Friday, April 10, 2020
With Broadway's COVID-19 shutdown expected to last until early summer, if not longer, the Shubert Organization, the industry's largest theater owner and a major producer, has furloughed staf…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:49PM[SHARE]Actress Patti Murin, who created the role of Anna in Disney's Broadway musical Frozen, says she likely has COVID-19. In an Instagram post, Murin writes, "Even Disney princesses can get sick.…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 8, 2020
UPDATED with video New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo expressed skepticism about Broadway's just-announced June 7 reopening date. "I wouldn't use what Broadway thinks as a barometer of anything unle…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:09PM[SHARE]Broadway will remain closed through June 7, a two-month extension of the current coronavirus shutdown that would seem to retroactively end the 2019-2020 Broadway season with the March 12 shu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:03AM[SHARE]New York's 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards will announce winners online this year, skipping the yearly gathering of theater artists and critics for the bestowal of awards. Only Broadway, Off B…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:16AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Another Broadway production has nixed plans for this season: The Manhattan Theater Club's anticipated staging of Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning How I Learned to Drive, with Mary-Louise…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:30PM[SHARE]The American Theatre Wing has announced the first phase of its National COVID-19 Response Effort, including rapid funding mechanisms to support Off and Off Off Broadway as well as the nation…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:04PM[SHARE]Editors' Note: With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that already has claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international borde…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:30PM[SHARE]Monday, April 6, 2020
John Krasinski, with a little help from Lin-Manuel Miranda and some friends, Zoom-reunited the original cast of Broadway's Hamilton Sunday for a Florida fan whose now-canceled ninth birthday…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:30AM[SHARE]Last November's sold-out, one-night-only benefit concert featuring 79 performers from Disney's 25 years on Broadway will be streamed April 13 to raise money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:01AM[SHARE]Friday, April 3, 2020
Editors' Note: With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that already has claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international borders,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PM[SHARE]Waitress composer and star Sara Bareilles has revealed that she has made a full recovery from COVID-19. In an Instagram story, Bareilles says, "I had it, just so you know. I'm fully recovere…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 2, 2020
Musical-loving social distancers can get their Andrew Lloyd Webber fixes with a new YouTube channel devoted to the composer's work. The free channel, called The Shows Must Go On, will unspoo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:34PM[SHARE]Broadway's Waitress and A Bronx Tale: The Musical actor Nick Cordero is unconscious in intensive care with what his wife Amanda Kloots suspects is COVID-19. In an Instagram post, Kloots says…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 1, 2020
The folks behind the daily online show Stars in the House, a series hosted by Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley that features stage and screen actors singing and performing live from home to be…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Zachary Quinto and Ari Graynor will present an April 6 livestream reading of the late Terrence McNally's acclaimed 1991 play Lips Together, Teeth A…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:39PM[SHARE]The 35th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for outstanding achievement Off Broadway will be presented virtually as an online event on May 3 due to the coronavirus pandemic, with shows that opened…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:49PM[SHARE]Monday, March 30, 2020
Editors' Note:Â With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that has already claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international borde…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PM[SHARE]Friday, March 27, 2020
The London production of the musical Waitress will not re-open following the COVID-19 West End shutdown, producers announced today. "It is with great sadness that we announce the closing of …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:50PM[SHARE]Schitt's Creek actress Emily Hampshire will host a new weekly, live-streamed YouTube talk show to raise money for The Actors Fund's COVID-19 emergency financial assistance and services progr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 26, 2020
Madonna and Rosanna Arquette remembered their Desperately Seeking Susan co-star Mark Blum today, joining a lengthy and growing roster of Hollywood and Broadway stars mourning the actor who d…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Editors' Note: With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that already has claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international bo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:30PM[SHARE]The 74th Annual Tony Awards, scheduled to air live on the CBS Television Network on Sunday, June 7 from Radio City Music Hall in New York City, will be postponed and rescheduled at a later d…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:34PM[SHARE]Broadway's Caroline, or Change, the revival of the Jeanine Tesori-Tony Kushner musical starring Sharon D Clarke, and Birthday Candles, the Noah Haidle play starring Debra Messing, have been …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]The Michael Jackson estate, co-producers of the upcoming Broadway jukebox musical MJ The Musical, will donate $100,000 to the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' COVID-19 Emergency Assistance…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 24, 2020
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who officiated at a 2015 marriage reaffirmation ceremony between his longtime friend and college roommate Tom Kirdahy and playwright Terrence McNally, sai…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:39PM[SHARE]Acclaimed playwright Terrence McNally has died of complications due to coronavirus. The author of Master Class, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and Love! Valour! Compassion!, among m…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:38PM[SHARE]Even a killer shark " or a broken-down mechanical version thereof " is looking like a welcome sign of hope these days: New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse announced today that its 2020-2021 th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:41PM[SHARE]Flying Over Sunset, the new Broadway musical by James Lapine, Tom Kitt and Michael Korie that suspended production March 12, will reopen this fall, Lincoln Center Theater announced today. LC…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:50AM[SHARE]A new set of 24 "Viral Monologues" from The 24 Hour Plays will be available on Instagram tonight, with actors Daveed Diggs, Michael Shannon, Clark Gregg, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Dylan Bake…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:03AM[SHARE]More than 20 Broadway producers have pledged $1 million in matching funds for the COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The producers will match every new …
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