Wednesday, August 12, 2020
In a Broadway first, Diana: A New Musical, the stage production about Princess Diana that went dark with the COVID shutdown just prior to its opening night, will premiere on Netflix next yea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Tony Charmoli, a leading television and Broadway choreographer and director who won three Emmy Awards from the 1950s through 1970s and worked with stars from Mitzi Gaynor and Shirley MacLain…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:38AM[SHARE]Monday, August 10, 2020
The John Gore Organization, a major Tony Award-winning production company and owner of Broadway.com and The Broadway Channel, has permanently laid off what sources say is more than 100 previ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:23AM[SHARE]Friday, August 7, 2020
Two of theater's heavy-hitters are squaring off in a legal battle that could be Broadway's biggest drama during the pandemic shutdown: Ad agency Spotco is suing producer Scott Rudin for $6.3…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:37PM[SHARE]The Broadway League, the trade group representing Broadway and regional theater owners and producers, has added producer Brian Moreland and Kendra Whitlock Ingram, president and CEO of Milwa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:20PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 6, 2020
Brent Carver, a stage and screen actor who won the 1993 Tony Award for his performance in Broadway's The Kiss of the Spider Woman, died Tuesday at his home in Cranbrook, British Columbia, hi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:43PM[SHARE]Labor leaders from five unions including Actors' Equity Association today joined together to demand Senate action on the HEROES Act, calling the additional $600 in weekly pandemic unemployme…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:10PM[SHARE]Monday, August 3, 2020
Sing Street, the sold-out Off Broadway musical that was set to begin performances at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre just as the COVID-19 shutdown hit, is now targeting an opening sometime between…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:00PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE Playwright Keenan Scott II, whose play Thoughts of a Colored Man is a likely contender for a post-shutdown Broadway staging, has signed with A3 Artists Agency in all areas. Scott, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:45AM[SHARE]The Broadway Advocacy Coalition announces the creation of the BAC Artivism Fellowship to support artist activists, providing financial support, mentorship, networking opportunities and educa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 30, 2020
Actor Bryan Cranston revealed today a recent bout with COVID-19, posting an Instagram video of himself donating his antibody-positive plasma for research and encouraging people to wear a mas…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 29, 2020
The Phantom of the Opera might not have left the London theater scene for good after all, assures composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. Responding to a newspaper column written by Phantom producer C…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:58AM[SHARE]Monday, July 27, 2020
Royana Black, an actress who made her Broadway debut at age 10 in Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs and, five years later, took the title role in the 1988 sitcom Raising Miranda, died July…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:19PM[SHARE]Friday, July 24, 2020
A stage musical adaptation of the 2016 Oscar-nominated hit film Hidden Figures is in the works at Disney, with plans to assemble a creative team of Black artists, Disney Theatrical Productio…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:13PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 23, 2020
A new organization called Black Theatre Coalition has launched its inaugural program to increase work opportunities for Black theater professionals by at least 500% within the next 10 years.…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:39PM[SHARE]While Congress debates how much (or how little) to parse out to the entertainment industry in the next COVID-19 relief package, a group of Broadway insiders is making clear just how wide and…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:28PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 22, 2020
A recording of the late Nick Cordero's one-man show will be released by Broadway Records on September 17, marking what would have been the actor's 42nd birthday. Broadway Records and Cordero…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:44PM[SHARE]Theatrical stage union IATSE has issued a 27-page set of safety guidelines for the still-to-be-determined reopening of Broadway and other live performance venues, with recommendations includ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 21, 2020
A new work by two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Lynn Nottage will join Second Stage Theater's Broadway line-up for 2021, joining the company's postponed revival of Richard Greenberg…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Friday, July 17, 2020
Phyllis Somerville, an actress whose character work spanned decades as well as television (The Big C, NYPD Blue), film (Little Children, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and the stage (B…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:17PM[SHARE]Monday, July 13, 2020
Andrew Lloyd Webber has told the Donald Trump campaign to scrub his "Memory," joining a growing list of musical artists " from Neil Young to the Rolling Stones " who object to the playing of…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:15PM[SHARE]A coalition of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) theater workers has released a detailed, 29-page set of demands and strategies to combat racism in the Broadway theater, recommen…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 8, 2020
The Obie Awards, Off Broadway's most prestigious honor, has rescheduled its prerecorded 65th annual award ceremony for July 14 on YouTube. The original premiere date of June 4 was scratched …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 7, 2020
We certainly don't need another reason to wish the coronavirus gone and Broadway back in business, but here's one anyway: Ben Platt wants to return to the stage. "Hankering," is the word he …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]Friday, July 3, 2020
Stage actor and writer Sidney DuPont (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Trevor: The Musical) has gathered a group of Broadway and Off Broadway performers to launch "The Walkout Project," a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 2, 2020
Amanda Kloots, the wife of Broadway actor Nick Cordero, told CBS This Morning today that her husband will likely need a double lung transplant in his long recovery from COVID-19. "We think t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:16AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Producers of Broadway's Take Me Out starring Patrick J. Adams, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jesse Williams have set an opening date of April 22, 2021, with previews beginning March 22. The Secon…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 30, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: Producer Scott Rudin will bring actor Dustin Hoffman to Broadway in a 2021 staging of Our Town, to be directed by Bartlett Sher. Hoffman will play the role of the Stage Manager in…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:59PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: As the much-anticipated Hamilton film debuts on Disney+ Friday and Hulu's We Are Freestyle Love Supreme gets a July 17 premiere date, actor Christopher Jackson has signed with CAA…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:30PM[SHARE]Monday, June 29, 2020
With thousands of out-of-work theater professionals likely to become ineligible for their union insurance over the next six months as the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown continues, The Actors Fun…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:09PM[SHARE]As expected, Broadway will remain dark through 2020, with the Broadway League announcing today that theater owners will refund or exchange all tickets purchased for productions through Jan. …
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