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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:47PM[SHARE]Joan Copeland, an actress whose Broadway career began in the 1940s and would include acclaimed performances in a 1976 revival of Pal Joey and in the 1980 premiere of The America Clock, writt…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:45PM[SHARE]Broadway box office receipts rebounded by a significant margin last week, climbing to $26 million from Christmas Week's grim, Covid-decimated $14 million estimate. That's an overall, week-to…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:29PM[SHARE]Paradise Square, the musical from producer Garth H. Drabinsky set during the history-making New York Draft Riots of the 1860s, has postponed its Broadway arrival by three weeks due to the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PM[SHARE]Monday, January 3, 2022
The Manhattan Theatre Club's Broadway production of Dominique Morisseau's Skeleton Crew starring Phylicia Rashad has canceled performances through Sunday, Jan. 9, due to breakthrough Covid c…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 1, 2022
Allan Larson, father of Jonathan Larson and a dedicated caretaker of the Rent playwright's legacy, has died. His death was announced last night on Twitter by Lin-Manuel Miranda, director of …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:59AM[SHARE]Friday, December 31, 2021
With the recent Broadway cancellations and Omicron knocking New York City for a holiday loop, it's easy to forget that Broadway's fall season was, artistically speaking, stellar, with a slat…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:19PM[SHARE]Monday, December 27, 2021
David Byrne will present a revised version of his American Utopia Broadway show beginning Tuesday, due to several breakthrough Covid cases among his onstage band. In an Instagram video today…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 22, 2021
Broadway's recent and ongoing surge in Covid cancellations is one of those shocking but not surprising things " New Yorkers knew instinctively since theaters reopened in September that disap…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:30PM[SHARE]Candace Bushnell's solo Off Broadway show Is There Still Sex in the City? has closed due to the writer-star's breakthrough Covid. Bushnell tested positive Tuesday night just before she was s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 21, 2021
Broadway box office tumbled last week, dropping 26% from the previous week to a combined tally of $22,511,627 for the 31 productions. Attendance for the week ending Dec. 19 " a week marked b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:50PM[SHARE]Monday, December 20, 2021
Jagged Little Pill, the Broadway musical of Alanis Morissette songs, will not reopen at the Broadhurst Theater following its current Covid suspension, producers announced tonight. With the a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:40PM[SHARE]Stars in the House, the YouTube and streaming talk and performance series hosted by Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley since the March 2020 Broadway shutdown, will feature a special episode toni…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:56PM[SHARE]Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer-Prize winning musical A Strange Loop will open at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre in spring 2022, producers announced. Casting, dates and ticket information will be a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Disney's Aladdin, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Jagged Little Pill joined Broadway's Covid cancellation roster over the weekend, bringing the number of productions missing the weeken…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:14PM[SHARE]Friday, December 17, 2021
More Broadway cancellation updates: Tina " The Tina Turner Musical has paused performances through Monday, with the show now set to resume on Tuesday Dec. 21, and Hamilton, which had already…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:59PM[SHARE]In what might be the harshest of the Covid Broadway cancellations, MJ, the new Michael Jackson musical, will not return to Broadway's Neil Simon Theatre until Monday, Dec. 27, an announcemen…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:28PM[SHARE]Moulin Rouge!, the Broadway musical, has canceled tonight's performance due to the detective of positive Covid test results within the company that prompted the evacuation of the theater jus…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:11AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 16, 2021
Today's matinee of MJ, the Michael Jackson musical, has been canceled "due to the detection of a limited number of positive covid test results within the Broadway company," producers announc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:30PM[SHARE]Next spring's buzzy production of Macbeth starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga will have a larger Broadway home than previously expected, courtesy of the Princess Diana musical. Macbeth had …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:14PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Several additional Broadway productions have canceled performances due to breakthrough Covid cases, including Tina " The Tina Turner Musical, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Ain't Too …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Broadway box office rebounded last week from the previous week's post-Thanksgiving dive, with the fattened roster of 32 shows taking in a total of $30,533,809 for the week ending Dec. 12. Th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:04PM[SHARE]Monday, December 13, 2021
Aldous Huxley, Cary Grant and Clare Boothe Luce " a grouping that might sound more like the set-up for a joke than the premise of a musical " were, in real life, proponents of lysergic acid …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Broadway's Freestyle Love Supreme offered up some bad news-good news today, with the improvisational hip-hop revue canceling tonight's performance due to Covid (the bad news) but revealing f…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:02PM[SHARE]Leonard Soloway, whose six-decade career as a stage general manager and producer included 59 Broadway shows that won more than 40 Tony Awards, died Saturday in Palm Springs, California. He w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:36PM[SHARE]Broadway's Freestyle Love Supreme and Off Broadway's Little Shop of Horrors canceled at least some of their weekend performances due to Covid, joining, as previously reported, Mrs. Doubtfire…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 11, 2021
The Broadway production of Diana, The Musical will play its final performance on Sunday, Dec. 19, producers have announced. The musical began previews at the Longacre Theatre on Nov. 2 and o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:57AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 9, 2021
If there's a better, more vital way to honor the late, incomparable Stephen Sondheim than Marianne Elliott's superb production of Company, Broadway hasn't invented it. This gorgeous revival …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]The sextet of queens of Six and each of the three Lehman Brothers " or rather the performers in the Broadway roles " may compete in the Tony Awards' lead acting categories this year, Tony ad…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:21AM[SHARE]Following sold-out runs in Paris, Sydney, and Dubai, a stage musical adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince will arrive on Broadway this spring, with performances set to…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Broadway's Covid vaccine mandate will soon extend to children between the ages of 5 and 11, the Broadway League announced today. The expanded policy will take effect Tuesday, Dec. 14. The ne…
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