winning director Sam Gold will direct in early 2024. Th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 11, 2023
Chip Zien will reprise his Off Broadway performance in the Barry Manilow-Bruce Sussman musical Harmony when the production moves to Broadway this fall. Zien will star as "Rabbi," a role he o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:34PM[SHARE]A new stage musical based on the classic Nancy Drew adventure book series is in the works from Little Mermaid composer Alan Menken, Legally Blonde lyricist Nell Benjamin, book by two-time Os…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Bad Cinderella, Andrew Lloyd Webber's updated musical re-telling of the classic fairy tale, will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, June 4. The musical, which features lyrics by …
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:59PM[SHARE]Just hours after members of Actors' Equity Association joined the striking WGA picket lines outside of HBO and Amazon's New York City offices today, Kate Shindle, Equity president, suggested…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 9, 2023
Perhaps last week's Tony Award nominations started paying off at the box office quicker than expected, at least for a few productions: Figures for last week, while down overall, indicate a n…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:09PM[SHARE]Michael R. Jackson, the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning playwright of A Strange Loop, is sinking his choppers into a stage musical adaptation of the 2007 cult horror-comedy film Teeth, set for an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:16PM[SHARE]Actors' Equity Association, the union representing theater actors and stage managers, is inviting its members and allies to join the WGA picket line outside HBO and Amazon offices tomorrow. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:24PM[SHARE]Monday, May 8, 2023
Bruce Norris's Downstate and Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt were named this season's Best Play and Best Foreign Play, respectively, by the New York Drama Critics' Circle today. Downstate opened…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:52PM[SHARE]Friday, May 5, 2023
For Tony Award nominees, the next 37 days will be the usual long slog of interviews, parties, nerves and anticipation. But for producers of the ceremony's June 11 broadcast on CBS, the date …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:41PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Actor Joel Grey and composer John Kander will each receive the 2023 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, the Tony Awards Administration Committee announced today "We a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 2, 2023
The Broadway box office report won't register the impact of this morning's Tony Award nominations for a week or two, but today's news certainly comes as welcome and promising signs for Shuck…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:12PM[SHARE]Broadway's first post-Tony-nomination casualty has arrived: the shut-out Bob Fosse's Dancin' will play its final performance on Sunday, May 14. Producer Joey Parnes made the announcement tod…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:30PM[SHARE]Adam Brace, the British playwright and director who was set to make his Broadway debut this summer with longtime collaborator Alex Edelman, died Saturday following a short illness. He was 43…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:58PM[SHARE]Refresh for updates: Tony Award nominees were celebrating today, with the stars, producers and creative teams of Parade, Kimberly Akimbo, Shucked and The Piano Lesson among those reacting to…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:20PM[SHARE]Some of the biggest names of Broadway (and Hollywood) won't be receiving those phone calls of congratulations today as this morning's Tony Awards nominations included more than a few surpris…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:14AM[SHARE]REFRESH FOR UDPATES: The nominations for the 76th Annual Tony Awards will be announced on CBS Mornings today by Funny Girl star Lea Michele and MJ's Tony Award winner Myles Frost. The comple…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:34AM[SHARE]Friday, April 28, 2023
Aaron Sorkin, whose adaptation of the classic Lerner & Loewe musical Camelot opened on Broadway earlier this month, will be eligible for Tony consideration in the Best Book of a Musical …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:34PM[SHARE]At 20 years old, Gaten Matarazzo is already something of a Broadway veteran. The New Jersey native was only 9 when he made his debut in Priscilla Queen of the Desert, a few years older when …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:30AM[SHARE]Harmony, the Barry Manilow-Bruce Sussman musical that played a sold-out run at New York's National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene last spring, will move to Broadway this fall, producers announce…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 27, 2023
Prima Facie, the well-reviewed solo drama starring Killing Eve's Jodie Comer, has extended its Broadway run by two weeks, producers announced today. The production will now run through throu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:16AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Imagine a New York where construction workers tap dance on steel girders high above the city, sorta like that famous photograph you've seen a million times, and where kindly landladies who o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Broadway can be a loud place, with belters belting and orchestras swelling and actors playing to rafters in the theater across the street, so it's both comforting and mesmerizing to see a pl…
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