Deadline has confirmed that Empire actor Jussie Smollett read for a leading role in next year's Broadway revival of Richard Greenberg's 2003 Tony-winning play Take Me Out but is no longer in…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:01AM[SHARE]Can a play lie in wait? Let's say it can so we can say that it has: Lanford Wilson's Burn This has been lurking about since 1987 anticipating the arrival of Adam Driver, and for that match-u…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:16PM[SHARE]Alan Wasser, the longtime Broadway general manager whose half-century career was recognized with an honorary Tony Award in 2017, was being remembered today as an industry legend with a legac…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:45PM[SHARE]Daphne Rubin-Vega, Stephanie Beatriz and Dascha Polanco are the latest In The Heights castings announced via Twitter by Lin-Manuel Miranda. The trio join the Jon M. Chu-directed Warner Bros …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:24PM[SHARE]With all of its new spring arrivals up and running, Broadway box office held about steady from the previous week, a good sign given that two fewer shows were on the boards during Week 46 (en…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:01PM[SHARE]Eddie Izzard and Laurie Metcalf will tackle George and Martha next season when producer Scott Rudin brings Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? back to Broadway under the direction…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:11AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Marianne Elliott, director of Broadway's Angels in America and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time as well as the recent Olivier Award-winning West En…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:27PM[SHARE]Derrick Baskin was sick of musicals when Ain't Too Proud " The Life and Times of The Temptations arrived in his life. He'd performed on Broadway in Memphis, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spe…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:20PM[SHARE]Playwrights Kenneth Lonergan, Harvey Fierstein and Mart Crowley " each of whom had older works produced on Broadway this season " will be eligible for Tony Awards, the Tony administration co…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:50PM[SHARE]Anna Deavere Smith has been named a playwright in residence of Off Broadway's Signature Theatre's 2019-20 season, with two of her groundbreaking plays set for revival. Though Smith will not …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:54PM[SHARE]Tina " The Tina Turner Musical has set a Nov. 7 opening date for its Broadway production, with Adrienne Warren reprising her acclaimed London performance in the title role. Tina will begin p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:12AM[SHARE]Few match-ups of this Broadway season seemed more right from the get-go than the Roundabout Theatre Company's True West, director James Macdonald's staging of Sam Shepard's 1980 play starrin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]SpongeBob starred on Broadway, so why shouldn't Scooby-Doo hit arenas? With a mix of singing, dancing, puppetry, aerial maneuvers and "interactive audience response video," the live entertai…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:31PM[SHARE]Wonder, the R.J. Palacio novel adapted into a 2017 feature film starring Julia Roberts and Jacob Tremblay, is now heading to Broadway. Lionsgate, Broadway producer Jill Furman and author Pal…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]A Broadway crowded with new spring shows saw customers making tough choices last week, with a hefty slice of the 38 productions registering a slip in box office from the previous week. In al…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:51PM[SHARE]Illusionist Criss Angel is the latest performer announced for the In Residence on Broadway series. The star of A&E's Mindfreak will take the stage at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre for a five…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Who knows if Harper Lee had Oklahoma! on her mind when she came up with the fate that befalls To Kill A Mockingbird's villainous Bob Ewell, but after seeing Daniel Fish's astonishing reimagi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:44PM[SHARE]With the arrival of her mighty Lear, Glenda Jackson has, in the span of a year, provided Broadway with twin portraits of once towering figures humbled by age " last year a matriarch in Three…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PM[SHARE]The life and writings of poet Maya Angelou are being developed into a one-woman stage performance with hopes for Broadway and the support of her son Guy Johnson, according to producers behin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:24PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Lively McCabe Entertainment, a company that specializes in packaging and adapting iconic intellectual property into new stories for theater, film/TV, and book publishing, is teami…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:05AM[SHARE]Has Broadway ever looked more Hollywood? Beetlejuice and Tootsie have joined a theatrical line-up that already includes Network, Pretty Woman and King Kong, to name a few of this season's st…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:58PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Aaron Sorkin's To Kill A Mockingbird has smashed its own box office record, securing its place in the Broadway history books yet again with the highest weekly gross ever for an Am…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:14AM[SHARE]The impulse to tear down and start over, as ancient as we are, occasionally makes a bigger noise of itself than usual. World War I, that was a loud one. Sacco and Vanzetti, loud. The Sex Pis…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PM[SHARE]Off Broadway's Manhattan Theatre Club has completed casting for Donald Margulies' plan Long Lost for production this summer, Hereditary's Alex Wolff joining a roster that also includes Kelly…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:29PM[SHARE]A musical version of The Outsiders, based on both S.E. Hinton's groundbreaking 1967 YA novel and Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 film version that introduced a generation of young actors who wou…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Watch your backs " Lizzie Borden is heading to New York. After strong reviews in Chicago, Lizzie The Musical, a rock opera retelling of the infamous whack job, will begin Off Broadway previe…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Disney's The Princess Bride has been flirting with Broadway for years, but the ever popular tale seems to be taking another step down " or at least toward " the aisle with the putting in pla…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:50PM[SHARE]The New York premiere of Linda Vista, the latest work from Pulitzer and Tony winning August: Osage County playwright Tracy Letts, will begin previews Sept. 19 in a Second Stage Theater produ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:00PM[SHARE]Broadway's Temptations jukebox musical Ain't Too Proud sang to the tune of $1 million-plus last week, joining the upper reaches of a generally on-key 35-show box office roster. In all, Broad…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:21PM[SHARE]Singer-songwriter Regina Spektor will make her debut on Broadway as part of the recently announced In Residence On Broadway series. Her five-day stand in June at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre wi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]Sutton Foster, star of TV's Younger and a two-time Tony Award winner, will co-star with Hugh Jackman in next year's Broadway revival of The Music Man, Jackman tweeted this morning. Jackman t…
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