Monday, June 29, 2020
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. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:31PM[SHARE]Friday, June 26, 2020
The Broadway revival of the Tony Kushner-Jeanine Tesori musical Caroline, or Change and the New York premiere of Noah Haidle's Birthday Candles starring Debra Messing are the latest producti…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 25, 2020
The Broadway revival of American Buffalo, orignally set to star Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss, and the Steppenwolf production of Tracy Letts' The Minutes are targeting Sp…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Marlo Thomas will join Stars In The House creators and hosts Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley Friday on their YouTube series to celebrate the actress' groundbreaking 1970s TV special Free To B…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:10PM[SHARE]Lincoln Center Theater will postpone until Spring 2021 two productions it had planned for this Fall, including the James Lapine-directed Broadway musical Flying Over Sunset, due to the ongoi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:41AM[SHARE]Monday, June 22, 2020
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Disney Animation are at work on an animated musical set in Colombia, the Hamilton creator teased in an interview on ABC's Good Morning America today. "I'm actually wri…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:21PM[SHARE]Friday, June 19, 2020
Audra McDonald, Tina " The Tina Turner Musical and its star Adrienne Warren, LaChanze, Aziza Barnes' play BLKS and the Off Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Con…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:29PM[SHARE]"There is only before this moment," says Adrienne Warren, star of Broadway's Tina " The Tina Turner Musical, "and after this moment." In a remarkable series of big, first steps into this new…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:31PM[SHARE]Philip J. Smith, Chairman and Co-CEO of The Shubert Organization, has announced his retirement, effective June 30, after 63 years with Broadway's largest theater owner and producer. A major …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 18, 2020
Lin-Manuel Miranda has weighed in on John Bolton's lift of a Hamilton lyric for use as the title of his memoir The Room Where It Happened. Since the former national security adviser announce…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:34PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Isaac Powell, who originated the lead role of Tony in Ivo van Howe's Broadway revival of West Side Story, has signed with CAA. For his critically acclaimed performance, which incl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:30PM[SHARE]Broadway actor Nick Cordero could face months more in the hospital and then as much as a year in a rehabilitation facility, his wife Amanda Kloots said in an Instagram Story last night. "We'…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:56AM[SHARE]Broadway's Moulin Rouge! The Musical and The Inheritance were named outstanding musical and play of the 2019-20 theater season by New York's Drama League, the organization announced today. T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:11AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Blasting the British government for what he says has been "no tangible practical support," producer Cameron Mackintosh says his company's West End productions of Hamilton, The Phantom of the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:48PM[SHARE]Friday, June 12, 2020
The producer and creators of Broadway's Dear Evan Hansen has donated $100,000 to organizations fighting racism in the theater industry, including $50,000 to the Broadway Advocacy Coalition t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 11, 2020
Mel Winkler, a character actor with numerous TV, film and stage credits as well as being a recognizable voice behind characters on the animated series The New Batman Adventures and Oswald, d…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 10, 2020
The first annual Antonyo Awards honoring black Broadway and Off Broadway theater artists is set for streaming on June 19 (aka Juneteenth, the date commemorating the end of slavery in America…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:49PM[SHARE]Monday, June 8, 2020
The pre-recorded 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards, postponed due to the Black Lives Matter protests in New York, has been rescheduled for streaming on Saturday, June 13, at 7:30pm ET. The speci…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:21PM[SHARE]Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS today announced $125,000 in immediate grants to the Broadway Advocacy Coalition and three other anti-racism organizations. The grants include a $50,000 comm…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:33AM[SHARE]Friday, June 5, 2020
The Broadway Advocacy Coalition, a group founded by theater producers and actors to promote the use of the arts for social change, will host a three-day online forum June 10-12 to examine an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 4, 2020
The creative team and producers of Jeremy O. Harris' Slave Play have donated $10,000 to the National Bailout Fund in support of Black Lives Matter, and have challenged others in the theater …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 3, 2020
A social media campaign encouraging shutdown New York City theaters to open their lobbies " and restrooms " to protesters is gaining traction among Manhattan's Off Broadway venues and spaces…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Editors' Note: Colman Domingo, playwright, director and actor, was researching his musical (with co-author Patricia McGregor) about the iconic Nat King Cole when he realized the great singer…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:43AM[SHARE]Saying that now is no time for "celebration or diversion," the presenters of the annual Obie Awards for excellent in Off and Off Off Broadway theater, have postponed this year's virtual even…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:23AM[SHARE]Monday, June 1, 2020
John McCormack, a longtime behind-the-scenes force in Off Broadway theater, died Monday, May 18, at his home in Queens, New York from complications related to COVID-19. He was 61. McCormack'…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:09PM[SHARE]A streaming Broadway-themed fundraising special scheduled to air on Sunday, June 7 " the night that originally had been set for the annual Tony Awards " has been postponed in the wake of nat…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:56AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 31, 2020
Update, with Broadway League statement The companies of Hamilton, Hadestown and What the Constitution Means To Me are among the Broadway voices speaking out on the issues that have filled ci…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:54AM[SHARE]Friday, May 29, 2020
Jane Moss, the artistic director at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts for nearly 30 years, will step down from the post effective August 1. Moss said the timing of her departure was inf…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:56PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 28, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: A Star Trek: Voyager reunion broke the Stars In The House single-episode fundraising record, drawing donations totaling $19,225 for The Actors Fund's efforts to assist entertainme…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:40PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Ryan Murphy, the producer and director who finally got Larry Kramer's groundbreaking play The Normal Heart to screen, remembered his late friend and collaborator today as "the single greates…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:34PM[SHARE]Few artists can say they've surmounted social-distancing obstacles as magically as Portuguese illusionist Helder Guimarães. The impact of social distancing on the performing arts needn't …
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