Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Sting is headed to Vegas. The long-ago Police frontman has announced a concert residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace starting in May of next year, with shows set for the following Jun…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:25PM[SHARE]When posters for Broadway's revival of Burn This started heating up New York's chilly subway stations earlier this winter, stars Adam Driver and Kerri Russell, snuggling, entangled, staring …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Beyoncé's father Mathew Knowles says he is developing a musical about his daughter's original group Destiny's Child. "I want to pull back the curtain," Knowles said in a statement posted on…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 23, 2019
We've all had that moment of genius, usually while getting stuck on TCM, when the brilliant idea reveals itself to us: This film really deserves a remake, an update stripped of archaic notio…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:20PM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2019
A muddled casting controversy and the resignation of a prominent director no doubt diverted some early public and press attention from the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Arthur Mill…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]Spring tourism and a plump roster of new productions filled lots of seats on Broadway last week, with attendance of 328,200 reflecting a solid 8% increase over the previous week. Total reven…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:10PM[SHARE]Comedy legend Mel Brooks is coming back to Broadway: The man behind the massive hit musical The Producers will stage a two-night-only solo show as part of the recently announced Residence on…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Phylicia Rashad will make her Broadway directing debut next spring with Charles Randolph-Wright's play Blue, featuring music by Nona Hendryx, producer Brian Moreland announced today. The …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:16PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Nowhere Boy, the 2009 John Lennon biopic about the teenage years of the future Beatle, is being developed as a stage musical, Deadline has learned. Producers Brian and Dayna Lee o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Game of Thrones' Daniel Portman will co-star with Gavin Jon Wright (Black Watch) in the U.S. premiere Off Broadway of Square Go, the Kieran Hurley-Gary McNair play that took a 201…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 21, 2019
Atrocities happen. Shakespearean-level atrocities, dismembered-and-baked-in-a-pie atrocities. Humanity's responses " tears, mockery, more atrocity " are ludicrously inadequate, but really, a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PM[SHARE]Friday, April 19, 2019
Last Thanksgiving, Broadway's The Prom had just recently opened at the Longacre Theatre when it took part in the annual Macy's parade. Performing the musical's big finale number "Time To Dan…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 18, 2019
Lucas Hnath's Hillary and Clinton boasts the gladdening sight of Laurie Metcalf, her every bit the equal John Lithgow and director Joe Mantello's unfailing grace, but for all of that, no sma…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:30PM[SHARE]Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge will reprise their sold-out Off Broadway double-bill of solo one-act plays Sea Wall/A Life on Broadway this summer, producers announced today. Originally pr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:45PM[SHARE]Multi-platinum songwriter Ross Golan, who has penned hits for a lengthy, cross-genre roster of artists including Ariana Grande, Maroon 5, Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj, Lady Antebellum, and Kei…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Broadway is doing some remarkable myth-making this season, or maybe myth-revising. Daniel Fish's Oklahoma! is upending that great American folktale of the frontier. Aaron Sorkin's adaptation…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Andrew Rannells, Matt Bomer and the entire Broadway cast of last year's The Boys in the Band will reunite, along with director Joe Mantello, for a Netflix film a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:39PM[SHARE]By now the story of Be More Chill, "Michael in the Bathroom" and George Salazar has entered Broadway lore, so just a quick recap: Joe Iconis' musical about high school theater geeks, teenage…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]The Ferryman, Network, To Kill A Mockingbird and What The Constitution Means To Me are among the Broadway and Off Broadway productions taking nominations in this year's New York Drama League…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:02PM[SHARE]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]Tuesday, April 16, 2019
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]Monday, April 15, 2019
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]Saturday, April 13, 2019
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]Friday, April 12, 2019
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]Thursday, April 11, 2019
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]Wednesday, April 10, 2019
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…
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