Friday, October 14, 2022
The Hadestown audience member with hearing loss who was reprimanded from the stage by Lillias White when the Broadway actress mistook a captioning device for a recording device is urging soc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:10PM[SHARE]Max Woodward, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts executive and producer who oversaw the production of its theater programming for years before his retirement in 2016, died to…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:20PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 13, 2022
There's abundant magic still in The Piano Lesson, August Wilson's grand, 1987 Pulitzer Prize winning tale of a Black family torn between legacy and ambition, the past and the future, and, it…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30PM[SHARE]Broadway will honor the legendary Angela Lansbury with the traditional dimming of marquee lights this Saturday evening. "Angela Lansbury was without a doubt one of Broadway's most endearing …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:40PM[SHARE]The producers of Broadway's Hadestown and Jujamcyn Theaters have apologized to an audience member with hearing loss whose use of a captioning device drew repeated onstage reprimands from one…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:19PM[SHARE]A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle's beloved and acclaimed children's book classic, is being developed as a stage musical, producers announced today. The adaptation will feature music and …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 11, 2022
A Strange Loop, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Broadway musical, will plays its final performance on January 15, 2023, producers announced today. Michael R. Jackson's acclaimed musical …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:24PM[SHARE]The Broadway production of Stephen Adly Guirgis' Between Riverside And Crazy starring Common will be simulcast during its final two weeks in February, producer Second Stage Theatre announced…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:53PM[SHARE]New York City Mayor Eric Adams today signed a bill to to designate Times Square a so-called gun-free zone. "Millions of New Yorkers and tourists flock to Times Square to see Broadway shows,"…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:07AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 9, 2022
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller's classic tragedy of the American Dream gone sour, is revitalized and given room to encompass the Black experience in director Miranda Cromwell's intriguin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]Friday, October 7, 2022
Ten years ago, actor Sean Hayes and playwright David Adjmi were working together to develop a play based on the life of Oscar Levant, the actor, pianist and notorious wit of Hollywood's Gold…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 6, 2022
Near the start of the Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of the musical 1776, a cast made entirely of actors who identify as female, transgender and nonbinary, with multiple repre…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has secured North American, United Kingdom, and Ireland distribution rights to Broadway Rising, Amy Rice's documentary chronicling the reopening of Broadway…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:51PM[SHARE]Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan will star in the first major New York revival of Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window this February at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, BA…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]Crystal Lucas-Perry, Fedna Jacquet, Marchánt Davis, Shannon Matesky and Ebony Marshall-Oliver will join the previously announced Jordan E. Cooper in the cast of Cooper's upcoming Broadway…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 4, 2022
Broadway held fairly steady at the box office last week, with recent arrivals Leopoldstadt and The Piano Lesson leading the pack of fall newcomers with grosses of $758,988 and $704,051, resp…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:31PM[SHARE]Charles Fuller, the groundbreaking playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for his enduring drama A Soldier's Play, died Monday of natural causes in Toronto. He was 83. His death was a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:59PM[SHARE]Andrew Lloyd Webber will add several new songs and a brief word to the title of Bad Cinderella " formerly, in London, just Cinderella " when the musical opens on Broadway next spring. "I am …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:38AM[SHARE]Monday, October 3, 2022
A Pulitzer Prize can be a burden, one must assume, trumpeting expectations and pumping reputations from a distance. Martyna Majok's Cost of Living won the trophy in 2018, and that victory ha…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 2, 2022
The great playwright Tom Stoppard and his simpatico director Patrick Marber make a lasting gift of remembrance in the brilliant, gorgeous and devastating new play Leopoldstadt, opening tonig…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Well, that's that. After all the controversies and badly handled original castings and headlines and backstage bruisings and firings or resignations or whatever they were, Funny Girl is, as …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:39PM[SHARE]Friday, September 30, 2022
Well, he didn't rule it out. Director Baz Luhrmann, whose 2001 film Moulin Rouge! became a 2018 Broadway hit musical, says a similar path for his 2022 Elvis Presley biopic might be inevitabl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:56PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed three-time Tony Award-nominated director and choreographer Camille A. Brown in all areas. Brown made her Broadway directorial debut last season with the revival of …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 29, 2022
Hocus Pocus casting its spell on Broadway? The Sanderson Sisters might be flying their brooms a bit closer to the stage after all. A long-rumored stage adaptation of the popular 1993 film st…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:51AM[SHARE]Full casting for the upcoming Off Broadway revival of Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along starring the previously announced Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez and Daniel Radcliffe has been firmed u…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 27, 2022
The Piano Lesson led the pack of Broadway's recent arrivals at the box office last week, with the August Wilson revival starring Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington and Danielle Brooks …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:46PM[SHARE]Monday, September 26, 2022
Rita Gardner, an original cast member of the long-running Off Broadway phenomenon The Fantasticks, died Saturday of leukemia at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. She was 87. Gardner's death wa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:42AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE:Â TheFrontOffice Foundation, the charitable arm of director/producer Wendy C. Goldberg's TheFrontOffice entertainment company, announced today that it will award a $25,000+ mid-c…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 23, 2022
Additional casting and the full creative team for the Broadway premiere of Adrienne Kennedy's Ohio State Murders were announced today, with Bryce Pinkham (A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Mur…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Encouraging her fans and fellow Broadway-goers to spread the hashtag "The Majestic Is Fit For A Prince," TV and stage icon Carol Burnett has launched a social media campaign to get Broadway'…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man & the Pool is heading to Broadway, the comic monologist announced today during a taping of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The new solo show will begi…
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