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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:47PM[SHARE]Beetlejuice will end its Broadway run at the Marquis Theatre on Jan. 8, 2023, producers announced today, making the musical the second high-profile production in recent days to announce a po…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:00PM[SHARE]A slate of four new productions and renewed interest in a couple of old ones pushed Broadway box office up by 20% last week, with total receipts for the 24 shows reaching $24,954,517 and att…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:20PM[SHARE]Monday, September 19, 2022
Marva Hicks, the singer and actor who made her Broadway debut in 1981's Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music and most recently appeared in 2013's Motown The Musical, died September 16 in New Y…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:12PM[SHARE]Sean Hayes will return to Broadway this spring starring in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Doug Wright's new play Good Night, Oscar, in which Hayes will play Hollywood Golden Age actor, pi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:20AM[SHARE]Friday, September 16, 2022
The Phantom of the Opera, Broadway's longest running show, will close in February following its 35th anniversary in January, sources have confirmed. The news comes as the musical, known for …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:31PM[SHARE]Common, the actor, rapper and songwriter who has won Oscar, Emmy and Grammy Awards, will make his Broadway debut in the coveted role of "Junior" in Stephen Adly Guirgis' Pulitzer Prize-winni…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 15, 2022
Actor Bill Heck (Broadway's Cabaret, Hulu's The Old Man) will join the return Broadway engagement of Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out co-starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jesse Williams. Heck…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 14, 2022
The starry Off Broadway revival of Merrily We Roll Along featuring Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez doesn't begin previews for another two months, and already it's gotten …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:05PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Suzan-Lori Parks, the playwright who won a 2002 Pulitzer Prize for her Topdog/Underdog, will make her on-stage debut this fall in the world premiere Public Theater Off Broadway st…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Even with a Covid-shortened performance schedule, Lea Michele's star turn in Funny Girl was serious business last week, with box office for the musical revival more than doubling from the pr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:22PM[SHARE]Broadway officially welcomed The James Earl Jones Theatre to its ranks yesterday, as the 110-year-old and much-renovated former Cort Theatre was renamed in a dedication ceremony attended by …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:47AM[SHARE]The producers of Broadway's hit musical revival The Music Man will end the show's successful run on Jan. 1, 2023, when star Hugh Jackman exits after a year a Professor Harold Hill. "I am thr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:12AM[SHARE]Friday, September 9, 2022
The upcoming Broadway production of Stephen Adly Guirgis' Pulitzer Prize-winning play Between Riverside And Crazy, directed by Austin Pendleton, will reunite much of the acclaimed 2015 Off B…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 8, 2022
The Elton John-Shaina Taub stage musical adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada, which recently ended a five-week engagement in Chicago, is "not ready" for subsequent stagings, John said tod…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Black Theatre United has announced the line-up for its inaugural gala next month, and it's a stellar one: Vanessa Williams, Norm Lewis, Audra McDonald, LaChanze, Capathia Jenkins, Brian Stok…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:16PM[SHARE]Jefferson Mays' one-man A Christmas Carol is coming to Broadway this holiday season, with a 66-performance engagement previewing at the Nederlander Theatre on Tuesday, November 8 with an off…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:44PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Madeleine George, playwright and writer on Hulu's Only Murders in the Building, has been newly selected as the 2021 recipient of the Hermitage Major Theater Award, a national jury…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Jaja's African Hair Braiding, a new play written by Jocelyn Bioh and directed by Whitney White, will make its Broadway debut in a world premiere production by the Manhattan Theatre Club next…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:29AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE:Â The 1/52 Project, a new financial grant program founded by Tony Award-winning set designer Beowulf Boritt, has selected the first seven early-career designer recipients to bene…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]As you might have heard, Lea Michele made her Funny Girl debut last night, taking the stage at Broadway's August Wilson Theatre to six standing ovations, a bouquet of white roses and through…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:13AM[SHARE]The Broadway hit musical revival of Into The Woods will be extended one final time, through Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023, producers announced today. The acclaimed New York City Center Encores! produ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:17AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 6, 2022
Four standing ovations before intermission. Sounds like Lea Michele's first night as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl is going, well, gleefully. Among those standing: Former Spring Awakening castma…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:33PM[SHARE]Broadway gave Billy Crystal a fine send-off last week, with the star's Mr. Saturday Night musical grossing more than $1 million during its final week of performances. That number " $1,014,61…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:51PM[SHARE]Will Swenson will reprise his Boston performance in A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical when the production moves to Broadway this fall, producers confirmed today. Swenson will be jo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:29PM[SHARE]As widely speculated, a new Broadway production of the Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler classic musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street starring Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:23AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Lea Michele will be making her public debut as Fanny Brice in Broadway's Funny Girl tonight, but don't expect reviews tomorrow. A production spokesperson tells Deadline exclusivel…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 1, 2022
Lea Michele, who begins performances as Fanny Brice in Broadway's Funny Girl revival next week, says she believes much of the recent online vitriol and trolling against her is sexist, and sp…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:06PM[SHARE]Will Eisner's groundbreaking 1978 graphic novel A Contract With God is being developed into a stage musical featuring music by Sam Hollander, Lisa Loeb, Matisyahu, Ryan Miller and Jill Sobul…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:46PM[SHARE]Broadway's Cort Theatre will officially become the James Earl Jones Theatre in an official renaming and dedication ceremony on Monday, Sept. 12, the Shubert Organization announced today. The…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 30, 2022
Most of the 21 Broadway productions on the boards last week showed some signs of summer doldrums, with 17 shows reporting drops in box office over the previous week. Still, with The Music Ma…
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