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Tuesday, April 25, 2023

'Summer, 1976' Broadway Review: Laura Linney & Jessica Hecht Summon A Haunting Friendship by Greg Evans

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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'The Lion King' Takes Top Box Office Spot In 'Phantom'-less Broadway; 'Peter Pan Goes Wrong', 'Prima Facie' Among Strong Newcomers by Greg Evans

A Phantom-less Broadway took a hit at the box office last week, dropping about 18% in total receipts (to $31,558,171) from the previous week when Andrew Lloyd Webber's masked singer had cont…

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CBS & Pluto TV Partner For Tony Awards Pre-Show by Greg Evans

CBS and Pluto TV will partner to present The Tony Awards: Act One, a pre-show of live, exclusive content leading into the 76th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 11. Hosts and further detail…

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Robert Patrick Dies: 'Kennedy's Children' Playwright And Off Off Broadway Pioneer Was 85 by Greg Evans

Robert Patrick, a pioneering playwright in the Off Off Broadway movement who later won wider acclaim for the 1975 Broadway staging of his play Kennedy's Children, died in his sleep at home i…

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'Jaws' Comedy 'The Shark Is Broken' Swimming To Broadway This Summer With Ian Shaw As Father Robert Shaw by Greg Evans

The Shark Is Broken, the Olivier Award-nominated stage comedy that goes behind-the-scenes of Jaws, will arrive on Broadway this summer with co-writer Ian Shaw playing his father Robert Shaw,…

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Monday, April 24, 2023

'Good Night, Oscar' Broadway Review: Sean Hayes Pays Tribute To Golden Age Second Banana by Greg Evans

If ever a play had good reason to front-load itself with exposition, Good Night, Oscar is it. Once among America's premiere wits and raconteurs, Oscar Levant has gone the way of many another…

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Lea Michele & Myles Frost To Announce Tony Award Nominees Next Week by Greg Evans

Funny Girl star Lea Michele and Tony-winning MJ actor Myles Frost will announce the 76th Annual Tony Award nominations on Tuesday, May 2. A selection of the nominations will be announced liv…

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Sunday, April 23, 2023

'Prima Facie' Review: 'Killing Eve' Star Jodie Comer In Tour De Force Broadway Debut by Greg Evans

Killing Eve star Jodie Comer claims Broadway as her own in her tour de force performance of Prima Facie, a scalding indictment of the law and its limits opening tonight at the Golden Theatre…

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Friday, April 21, 2023

The Story Behind Oscar Isaac & Rachel Brosnahan's Last-Minute Arrival On Broadway " A Deadline Q&A With 'Sign in Sidney Brustein's Win by Greg Evans

The current Broadway season schedule seemed done and dusted at the start of this month: With an opening night of April 26, the new Kander & Ebb musical New York, New York would be the fi…

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Actors' Equity Joins Legal Fight Against Tennessee Anti-Drag Law by Greg Evans

Actors' Equity Association has filed an amicus brief in Tennessee opposing that state's new law " the first in the nation " intended to limit or ban some drag shows. In a brief filed this we…

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Thursday, April 20, 2023

'The Thanksgiving Play' Broadway Review: No Meat On These Bones by Greg Evans

Eight years is pretty close to eternity when it comes to sell-by dates for topical humor, which might be one reason that the jokes in Larissa FastHorse's Broadway comedy The Thanksgiving Pla…

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Broadway's 'Summer, 1976' Starring Laura Linney And Jessica Hecht Gets Two-Week Extension Prior To Opening by Greg Evans

Summer, 1976, the new play by Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn starring Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht, has received a two-week extension prior to its April 25 Broadway opening at the Samu…

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Todd Haimes Dies: Artistic Director Of Broadway's Pioneering Roundabout Theatre Company Was 66 by Greg Evans

Todd Haimes, who built New York's Roundabout Theater Company into one of the city's " and country's- leading nonprofit theaters, died today at New York's Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital of…

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'Peter Pan Goes Wrong' Broadway Review: All Goes Right As Neil Patrick Harris Joins Mischief Makers by Greg Evans

All's right in the world when Peter Pan Goes Wrong. The latest impeccable demonstration of disaster-farce concocted and performed by Britain's gift-to-the-world Mischief Theatre, Peter Pan G…

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Broadway's Thompson Turner Productions Becomes TT Partners With Exec Promotions by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: Thompson Turner Productions, the Broadway and touring general management and producing office whose clients include The Book of Mormon, Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt and the upcomin…

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Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Micaela Diamond Of Broadway's 'Parade' Signs With CAA by Greg Evans

