Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Broadway's Roundabout Theatre Company has named Miranda Haymon as Resident Director, making the company's resources available to develop their own work and to contribute to the overall artis…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:00PM[SHARE]Al Kasha, the Academy Award-winning composer who, along with songwriting partner Joel Hirschhorn, won Oscars for the soft rock disaster movie classics "The Morning After" and "We May Never L…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30AM[SHARE]Monday, September 14, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: Broadway's Tony- and Grammy-nominated couple Andy Karl and Orfeh have acquired the rights to Eric Bernat's 2016 mystery novel The Dancer. The deal marks the duo's first collaborat…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]Friday, September 11, 2020
A COVID-19 vaccine would likely not be an immediate, complete solution to Broadway's woes, says Dr. Anthony Fauci, who noted in an interview this week that it could take a year of reliable v…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:38PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 10, 2020
With Broadway theaters and other stages shuttered by the coronavirus pandemic, the Pulitzer Prize board has amended its rules of drama prize eligibility to include online productions and sho…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:29PM[SHARE]Ben Brantley, the influential New York Times theater critic, will leave the job next month. "This pandemic pause in the great, energizing party that is the theater seemed to me like a goo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 9, 2020
EXCLUSIVE With a roster of Broadway actors from such recent or on-pause productions as Waitress, Hadestown, The Play That Goes Wrong and Moulin Rouge!, a new musical inspired by A Christmas …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Veteran Broadway general manager Nathan Gehan is opening his own New York City general management firm, ShowTown Theatricals, with a roster of clients including the international musical pro…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 3, 2020
Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre has indefinitely postponed its world premiere stage adaptation of the 2005 George Clooney-co-written film Good Night, and Good Luck, a project that had generate…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Timothy Graphenreed, a longtime musical and dance arranger who composed two numbers for the beloved Broadway musical The Wiz, died March 1 at New York's Mt. Sinai Hospital. He was 68. Gra…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:02PM[SHARE]The recently formed Costume Industry Coalition has launched a pandemic emergency relief campaign for New York City's pattern makers, cutters, stitchers, tailors, milliners, hand finishers an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:55AM[SHARE]Monday, August 31, 2020
Producer Ryan Murphy drew the curtain back on the cast of Netflix's The Prom, sharing a first-look photo of the "icon-packed" group on Instagram. See the entire photo below. "Meet the incred…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:21PM[SHARE]Broadway's Second Stage Theater has hired Khady Kamara, the managing director of Arena Stage in Washington D.C., as the New York company's new executive director. Kamara will join Second Sta…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Friday, August 28, 2020
Eighteen Broadway productions will be eligible for this year's Tony Awards competition, an awards committee confirmed today. The figure is significantly lower than last year's pre-pandemic 3…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 26, 2020
In a lawsuit that offers a glimpse of COVID-19's economic threat to the Broadway industry, Jujamcyn Theaters, owner of five major Broadway venues, is suing its insurance companies after the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:43PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Broadway and TV writers, actors and directors Wesley Taylor and Alex Wyse have signed with ICM Partners for literary representation across all media. Taylor is best known for perf…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:52AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Castmates of the late Nick Cordero from such stage productions as A Bronx Tale, Bullets Over Broadway, The Toxic Avenger, Rock of Ages and Waitress will take part in a special memorial tribu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:32AM[SHARE]Monday, August 24, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: Tony Award-winning playwright, actor and producer Sarah Jones has signed with UTA for worldwide representation in all areas. Jones, who won a Special Tony Award in 2006 for her on…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:30PM[SHARE]The Broadway future of the acclaimed David Byrne's American Utopia is unclear, but the date with HBO is certain: Spike Lee's film adaptation of the theatrical concert is set for Oct. 17, and…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:45PM[SHARE]In an impassioned defense of his beloved and beleaguered New York City, comedian Jerry Seinfeld has some harsh words for a Manhattan comedy club owner who bolted for Florida and recently cla…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 13, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: The Broadway production company behind the upcoming Michael Jackson musical MJ and the stage adaptation of the hit 2000 film Almost Famous has hired The Old Globe Theater's Travis…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who recently vowed to reopen London's The Phantom of the Opera despite what the show's producer called a "huge financial hit" from the coronavirus shutdown, has…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:36PM[SHARE]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, …
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