Tuesday, July 19, 2022
Christopher Durang, one of American theaters most accomplished and acclaimed playwrights, has been diagnosed with logopenic primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a rare disorder of language …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:35AM[SHARE]Monday, July 18, 2022
Broadway's long-running musical Chicago has cast Madam Secretary actor Erich Bergen in the role of Billy Flynn, producers announced today. Bergen will join the show on Monday, August 1, and …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:51PM[SHARE]Friday, July 15, 2022
Beanie Feldstein will miss this weekend's performances of Broadway's Funny Girl due to a case of tonsillitis and being "extremely contagious." Feldstein's standby Julie Benko will perform as…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 14, 2022
Contrary to internet rumors and some published reports, producers of Broadway's Funny Girl say they were not "blindsided" by star Beanie Feldstein's Sunday night Instagram post announcing he…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 12, 2022
News of Lea Michele's upcoming arrival in Broadway's Funny Girl will certainly hand the musical a revival in advance ticket sales, welcome news for producers who saw last week's box office c…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:33PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Cheyenne Jackson will step into the roles of Cinderella's Prince and Red Ridinghood's Wolf for a weeklong stint in Broadway's hit revival Into The Woods, taking over for Gavin Cre…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]Monday, July 11, 2022
As expected, or at least widely rumored, Lea Michele is Broadway's new Funny Girl, taking over the coveted role of Fanny Brice from the departing Beanie Feldstein. Tovah Feldshuh will take t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Ain't No Mo', the comedy written by and starring Jordan E. Cooper, will be produced on Broadway this fall by Lee Daniels and Brian Anthony Moreland. Director Stevie Walker-Webb will make his…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:48AM[SHARE]Paradise Square, the musical that marked producer Garth H. Drabinsky's Broadway return and won its lead actress a Tony but failed to catch on at the box office, will conclude its run at the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 10, 2022
Even in a second- or third-rate production, Into the Woods is delightful, big and lovable and accessible and loaded with some of Stephen Sondheim's most gorgeous and endearing songs. In a to…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30PM[SHARE]Beanie Feldstein announced tonight that she'll depart the starring role of Broadway's Funny Girl even earlier than previously announced: Her last performance in the show will be July 31. "Pl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 7, 2022
The Collaboration, Anthony McCarten's hit London play about artists Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, will make its American premiere on Broadway this winter, with Paul Bettany and Jerem…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Almost Famous, the stage musical based on Cameron Crowe's 2000 film, will begin previews at Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on October 3, ahead of a November 3 opening night. The new da…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:08AM[SHARE]& Juliet, the Olivier Award-winning musical with a book by Schitt's Creek writer David West Read, will make its Broadway debut this fall, with previews beginning October 28 at the Stephe…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 6, 2022
Following its sold-out Off Broadway Encores! run this past spring, the revival of Into The Woods continued drawing audiences in the first performances of its Broadway transfer, filling 94% o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 30, 2022
New legislation targeting hidden fees and predatory "anti-consumer ticketing practices" in New York State's live event industry, including theater, sports events and concerts, was signed int…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:30PM[SHARE]At the request of company members of Broadway's The Minutes, producers announced today that audiences will be required to continue masking through the play's final performance on Sunday, Jul…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 29, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: Myles Frost, the moonwalking star of Broadway's MJ The Musical who recently, at age 22, became the youngest-ever recipient of the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical, h…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PM[SHARE]The Lincoln Center Theater production of Lerner & Loewe's Camelot with a new book by Aaron Sorkin will arrive on Broadway next spring rather than this fall, producers announced today. Ca…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:22AM[SHARE]Most of the 38-member cast of the upcoming Broadway production of Tom Stoppard's Olivier Award-winning Leopoldstadt was announced today, with four members of the original West End company ma…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Broadway box office held steady last week, with total grosses of $30,789,627 showing a 4% increase over the previous week even with two fewer shows on the boards. Of particular note, A Stran…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:15PM[SHARE]Jim Parsons will star in an Off Broadway revival of A Man of No Importance, the 2002 musical featuring a book by Terrence McNally, music by Stephen Flaherty, and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens. The C…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:59PM[SHARE]Monday, June 27, 2022
Following its acclaimed run at The Bridge Theatre in London, David Hare's Straight Line Crazy starring Ralph Fiennes as New York powerbroker Robert Moses will make its Big Apple Off Broadway…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Sutton Foster, who stars opposite Hugh Jackman in the Broadway hit revival The Music Man, has tested positive for Covid for the second time since December and will miss performances until We…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:18AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE Ozark actor McKinley Belcher III will join the cast of Broadway's upcoming Death of a Salesman revival starring Wendell Pierce and Sharon D Clarke this fall, producers announced to…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 26, 2022
With the end nearing for some of Broadway's limited engagements and the annual post-Tony Awards ax-fallings, the roster of summertime departures is heating up along with the temperatures. Fr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:30AM[SHARE]Friday, June 24, 2022
The Broadway revival of American Buffalo, performed at the in-the-round Circle in the Square Theatre, will continue to require audience masking through July 10, the production's closing date…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:56PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 23, 2022
In a letter to members of Actors' Equity Association, obtained by Deadline, the union says that the Broadway League's decision to adopt a "mask optional" policy for audience members beginnin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:17PM[SHARE]Skylar Astin, currently starring in the Off Broadway hit Little Shop of Horrors, will be out of the show until June 29 due to a positive Covid test. His absence from the musical revival is j…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 22, 2022
Steve Fickinger, a Tony Award-winning producer of Broadway's Dear Evan Hansen who, as a longtime creative executive with Disney Theatrical Group helped spearhead the development of such stag…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:49PM[SHARE]The Shubert Foundation has awarded a record $37.6 million in unrestricted grants to not-for-profit theaters, dance companies, academic theater training programs, and related service agencies…
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