Monday, January 4, 2021
George Gerdes, a prolific character actor whose many credits stretch from Miami Vice and Seinfeld to Bosch and Broadway's A Few Good Men, died Jan. 1 of a brain aneurysm suffered the day bef…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:29PM[SHARE]Friday, January 1, 2021
With no Tony Awards this year to honor those Broadway stars and workers who have passed away, a new In Memoriam video directed by actor Raúl Esparza is picking up the mantle. The eight-mi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:46PM[SHARE]When Broadway producer Greg Noble heard Gayle King singing the words to "Ode To Remy" on The Morning Show some weeks ago, he knew a sort of leap had been taken. "I thought this thing that st…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Last spring, in the early days of Broadway's Covid-19 pandemic shutdown, news reports and industry chatter referred to an eventual (and, it seemed, imminent) reopening as if a light switch w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Marcus D'Amico, the actor best known for originating the role Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver in the 1993 limited TV series Tales of the City, died Dec. 16 of pneumonia at his home in Oxfordshire, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:19PM[SHARE]Monday, December 28, 2020
Arthur P. Siccardi, a longtime Broadway production supervisor whose five-decade career included work on such notable original and revival stagings as Sweeney Todd, Whose Life is it Anyway?, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:56PM[SHARE]Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical will have an all-star cast for its one-time-only streaming performance, a line-up that includes Wayne Brady, Kevin Chamberlin, Adam Lambert and André De Shie…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Rebecca Luker, a three-time Tony Award nominee and one of Broadway's most acclaimed and popular musical actresses, died today at a New York City hospital following a nearly yearlong battle w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:38PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 19, 2020
Peg Murray, who won a 1967 Tony Award for portrayal of Fräulein Kost in Cabaret and later recurred for 13 years on ABC's daytime drama All My Children, died Nov. 29. A resident in recent…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:17PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Dr. Pamela Newkirk, a journalist, scholar and author of Diversity Inc.: The Failed Promise of Billion-Dollar Business, has been appointed to the Shubert Organization's board of director. New…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:00PM[SHARE]The new eight-acre Manhattan West mixed-use development complex in New York City will add a 10,000-square-foot entertainment and restaurant space in 2021, including an intimate, 160-seat the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:51PM[SHARE]Moulin Rouge! The Musical will kick off its North American tour in February 2022, two years after the originally scheduled opening date that was knocked out by the Covid-19 pandemic. Produce…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:03PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Playwright Will Eno, whose credits include Broadway's The Realistic Joneses and the Pulitzer Prize finalist Thom Pain (Based on Nothing), has signed with ICM Partners for repre…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 10, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: Playwright and performer Hannah Benitez has signed with Verve in what was described as a competitive signing situation. The Cuban-Jewish playwright's most recent play, GringoLandi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 9, 2020
More than 200 million TikTok users can hum along to selections from Ratatouille: The Musical, a statistic all the more impressive considering there's kinda really no such thing as Ratatouill…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:27PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Paul Phillips, whose long career as a Broadway stage manager included work on such notable productions as Sweet Charity, Mame, Chicago and, in 1967, the now historic Judy Garland at Home at …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:44PM[SHARE]Slave Play playwright Jeremy O. Harris will donate a collection of 15 plays by Black playwrights to 53 libraries and community centers across the country, a donation made in lieu of sending …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:03AM[SHARE]Monday, December 7, 2020
Tony Award-winning director Kenny Leon will join Roundabout Theatre Company's artistic leadership team as Senior Resident Director next month. The director, most recently of Roundabout's Ton…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PM[SHARE]Friday, December 4, 2020
Slave Play playwright Jeremy O. Harris and New York Theatre Workshop " the Off Broadway company where he developed the acclaimed work " announced today the establishment of two $50,000 commi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 3, 2020
Warren Berlinger, a busy character actor whose numerous roles made him one of TV's most familiar faces from the Kraft Theatre golden age through the Grace and Frankie streaming era, died Wed…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:47PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Another step is being taken in Broadway's efforts to confront its own systemic racism: Broadway & Beyond, founded by stage and production managers of Hadestown, Frozen and Ala…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says widespread, national use of an efficacious vaccine this spring and early summer could allow Bro…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 1, 2020
The newly formed Theatre Producers of Color organization announced today its first educational program to support and mentor the next generation of BIPOC producers. The 10-week, limited-spac…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 26, 2020
Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon opened today's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with an energetic rendition of "Dancing In The Streets," strutting like Jagger on the barricaded, crowd-free New …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 25, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: Singer Sarah Brightman's first livestream Christmas concert next month will include a reunion with her former husband and partner-in-theater Andrew Lloyd Webber. The two will perf…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 24, 2020
The theater industry's pandemic-shortened season seems to have opened up the Grammy playing field for cast albums, as only two of the six just-announced nominees for the 2021 awards represen…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:17PM[SHARE]Monday, November 23, 2020
Despite what you may have read, The Right Girl is not a musical about Harvey Weinstein. Then again, having been created by one of the first women to speak out against the rapist, it's not no…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 19, 2020
The first Actors' Equity diversity and inclusion report since 2017 finds "modest improvement" in the hiring of actors and stage managers of color in the last three years, but describes the s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:29PM[SHARE]Sony Music Masterworks has announced a strategic investment in Seaview, the theater production company behind Broadway's Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris and the Jake Gyllenhaal-Tom Sturridge …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Encores!, the acclaimed series of concert-style theatrical productions founded to rediscover overlooked Broadway gems of years past, announced plans to stage Into The Woods, the beloved Step…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:16PM[SHARE]Tina Fey will host NBC's One Night Only: The Best of Broadway, a two-hour special on Dec. 10 celebrating Broadway and featuring street performances from some of its most popular shows. Fey, …
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