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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:42AM[SHARE]Ain't Too Proud " The Life and Times of The Temptations is further proof, as if we need it, that the term "jukebox musical" just isn't fair " to jukeboxes. Feed a juke some cash and it deliv…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30PM[SHARE]Torch Song playwright Harvey Fierstein's new biographical play about New York's legendary, hat-wearing "political firebrand" Bella Abzug will make its world premiere at the Manhattan Theatre…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]Bebe Neuwirth and Brandon Victor Dixon will announce the 73rd annual Tony Award nominations on the previously announced date of Tuesday, April 30. The noms will be carried live on CBS This M…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:19AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Chicago's long-running #DateMe: An OkCupid Experiment is finally making a date with New York City: The offbeat blend of improv, scripted comedy and musical theater will begin perf…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:01PM[SHARE]A re-imagining of the 1997 Broadway musical Jekyll and Hyde will be the first project under Birdman screenwriter Alexander Dinelaris' Lexicon and Richard Saperstein's Bluestone Entertainment…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PM[SHARE]Calling President Donald Trump's proposed elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts "short-sighted at best," Actors' Equity Association has vowed to continue fighting what has becom…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:10AM[SHARE]James Corden, host of CBS' The Late Late Show, will host the 73rd annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 9, the American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards have announced. The gig marks Corden's second …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:37AM[SHARE]Lots of Broadway shows have digital lotteries for specially priced tickets " Oklahoma! just announced one for $40 seats " but Beetlejuice is combining its lottery with some attempted buzz-bu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30AM[SHARE]Another slate of high-profile Broadway arrivals hit the street last week, with much anticipated productions like Burn This, Hillary and Clinton, What the Constitution Means to Me and Gary: A…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:58PM[SHARE]Rock n' Roll Hall-of-Famer Dion DiMucci " best known simply as Dion for his hits including "Runaround Sue" and "The Wanderer" " is the latest classic rocker to get the jukebox musical treatm…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:07PM[SHARE]The recently announced "In Residence On Broadway" series has named its first star: Yanni. The multi-instrumentalist and composer will take the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre stage with Pure Yanni: An…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:30AM[SHARE]Like last season's Lincoln Center production of My Fair Lady, the Roundabout Theatre Company's current Broadway revival of Kiss Me, Kate, directed by Scott Ellis and opening tonight at Studi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]The Broadway-bound The Devil Wears Prada, with music by Elton John, has found its director: Anna D. Shapiro, Tony Award-winner in 2008 for August: Osage County, was announced today by produc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Hugh Jackman will return to Broadway in a 2020 revival of Meredith Willson's 1957 classic musical The Music Man, producer Scott Rudin confirmed today. Directed by Jerry Zaks, with choreograp…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:36AM[SHARE]A musical comedy featuring the songs of Britney Spears will fill the slot at the Chicago theater left vacant when producers of the upcoming Michael Jackson bio-musical scotched its own pre-B…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:50AM[SHARE]With recent arrivals Kiss Me, Kate, Be More Chill, Ain't Too Proud and King Lear adding to the till, Broadway box office last week took an 11% hike over the previous week, hitting $30,252,79…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:37PM[SHARE]Composer Danny Elfman will contribute original music to Broadway's Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, the latest surprise for the show that begins previews tonight. Elfman's arrival was ann…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:20PM[SHARE]Bruce Springsteen may have set an unbeatable bar for Broadway solo shows with his 2017-18 box office record-breaker Springsteen on Broadway, but as last week's announcement of an upcoming Br…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:30AM[SHARE]To quote a song from the tenacious " and tenaciously enjoyable " Be More Chill, the Joe Iconis-Joe Tracz musical arrives on Broadway with just enough of an "upgrade" from last summer's Off B…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]Network, the Broadway production starring Bryan Cranston as the imploding newsman Howard Beale, has recouped its reported $7 million investment just 15 weeks into its limited engagement. One…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:46PM[SHARE]On nights when Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal perform the two monologues that make up the Public Theatre's critically acclaimed Off Broadway double bill Sea Wall/A Life, the British half …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:00PM[SHARE]Tony-winning actress Kelli O'Hara, playwright Taylor Mac and Beetlejuice director Alex Timbers will receive special honors at the upcoming Drama League Awards. The three recipients, along wi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:53PM[SHARE]Broadway producer Scott Delman has acquired live theatrical rights to Nashville, the country music-themed series that spanned six seasons on ABC, CMT and Hulu, and will team with Lionsgate t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]When Glenda Jackson's King Lear and the new Temptations jukebox musical arrive on Broadway in the same week, the fledgling spring season has officially kicked into gear. Still, box office ov…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:30PM[SHARE]Andrea Martin has dropped out of the upcoming Broadway production Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus after breaking four ribs in a recent accident during rehearsals, producer Scott Rudin ann…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:32PM[SHARE]Alec Baldwin and Anne Heche will bring back Twentieth Century for a one-night-only benefit reading next month at Broadway's Studio 54: The two actors will reprise their roles from a 2004 Rou…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30AM[SHARE]UPDATE, with response After some community theaters were forced to cancel planned productions of a 1991 version of To Kill A Mockingbird following litigation threats by Broadway producer Sco…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:39PM[SHARE]Daniel Craig, the once and future James Bond, will star in a one-night-only benefit reading next month of Caryl Churchill's A Number as part of New York Theatre Workshop's 40th anniversary. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:44AM[SHARE]Broadway box office held fairly steady for the theater season's Week 39 (ending February 24), with most shows reporting some slippage. Total receipts for the 29 productions was $29.9 million…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:32PM[SHARE]Broadway's upcoming revival of Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune starring Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon has a home and opening date: The production directed by …
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