Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Waitress, the hit Broadway musical that played more than 1,500 performances during its 2016-2020 run, will return for a limited, four-month engagement this September, with composer Sara Bare…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Company, Marianne Elliott's reimagined production of the Stephen Sondheim/George Furth musical starring Katrina Lenk and Patti LuPone, will begin Broadway performances a month earlier than p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:23AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 27, 2021
Bruce Springsteen woke Broadway from a 15-month sleep Saturday, returning to live performance to deliver an emotional, updated rendition of his 2017 smash Springsteen on Broadway to an audie…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:09AM[SHARE]Friday, June 25, 2021
Springsteen on Broadway tickets generally don't come cheap, but some fans are in for a bargain: Thirty-two seats at $75 each will be set aside each performance for winners of a digital lotte…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 24, 2021
The executive producer of Harlem's Apollo Theater, the president of John Prine's Oh Boy Records (and widow of the late folk music icon), and ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro are among Preside…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:53PM[SHARE]The Public Theater's Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Merry Wives will begin performances next month with audience capacity at Central Park's Delacorte Theater expanded significant…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:34PM[SHARE]Chicken & Biscuits, a new comedy written by Black playwright Douglas Lyons, with a largely Black cast and directed by Zhailon Levingston, who at 27 becomes the youngest Black director in…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:06PM[SHARE]Stephen Colbert and Christine Baranski couldn't wait for Broadway's return, so they created a little Sondheim spark of their own Wednesday night by duetting on "Side by Side by Side," a numb…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 23, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: For the first time in 75 years, New York's Theatre World Awards honoring debut performances will bypass its annual awards ceremony this year " a reflection of the city's absence o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Steppenwolf's production of The Minutes, the new Tracy Letts play that had begun previews on Broadway when the industry shut down in March 2020, will resume performances in March 2022, with …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PM[SHARE]Special Tony Awards will be presented in September to the Broadway Advocacy Coalition, David Byrne's American Utopia and Freestyle Love Supreme, the awards administration committee announced…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Kate Horton, who previously ran the Royal Court Theatre in London and has held executive roles also at the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre, will take over for Scott Rudin a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 20, 2021
Ann Willis Ratray, who appeared on Broadway and TV before becoming a drama coach for young people including her son, Home Alone's Devin Ratray, died June 9 at her home in New York following …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:48PM[SHARE]Good news for international fans of Bruce Springsteen: The Boss' upcoming Springsteen on Broadway is opening its doors to people who have received the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine. "Happy endin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:30AM[SHARE]Friday, June 18, 2021
Kyle Dean Massey has announced that he will not return to the Broadway revival of Company when it resumes performances post-shutdown this December. In a since-expired Instagram story, Massey…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:51PM[SHARE]A new study analyzing racial equity in arts funding in New York City finds that public and private contributions to the 18 largest and predominantly white non-profit theater companies garner…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:48PM[SHARE]Kandi Burruss, the Grammy-winning singer/songwriter and The Chi actress, has joined the producing team for the upcoming Broadway debut of Keenan Scott II's Thoughts of a Colored Man starring…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 17, 2021
In what could be a harbinger for Broadway's post-Covid protocol, Springsteen on Broadway has announced that audience members must be vaccinated with an FDA-approved vaccine, a policy no doub…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:51AM[SHARE]David Byrne's American Utopia, the theatrical concert performance that played a limited engagement on Broadway to great acclaim and full houses for five months in 2019 and 2020, and months a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]A new nonprofit fund called Places Please Project will provide $500,000 in rental relief to New York City-based theater workers who have been out of work and struggling to pay rent as Covid …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Freestyle Love Supreme, the improvisational rap musical revue co-created by Lin-Manuel Miranda, is returning to Broadway's Booth Theatre for a strictly limited three-month engagement in Octo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]The Book of Mormon, the Tony-winning musical comedy by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez, will resume Broadway performances at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on Friday, Nov. 5, producer A…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 15, 2021
The Bedwetter, a new musical based on Sarah Silverman's bestselling memoir, will make its world premiere in an Off Broadway production next Spring, the Atlantic Theater Company announced tod…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:41PM[SHARE]Alice in Neverland, an original musical that imagines a meeting between Lewis Carroll's Alice and J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, is under development, with actors Christy Altomare (Anastasia), Hea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:36PM[SHARE]Lisa Banes, known for her roles in the films Gone Girl and Cocktail, as well as numerous Broadway productions, died yesterday, 10 days after being struck by a scooter or motorcycle in a hit-…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Karla Burns, an actress and singer whose acclaimed performance as Queenie in the musical Show Boat earned an Olivier Award and a Tony Award nomination, died June 4 in Wichita, Kansas, fol…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:57AM[SHARE]Actors' Equity Association has reached an agreement with Broadway producers on Covid protocols for theatrical touring shows that calls for the full vaccination of all traveling company membe…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:22AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Blue Man Group, New York's three-decade stalwart of Off Broadway, will return to its longtime, pre-pandemic home on Friday, Sept. 3. "For nearly 30 years, Blue Man Group has estab…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 11, 2021
Katori Hall's comedy-drama play The Hot Wing King, which was given a world premiere by Off Broadway's Signature Theatre Company just before the pandemic shutdown, was awarded the 2021 Pulitz…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 10, 2021
Greg Berlanti and Chandra Wilson joined The Actors Fund Board of Trustees during the organization's annual meeting yesterday, with Brian Stokes Mitchell reelected as Chairman. "I could not b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:49PM[SHARE]Longtime Bruce Springsteen fans are well-practiced in the art of waiting in line for tickets, a skill that could come in handy today with reports of virtual wait times for the recently annou…
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