Tuesday, September 7, 2021
Broadway's To Kill A Mockingbird has rounded out its return-to-stage cast, with Hunter Parrish, Portia, Michael Braugher and Gordon Clapp among the actors joining the previously announced Je…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:15PM[SHARE]Friday, September 3, 2021
Waitress, the Broadway hit that, along with Hadestown, brought music back to the New York stage last night after many dark months, grossed $197,878 in tickets sales today, breaking the singl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:13PM[SHARE]Mal Z. Lawrence, whose defiantly old-school Borscht Belt stand-up comedy delighted audiences and happily surprised critics when the Catskills on Broadway revue became a hit in 1991, died Mon…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 1, 2021
The three-day Curtain Up! festival in Times Square later this month will culminate in a big Sunday concert featuring performers from 18 Broadway musicals and five plays, with shows represent…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:38PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Tony Award-winning actress Joanna Gleason will make her feature film writing and directing debut with The Grotto, set to begin production later this month. The project was announc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:05PM[SHARE]The TKTS Discount Ticket Booth in Times Square, a symbol of Broadway and destination spot for tourists and New Yorkers alike, will reopen this month following an 18-month closure due to the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:34PM[SHARE]Monday, August 30, 2021
Alexandra Billings, a trans actor who made Broadway history when cast as Wicked's Madam Morrible in 2020, has issued a strong rebuke to Cameron Mackintosh over comments the British theater p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:17PM[SHARE]Friday, August 27, 2021
Broadway producers are joining forces with one another, with unions, and even with Oprah Winfrey to urge potentially jittery theatergoers back into seats, with a new marketing campaign calle…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 25, 2021
EXCLUSIVE Netflix next week will launch a new ad campaign for the upcoming Diana: The Musical with in-character cast portraits shot by Broadway photographer Matthew Murphy. See below for Dea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:30PM[SHARE]The stage musical adaptation of '80s classic The Karate Kid will kick up its world premiere in St. Louis next spring in what producers are calling a pre-Broadway engagement. The Karate Kid "…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 23, 2021
Micki Grant, who wrote and starred in Broadway's groundbreaking 1972 Black musical revue Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope, died Sunday at the age of 80. With Don't Bother Me, Grant became the f…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:55PM[SHARE]Black Theatre United, the nonprofit advocacy organization that's taken a leading role in the move for greater equity, diversity and inclusion on Broadway, has released a comprehensive, indus…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]A three-day, free outdoor Times Square festival heralding the reopening of Broadway will culminate in a Sept. 19 concert celebrating what organizers describe as "the entirety of the Broadway…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 22, 2021
This summer's big New York City performances have lugged considerable metaphorical baggage, from the giddy, vaxxed-but-maskless return of the Springsteen on Broadway concert during the pre-D…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:00PM[SHARE]Friday, August 20, 2021
Signature Theatre, one of New York's premiere Off Broadway venues, has postponed its fall production of Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Baker's Infinite Life due to "ongoing health and safety co…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:31PM[SHARE]Laura Osnes, Broadway's former Cinderella who left an upcoming Hamptons concert event rather than get a Covid vaccine, is no longer a Princess: A Disney concert tour set to begin this fall h…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:20PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 19, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: Director Bartlett Sher (Broadway's To Kill a Mockingbird), writer JT Rogers (HBO Max's upcoming Tokyo Vice), and producer Cambra Overend " the team behind HBO's Emmy-nominated fil…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: A new stage production of the 1970s cult comedy Women Behind Bars will stream exclusively on the BroadwayHD platform beginning August 26, with comedian Kathy Griffin hosting the p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 17, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: Neil Bartram and Brian Hill, writers of the stage musical adaptation of Disney's Bedknobs And Broomsticks that launched a UK and Ireland tour last weekend, have signed with Verve …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:42PM[SHARE]Laura Osnes, who has starred in such Broadway musicals as Bandstand, South Pacific and Bonnie and Clyde, is disputing reports that she was fired from a one-night benefit concert in East Hamp…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:02AM[SHARE]Monday, August 16, 2021
Tony Award-nominated choreographer Camille A. Brown will make her Broadway directing debut with a 2022 production of Ntozake Shange's 1976 classic for colored girls who have considered suici…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:41PM[SHARE]The Museum of Broadway, the first permanent museum dedicated to the history and legacy of New York's theater industry, will open next summer in Times Square following a delay caused by the C…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:43AM[SHARE]Monday, August 9, 2021
New York City is getting another shot in the arm this summer with Free Shakespeare in the Park's happy Merry Wives, playwright Jocelyn Bioh's embraceable adaptation of the Bard's The Merry W…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 5, 2021
PBS's Wicked in Concert special next month will be co-hosted by the musical's original Broadway stars Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel, with performances by Mario Cantone, Gavin Creel, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 4, 2021
Come From Away, the Apple Original Films adaptation of the Broadway hit musical, will premiere globally on Apple TV+ on Friday, September 10 " the eve of 9/11's 20th anniversary " with an en…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]The Tony Awards Administration Committee announced today that the 2020 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre " to be presented in September " will go to Fred Gallo, President of PRG Scen…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Sara Bareilles won't be the only Waitress cast member with prior stage-diner experience when the musical reopens on Broadway in September: Producers announced today that Waitress vets Drew G…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:36PM[SHARE]Monday, August 2, 2021
Alvin Ing, a pioneering Asian American actor who appeared on Broadway in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song and Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures, and whose guest roles on numerou…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:37PM[SHARE]Friday, July 30, 2021
UPDATE, with details The Broadway League announced today that the owners and operators of all 41 Broadway theaters in New York City will require vaccinations for audience members, as well as…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 29, 2021
Actors' Equity Association and the Broadway League have announced an agreement on safety protocols that includes mandated vaccines and weekly testing for the Broadway workforce. "This is an …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:14PM[SHARE]Bruce, a previously announced new musical based on Jaws screenwriter Carl Gottlieb's 1975 memoir The Jaws Log, is resurfacing: Seattle Rep will stage the world premiere next May, the regiona…
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