Friday, June 19, 2020
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 …
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…
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