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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:24AM[SHARE]There's an abundance of treats offered by director Matthew Warchus' staging of A Christmas Carol " like Andrea Martin dressed as a Victorian caroler mingling with the audience at Broadway Ly…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]The Grammys took a fairly expansive sweep with this morning's nominations for Best Musical Theater Album, The Motown sound, Rodgers & Hammerstein, the folk-rock music of Anaïs Mitchel…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:28AM[SHARE]Nickelodeon will simulcast The SpongeBob Musical: Live On Stage! across Nickelodeon, TeenNick and Nicktoons next month, Nickelodeon said today, also noting that veteran SpongeBob SquarePants…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:25PM[SHARE]Broadway box office took a step back last week, with most shows reporting receipt drops from the prior week (which included Veterans Day Weekend, perhaps boosting tourist money). In all, the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:19PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: James Cusati-Moyer, currently starring in Broadway's Slave Play after originating his role in the sold-out Off Broadway production, is now a Paradigm client. In Jeremy O. Harri…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Martin McDonagh's Olivier Award-winning comedy Hangmen is headed to Broadway. The Royal Court Theatre/Atlantic Theater Company production will begin performances in February 2020 for a stric…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Lia Vollack, a 22-year veteran of Sony Pictures Entertainment's music and theater divisions, has formed a new company to develop Broadway productions, Deadline has confirmed. Lia Vollack Pro…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:36AM[SHARE]One may as well begin with Forster, E.M. to state the obvious, called Morgan in Matthew Lopez' The Inheritance, directed by Stephen Daldry, an ambitious, often powerful two-part epic of gay …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]A celebration of Broadway legend Harold Prince is set for Monday, December 16, at The Majestic Theatre, 31-year home of Prince's record-breaking production of The Phantom of the Opera. Princ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:53PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE Composer Stephen Trask, co-creator/composer/lyricist of the award-winning stage musical Hedwig and The Angry Inch, has signed with ICM Partners. Trask, who is currently working on …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:17PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE With his acclaimed stage play The Lehman Trilogy arriving on Broadway this Spring, playwright Stefano Massini will also be in bookstores shortly thereafter: HarperVia, an imprint o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:43AM[SHARE]Maybe Lin-Manuel Miranda really can do everything. When Broadway's favorite bookstore " The Drama Book Shop " was evicted from its longtime Theater District home in January, Miranda and some…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:54PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Joaquina Kalukango, earning terrific reviews for her powerful performance in Broadway's much-talked-about Slave Play, has signed with ICM Partners. She can also be seen in Ava Duv…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:28PM[SHARE]Ben McKenzie has been cast in Bess Wohl's Broadway-Bound Grand Horizons, joining the previously announced Jane Alexander and James Cromwell, among others. The strictly limited 10-week engage…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Broadway's upcoming production of Charles Fullers' A Soldier's Play starring David Alan Grier and Blair Underwood has rounded out the 12-member cast, with Jerry O'Connell, Namdi Asomugha and…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: The Woman in Black, a West End theater staple for 30 years, will make its long-in-coming New York return in January at The McKittrick Hotel, home of the popular, similarly immersi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:30AM[SHARE]Tootsie, the Broadway musical that had an easier time charming critics than winning potential ticket buyers, will play its final performance on Sunday, January 5, 2020. The musical, based on…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:30PM[SHARE]Jagged Little Pill, the Alanis Morissette musical that's not about Alanis Morissette, joined the Million Dollar Club in its first full week on the Broadway grosses chart, taking in $1,107,84…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:28PM[SHARE]Hadestown, the Tony-Winning Best New Musical, has become the first musical of the 2018-2019 Broadway season to recoup its initial investment of $11.5M, producers said today. The announcement…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:32AM[SHARE]There's a terrific YouTube clip of Janis Joplin, resplendent in a 1969 splash of crimson, purple and gold, trying to explain to a square Dick Cavett why Tina Turner is her favorite singer, "…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:08PM[SHARE]Broadway's upcoming The Minutes by Tracy Letts has set its large cast with a roster that includes Armie Hammer, Jessie Mueller, Blair Brown and Letts himself in a production directed by Anna…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE Spring Awakening, the 2006 emotionally powerful, sexually frank and Tony-winning musical by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, has been staged around the world, and now for the first t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:59PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Pose actor Austin Scott will join Broadway's upcoming Girl From The North Country, completing the principal cast for playwright Conor McPherson's so-called Bob Dylan musical that …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Two years ago, a West End staging of a new play based on Hollywood producer Robert Evans' classic Hollywood memoir The Kid Stays In The Picture seemed all but certain for an immin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:15PM[SHARE]Annette Bening will be the recipient of AARP's 2019 Movies For Grownups Career Achievement Award. Bening will receive the honor at the 19th annual Movies for Grownups Awards ceremony on Janu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:39AM[SHARE]A record-setting farewell performance of To Kill a Mockingbird's original Jeff Daniels-fronted cast, along with three rockers " Tina Turner, Alanis Morissette and David Byrne " brought in a …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:57PM[SHARE]Ann Crumb, the stage's Aspects of Love star who became the first American actress chosen by Andrew Lloyd Webber to originate a starring role, died yesterday of ovarian cancer at her parents'…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:31PM[SHARE]Suits star Patrick J. Adams will make his Broadway debut opposite the previously announced Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jesse Williams in the upcoming Second Stage Theater revival of Richard Gre…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Aaron Sorkin's To Kill A Mockingbird, one of Broadway's major critical successes of recent seasons and the most commercially successful American play in Broadway history, will open a London …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:54AM[SHARE]She played Harry Potter's Hermione Granger in London and on Broadway, and now Noma Dumezweni has been tapped for a series regular role in HBO Max's Made For Love, opposite Ray Romano in the …
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