Ben Lewis, the Australian actor who played the title role in The Phantom of the Opera in London's West End, died today in Sydney, Australia, of bowel cancer. He was 46. His death was announc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:40PM[SHARE]Kandi Burruss, the producer, singer and TV personality, has joined the producing team of Broadway's upcoming revival of August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone starring Taraji P. Henson a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Casey Likes, who recently starred on Broadway in Back To The Future and Almost Famous, will star in writer-director Delfine Paolini's sophomore feature Sky, Zyprexa, Night, which …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:07PM[SHARE]More than 1,000 actors have signed a letter expressing solidarity with Actors' Equity in its ongoing negotiations with the Broadway League as the union demands significant increases in healt…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:04PM[SHARE]John Malkovich will appear on screen as President Coriolanus Snow in the first-ever stage adaptation of The Hunger Games when the production begins performances in London later this month. A…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:58PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Development of the upcoming Broadway-bound Dolly Parton bio-musical Dolly: A True Original Musical is continuing as planned and will not be impacted by the singer's recently discl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:13PM[SHARE]Dog Day Afternoon, the new Stephen Adly Guirgis play based on the classic 1975 movie and starring Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, will begin Broadway previews on Tuesday, March 10, 2026…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30AM[SHARE]Marcel on the Train, the new play by Ethan Slater and Marshall Pailet, will make its world premiere at Classic Stage Company Off Broadway this February, with Slater starring as mime Marcel M…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Ragtime, Lincoln Center Theater's revival of the Stephen Flaherty-Lynn Ahrens-Terrence McNally musical, began previews last week and filled every seat at the Vivian Beaumont Theater for the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:33PM[SHARE]Schmigadoon!, a new musical based on the popular Apple Original series from Universal Television, will head to Broadway for a limited engagement this spring after a successful run at The Ken…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]The arrival of James Graham's Punch on Broadway at this particular moment in time would seem thoroughly in keeping with horrific real-life events and the gut-wrenching zeitgeisty fictions li…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30PM[SHARE]Of course it works. Two old friends known for their clownish escapades, always wanting to get back to somewhere they were " anywhere but here, really " all the while using ever so odd verbia…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]John Christopher Jones, an actor whose more than a dozen Broadway credits include David Rabe's Hurlyburly, Disney's Beauty and the Beast and the 1993 musical adaptation of The Goodbye Gir…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:18PM[SHARE]New York's venerable Manhattan Theatre Club has selected Associate Artistic Director Nicki Hunter to take over as Artistic Director when Lynne Meadow steps aside on December 1. Meadow has he…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:50PM[SHARE]Waiting For Godot (starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter) and a supercharged Hamilton (with newly returned star Leslie Odom, Jr., reprising his role as Aaron Burr) were among Broadway's top …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:02PM[SHARE]Succession's Nicholas Braun and two-time Tony winner Kara Young (Purpose, Purlie Victorious) will star in an Off Broadway revival of Rajiv Joseph's Pulitzer Prize finalist Gruesome Playgroun…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Diego Andres Rodriguez, who portrayed "Che" in the 2025 West End production of Evita, has signed with Anonymous Content for representation. In Evita, Rodriguez starred alongside G…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:33AM[SHARE]Kristin Chenoweth, whose about to star in the upcoming Broadway musical The Queen of Versailles, is opening up about the flack from fans she caught last week after posting a social media mes…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:00PM[SHARE]A proposal to build a casino in Times Square has been denied by the Community Advisory Committee whose approval was needed for the bid to proceed through the state's licensing process. In a …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:01AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Tony Award winner Ari'el Stachel (The Band's Visit) will star in a new autobiographical solo drama-comedy he's written titled Other, which actor-producer LaChanze will produce Off…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]I don't think I'd consider Yasmina Reza's Art a masterpiece, though after seeing the sharp new Broadway production of the play starring Bobby Cannavale, James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Broadway box office surged last week as some big name stars arrived " and in one case, returned " to New York stages: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter sold out their first preview of Waiting For…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:24PM[SHARE]John Lithgow will bring his Olivier Award winning performance as Roald Dahl in Mark Rosenblatt's Giant to Broadway in March, 2026, producers announced today. Directed by Nicholas Hytner, Gia…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Producers Sonia Friedman Productions, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, and LaChanze Productions announced today that the Tony Award-winning musical Dreamgirls will return to New York in the Fall of…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:32AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Ann M. Martin's bestselling book series The Baby-sitters Club is being developed into a stage musical with a book by Kate Wetherhead (The Devil Wears Prada), music and lyrics by M…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Foresight Theatrical, which serves as both executive producer and general manager on many Broadway shows and tours, today announced a planned transition in company partnership, with two long…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:17PM[SHARE]Broadway general management and executive producing firm Bespoke Theatricals is expanding its leadership team with the promotions of general managers David Roth and Danielle Saks to partners…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]Jane Fonda, Marisa Tomei, Mark Ruffalo, Sanaa Lathan and Rosanna Arquette are among the stars who will take part in a one-night-only benefit production in New York next month of This Is Craz…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]An investor in the Broadway production of Cabaret At The Kit Kat Club is suing that show's producers, claiming that despite the revival grossing more than $90 million he has seen no return o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:23PM[SHARE]Broadway took a hit in the box office over the Labor Day holiday weekend last week, with most of the shows on the boards reporting declines in weekly grosses. In all, the 27 productions on B…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:17PM[SHARE]Broadway's upcoming Beetlejuice The Musical return has found its cast, with most of the performers from the show's national tour intact, including Justin Collette in the title role. The New …
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