Monday, November 16, 2020
The Broadway premieres of Ruben Santiago-Hudson's Lackawanna Blues and Paula Vogel's How I Learned To Drive have been set for 2022 and 2021, respectively, with producers at the Manhattan The…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:03PM[SHARE]Tony Award-nominated actor Chad Kimball, among Broadway's first wave of performers to contract the coronavirus last spring, is finding little support among his Broadway colleagues after he p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:16PM[SHARE]Pete Wright, the 54-year-old Broadway stagehand who fell to his death last Thursday from a ladder on the fly floor above the Winter Garden Theater stage, is being remembered as "a force of n…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:47AM[SHARE]Steppenwolf's Broadway production of Tracy Letts' The Minutes is exiting the Cort Theatre, its pre-COVID home, with plans to re-open in 2022 at another Broadway venue. The move signals yet a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: "You thought you knew Scrooge," an ominous voice intones. "You don't know this Scrooge." So get acquainted with Estella Scrooge, the upcoming world premiere streaming musical with…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 12, 2020
A 54-year-old stagehand fell to his death from scaffolding inside Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre this morning as workers were removing props from the Beetlejuice musical in preparation for…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:01PM[SHARE]Playwright Israel Horovitz, whose Off Broadway productions provided early stages for such soon-to-be-stars as Al Pacino, Marsha Mason, John Cazale and Richard Dreyfus but whose later career …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:23AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Isaac Powell, the star of Ivo van Howe's 2020 Broadway revival of West Side Story, has joined the cast of Universal's Dear Evan Hansen. The project will mark Powell's feature film…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]The slimmed down Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade will include some of its traditional Broadway dazzle, with parade organizers announcing that four stage productions will be included in the br…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:41AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Actor Lawrence Clayton, who made his Broadway debut in 1981 in Dreamgirls and most recently starred in the 2015 revival of The Color Purple, died Nov. 2 following a two-year battle with glio…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 10, 2020
NBC is inviting the Grinch to share its holiday season: The network will air a two-hour production of Dr. Seuss' The Grinch Musical! on December 9. Staged at the Troubadour Theatre in London…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:33AM[SHARE]Monday, November 9, 2020
Broadway's Jagged Little Pill cast will reunite for a one-night-only special concert performance next month, bringing the musical's stars together for the first time since the pandemic shutd…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:01PM[SHARE]Monday, November 2, 2020
Jeremy Stevens, a three-time Emmy Award winner " including two as a writer and executive producer on Everybody Loves Raymond " died of renal failure on October 27 at his home in Northridge, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:43PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 29, 2020
Succession's Juliana Canfield, WandaVision's Kathryn Hahn, Messiah's Emily Kinney, Moulin Rouge!'s Sahr Ngaujah, and Jesus Christ Superstar: Live in Concert's Joel Perez have joined the line…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:36PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Tony Award winning actress Laura Benanti is joining the ensemble cast of HBO Max's upcoming Gossip Girl sequel series. No word yet on character details, but the actress joins Goss…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:18PM[SHARE]The Broadway performances of a U.S. congressman's wife has become an unlikely talking point in Wisconsin politics. In her campaign to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher by highlighti…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Bruston Manuel, the Chief Operating Officer of live event producer RWS Entertainment and its subsidiary Binder Casting, resigned his position today, stating he had "not lived up to the high …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:48PM[SHARE]If Saturday Night Live can do it, why not Off Broadway? That's one of the arguments in a lawsuit filed by six small New York theaters and two comedy clubs against New York Governor Andrew Cu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:18AM[SHARE]Monday, October 26, 2020
Ming Cho Lee, an innovative and influential scenic designer whose career of more than 60 years included unforgettable creations for Broadway, Off Broadway, regional theater, opera and dance,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 22, 2020
Marge Champion, a dancer who achieved nationwide television fame in the 1950s with her husband and dance partner Gower Champion and even then had already contributed to cinema history as a m…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:06AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Broadway actors have a long history of moonlighting " sunlighting? " on daytime soaps, at least they did in decades past when New York City still had soaps. With theaters now dark…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Original cast members of Broadway's Hamilton have joined the line-up of performers for the annual Arthur Miller Foundation Honors celebrating public school arts education. The third annual g…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 19, 2020
The Right Girl, a new musical based on (and co-written by) the real-life story of former screenwriter Louisette Geiss and the sexual harassment by Harvey Weinstein she says ended her film ca…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:11AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 15, 2020
Blame the coronavirus for this year's drastically reduced roster of eligible Tony Award nominees, and Tony nominators for overlooking at least a few possibilities. Even with only 18 Broadway…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:02PM[SHARE]Refresh for updates Acknowledgements, thank yous, laments for shuttered theaters, pleas for racial justice and get-out-the-vote plugs (for one presidential candidate, anyway) are being offer…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:16PM[SHARE]Refresh for updates…The nominations for the 2020 Tony Awards will be announced virtually at noon ET by actor James Monroe Iglehart. Deadline will keep you up to speed on the nominations as…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:56AM[SHARE]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,…
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