Thursday, March 2, 2023
Funny Girl, Broadway's riches-to-rags-to-riches smash hit, will close on Sunday, Sept. 3, with stars Lea Michele, Ramin Marmloo, Jared Grimes and Tovah Feldshuh extending their planned runs …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Broadway's Almost Famous star Casey Likes has landed the coveted role of Marty McFly in the upcoming Back To The Future: The Musical, joining the previously announced Roger Bart as Doc Brown…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Some recent Broadway arrivals added both star power and box office receipts to the weekly grosses reports, with both Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Parade selling out (th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:10PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: New York's Drama League has named Tony winner Andre DeShields, the theater district Drama Book Shop and Encores! artistic director Lear deBessonet as this year's Special Recogniti…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil, John Berendt's 1994 bestselling book and Pulitzer Prize finalist is being developed into a new musical by playwright Taylor Mac, with musi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:45AM[SHARE]Monday, February 27, 2023
Tony and Olivier Award winner Lea Salonga will join the Broadway cast of Here Lies Love by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim for a special guest engagement this summer. Producers of the show annou…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Friday, February 24, 2023
The Jonas Brothers have announced a five-show, limited engagement run at Broadway's Marquis Theatre next month. Starting March 14 and running through March 18, Joe, Nick and Kevin Jonas will…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:03AM[SHARE]Two days after about a dozen neo-Nazis harrassed ticketholders and ticketbuyers outside the Broadway venue where Parade had begun previews, New York Mayor Eric Adams addressed an audience at…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:33AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: A new musical based on the award-winning 2012 documentary The Queen of Versailles and the life of beauty queen, socialite and TV personality Jacqueline "Jackie" Siegel is in devel…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 22, 2023
The latest installment of Actors' Equity Association's annual hiring and wage report " covering the year 2021 and titled "Progress During an Atypical Year" " finds that the theater industry …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:43PM[SHARE]A small but vocally aggressive group of antisemitic protesters outside the Broadway venue housing the first preview of the revival Parade shouted slurs and decades-old accusations against th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:47AM[SHARE]Gatsby, the Broadway-aimed musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby first announced a year into the Covid pandemic shutdown, will make its world premiere at the American …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Grey House, Levi Holloway's bumps-in-the-night stage thriller, will make its New York debut on Broadway this spring with a cast that features Laurie Metcalf, Tatiana Maslany, Paul Sparks, So…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Friday, February 17, 2023
EXCLUSIVE: Mark Subias, UTA partner and head of theater, is exiting the agency to take a newly created job at production company Smuggler. Subias, who has headed UTA's Theater department for…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 16, 2023
Jason Alexander will make his Broadway directing debut this summer with Sandy Rustin's comedy The Cottage. Starring will be Eric McCormack, Laura Bell Bundy and Lilli Cooper. The Cottage, in…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:28AM[SHARE]Justin Guarini, Briga Heelan, and Aisha Jackson will reprise their Once Upon a One More Time out-of-town performances when the musical of Britney Spears songs arrives on Broadway in May. See…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Jose Llana and Conrad Ricamora will reprise their acclaimed Off Broadway performances on Broadway when the David Byrne-Fatboy Slim musical Here Lies Love opens this summer, producers announc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Complete casting for the US premiere of Room on Broadway has been announced. Joining the previously announced Adrienne Warren will be Tony Award nominee Ephraim Sykes (Hamilton, Ain't Too Pr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Broadway continued filling seats last week as the annual deep-discount Broadway Week promotion (actually three weeks) came to a close. Total receipts for the 21 productions tallied to $23,06…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:17PM[SHARE]Broadway's upcoming production of Larissa FastHorse's The Thanksgiving Play will star D'Arcy Carden (The Good Place), two-time Tony Award-winner Katie Finneran (Noises Off; Promises, Promise…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Frank DiLella, the host of Spectrum News NY1's theater program On Stage and a ubiquitous presence in the Broadway community, has signed with Adam Leibner at United Talent Agency (…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:25AM[SHARE]Broadway's Jujamcyn Theaters and International Entertainment Holdings Limited, the parent company of Ambassador Theatre Group, have agreed to combine operations, bringing together two of the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:22AM[SHARE]Friday, February 10, 2023
Hiran Abeysekera, who won the 2022 Best Actor Olivier Award for his performance of the title character in the London stage production of Lolita Chakrabarti's Life of Pi, will lead the Broadw…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 9, 2023
Why do we always remember the arguments? If there's a family spat at the Thanksgiving table, it'll be remembered long after grandma's gravy recipe is lost to the ages. Sharr White's new play…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Four writer-participants for a DreamWorks Theatricals emerging writers program have been selected to help develop new musical adaptations of DreamWorks Animation films for the theatrical lic…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner and Tony nominee Colman Domingo, whose new Netflix series The Madness was given the go-ahead yesterday, has plenty of room on his plate for Fat Ham. Domingo has signed…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Eugene Lee, the Emmy-winning production designer for Saturday Night Live since 1975 and a multiple Tony Award-winner for such Broadway hits as Wicked, Sweeney Todd and Candide, died yesterda…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:12PM[SHARE]Something Rotten!, the hit 2015 Broadway comedy set during the time of Shakespeare, includes an early scene in which a rival of the Bard is encouraged to add tunes to his plays and invent so…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Discounts, winter promotions, benefit performances and the absence from the roster of now-closed solid earner The Piano Lesson added up to a slide in Broadway box office for the week ending …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PM[SHARE]A new musical featuring the music and lyrics by Alicia Keys, and apparently based on the R&B singer-songwriter's young life, is in development at New York's Off Broadway Public Theater. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 4, 2023
EXCLUSIVE: When the announcement was made in January that Emma Donoghue had developed a play (with music) of her bestselling novel Room and the acclaimed film that followed " and that the pl…
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