Wednesday, October 14, 2020
David Byrne's American Utopia will return to Broadway next fall. Producers announced today that the critically lauded production will hit the stage Sept. 17, 2021. The show, filmed by Spike …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:41PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Bedlam, the small, critically acclaimed Off Broadway theater company known for its clever, spare and unconventional stagings of classics like The Crucible and Saint Joan, is devel…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 13, 2020
With Broadway's shut down at least until June, some producers who had been hoping to open shows this spring are re-setting their sights on fall or even 2022, while others have announced no p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:34AM[SHARE]Friday, October 9, 2020
With no fewer than three acclaimed Broadway productions of plays written by Kenneth Lonergan to his credit " This Is Our Youth, Lobby Hero and The Waverly Gallery "actor Michael Cera seems t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:30PM[SHARE]Audiences moved to tears " actually, moved to sobs " were commonplace throughout last year's nine-week Broadway run of Sea Wall/A Life, the pair of solo one-act plays starring, respectively,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: With Broadway dark at least until next summer, The Music Man starring Hugh Jackman has set a new opening night for 2022. The highly anticipated musical revival, costarring Sutton …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30AM[SHARE]Broadway will remain closed through at least May 30 2021, the Broadway League announced today. The four-month extension beyond the most recent January date will force producers hoping for a …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 8, 2020
Tommy Rall, the actor and dancer who brought Broadway skills to Hollywood films like Kiss Me Kate, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Funny Girl and Pennies From Heaven, died Tuesday of conges…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:06PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Broadway's annual I Put A Spell On You concert-slash-party event to raise funds for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, will go virtual this year due to the pandemic. The concert e…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Morgan Freeman, Laurie Metcalf, John Malkovich, Zachary Quinto, Vanessa Williams, David Alan Grier, Elizabeth Ashley, Matthew Broderick, Lucas Hedges and Paul Mescal are among the actors who…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:00PM[SHARE]A one-night-only Halloween benefit concert presentation of the Tim Burton/Danny Elfman spooky 1993 classic The Nightmare Before Christmas is drawing top-notch Broadway talent, including Jame…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PM[SHARE]Sir Tim Rice has written lyrics for some of the most beloved and successful musicals of the past century, from Jesus Christ Superstar and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat to Ches…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 6, 2020
UPDATE, with video message Amanda Kloots, the former actress who chronicled her late husband Nick Cordero's painful decline from COVID-19, has responded to Donald Trump's Don't let COVID dom…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:35AM[SHARE]Monday, October 5, 2020
Armelia McQueen, who rose to Broadway stardom with her debut in 1978's Ain't Misbehavin' and played the sister of Whoopi Goldberg's haunted character in 1990's Ghost, died Saturday. She was …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:16AM[SHARE]Murray Schisgal, whose writing brought a 1964 Tony Award nomination for the Broadway play Luv and a 1982 Oscar nomination for the hit Dustin Hoffman comedy Tootsie, died Oct. 1 at a nursing …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 1, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: Great Performances has set its fourth annual "Broadway's Best" November line-up on PBS, including the world premiere of Lea Salonga in Concert featuring the Tony Award-winner sing…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:15PM[SHARE]Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS provided a record $18.1 million in grants to a pandemic-slammed industry during the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, the most ever awarded in the orga…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:53PM[SHARE]Laura Esquivel's 1989 novel Like Water For Chocolate, adapted for the screen in 1993, is now headed to the stage: A musical version to be directed by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer with ori…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:15AM[SHARE]Monday, September 28, 2020
SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains crucial plot details about Netflix's The Boys in the Band film Much has changed in the two years since director Joe Mantello was readying his revival o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Disney Junior's Emmy and BAFTA Award-nominated animated series Vampirina has lined up a roster of season 3 guest stars from both Broadway and television, including Audra McDonald …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Friday, September 25, 2020
An all-star digital performance of scenes from Tony Kushner's Angels in America, benefiting amFAR's COVID-19 fund, will feature Glenn Close as Roy Cohn, with other roles from the Pulitzer Pr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 24, 2020
Off Broadway's Signature Theatre will take its acclaimed production of Lauren Yee's play with music Cambodian Rock Band on the road, marking the theater company's first production to tour. T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 23, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: Robert Horn, the Tony Award-winning book writer of the Broadway musical Tootsie, has signed with Verve for representation in all areas. Horn, who began his career as a writer for …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Tommy DeVito, a founding member and lead guitarist of the 1960s chart-topping vocal group The Four Seasons and the inspiration for a key character in the 2005 jukebox musical Jersey Boys and…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:19PM[SHARE]Monday, September 21, 2020
The Emmys' In Memoriam segment Sunday left out a number of actors we lost in 2020, but the Television Academy hasn't entirely overlooked them. Nick Cordero, Chi Chi DeVayne, Kobe Bryant, She…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:23PM[SHARE]Nick Cordero was not included in the Emmy Award's In Memoriam segment Sunday night, and Zach Braff, the late actor's friend and former Broadway co-star, says it wasn't for supporters' lack o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:29AM[SHARE]For only the second time in its century-plus history, Actors' Equity Association, the union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theater, has endorsed…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:29AM[SHARE]Friday, September 18, 2020
The upcoming season of Encores! at New York's City Center will include an adaptation by Pose's Billy Porter of The Life, a musical last seen in New York on Broadway in 1997. Porter's adaptat…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:09PM[SHARE]U.S. Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the Broadway League renewed the call for dedicated federal funding for Broadway and other New York live venues today, reiterating the push for the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:42PM[SHARE]Nick Cordero's album Live Your Life: Live at Feinstein's/54 Below, released posthumously yesterday on what would have been the Broadway star's 42nd birthday, hit #1 on iTunes album chart las…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 17, 2020
A filmed version of Heidi Schreck's acclaimed, Tony-nominated Broadway play What the Constitution Means to Me will premiere Oct. 16 exclusively on Amazon Prime Video, the streamer said today…
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