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Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Broadway's 'Gary: A Sequel To Titus Andronicus' To Close by Greg Evans

Taylor Mac's Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus will play its final Broadway performance this Sunday, June 16, becoming the first announced closing in this year's post-Tony Award shake-out. …

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Monday, June 10, 2019

Broadway Box Office Hits Pre-Tony $35M; 'Network' Signs Off On Schedule With Bryan Cranston Win & House Records by Greg Evans

The annual post-Tony shake-out of Broadway closings has yet to get underway, but the pre-scheduled departure of Network last week saw the Bryan Cranston starrer set a couple of records on it…

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James Corden Tweets Credit For "James In The Bathroom" Tonys Parody, Calls Joe Iconis Original His Favorite Song Of Season by Greg Evans

UPDATE with George Salazar, Joe Iconis responses James Corden is giving some Be More Chill credit where it's due. After drawing some online criticism for not tipping off the national Tony Aw…

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Tony Awards Review: No Surprises As James Corden, 'Hadestown' & 'Ferryman' Show How To Get A Job Done by Greg Evans

There were no big surprises or major upsets tonight at the 73rd Annual Tony Awards, as Hadestown, The Ferryman, Bryan Cranston and Elaine May took the trophies they were meant to take, overt…

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Sunday, June 9, 2019

Deadline's Tony Awards Live Blog by Greg Evans

The 73rd Annual Tony Awards kick off tonight at 8 p.m. ET, live from Radio City Music Hall in New York, airing on CBS (delayed on the West Coast, 8 p.m. PT). James Corden is the host, with p…

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Friday, June 7, 2019

Tony Award Predictions: 'Hadestown'? Cranston? 'Constitution'? Who Will Win " And Who Should by Greg Evans

Call them predictions, opinions or hopes, but here are my thoughts on this year's Tony Awards races. As usual, the roster of nominees includes a mix of consensus categories (famous last word…

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Thursday, June 6, 2019

Broadway-Bound 'Mrs. Doubtfire' Musical Sets Seattle Premiere Date by Greg Evans

The Broadway-bound Mrs. Doubtfire musical that was announced last year will premiere at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre this fall, producer Kevin McCollum announced today, with performances set…

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Choreographer Camille A. Brown Brought The Dance To 'Choir Boy' And Representation To Broadway " Tony Watch Q&A by Greg Evans

Nearly 10 million people saw Camille A. Brown's work one night last year. Let that sink in. On a single evening " Easter Sunday 2018 " Brown's choreography for NBC's Jesus Christ Superstar L…

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Broadway Musicals Confirmed For Tony Night Performances by Greg Evans

The world outside New York's theater district will get to see what all the Broadway fuss was about when this season's musical productions get their moments in the Tony broadcast spotlight Su…

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Carolee Carmello Set As Betty Buckley Replacement In 'Hello, Dolly!' National Tour by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: Carolee Carmello, following up an acclaimed Off Broadway performance in Sweeney Todd, will be playing another musical theater icon, taking over the lead role from the departing Be…

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Olivier Award-Winning London Hit 'The Inheritance' Sets Broadway Premiere by Greg Evans

Matthew Lopez's Olivier Award-winning two-part West End production The Inheritance will make its Broadway debut this fall, producers Tom Kirdahy, Sonia Friedman Productions and Hunter Arnold…

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Amber Gray Of 'Hadestown': A Star's Meteoric Rise Was Years In The Making " Tony Watch Q&A by Greg Evans

Amber Gray had been simmering Off and Off Off Broadway for about a decade when, in 2016, she appeared to arrive fully-formed " to Broadway audiences, anyway " as some sort of next-generation…

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Wednesday, June 5, 2019

'Lizzie The Musical' Off Broadway Engagement Axed Due To "Unforeseen Circumstances" by Greg Evans

Off Broadway won't be getting a whack at Lizzie The Musical this summer after all. Producers of the Lizzie Borden-inspired rock opera canceled a previously announced late-summer run at The P…

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Jesse Tyler Ferguson Joins Cast Of Second Stage's Broadway-Bound 'Take Me Out' Revival by Greg Evans

Modern Family's Jesse Tyler Ferguson has joined the cast of the Broadway-bound Take Me Out, the Richard Greenberg play being revived next spring with director Scott Ellis and starring the pr…

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Another Round Of Tony Award Presenters Announced: Jake Gyllenhaal, Shirley Jones Join Roster by Greg Evans

Jake Gyllenhaal, Shirley Jones, Sara Bareilles, Laura Benanti and Judith Light are among the latest round of confirmed presenters for this Sunday's Tony Awards, hosted by James Corden on CBS…

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Kenneth Lonergan, Master Of Revival: The 'Waverly Gallery' Playwright On His Gift For Sadness & How To Survive It " Tony Watch Q&A by Greg Evans

In just five years, playwright, screenwriter and Oscar-nominated director (for Manchester by the Sea) Kenneth Lonergan has seen three of his earlier works " all originally staged Off Broadwa…

