Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Hercules, the Public Works' stage adaptation of Disney's so-so 1997 animated musical, improves on its source not so much on the strength of its characters or the charms of its leading man " …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:13PM[SHARE]Director Sam Mendes' hit London staging of The Lehman Trilogy is heading to Broadway, with previews beginning Saturday, March 7, 2020 at the Nederlander Theatre. Opening night is Thursday, M…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:52AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 22, 2019
Slava's Snowshow, the surreal, international theatrical presentation of clowns in winter that became a two-year Off Broadway hit in 2004 before playing a limited Broadway run four years late…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:17PM[SHARE]Fresh from filming the Ryan Murphy-produced The Boys in the Band for Netflix, Michael Benjamin Washington has been cast in a coveted role in the first major production of Anna Deavere Smith'…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 21, 2019
EXCLUSIVE: Laura Bell Bundy, who was Tony-nominated for originating the role of Elle Woods in Broadway's 2007 Legally Blonde: The Musical, has been cast in a recurring role on NBC comedy Per…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:30PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Gideon Glick, To Kill a Mockingbird's Tony-nominated Dill Harris, will drop by the upcoming Little Shop of Horrors for a quick visit, filling in for star Jonathan Groff, star of N…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Broadway's not-for-profit Manhattan Theatre Club has upped Nicki Hunter, who joined the MTC 10 years ago as an intern, to Artistic Producer, with responsibility for working with the artistic…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:02PM[SHARE]Brave New World author Aldous Huxley, diplomat Clare Booth Luce and movie star Cary Grant now have two things in common: They all tried LSD, and they'll all be subjects of a Broadway-bound m…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Monday, August 19, 2019
King Kong, Pretty Woman: The Musical and The Cher Show took their final bows on Broadway last week, all three bucking a late-summer downward box office trend with some last-chance ticket-buy…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:44PM[SHARE]A Broadway revival of the Tony Kushner-Jeanine Tesori musical Caroline, Or Change and a Broadway premiere of Off Broadway's seminal A Soldier's Play, starring David Alan Grier and Blair Unde…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Soul Train, the iconic music variety series created and hosted by Don Cornelius beginning in 1971 that showcased black musicians both established and up-and-coming, could make Broadway a sto…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:13AM[SHARE]The full touring cast of The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical is going to Broadway, producers announced today. The young company " all but one of the 10 actors will be making their…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 15, 2019
Producers of Matthew Lopez' two-part Broadway-bound Olivier Award winning The Inheritance announced the cast today, with five actors reprising their performances from the acclaimed London st…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse will star in a 2020 Broadway production of Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize winning How I Learned to Drive, reprising roles they originated Off Broadway in 199…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PM[SHARE]Sarah Silverman's Off Broadway musical The Bedwetter has found its director along with a new premiere date: Anne Kauffman will direct the Atlantic Theater Company production, with previews b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:10PM[SHARE]Jeremy O. Harris' Broadway-bound Slave Play will arrive with most of its acclaimed Off Broadway cast intact, producers announced today. Taking the stage at Broadway's Golden Theatre next mon…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:42AM[SHARE]Actor Campbell Scott (House of Cards, Dying Young) will tackle the holiday season's favorite miser with an eight-week Broadway run of A Christmas Carol, with Matthew Warchus directing the Ja…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:04AM[SHARE]Hadestown, Anaïs Mitchell's hit Broadway show as popular with audiences as with critics and Tony voters, will launch a national tour in the fall of 2020, producers have announced. The tou…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:26AM[SHARE]Monday, August 12, 2019
Broadway's Be More Chill, The Prom and Sea Wall/A Life were at near-capacity last week, as the first two headed out and the latter had its official welcome. Together they helped Broadway mai…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:42PM[SHARE]Diana, the musical about the Lady who became a Princess, will arrive at Broadway's Longacre Theater in March following the just-announced The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical. Dian…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:57PM[SHARE]Robert Schenkkan's Broadway-bound The Great Society, his second LBJ play following the celebrated All The Way, has completed casting and set an opening night for Tuesday, October 1 at the Vi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, with a book and direction by the Be More Chill team of Joe Tracz and Stephen Brackett, and music by Broadway newcomer Rob Rokicki, will begin …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 8, 2019
The wrenching (and slyly funny) Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge double-bill of one-act plays, Sea Wall/A Life, has lost none of its intimate power in the move from Off Broadway to Broadway…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE The Tony-winning John Gallagher Jr. and Tony-nominated Stark Sands have joined a team of similarly Broadway-familiar vets in the world premiere of Swept Away, the previously announ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PM[SHARE]Robert "Bob" Ullman, a longtime Broadway and Off Broadway press agent whose career spanned Ethel Merman, A Chorus Line, Curse of the Starving Class and many others, died of cardiac arrest…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:14PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Broadway's theater owners say the Times Square panic and its spillover into some theaters last night was handled by those venues in accordance with security procedures developed by the Broad…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:47PM[SHARE]Monday, August 5, 2019
Broadway box office held steady last week, with grosses of $33,730,889 and a total attendance of 270,067 for the week ending August 4. Adding to the tally was the $956,611 from five performa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:40PM[SHARE]Michael Urie, Thomas Sadoski, Ashley Park, Maulik Pancholy and Priscilla Lopez have been cast in Broadway's upcoming Grand Horizons, the Bess Wohl play to be directed by Leigh Silverman at t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]The Illusionists " Magic Of The Holidays will return to Broadway for a fifth holiday season, producers announced today. The show, which this year will present seven illusionists, will run at…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 25, 2019
Even the most wholly original works of art can, in the service of story or character or heart, summon the stray memory, the whispery chill of déjà vu. They'll switch on the bittersweet r…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:10PM[SHARE]Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale will star in Simon Stone's contemporary rewrite of the Euripides' tragedy Medea at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in January. Originally staged in 2014 by Am…
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