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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Slave Play author Jeremy O. Harris and New York Jets tight end CJ Uzomah are the latest high-profile names to sign on as co-producers of a currently running Broadway production: T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Even with one fewer show on the Broadway boards, and overall attendance at the 33 productions down a smidge from the previous week, Broadway box office was up 22% during Thanksgiving week, s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:30PM[SHARE]Broadway's long-running The Phantom of the Opera, which has enjoyed a big box office upswing since announcing in September that it would close in February, won't be making its exit quite so …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:30AM[SHARE]A Doll's House, the upcoming Broadway revival starring Jessica Chastain, will begin its 16-week limited engagement with previews at the Hudson Theatre on Monday, February 13, 2023 ahead of a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:20AM[SHARE]Monday, November 28, 2022
Mariah Carey has signed on as a co-producer of the new musical comedy Some Like It Hot, becoming the latest in a trend of celebrities lending their clout and popularity to support Broadway p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:03PM[SHARE]Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and international producer and longtime collaborator Michael Harrison announced today the creation of a new musical theater partnership to find and develop new m…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:59PM[SHARE]Friday, November 25, 2022
Agatha Christie's stage thriller The Mousetrap, a London theater staple for 70 years, is finally ready for Broadway: The murder mystery will unfold at as yet undisclosed Broadway venue somet…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Jinkx Monsoon, a two-time winner of RuPaul's Drag Race, will make her Broadway debut this January as Matron 'Mama' Morton in the long-running Chicago. Monsoon's eight-week engagement begins …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:32PM[SHARE]Monday, November 21, 2022
There are more than the usual number of miracles to be observed with the latest version of A Christmas Carol to hit Broadway. The usual suspects are here, all the ghosts and spirits and flig…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30PM[SHARE]Friday, November 18, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: Darren Criss, Lena Hall, Ramin Karimloo and Solea Pfeiffer will perform a one-night-only benefit concert of the 1986 Benny Andersson-Björn Ulvaeus-Tim Rice musical Chess next mon…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 17, 2022
What if Juliet had lived? What if she had not given her 14-year-old life for a wild boy she barely knew? What if she had not let brash youthful narcissism deformed by the patriarchy and male…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]Jessica Hecht, a 2010 Tony Award nominee, will join the previously announced Laura Linney on Broadway this spring in the Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of Summer, 1976, the new play…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:29PM[SHARE]KPOP, the Broadway musical celebrating the international musical phenomenon, is delaying its official press opening by a week due to COVID among the principal cast. Critics initially were in…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Jessica Chastain will return to Broadway this spring as Nora in Amy Herzog's "radical new production" of Henrik Ibsen's landmark drama A Doll's House, to be directed by Jamie Lloyd. In a sta…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Actors' Equity Association says it will stage a rally in Manhattan's theater district Thursday to support contract changes in its agreement with The Broadway League, the trade organization f…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:37PM[SHARE]A busy week on Broadway saw three official openings (including the Take Me Out return) and three additions to the line-up of previewing productions, with grosses for the 34-show roster jumpi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:11PM[SHARE]Broadway cast albums have made a clean sweep of this year's Grammy nominations for Best Musical Theater Album, the first time in at least several years that the competition hasn't included m…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:07PM[SHARE]Prima Facie, the new Suzie Miller play starring Killing Eve's Jodie Comer, will begin Broadway previews on Tuesday, April 11, 2023, at the Golden Theatre, with an opening night set for Sunda…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:15AM[SHARE]Monday, November 14, 2022
Black Theatre United has announced its new Executive Leadership Committee, with Broadway's Trouble in Mind star LaChanze moving from Vice President to President. Also named to the committee:…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:09PM[SHARE]Producers Mike Bosner and Jason Owen announced today that Shucked, a new original musical comedy with a book by Tony winner Robert Horn (Tootsie) and music by Nashville's hit songwriting tea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 13, 2022
With his latest solo show The Old Man & the Pool, Mike Birbiglia cements his reigning position as Broadway's greatest comic storyteller " stand-up comic just doesn't quite fit him " and,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]Friday, November 11, 2022
Playbill, the monthly magazine that serves as official programs for Broadway, most of Off Broadway and other arts institutes, is signing off Twitter for good, citing the platform's "greatly …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:13PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 10, 2022
Kimberly Akimbo, one of the unlikeliest, most exhilarating and unfailingly moving musicals to hit New York in years, opens on Broadway tonight having lost none of its immense charm since its…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Bob Fosse's Dancin' will return to Broadway this spring, 41 years after the original hit production left the stage. The musical revival will begin previews at The Music Box Theatre on Thursd…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:22AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Gabriel Byrne's Broadway solo show Walking With Ghosts will play its final performance on Sunday, November 20, a week shy of a month after its Oct. 27 opening at the Music Box Theatre. The c…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:40PM[SHARE]Broadway's Ain't No Mo' producer Lee Daniels announced today that NBA champ Dwyane Wade, actor Gabrielle Union and Drag Race star RuPaul will join the co-producing team of the comedy that be…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:07PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 8, 2022
Two of the fall Broadway season's buzzy new musicals " A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical and Some Like It Hot " began previews last week, both doing solid business in their first, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:33PM[SHARE]Monday, November 7, 2022
Broadway's hit revival of The Music Man starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster is extending its run by two weeks, with a closing date now set for Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023. "The hunger of audie…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:19AM[SHARE]Friday, November 4, 2022
Douglas McGrath, the director and writer whose work spanned film, stage and television and earned him a Tony nomination for Beautiful: The Carole King Musical and an Oscar nomination for the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:29PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 3, 2022
Sienna Miller says in a new interview with British Vogue that she once was told by an "extremely powerful" Broadway producer to "f*ck off" when inquiring about why she was "offered less than…
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