Tuesday, April 28, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: New York's Drama League and filmmakers Jeff Kaufman and Marcia Ross have teamed up for a special video tribute to Terrence McNally. The playwright was set to receive the League's …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Broadway actor Nick Cordero remains in a coma after recently undergoing a leg amputation and the subsequent insertion of a temporary pacemaker, all results from complications of a battle aga…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:31AM[SHARE]Monday, April 27, 2020
Bernard Gersten, a pioneering force in New York City's nonprofit theater movement, died today at his home in Manhattan of pancreatic cancer. He was 97. His death was reported to The New York…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:23PM[SHARE]Last night's Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration online all-star tribute concert got off to a rocky start " technical difficulties pushed the YouTube special more than…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:45AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: On March 13, two days after the coronavirus was declared a pandemic, Broadway's Tony Award-winning Laura Benanti walked outside of her parents' home in New Jersey " where the actr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Cast members from the 1990s prime time soap Melrose Place " Josie Bissett, Thomas Calabro, Marcia Cross, Laura Leighton, Heather Locklear, Doug Savant, Grant Show, Andrew Shue, Courtney Thor…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:59AM[SHARE]Friday, April 24, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: Actors' Equity Association has hired the high-profile safety consultant David Michaels, former administrator of OSHA under President Barack Obama, to advise and help the union dev…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Shirley Knight, a Tony- and Emmy Award-winning actress whose long and varied career included Oscar-nominated performances in 1960's The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and 1962's Sweet Bird…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:30PM[SHARE]The Theatre Development Fund, the not-for-profit organization with services including the hugely popular TKTS discount ticket booths in Times Square and other New York City locations, is lau…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:20AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Editors' Note:Â 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 03:15PM[SHARE]Meryl Streep, Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald are set to join an all-star line-up in a special virtual concert to celebrate Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday. Take Me To Th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:29AM[SHARE]Monday, April 20, 2020
The Shubert Foundation, the nation's largest private foundation dedicated to funding of not-for-profit theatre and dance companies, has appointed Diana Phillips to serve as President of t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:12PM[SHARE]Friday, April 17, 2020
Editor's Note: As Deadline continues its Coping With COVID-19 Crisis series on the struggles of people in the entertainment industry impacted by the coronavirus-related shutdowns and layoffs…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:26PM[SHARE]New York's Public Theater has canceled this year's free Shakespeare in the Park season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, marking the first summer in 58 years that Central Park's Delacorte Theate…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:01AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Cast members from the original Dallas, China Beach, Pop's One Day at a Time and Hulu's Difficult People will zoom into next week's livestream Stars in the House series to raise mo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 16, 2020
Some good news for a change: Broadway actor Nick Cordero, battling COVID-19 at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, is "getting stronger," reports wife Amanda Kloots, who has posted …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 14, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: The way we do the things we do has changed so much in recent weeks that a classic Temptations song might be what everyone needs right now. In this video, the cast of Broadway's Ai…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:40PM[SHARE]A second round of Broadway producers has pledged to match $1 million in donations to the COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, bringing the total produc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:34AM[SHARE]Monday, April 13, 2020
The Disney on Broadway show will go on: The American Federation of Musicians has agreed to waive fees for a streaming of last November's Celebrating 25 Magical Years of Disney On Broadway co…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:39PM[SHARE]Broadway musicians who performed at last November's starry Celebrating 25 Magical Years of Disney On Broadway event want their union to back off and allow a streaming of the show to raise mo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 12, 2020
The pre-recorded Disney concert set for streaming Monday evening as a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS ' COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund has been canceled. The charitable org…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:58AM[SHARE]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 …
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