Monday, August 3, 2020
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. …
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 …
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