Micaela Diamond, currently costarring in Broadway's hit musical revival Parade, has signed with CAA. After graduating from New York City's performing arts school Fiorello H. LaGuardia High S…

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'The Phantom Of The Opera' Goes Out On High Note With $3.7M Weekly Gross " Broadway Box Office by Greg Evans

The Phantom of the Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical that closed its Broadway run on Sunday after 35 years, went out on a very high note: Box office receipts for the show's final week hit…

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Friday, April 14, 2023

Broadway Coalition Of Theater Owners, Iconic Restaurants & Neighborhood Groups Forms To Fight Times Square Casino Proposal by Greg Evans

A coalition of Broadway theater owners and producers, midtown Manhattan community and tenant organizations, and such well-known theater-district restaurants as Sardi's and Joe Allen are amon…

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Thursday, April 13, 2023

'Camelot' Broadway Review: Aaron Sorkin Leaves The Magic To His Cast by Greg Evans

What's a Camelot without a little magic? Aaron Sorkin works up an answer to that question in the new Lincoln Center Theater production of the 1960 Lerner & Loewe musical, and the result …

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Actors' Equity And Broadway League Reach Agreement On Touring Contract by Greg Evans

Actors' Equity Association and The Broadway League have reached a tentative agreement on a new touring contract, the organizations announced today. The new, three-year collective bargaining …

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Wednesday, April 12, 2023

'Fat Ham' Broadway Review: Black, Queer Serving Of Shakespeare Is A Delicious Piece Of Work by Greg Evans

Like that relative who picks through the chicken parts at a family picnic to find the leg or the breast or the thigh with just the right amount of crisp, playwright James Ijames has no reluc…

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Ariana DeBose To Host 76th Annual Tony Awards by Greg Evans

Ariana DeBose will return to host this year's Tony Awards, the ceremony's producers announced today. DeBose, an Oscar winner (West Side Story) and Tony nominee (Summer: The Donna Summer Musi…

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Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Broadway Box Office Springs To Life As 'Shucked' Opens & 'Phantom' Heads Toward Final Curtain by Greg Evans

Broadway showed signs of a spring blossoming last week, with box office receipts and ticket prices taking their traditional climb during the tourist-bumped week leading up to Easter. In all,…

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'Death Becomes Her' Musical Adaptation Takes Next Step Toward Stage With Megan Hilty by Greg Evans

A musical stage adaptation of the hit 1992 Robert Zemeckis film Death Becomes Her will take another step in its development this week when Universal Theatrical Group hosts a private reading …

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Monday, April 10, 2023

Broadway's 'Kimberly Akimbo' Launching 60-City National Tour In 2024 by Greg Evans

Kimberly Akimbo, the acclaimed David Lindsay-Abaire-Jeanine Tesori Broadway musical, will launch a 75-week, 60-city North American tour in September 2024, producers announced today. The tour…

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Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Obie Winner Alex Edelman Bringing Solo Show 'Just For Us' To Broadway This Summer by Greg Evans

Obie Award-winning writer and performer Alex Edelman will bring his solo show Just For Us to Broadway this summer following critically acclaimed engagements Off Broadway and in London, Edinb…

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023

'Shucked' Broadway Review: Corn Comedy Stalks New York by Greg Evans

Puns grow knee-high " and in bawdier moments a bit higher " in Shucked, the new musical comedy that combines the winking hayseed humor of Green Acres and Hee Haw with the decidedly urban, ge…

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'The Phantom Of The Opera' Ticket Sales Soar As Countdown To Broadway Closing Hits Two-Week Mark by Greg Evans

With two weeks left in its 35-year Broadway run, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera posted a huge box office gross last week of $3,247,106, nearly 10% of Broadway's total take fo…

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Broadway Casting Director Benton Whitley Announces New Whitley Theatrical Agency by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: Broadway casting director Benton Whitley announced today the creation of Whitley Theatrical, a New York City-based casting and producing office for theater, film, and television. …

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Oscar Isaac & Rachel Brosnahan Heading To Broadway In Lorraine Hansberry's 'The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window' by Greg Evans

Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan are heading to Broadway later this month in Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, producers announced today. The production, which opene…

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Monday, April 3, 2023

Neil Patrick Harris Joins Broadway's 'Peter Pan Goes Wrong' For Limited Guest Star Run by Greg Evans

Neil Patrick Harris will take to the Broadway stage as a special guest star in Peter Pan Goes Wrong, producers announced today. Harris will appear in the comedy from Tuesday, April 11 throug…

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