Monday, May 3, 2021
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced today that all state-mandated capacity restrictions in New York City will be lifted May 19, including Broadway theaters. While acknowledging that a M…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 29, 2021
Revolution Rent, a documentary that follows director/actor Andy Señor Jr. to Cuba as he stages a production of Jonathan Larson's Rent that marks the first American company of a Broadway m…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said today that he expects the city to be back "full strength" from the yearlong Covid shutdown in July " not including Broadway. "Broadway takes time beca…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 28, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: A group of prominent Broadway theater producers, whose shows include The Band's Visit, MJ: The Musical, Waitress and August: Osage County to name a few, are teaming with the Black…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]A new stage musical adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald masterpiece The Great Gatsby is headed for Broadway, with music by Florence + the Machine's Florence Welch and Oscar-nominated "Myst…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 24, 2021
The Broadway League has confirmed that producer Scott Rudin has resigned from its ranks, a move that could have colossal ramifications on the Broadway landscape now and in the foreseeable fu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:26PM[SHARE]Friday, April 23, 2021
Michael Chabon, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2000 novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and worked for years with producer Scott Rudin on an unrealized film adaptation, has…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:43PM[SHARE]Add New York State's summerlong arts festival NY PopsUp to the roster of projects from which producer Scott Rudin has stepped back. Deadline has confirmed that Rudin, under fire for allegati…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 22, 2021
Arthur T. Birsh, whose job titles during his 50-year career at Playbill, the nation's most recognizable theater program, included publisher, president, chairman, and most recently chairman e…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Actors' Equity Association told members today that it will not place producer Scott Rudin on its "Do Not Work" list, explaining that the union utilizes the list to alert members about the st…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:46PM[SHARE]Hugh Jackman, star of the upcoming Broadway revival of The Music Man produced by Scott Rudin, said today that the company is "rebuilding the Music Man team" in the wake of Rudin's decision t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:15PM[SHARE]Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, Magnificent Seven) will direct and produce a film adaptation of the Tennessee Williams' play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof based on the 2008 Broadway production featurin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:55AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 20, 2021
UPDATE, with Bonnie Tyler tribute Jim Steinman, the composer and lyricist whose roster of hit records included the huge Bonnie Tyler hit "Total Eclipse of the Heart," was remembered by the s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:01PM[SHARE]Broadway's Beauty and the Beast stage director Rob Roth has resigned from the Disney show's upcoming U.K. and Ireland tour after the text of an email he either sent or intended to send prais…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:59AM[SHARE]Anthony Powell, a three-time Oscar winner whose costume designs helped bring Indiana Jones to rugged life and Broadway's Norma Desmond to extravagant excess, died Sunday. He was 85. The Cost…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:38AM[SHARE]Monday, April 19, 2021
The organizers of this week's March on Broadway: Broadway Fights Back event protesting racism and inequality in the theater industry have released a list of six demands, including calls for …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:39PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 18, 2021
Sutton Foster, who is set to co-star in the upcoming $17 million revival of The Music Man on Broadway with Hugh Jackman, made her first public comments about the show's producer, Scott Rudin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 17, 2021
Actors' Equity Association is calling on producer Scott Rudin, who "stepped back" from his Broadway productions today in response to allegations of workplace abuse, to release employees from…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:42PM[SHARE]Producer Scott Rudin will "step back" from active involvement in his Broadway shows in response to allegations of abusive and bullying treatment of employees stretching back for years, Deadl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:39AM[SHARE]Friday, April 16, 2021
James C. Nicola, whose tenure as artistic director of Off Broadway's New York Theatre Workshop included the development of such prominent stage works as Rent, Once, Hadestown, What the C…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Karen Olivo, the Tony-nominated star of Broadway hit musical Moulin Rouge!, will not return to the production when the industry re-opens in protest of what she says is the industry silence o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:40PM[SHARE]Robert Fletcher, a costumer designer whose more than six decades of credits on screen and the Broadway stage included the first four Star Trek films, died April 5 in Kansas City, Missouri. H…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:17AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Two of the country's major theatrical venues announced reopening plans today, with the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles and the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. set to house Broadway product…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:48PM[SHARE]George Clooney, Noah Wyle, Julianna Margulies and Anthony Edwards will reunite with other cast members of NBC's classic hospital drama ER for a special Earth Day episode of Stars in the Hous…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:38AM[SHARE]Monday, April 12, 2021
Ethan Hawke and John Leguizamo will star in an Off Broadway streaming production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot, directed by Scott Elliott and premiering online Tuesday, May 6. The Ne…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:31PM[SHARE]Leaders of SAG-AFTRA, Actors' Equity Association and American Federation of Musicians Local 802 are condemning harassment, bullying and toxic environments and pledging "to hold accountable t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:30PM[SHARE]The Times Square coronavirus vaccination site serving the Broadway theater industry opened today with an open invitation to the city's film and television workers as well. In a press confere…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 7, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: The non-prof organization Musicians United for Social Equity, or Muse, announced today a set of scholarships supporting BIPOC musicians pursuing a career in theater, an initiative…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 6, 2021
New York theater is tiptoeing its way through the dark with tonight's Off Broadway opening of the actor-free technological and storytelling marvel Blindness, a sound-and-light excursion into…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]A Beautiful Noise, the new name for the previously untitled Broadway-bound musical about the life and songs of Neil Diamond, will stage its world premiere at Boston's Emerson Colonial Theatr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:38AM[SHARE]Monday, April 5, 2021
NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Yang released a sweeping "arts revival" proposal today that would include the use of city funds and corporate commitments to purchase "hundreds of thousands" of …
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