Tuesday, January 3, 2023
Frank Galati, the Tony Award-winning director of Broadway's The Grapes of Wrath and nominee for Ragtime, died Monday night. He was 79. A cause of death was not immediately available. Galati,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:27AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 20, 2022
The wig gives it away, otherwise we'd be hard-pressed to immediately " or even slowly " recognize Paul Bettany's fast-talking, extroverted and inquisitive artist character in Anthony McCarte…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]Tonight's opening night performance of Broadway's The Collaboration has been canceled due to a positive Covid case in the company. Performances at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre will resume …
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:50PM[SHARE]Funny Girl broke a house record with more than $2 million in receipts at the August Wilson Theatre, A Beautiful Noise continued its $1 million-plus weekly take, and The Piano Lesson topped t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:15PM[SHARE]Ronald Dennis, the Broadway performer who indelibly played dancer "Richie Walters" in the original 1975 cast of A Chorus Line and introduced one of the show's musical highlights in "Gimme Th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:51AM[SHARE]Monday, December 19, 2022
Almost Famous, the stage musical adaptation of the 2000 Cameron Crowe film, will play its final performance on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023, the latest casualty of a crowded Broadway scene and a New…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:21PM[SHARE]Stephanie Bissonnette, a dance teacher and chorographer best known for her performance as Dawn Schweitzer in the Broadway musical Mean Girls, died Saturday following a long battle with brain…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:50AM[SHARE]Friday, December 16, 2022
The Off Broadway musical revival of the Stephen Sondheim and George Furth classic Merrily We Roll Along, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff & Lindsay Mendez will move to Broadway …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:56AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 15, 2022
Ain't No Mo', playwright Jordan E. Cooper's acclaimed but struggling Broadway comedy, has extended its run for another week and will now play through Friday, December 23, at the Belasco Thea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Broadway's upcoming revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street starring the previously announced Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford has added to its cast with Dear Evan Hansen'…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 13, 2022
The holiday spirit " at least the kind measured at the box office " seemed to arrive on Broadway last week, for some shows anyway. Obvious case in point: A Christmas Carol, starring Jefferso…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:43PM[SHARE]Ain't No Mo', the Broadway debut of author and star Jordan E. Cooper, opened at the Belasco Theatre on Dec. 1 to the sort of reviews producers and playwrights dream about. Even the few criti…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:30PM[SHARE]Broadway's oft-stated efforts to reach beyond traditional audiences and its own mid-town environs seems evident in the choice of location for the 2023 Tony Awards: Rather than the usual thea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 11, 2022
Next to the jukebox musical, the Broadway genre getting and usually deserving the least amount of respect is that woebegon Frankenstein that starts life on the big screen only to have its pa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 10, 2022
For the second time in a week, Broadway is losing a worthy production that attempted to find an audience that encompassed but reached beyond the usual white, middle-aged demographic: Jordan …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:09AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 8, 2022
Many decades after her brilliant and unsettling plays became seen Off Broadway, at regional theaters or, sometimes, not at all, the great playwright Adrienne Kennedy is making her Broadway d…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30PM[SHARE]Leopoldstadt, the critically acclaimed hit Broadway play, will run nearly four months longer than initially planned: Producers announced today the the show will run through July 2, 2023, at …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Jay-Z's Roc Nation entertainment agency is betting that Times Square needs a Caesars Palace casino, and has joined Caesars Entertainment and Manhattan realty company SL Green in their bid to…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:50PM[SHARE]Carolee Carmello (1776, Finding Neverland), Grace McLean (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812) and Jordan Dobson (A Beautiful Noise) will be among the cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber's…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 6, 2022
KPOP, the history-making Broadway musical depicting and celebrating the Korean pop genre phenomenon of the title, will play its final performance this Sunday after a struggle at the box offi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:42PM[SHARE]A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical took in more than $1 million at the box office in the week leading up to, and including, its opening night on Sunday. Filling 91% of seats at the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:26PM[SHARE]Stomp, the percussive Off Broadway staple that has drawn tourists and locals to its East Village theater for nearly 30 years, will close on January 8, 2023, producers announced today. The sh…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:01AM[SHARE]Monday, December 5, 2022
Pop superstar and songwriter Neil Diamond, who retired from touring in 2018 after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, surprised the opening night audience of A Beautiful Noise Sunday w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:19PM[SHARE]A new stage musical based on the life of Grammy- and Emmy-winning songwriter Diane Warren is in development, with Tony winners Joe DiPietro and Kathleen Marshall attached to write and direct…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:06PM[SHARE]Playwright James Ijames' Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy Fat Ham, a take-off of Hamlet set at a Southern Black family's cook-out, will make its Broadway debut this spring, beginning previews o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 4, 2022
Two new productions opened on Broadway within the last few days, demonstrating that Broadway, at the very least, can accommodate works of remarkable diversity " a diversity in levels of ambi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30PM[SHARE]Friday, December 2, 2022
Quentin Oliver Lee, a New York stage and opera performer who most recently appeared earlier this year in the acclaimed, award-winning Off Broadway production of Heather Christian's Oratorio …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:51AM[SHARE]The new Britney Spears jukebox musical Once Upon A One More Time has finalized its Broadway plans: The production will begin previews Saturday, May 13, 2023, at the Marquis Theatre, with an …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 1, 2022
Actors' Equity Association, the national union representing actors and stage managers, has reached a new, three-year collective bargaining agreement with The Broadway League, the national tr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:20PM[SHARE]The beloved musical The Wiz will return to Broadway next season in an "entirely reimagined revival" directed by Schele Williams and featuring additional material by Amber Ruffin. The product…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 30, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: A new stage musical based on the life and career of Ol' Blue Eyes himself, the legendary Frank Sinatra, is in the works, with a book by Memphis and Diana writer Joe DiPietro and d…
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