Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Like some strange brew blend of VEEP, Noises Off and one of the late Charles Ludlam's outrageously vulgar (and still sorely missed) Ridiculous Theatrical Company follies, Selina Fillinger's …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Allow Usher, the central " only? " character of Michael R. Jackson's scathingly funny and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Strange Loop, to introduce himself. He is, he tells us, "a young ov…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Broadway box office held steady last week as the production roster reached its full, 35-show season maximum: Though some productions remained in previews, everything that's going to open bef…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:21PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Trai Byers, Ray Fisher, April Matthis and Michael Potts have joined Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Brooks and John David Washington in the cast of Broadway's upcoming revival of Augu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Monday, April 25, 2022
A Brontosaurus and a Woolly Mammoth taking up residence among the mid-century modern trappings of a middle-class New Jersey household will now and forever make a theatrical impact " that, at…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Adrienne Warren and Joshua Henry will announce the 75th Annual Tony Award nominations on Monday, May 9, Tony organizers said today. "We couldn't be more thrilled to kick off our 75th Anniver…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:57PM[SHARE]Friday, April 22, 2022
The announcement of Tony Award nominations will be delayed by a week, and award eligibility extended by a week, due to what producers say are "the challenges that Broadway has faced in recen…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:31PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2022
Sneaky, menacing and funny are descriptions that come up more than once in Martin McDonagh's Hangmen, but not one of the three words quite does justice to this irresistibly pitch-black comed…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: The upcoming pre-Broadway world premiere engagement of A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical in Boston has cast Tony Award nominees Mark Jacoby and Robyn Hurder, and Linda P…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:19PM[SHARE]Robert Morse, the impish actor and singer who found early fame and success as the Tony Award-winning star of Broadway's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and enjoyed a late-ca…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Director and choreographer Camille A. Brown and her cast of seven female singer-dancer-actors breathe life and vitality into Ntozake Shange's still-potent mid-1970s touchstone for colored gi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]Some Like It Hot, the stage musical adaptation of the classic 1959 Billy Wilder film comedy, will make it to Broadway next fall, following a couple pandemic-bedeviled years that saw the canc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Julianne Hough, making her Broadway debut in the comedy POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, has tested positive for Covid and will miss several pr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:50AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2022
In the 25 years since Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse first performed Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play How I Learned To Drive, the name for the disturbing process that we witness…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]Six had its best week ever, Mrs. Doubtfire was back and several new shows joined the Broadway roster last week as box office climbed a total of 23% to $34,729,295. Compared to the previous w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:29PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 17, 2022
Tracy Letts' The Minutes would be one of the most thrilling new plays on Broadway this season even if recent real-life events hadn't made it seem as uncanny as it is funny and, ultimately, d…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 16, 2022
The Broadway League has announced that while the owners and operators of all 41 Broadway venues will require audiences to mask up at least through May 31, many theaters will no longer check …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:41AM[SHARE]Friday, April 15, 2022
Jay Binder, whose more than four decades as a prominent Broadway casting director included finding just the right talent for such productions as The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and Jerom…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:27PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 14, 2022
Offstage, and sometimes on, David Mamet can be infuriating and exasperating, as anyone who has witnessed his recent nonsensical, offensive media blitz can attest, and then along comes someth…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Neil Patrick Harris has been cast in the upcoming New York City Encores! production of Into the Woods, replacing the previously announced Christian Borle, who is no longer available, New Yor…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:03PM[SHARE]Several Broadway shows impacted by the uptick in New York City Covid cases last week are still feeling the effects this week: Plaza Suite has canceled performances at least through tomorrow,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Broadway's total box office tally held steady last week, with new shows and strong ongoing performers making up for the money lost when some productions canceled performances due to Covid ou…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:18PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: A new stage play adaption of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes is being developed with an eye toward the West End and Broadway. The Tony- and Olivier Award-winning Rob Ashf…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]Monday, April 11, 2022
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's elegantly humble 1943 children's novella The Little Prince is transformed into a visually spectacular, dramatically overblown meld of dance, music, video and, bes…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]With the high-profile, starry revival of his American Buffalo opening Thursday on Broadway, playwright David Mamet seems to be doing his best " or worst " to make headlines. The latest: The …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:08PM[SHARE]The Broadway productions of Macbeth, starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga, and the Pulitzer-winning A Strange Loop have canceled tonight's performances as both shows recover from recent Covi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:38AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 10, 2022
One or more manhole cover explosions in Times Square sent crowds of tourists and the exiting opening night audience of Broadway's Birthday Candles scrambling Sunday night. According to Con E…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:03PM[SHARE]Birthday Candles, Noah Haidle's Broadway dramedy starring Debra Messing as a woman who, over the course of the play's 90 minutes ages from 17 to 107, has just about all the right ingredients…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PM[SHARE]Friday, April 8, 2022
The Broadway-bound revival of the musical 1776, which begins a pre-New York engagement at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA, next month, has announced a cast comprised fully of…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:19PM[SHARE]Some good news from Broadway: Take Me Out, the well-received revival of Richard Greenberg's baseball play, has extended its run by two weeks at Second Stage's Hayes Theater. The comedy-drama…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 7, 2022
Tonight's performance of Broadway's Plaza Suite has been canceled after Sarah Jessica Parker tested positive for Covid today. A second test confirmed the diagnosis. Parker's husband and co-s…
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