Tuesday, June 7, 2022
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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:14PM[SHARE]Sesame Street: The Musical, a new stage production featuring Elmo, Cookie Monster, Abby Cadabby, Grover, Rosita, Bert, Ernie and Oscar the Grouch will open Off Broadway this fall, producers …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:42PM[SHARE]Tina " The Tina Turner Musical will play its final performance at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Sunday, August 14, producers announced today. The second Broadway closing announced toda…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]Dear Evan Hansen, the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning musical, will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, September 18, nearly six years after opening at the Music Box Theatr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:46PM[SHARE]As a child, Christopher Wheeldon was a ballet and musical theater kid, like as not listening to Tchaikovsky while his brothers had Michael Jackson's Thriller on the turntable. His idea of an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]This Sunday's 75th Annual Tony Awards will feature a line-up of presenters from the stage and screen, including Andrew Garfield, Laurence Fishburne, Nathan Lane, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bowen Ya…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tom Stoppard's Olivier Award-winning Leopoldstadt directed by Patrick Marber will play a limited Broadway engagement this fall, producers announced today. Leopoldstadt, which one the Olivier…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:49AM[SHARE]Monday, June 6, 2022
The word that seems to crop up most often in descriptions of both Dana H., the play written by Lucas Hnath, and Dana H., the characterization by Deirdre O'Connell, is "harrowing," " few revi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 2, 2022
Jesse Tyler Ferguson had already endeared himself to countless fans through his 11-season run on the hit ABC sitcom Modern Family, but he no doubt added to the tally with both his Tony-nomin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]The Thanksgiving Play, which had its Off Broadway world premiere in 2018 and has become one of the top 10 produced plays, will make its Broadway debut in spring 2023 in a staging by Tony-win…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]The stage musical adaptation of Cameron Crowe's 2000 film Almost Famous will will begin Broadway previews on Tuesday, September 13, with an official opening on Tuesday, October 11, and a cas…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 1, 2022
Sharon D Clarke's performance of the showstopping musical number "Lot's Wife" in the second act of Caroline, Or Change will almost certainly be among the Broadway highlights weighed in the m…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Broadway box office held steady last week, the first week of the new 2022-23 season, with the 35 productions grossing a total of $33,093,845, with attendance at 254,692. Both figures for the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:59AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: The acclaimed Young Vic/West End revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman starring Wendell Pierce and Sharon D Clarke will begin previews on Sept. 19 at Broadway's Hudson Th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Charles Siebert, the actor who played the pompous Dr. Stanley Riverside II on the CBS medical drama series Trapper John, M.D., died May 1 of Covid-related pneumonia at the University of Cali…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:31PM[SHARE]In one of this Broadway season's most startling on-stage moments, Martin McDonagh's Hangmen takes a swift and no-turning back move, a Psycho-like turn shortly after the start of the play tha…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 26, 2022
One of the spring's hottest Off Broadway tickets will make the move to Broadway this summer: The acclaimed, sold-out Encores! production of the James Lapine-Stephen Sondheim classic Into The…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Broadway's 2021-22 season " 10 weeks shorter than usual, plagued by Covid and the cancelations it caused, not to mention the tourists who didn't show up " took a beating at the box office, w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:13PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Stranger Things actor Gaten Matarazzo will return to Broadway this summer in the Tony-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen. Beginning July 19, Matarazzo will play the role of Jared Kl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:31AM[SHARE]Monday, May 23, 2022
The stage musical adaptation of NBC's Smash is "alive and kicking," says producer Neil Meron, and he and composer Marc Shaiman have the photos to prove it. Both Meron and Shaiman posted phot…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:51PM[SHARE]Broadway's legendary Angela Lansbury will receive the 2022 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, the Tony Awards Administration Committee announced today. "Angela Lansb…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 20, 2022
New York's Drama League named A Strange Loop as the season's outstanding musical, with The Lehman Trilogy taking the honor for outstanding play. Among revivals, Take Me Out took the prize in…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:53PM[SHARE]When Rachel Dratch makes her entrance in the Broadway, all-female ensemble farce POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, audiences respond with an ent…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]Broadway will continue requiring audiences to mask up at least through June, the Broadway League announced today. Audience masking protocols for July and beyond will be announced in June. ""…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:36AM[SHARE]Kimberly Akimbo, the Off Broadway musical that's won a slew of critics awards this season, has settled on the venue for its Broadway engagement in the fall: The production will begin preview…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 19, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: A new, exclusive partnership between the prominent theatrical P.R. agency DKC/O&M and the newly formed production services outfit Built Productions was announced today, formal…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Broadway performers and stage managers who worked on four shows connected to producer Scott Rudin will be released from nondisclosure agreements under terms of a new settlement between the B…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:49PM[SHARE]As expected, A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical is heading to Broadway, with producers announcing today that previews will begin Wednesday, November 2, at the Broadhurst Theatre, wi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Last week's Tony Award nominations translated into box office sales for at least some of the contenders, with A Strange Loop seeing the biggest boost. The musical, which topped the Tony list…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:41PM[SHARE]Monday, May 16, 2022
Moulin Rouge! The Musical and Lincoln Center Theater's The Skin of Our Teeth canceled performances over the weekend due to Covid cases within their companies, another sign that the virus isn…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:17AM[SHARE]Friday, May 13, 2022
Broadway's Mrs. Doubtfire will unplug the vacuum cleaner and hang up the apron earlier than expected: The musical, which has been posting middling box office numbers during the industry's cr…
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