Wednesday, May 27, 2020
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 …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:30PM[SHARE]Refresh for updates Lin-Manuel Miranda, Benj Pasek, Rob Reiner and other figures of Hollywood and Broadway paid tribute today to Larry Kramer, the Normal Heart playwright and AIDS activis…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:29PM[SHARE]Larry Kramer, the playwright whose righteous fury over a lackluster governmental " and societal " response to the early AIDS crisis fueled his groundbreaking 1985 play The Normal Heart and a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 26, 2020
The reopening of Broadway theaters should not come without as much consideration for actors' safety as for that of audiences, Actors' Equity Association made clear today in a presentation by…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 21, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: New York's Irish Repertory Theatre has announced an upcoming online run of four plays, becoming what could be Off Broadway's first summer season created specifically for virtual v…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PM[SHARE]A musical stage adaptation of NBC's Smash is in development for Broadway, with Steven Spielberg, Robert Greenblatt and Neil Meron on board as lead producers. Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Nick Cordero, the Broadway actor whose long battle with COVID-19 has been chronicled on Instagram, "had a bad morning," with wife Amanda Kloots noting in an Instagram Story video today that …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:22PM[SHARE]Broadway fans won't have to rely on CBS' Grease Sing-a-Long for their would-have-been Tony night celebrations: the Broadway On Demand streaming service, with support from the American…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:26PM[SHARE]Katelyn Kelley and Jon Demegillo, classmates in their fourth and final years at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, felt a calling to perform early in their young lives. Kat…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]John Mahon, an actor, director and writer who played a police chief in 1997's L.A. Confidential and, as a language lab director in one of the creepiest moments of The Exorcist revealed that …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 19, 2020
The 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards will celebrate the life and legacy of American theater producer and director Harold "Hal" Prince (Cabaret, Fiddler on the Roof, among many others) with the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:50AM[SHARE]Friday, May 15, 2020
Some Like It Hot, a planned stage musical based on the great 1959 Billy Wilder comedy, has set its sights on a Fall 2021 Broadway opening, producers announced today. The staging would mark t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Bette Midler will personally match donations to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund up to $100,000, the charitable organization announced today. "Between he…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 14, 2020
Disney's Frozen has become Broadway's first long-running casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic and industrywide shutdown. The production, which opened March 22, 2018 at the St. James Theatre, an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:19PM[SHARE]The Actors Fund has distributed a record-breaking $10.5 million over the past eight weeks to provide emergency financial assistance for performing arts and entertainment workers in need due …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:52AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 13, 2020
MJ, the Michael Jackson stage musical headed for Broadway, will begin previews next March, an eight-month postponement due to the coronavirus pandemic shutdown. The new dates were announced …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:54AM[SHARE]Christopher Jackson originated the role of President George Washington for Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway smash Hamilton " a role he'll reprise in the film version, set to debut on Apple+ Jul…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Debra Messing, Katharine McPhee, Christian Borle, Megan Hilty and other cast members of NBC's 2012-13 series Smash will virtually reunite May 20 for a one-night-only Actors Fund benefit stre…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:26PM[SHARE]The Broadway revival of Neil Simon's Plaza Suite, starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker and directed by John Benjamin Hickey, will postpone its opening more than a year due to …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:52PM[SHARE]Actors' Equity Association says it agrees with the Broadway League's decision to refund Broadway tickets through September 6, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. "Today the Broadway League took a …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:08PM[SHARE]Monday, May 11, 2020
Jagged Little Pill, Moulin Rouge!, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Grand Horizons, Mary-Louise Parker and Jonathan Groff are among this year's Outer Critics Circle Awards recipients, a collec…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:04PM[SHARE]Friday, May 8, 2020
Noma Dumezweni picks up where Daniel Radcliffe left off: The Harry Potter and the Cursed Child actress reads Chapter Two of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the latest installment of…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 7, 2020
On the day her new Off Broadway production Between the Lines was set to open, producer Daryl Roth has announced the musical based on the novel by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer will inst…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PM[SHARE]The Neil LaBute play The Shape of Things will be given a livestream reading Friday night to benefit The Actors Fund, with LaBute himself taking part in an after-show Q&A to tell "a few w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Berkeley Rep's world premiere of Swept Away, a stage production featuring the music of The Avett Brothers, written by Moulin Rouge!'s John Logan and reteaming Spring Awakening director Micha…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:32PM[SHARE]A virtual concert event to benefit the Covenant House charity for homeless and trafficked youth has lined up a 50-plus roster of stars to perform or appear for the May 18 fundraiser, includi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:54AM[SHARE]Monday, May 4, 2020
Roger Horchow, a Cincinnati-born entrepreneur who parlayed a luxury mail-order fortune into a Tony Award-winning streak as a producer on Broadway, died Saturday in Dallas of cancer. He was 9…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:23PM[SHARE]Michael Keenan, an actor who played Mayor Bill Pugen on CBS 1990s series Picket Fences and Baron van Swieten in the 1999 Broadway revival of Amadeus, died April 30 at the Motion Picture &…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:19PM[SHARE]A reading of David Mamet's play November, starring John Malkovich, Patti LuPone, Dylan Baker, Ethan Phillips and Michael Nichols, will kick off a new weekly livestream series of readings Thu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]Rosalind Elias, a mezzo-soprano who at 24 began a 42-year association with the Metropolitan Opera but didn't make her Broadway debut until she'd turned 81, died Sunday, May 3, in New York. S…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:14PM[SHARE]Cast members from Broadway's Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Jagged Little Pill, Company, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Chicago, Diana, Mean Girls, Girl from the North Country, Six, and Mrs. Dou…
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