Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Tony & Grammy winner Leslie Odom, Jr. will star in a new Broadway production of the classic American comedy Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch by Ossie Da…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 31, 2023
The long-running The Phantom of the Opera was once again Broadway's highest grossing show last week, taking in a mighty $2,483,532 for the week ending Jan. 29, outpacing runners-up Funny Gir…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:06PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Ensemble Studio Theatre, one of New York's premiere Off Broadway venues perhaps best known for its annual Marathon of One-Act Plays, announced today that EstefanÃa Fadul and Gr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: The Wiz is getting ready for the road to Broadway with an award-winning design team, including Oscar-winning Black Panther production designer Hannah Beachler and Emmy-winning Wat…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 30, 2023
The new Broadway production of Parade starring Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond has completed casting, with rehearsals beginning today for the February 21 preview. Platt and Diamond will lead a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:12AM[SHARE]Friday, January 27, 2023
Everett Quinton, a staple of New York's post-1960s downtown theater scene and diligent standard-bearer for the outrageously campy and hilariously melodramatic style of performance known as t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 24, 2023
With a slimmed-down roster and many productions offering 2 for 1 tickets during the annual Broadway Week promotion, Broadway box office was down 24% for the week ending January 22, with the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:39PM[SHARE]Monday, January 23, 2023
Andrew Leynse, whose 21-year tenure as the artistic director of the Off Broadway theater company Primary Stages saw the production of works by such prominent playwrights as Terrence McNally,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:03PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Adrienne Warren will star in the Broadway American premiere of Room, written and adapted for the stage by Emma Donoghue, based on her 2010 best-selling novel which she also…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:07AM[SHARE]Friday, January 20, 2023
A new musical adaptation of the classic 1962 film Days of Wine and Roses will make its world premiere Off Broadway this May in an Atlantic Theater Company production starring Kelli O'Hara an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 18, 2023
The Dropout star Amanda Seyfried appears to have confirmed she's working on a Broadway-bound musical with Westworld's Evan Rachel Wood amid reports that the duo are workshopping a stage adap…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Broadway lost six productions on January 15 " including the top-grossing The Music Man " to the usual January roster-thinning, and each show went out on a happy note with strong attendance. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 12, 2023
Tony Award nominee Ato Blankson-Wood (Slave Play) will take on the title role of Hamlet this summer, starring in the Public Theater's extended, nine-week Free Shakespeare in the Park product…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]White Cherry Entertainment will serve as the production team for the American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards through 2026, cementing a relationship with Tony Award Productions that goes back to …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:48PM[SHARE]Broadway's upcoming Kander & Ebb musical New York, New York has found its stars: Colton Ryan (Girl From The North Country) and Anna Uzele (Six). Producers Sonia Friedman and Tom Kirdahy …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:32PM[SHARE]Here Lies Love, the acclaimed "immersive disco musical" about Imelda Marcos from David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, will premiere on Broadway this summer, with Alex Timbers directing and Annie-B P…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Barry Grove will step down as the Executive Producer of Manhattan Theatre Club, a major Broadway and Off Broadway institution, at the conclusion of the 2022-2023 season. In his 48 years coll…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Broadway box office took the expected drop last week, declining nearly 30% (to $37,394,931) from the previous week's holiday-pumped $52M figure. Attendance for the 32 shows was down about 12…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:22PM[SHARE]High demand for tickets to Broadway's upcoming Parade revival starring Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond apparently temporarily crashed the Telecharge ticketing site today. Around noon ET, the s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:38PM[SHARE]Parade, the Jason Robert Brown-Alfred Uhry musical revived at New York City Center in November starring Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond will move to Broadway, following the successful recent p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:47AM[SHARE]Friday, January 6, 2023
Broadway's Beetlejuice star Alex Brightman, who suffered a concussion in an onstage Christmas Eve mishap, will make an unexpected return to the musical tonight for its final performances thi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 5, 2023
Ohio State Murders, the play starring Audra McDonald that made history by being the first Broadway production of acclaimed 91-year-old playwright Adrienne Kennedy, will play its final perfor…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:33AM[SHARE]Peter Pan Goes Wrong, the Olivier Award-nominated comedy from the creators of the Tony-winning The Play That Goes Wrong, will make its Broadway premiere this spring. Beginning previews at th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 3, 2023
Big holiday ticket prices, bonus performances and large audiences spurred a hefty surge of nearly 50% in Broadway box office last week (ending Jan. 1) over the previous week, with production…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:10PM[SHARE]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…
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