The '90s sitcom The Nanny is being developed into a Broadway musical, with series creators Fran Drescher and Peter Marc Jacobson on board to write the show's book, while Crazy Ex-Girlfriend'…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:35PM[SHARE]Off Broadway's hit Sing Street, a musical adaptation of the 2016 film about a group of Dublin teens in the 1980s who form a New Wave band to escape troubled home lives and small town drudger…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:01AM[SHARE]Broadway's upcoming Michael Jackson musical MJ has announced additional casting, with Grammy nominee Quentin Earl Darrington, Hamilton's Raymond Baynard and The Bridges of Madison County's W…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:45PM[SHARE]AndreÌ Braugher has been cast opposite the previously announced Debra Messing in the Roundabout Theatre Company's upcoming Broadway production of Noah Haidle's play Birthday Candles. Also…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Broadway's Freestyle Love Supreme, co-created by Hamilton team Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail and Anthony Veneziale, has recouped its investment after 14 weeks, making it one of the first s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:45AM[SHARE]A post-Christmas Broadway box office fell like so many dry pine needles last week, with most shows taking fairly significant tumbles as ticket prices settled back to reality. In all, total g…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:36PM[SHARE]For the first time since 2014, LGBTQ group GLAAD will include Broadway productions in its annual media awards categories, the organization said today. With such major recent Broadway product…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:22PM[SHARE]Broadway's 2019 was one of lofty highs: the sumptuousness of Hadestown, the twin shocks of Oklahoma! and Slave Play, the marvelous risk-taking of What The Constitution Means To Me and Gary: …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:32PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Producer Scott Rudin is postponing the Feb. 6 Broadway opening of director Ivo van Hove's much-anticipated West Side Story by two weeks after an onstage knee injury Friday left le…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PM[SHARE]Broadway's West Side Story and A Christmas Carol broke house records at their respective theaters last week as holiday business kept overall box office very sturdy. From the previous week, t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:08PM[SHARE]Game of Thrones' Emilia Clarke is all set to torch London " in a good way " with her West End stage debut in Anya Reiss' adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull. The former Daenerys Targar…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:39AM[SHARE]The Crown's Claire Foy and Matt Smith will reprise their acclaimed London stage roles for a New York production of director Matthew Warchus' staging of Duncan Macmillan's play Lungs. Followi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Well, that was fast: Director Ivo van Hove's West Side Story joined Broadway's Million Dollar Club after only six previews, grossing $1,254,440 in its first week of performances. The musical…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:37PM[SHARE]Returning to Broadway, Harry Connick Jr. chooses his muse wisely and well, taking the stage in an attractively modern, multi-media setting to celebrate that most sophisticated of the America…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PM[SHARE]A stage musical about pioneering Chicano rock & roller Richie Valens is in the works, with Los Lobos' Louie Pérez and David Hidalgo on board to provide original music alongside Valens' …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:24PM[SHARE]Frozen's Caissie Levy, The Band's Visit's John Cariani and stage veteran Chip Zien will join the previously announced Sharon D. Clarke in the upcoming Broadway revival of the Tony Kushner/Je…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: A project to develop a biographical stage musical about 1970s singer-songwriter Harry Chapin has gotten the support of Chapin's wife Sandy and brothers Tom Chapin and Steve Chapin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:30AM[SHARE]In Jagged Little Pill, a record album gets its own jukebox musical, though there's none of the Wikipedia-style rat-a-tat biographical highlights (airbrushed or otherwise) that accompanied Do…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Perplexed has completed its cast with Gregg Edelman (City of Angels, Into the Woods) and Eric William Morris (King Kong, Co…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:01PM[SHARE]Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens and Game of Thrones' Mark Addy will head up the Broadway production of Martin McDonagh's dark comedy Hangmen, arriving at the Golden Theatre Friday, Feb. 28, for …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Jordan Fisher, who played Mark in Fox's Rent Live TV special and made his Broadway debut in Hamilton, will take over the title role of Dear Evan Hansen in January. A star of Disney's Liv and…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:23PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winner Beth Leavel has been cast in the pre-Broadway production of The Devil Wears Prada as tyrannical fashion editor Miranda Priestly, while Taylor Iman Jones (Broadway's Head Ov…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:44AM[SHARE]Broadway's Thanksgiving Weekend was a trip to bountiful, with Tina and Beetlejuice breaking house records, David Byrne joining the Million Dollar Club and total box office for the 35 product…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:36PM[SHARE]Stage director Marion McClinton, who staged for Broadway two of August Wilson's plays and Regina Taylor's Drowning Crow, died yesterday in St. Paul, Minn. He was 65. The New York Times repor…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:45AM[SHARE]A new stage musical version of the 1993 Tom Hanks comedy Sleepless in Seattle is set for a London world premiere next spring. Sleepless, a Musical Romance will begin previews March 21 at Lon…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:28AM[SHARE]Nederlander National Markets LLC, a stand-alone company that's part of Broadway heavyweight Nederlander Organization, and Chicago-based theater presenter Jam Theatricals have combined to cre…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PM[SHARE]Broadway box office mostly held steady last week, even as many shows might not have overmuch to cheer about during the pre-holiday week. In all, the 35 productions took in $32,015,929, down …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:15PM[SHARE]Annie McNamara, currently starring in Jeremy O. Harris' Slave Play on Broadway, has signed with CESD Talent Agency. In a critically lauded performance, McNamara plays Alana, a sexually frust…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:03PM[SHARE]John Simon, whose biting, sometimes personal New York Magazine theater reviews drew devoted readers and withering criticism of their own, died yesterday at a hospital in Valhalla, New York. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:15PM[SHARE]The Tony Award-winning actress Katrina Lenk (The Band's Visit) has been cast in a recurring role in CBS' upcoming midseason drama series Tommy as a sports agent. Tommy stars Edie Falco as…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:23AM[SHARE]Broadway has found its Michael Jackson: Tony-nominated Ain't Too Proud star Ephraim Sykes will take the title role in the upcoming MJ The Musical, producers announced today. The musical, loa…
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