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Controversial 'FBI Lovebirds' Play Finds New Washington Theatrical Nest; Dean Cain, Kristy Swanson Will Star by Greg Evans

Conservative playwright Phelim McAleer has secured a Washington D.C. venue for FBI Lovebirds: UnderCovers, the planned, and already controversial, dramatized staged reading of the anti-Trump…

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Tuesday, June 4, 2019

'Oklahoma!' Director Daniel Fish On Finding Answers In The Dark " Tony Watch Q&A by Greg Evans

New Yorkers started hearing the buzz about Oklahoma! last year, as yet another production from the acclaimed St. Ann's Warehouse in Dumbo, Brooklyn, began making its presence known. The Sexy…

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Monday, June 3, 2019

Broadway Box Office Begins New Season With A Hold-Steady $35M by Greg Evans

In the Tony Awards homestretch, Broadway productions slipped only a tad in the post-Memorial Day holiday week, with total box office for the 38 productions sliding a negligible 4% to $34,573…

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One Actor, Two Shows And A Tony Night: Double-Nominated Jeremy Pope Talks 'Ain't Too Proud' & 'Choir Boy' " Tony Watch Q&A by Greg Evans

When this year's Tony Award nominations were announced, Jeremy Pope became only the sixth person Tony history nominated twice in the same season. His performance in Tarell Alvin McCraney's C…

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Tony-Nominated 'What The Constitution Means To Me" Sets National Tour Without Heidi Schreck On Stage by Greg Evans

Heidi Schreck's Tony-nominated play and Pulitzer Prize finalist What the Constitution Means to Me has announced a national 22-city tour that will launch in Los Angeles at the Mark Taper Foru…

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Friday, May 31, 2019

Sarah Silverman Musical 'The Bedwetter' Sets Off Broadway Premiere Date by Greg Evans

The musical based on Sarah Silverman's 2010 memoir The Bedwetter will have its Off Broadway world premiere next May, the Atlantic Theater Company announced today. Silverman herself announced…

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Broadway's Smash Temptations Musical 'Ain't Too Proud' Sets 2020 National Tour Launch by Greg Evans

Ain't Too Proud " The Life and Times of The Temptations, one of this Broadway season's unqualified hits, will launch a national tour next year of more than 50 cities and 100 touring weeks, p…

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'To Kill A Mockingbird's Gideon Glick Finds Harper Lee's Precocious Dill Harris In Other Voices, Other Rooms " Tony Watch Q&A by Greg Evans

The "Guilty" that sends an innocent man to his death in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird was just one of the powerful indictments that gave both the 1960 novel and its 1962 movie adaptatio…

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Thursday, May 30, 2019

'Frankie And Johnny In The Clair De Lune' Broadway Review: Audra McDonald, Michael Shannon And New Hope by Greg Evans

When Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny In The Clair de Lune premiered Off Broadway in 1987, critics saw a sidelong glance at the AIDS crisis and the toll it took on intimacy. Nothing in …

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'Grey's Anatomy's Jesse Williams Sets Broadway Debut In 'Take Me Out' Revival by Greg Evans

Jesse Williams, a star of ABC's Grey's Anatomy, will make his Broadway debut in next year's revival of Richard Greenberg's Tony Award-winning 2002 play Take Me Out. Earlier this spring, news…

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Darren Criss, Tina Fey, Regina King Among First Round Of Presenters For James Corden-Hosted Tony Awards by Greg Evans

Darren Criss, Tina Fey, Sutton Foster, Samuel L. Jackson and Laura Linney are among the presenters set for Broadway's 73rd Annual Tony Awards ceremony on June 9. The just-announced presenter…

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Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Lynn Nottage Play 'Intimate Apparel' To Get Opera Treatment At Lincoln Center Theater by Greg Evans

Lincoln Center Theater will stage a new opera next year based on Lynn Nottage's 2004 play Intimate Apparel. Nottage will write the libretto, with music by Ricky Ian Gordon, to be directed by…

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Broadway's Beth Leavel: All Dressed Up For 'The Prom' Of Her Life " Tony Watch Q&A by Greg Evans

It might be a bit much to say that Beth Leavel's roster of Broadway credits " The Drowsy Chaperone, Elf, Young Frankenstein, among many others " has been leading inexorably to the show for w…

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Comedian Jacqueline Novak Sets Off Broadway Run With Comedy World On Its Knees by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Jacqueline Novak will launch a new Off Broadway comedy at The Cherry Lane Theatre in Manhattan's Greenwich Village this summer, and if the title and subject matter don't …

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Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Broadway 2018-19 Season Breaks Box Office Record With Historic $1.829B by Greg Evans

Box office for the 2018-19 Broadway season hit a big $1.829 billion, easily besting the second closest recent year-end tally (last year's tally for an unusual 53-week season of $1.697 bil…

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