Wednesday, June 22, 2022
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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:36PM[SHARE]The West End hit musical Back to the Future will, as widely expected, get a Broadway staging in 2023, producers confirmed in a tweet today. "Synchronize Your Watches " The Future's coming to…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:19AM[SHARE]Rock band Weezer, fronted by singer-guitarist Rivers Cuomo, will stage a week-long residency on Broadway this fall, the band has announced. The band's five-show SZNZ: In Residence on Broadwa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:39AM[SHARE]James Rado, who along with his friend and writing partner Gerome Ragni created Broadway's seminal Age of Aquarius musical Hair, died peacefully Tuesday evening of cardio respiratory arrest i…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 21, 2022
MJ and A Strange Loop saw Tony Award glory translate into box office surges in the week after the June 12 ceremony, with MJ leaping by $216,921 over the previous week's take to a huge $1,660…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:03PM[SHARE]The Tony Award-winning revival of Company will play its final Broadway performance at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on Sunday, July 31, producers said in a surprise announcement today. Produ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:31PM[SHARE]A stage adaptation of The Pianist, based on the WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw Szpilman memoir that was the source of the Oscar-nominated 2002 film, is being developed by director Emily Mann with an eye …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:54PM[SHARE]Broadway will adopt a "mask optional" policy for audiences in July, the Broadway League announced today. Audience members will be encouraged, but not mandated, to wear masks in theaters. Cha…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:15PM[SHARE]When Playwrights Kill, a new dark comedy by playwright Matthew Lombardo, will skip a planned engagement in Connecticut to "further develop the play this summer in New York City," producers s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:56AM[SHARE]Maureen Arthur, an actress best remembered for her performance as secretary Hedy La Rue in Broadway's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and its 1967 screen adaptation, died Ju…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:56AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 16, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: The pre-Broadway engagement of the Elton John-Shaina Taub musical The Devil Wears Prada is showing its fashion sense for the first time in character photos provided exclusively to…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Funny Girl stars Beanie Feldstein and Jane Lynch will depart the productionl on September 25, producers announced today. In a tweet, the show addressed the return of Feldstein following a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:50PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, will return to Broadway this fall in a 20th anniversary production directed by Kenny Leon and starring In The Heights' C…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:33PM[SHARE]Though it's too soon to say how Sunday's Tony Awards will impact box office for the night's winners and losers, figures for the week leading up to the ceremony show big gains for the multi-n…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:12PM[SHARE]New York City Center's Encores!, which recently announced that its acclaimed production of Into The Woods is planning a Broadway transfer, has set revivals of The Light in the Piazza, Dear W…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:14PM[SHARE]Monday, June 13, 2022
The late Bob Saget is remembered more for his television roles and stand-up comedy career than his two appearances on the Broadway stage, but friend and Full House co-star John Stamos thinks…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:45PM[SHARE]GLAAD, the leading LGBTQ media watchdog group, praised Broadway and last night's Tony Awards for telling "stories about the lives of LGBTQ people…" "With A Strange Loop, Michael R. Jackson…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:20AM[SHARE]Jennifer Hudson, one of the celebrity producers of Broadway's A Strange Loop, achieved EGOT status tonight when that musical took the Tony Award for Best Musical. Hudson, who won the Academy…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:51AM[SHARE]The Lehman Trilogy, Company, A Strange Loop, MJ and Sweet Charity were among the big winners at tonight's Tony Awards. And Sweet Charity wasn't even staged this season. Credit Ariana DeBose …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:25AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 12, 2022
Refresh for updates Jesse Tyler Ferguson won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Take Me Out. The 75th Annual Tony Awards, airing live coast-to-coast from…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:05PM[SHARE]Refresh for awards updates Darren Criss and Julianne Hough officially launched tonight's Tony Award celebration with the one-hour The Tony Awards: Act One pre-show streaming on Paramount+, o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:04PM[SHARE]Friday, June 10, 2022
Donald Pippin, a celebrated and prolific musical director for Broadway and New York's Radio City Music Hall and the last living recipient of the long-discontinued Tony Award for Best Conduct…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:59PM[SHARE]For a Broadway season that will go down in the record books for its abbreviated 42-week length, Covid cancelations and stark decline in attendance attributable at least in part to New York C…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:35PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 9, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: In this Deadline exclusive, Es Devlin, whose magnificent set for director Sam Mendes' The Lehman Trilogy is nominated for a Tony Award, presents a series of sketches and photograp…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:47PM[SHARE]In a historic first, the Nederlander Organization will rename one of its Broadway theaters to honor the great performer and civil rights activist Lena Horne, the company announced today. The…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:01PM[SHARE]Original cast members of the 2006 Broadway production of Spring Awakening will reunite for a special performance during this Sunday's Tony Awards events, producers said today. Also performin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:29AM[SHARE]Jodie Comer, the Emmy- and BAFTA-winning actress perhaps best known for BBC America's Killing Eve, will make her Broadway debut next spring in Prima Facie, a new play by by Suzie Miller. Dir…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:45AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Rob McClure, the actor Tony-nominated for his performance in the title role of the recently closed Mrs. Doubtfire, will make another quick costume change, this time for the lead i…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Editors Note: Company, the beloved 1970 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth, has long been thought by many theater aficionados as, if not a perfect wor…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:09PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2022
No word yet on when Broadway's Funny Girl star Beanie Feldstein will return to the show after testing positive for Covid. Feldstein announced on Instagram last night that she'd tested positi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:30PM[SHARE]Broadway took a pre-Tony Awards early-summer dip at the box office last week, slipping 11% from the previous week to gross a total $29,555,352 for 31 productions. Attendance was off about 10…
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