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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:56AM[SHARE]Broadway box office settled back to its pre-Thanksgiving levels last week, with grosses for the 29 shows totaling $26,214,735, a 19% drop from the previous week's holiday take. Attendance fo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 7, 2021
Actors' Equity has reached a new agreement with the Michigan regional theater founded in 1991 by actor Jeff Daniels that recently saw the resignation of its longtime artistic director Guy Sa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:55PM[SHARE]The life of actor and activist Sidney Poitier will be told in a Broadway-targeted play to be written by Charles Randolph-Wright and directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, producers announced tod…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:42AM[SHARE]Monday, December 6, 2021
The Broadway production of Wicked canceled three performances over the weekend due to positive Covid tests within the company. The announcement also noted scheduled absences contributed to t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:04AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 5, 2021
Barely 15 minutes of Mrs. Doubtfire has passed before the wife of the manic, cloying man-child at the center of the developing farce demands a divorce, and we can only puzzle over what took …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Friday, December 3, 2021
Patti LuPone will miss this weekend's performances of Broadway's Company due to a non-Covid-related illness. Press had been invited to both of Saturday's performances " matinee and evening "…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 2, 2021
Broadway theaters will dim their lights for Stephen Sondheim on Wednesday, December 8 at 6:30 p.m. ET. "It is impossible to measure Stephen Sondheim's impact on the world of musical theat…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 1, 2021
David Byrne's American Utopia at Broadway's St. James Theatre has cancelled tonight's performance due to a non-Covid-related illness in the company, producers announced today. Performances a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 30, 2021
The return of Shakespeare in the Park to New York's Central Park last summer was a first sign of the city's slow and long-in-coming reopening, and now the entire, difficult 12-week journey t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:32PM[SHARE]Broadway box office saw a Thanksgiving holiday boost of about 30%, with total receipts for the 33 productions rising to $32,543,570 for the week ending Nov. 28. Total attendance was up about…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:58PM[SHARE]Monday, November 29, 2021
James Beeks, the actor fired last week from his gig as Judas in a touring production of Jesus Christ Superstar following his arrest for participation in the January 6 Capitol siege, will rem…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:27PM[SHARE]The Broadway production of Chicago has canceled two additional days of performances due to cases of Covid at the venue, producers said today. The musical is now scheduled to resume performan…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Andrea McArdle, Broadway's original Annie, is stepping away from her role as Eleanor Roosevelt in NBC's upcoming Annie Live! special due to a family matter. "I am saddened to announce I will…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:56PM[SHARE]UPDATED, with actor's tour suspension James D. Beeks, a stage actor who has appeared on Broadway in Kinky Boots, Aida, Ragtime, and Smokey Joe's Cafe and most recently starred as Judas in a …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 23, 2021
The quest to create the perfect sandwich takes on existential tones in Clyde's, the tasty if occasionally and slightly undercooked new dramedy from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottag…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]The Grammy Award nominations released today won't do much for Broadway's bottom line: Of the six nominees for Best Musical Theater Album, only one " Girl From The North Country, with music b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:37PM[SHARE]Broadway box office held steady last week, slipping a negligible 2% from the previous week to $25,074,048, with paid attendance of 212,819 off a small 1%. Though there was one additional pro…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:03AM[SHARE]Monday, November 22, 2021
Producers of Clyde's, a play by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage starring Emmy Award winner Uzo Aduba, will offer livestreamed simulcasts of performances during the show's final t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:48PM[SHARE]New York's Drama League Awards will return to an in-person event next spring after two consecutive ceremonies were held virtually due to the Covid pandemic: The 88th Annual Drama League Awar…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 18, 2021
Sixty-four years late and right on time, Alice Childress' wise and stirring backstage comedy-drama Trouble in Mind is making its long-in-coming Broadway debut tonight, and to describe the pl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Diana, The Musical begins its Act II with the shirtless, well-toned actor portraying the princess' studly consort James Hewitt doing his best Urban Cowboy riding-the-bull impression, much to…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Broadway's total weekly box office of $25,565,641 was up last week by about 12% over the previous week, with new re-arrival of a slimmed-down, one-part Harry Potter and the Cursed Child join…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:32AM[SHARE]Monday, November 15, 2021
Actor Alan Toy is set to play Franklin Delano Roosevelt in NBC's upcoming Annie Live! holiday event, becoming the first actor to have contracted polio in the role of the president who famous…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:06PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: The much-anticipated, one-night and sold-out Spring Awakening reunion concert will be the subject of an HBO documentary, produced by RadicalMedia. The reunion concert, featuring t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]The first Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange's groundbreaking for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will begin preview performances at the Booth Theatre on F…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 12, 2021
EXCLUSIVE Jane Krakowski has stepped down from the role of Lily St. Regis in NBC's upcoming Annie Live! after being diagnosed with a breakthrough case of Covid, the network said. Smash star …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 11, 2021
After several canceled performances due to an undisclosed number of breakthrough Covid cases among the cast or crew, Broadway's Chicken & Biscuits will close permanently at the end of th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 10, 2021
How do these Trevors make it look so easy? Each one " Trevor: The Musical, and its lead character Trevor: The Boy " carries a burden that could sink a more fragile theatrical creation, doom …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:45PM[SHARE]Billy Crystal is returning to Broadway and revisiting one of his most popular film roles: Mr. Saturday Night, a new musical based on the 1992 movie will begin performances at the Nederlander…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 9, 2021
The Broadway production Chicken & Biscuits has canceled its next three performances, starting tonight, due to breakthrough cases of Covid. "Through our regular testing process and protoc…
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