Monday, February 7, 2022
Broadway's upcoming revival of Funny Girl, starring Beanie Feldstein, Jane Lynch, Ramin Karimloo and Jared Grimes has completed casting, with Peter Francis James, Ephie Aardema, Debra Cardon…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Has any Broadway production in recent (or even not so recent) memory arrived with as much emotional baggage " or carried it as lightly " as the visually and sonically ravishing MJ? The Micha…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30PM[SHARE]Broadway's ongoing, twice-annual 2-for-1 ticket special seems to have help stave off what might otherwise have been a more precipitous drop in attendance last week as box office receipts dro…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:27PM[SHARE]The Broadway production of Tracy Letts' The Minutes is delaying its performance dates by two weeks this spring. The play, starring Schitt's Creek actor Noah Reid, Letts, Blair Brown, Jessie …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:38AM[SHARE]Hangmen, Martin McDonagh's Olivier Award-winning comedy that became (seemingly) an early casualty of Broadway's 2020 Covid shutdown, has gotten a reprieve: The play will begin previews at Br…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 31, 2022
Broadway's pre-Omicron autumn might best be described using a song lyric sung on stage every night by American Utopia's David Byrne: "Same as it ever was." As disappointing but hardly surpri…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:57PM[SHARE]Friday, January 28, 2022
In a break with Broadway custom of recent decades, producers of The Music Man starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster are not inviting critics to pre-opening night previews. Instead, critics…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 27, 2022
The international stage musical adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince will arrive on Broadway this spring a month later than previously expected, the latest production …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:57AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 26, 2022
In the most cramped of times " days as economically and emotionally pinched as the ones we're living through now, and the ones we survived (or didn't) in 2008 " theater can remind us of, or …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: The long-in-coming return of the musical based on Jerry Lewis' The Nutty Professor, and a new musical adaptation of the Richard Dreyfuss 1995 film Mr. Holland's Opus, will receive…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Broadway continued its winter freeze last week, with box office dropping 11% to a slim $16,494,289 for its meager 21-show roster. Attendance for the week ending Jan. 23 was 152,135, a slip o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 25, 2022
The Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf, directed and choreographed by Camille A. Brown, has postponed its opening by…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 23, 2022
James Snyder, who has played the title character of Broadway's recently retooled Harry Potter and the Cursed Child since the show returned from the pandemic shutdown, has been fired by produ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 20, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: A new musical stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning 1959 film Black Orpheus is being readied for a Broadway premiere next season, producers said today. The production will feature…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Broadway box office stayed slim last week, with a total gross of $18,496,689 holding even with the previous week, and total attendance of 162,566 rising a small 4%. Granted, the totals refle…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:43PM[SHARE]Broadway theaters will dim their marquee lights tomorrow night in honor of the late Sidney Poitier. Poitier, who made his Broadway debut in 1946's Lysistrata and earned a Tony Award nominati…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:49PM[SHARE]Playwright Matthew Spangler's stage adaptation of The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini's best-selling book-turned-movie, will make its Broadway premiere this summer. The play, which debuted in 2…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:47AM[SHARE]The Broadway premiere of Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer-Prize winning musical A Strange Loop will begin previews at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre on Wednesday, April 6, with an opening night set …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 13, 2022
John Earl Jelks, currently appearing in the HBO Max series Love Life, has joined the previously announced Debra Messing and Enrico Colantoni in the cast of the upcoming Broadway production o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:50PM[SHARE]Robert Allan Ackerman, the director whose television work scored five Emmy nominations and who directed acclaimed Broadway productions including Bent and Extremities, died Jan. 10 of kidney …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:44PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 12, 2022
The closing notice and possible return for Broadway's Girl From The North Country was barely cold before a second major production announced its own hiatus: To Kill a Mockingbird will close …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:36PM[SHARE]The acclaimed Bob Dylan musical Girl From The North Country will play its final Broadway performance at The Belasco Theatre on Jan. 23, with producers saying they're in advanced conversation…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:41PM[SHARE]Shoshana Bean has joined the cast of Billy Crystal's upcoming Broadway musical Mr. Saturday Night, producers announced today. Also announced were new preview and opening dates: The musical w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 11, 2022
After 10 seasons at the pressure cooker of Saturday Night Live, Cecily Strong comes well prepared, much loved and properly steeled to her New York stage debut as the solo star in an Off Broa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PM[SHARE]Vincent J. Sainato, a visual designer whose ad campaigns for Rent and Avenue Q helped launch those musicals as long-running Broadway stalwarts, died Jan. 8 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, foll…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:29PM[SHARE]Jack Viertel, whose 34 years with Broadway's Jujamcyn Theaters included stints as both the Creative Director and, more recently, Senior Vice President, announced his retirement today, effect…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:34PM[SHARE]Broadway's traditional post-holiday January doldrums teamed up with a slate of show closings and a national skyrocketing surge in Omicron cases to send box office tumbling by nearly a third …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:18PM[SHARE]Monday, January 10, 2022
Broadway's mask and Covid vaccination requirements for audiences and theater workers has been extended through April 30, with the rules expanding to include children ages 5- to 11-years-old …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:22AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 5, 2022
The foundation created by Cabaret lyricist Fred Ebb has awarded a record-setting $2.6 million to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The gift is the single largest in Broadway Cares history. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:55PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: A newly launched financial grant program called The 1/52 Project will offer $15,000 grants to theater designers, with a mission to encourage early career designers from historical…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 4, 2022
Flying Over Sunset will end its limited engagement Broadway run three weeks earlier than planned, producer Lincoln Center Theater announced today. The musical, which imagines a meeting of th…
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