Friday, February 22, 2019
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 …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 21, 2019
Mark Bramble, the Tony Award-nominated librettist of Broadway's hit musicals 42nd Street and Barnum, died Wednesday at a Baltimore hospital of complications related to cardiovascular hyperte…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 20, 2019
EXCLUSIVE: New musical Broadway Bounty Hunter from Be More Chill composer Joe Iconis will get its New York premiere Off Broadway this summer with Orange is the New Black actress Annie Golden…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:30PM[SHARE]Broadway's Network starring Bryan Cranston as newsman on the verge of a nervous breakdown Howard Beale has extended its run for the second and final time: The play will now run through Satur…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Be More Chill arrived on Broadway to a big welcome, beginning previews and breaking the seven-performance house record at the Lyceum Theatre with a gross of $738,384, a virtual sell-out with…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:03PM[SHARE]Director Daniel Fish’s acclaimed headed-to-Broadway production of Oklahoma! will arrive at the Circle in the Square Theatre with its much-praised Off Broadway cast largely intact, prod…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:26PM[SHARE]Friday, February 15, 2019
A new play by The Americans writer Hilary Bettis is among a trio of new works announced for the Roundabout Theatre Company’s 2019-2020 Off Broadway season.
The world premiere of Bettis…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 14, 2019
In the Public Theater’s double bill Sea Wall/A Life, Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal deliver scorching performances that can stand alongside anything on the New York stage so far …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Producers for a planned Michael Jackson stage musical have canceled a pre-Broadway engagement in Chicago, citing “scheduling difficulties” caused by the recently ended ActorsR…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:27PM[SHARE]Monday, February 11, 2019
Broadway had a slight rebound last week, warming up a tad from the previous week’s chilly winter numbers. In all, the 27 productions combined averaged a small 4% uptick, grossing $27,6…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:10PM[SHARE]Friday, February 8, 2019
Actors' Equity Association and the Broadway League has reached what Equity is calling a “historic” agreement on a profit-sharing contract model for lab development.
With the agre…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:14PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 7, 2019
Still more of last fall’s pre-Broadway Beetlejuice cast will be making the move to Broadway when the new musical begins previews next month:Â Jill Abramovitz, Kelvin Moon Loh, Danny …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Alex Brightman, Sophia Anne Caruso and four other principal stars of the pre-Broadway run of Beetlejuice will repeat their roles when the new musical begins previews March 28 at BroadwayR…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:32PM[SHARE]A new adaptation of Hercules based on Disney’s 1997 animated film and featuring additional music by Alan Menken and David Zippel, a new book by Glow writer Kristoffer Diaz and chore…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:54PM[SHARE]Christopher Burney, whose tenure at New York’s Second Stage Theater included such hits as Dear Evan Hansen, Next to Normal and Lobby Hero, will be the new artistic director of the New …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:11PM[SHARE]Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group announced today the acquisition of The Works Entertainment, the production company behind The Illusionists stage magic franchise and other variety shows.…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:26AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Adrienne Warren will reprise her critically lauded West End portrayal of Tina Turner on Broadway this fall when Tina – The Tina Turner Musical makes its New York debut.
The casting was…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:54AM[SHARE]Benjamin Walker, a Broadway star since his 2010 breakthrough in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, will join Annette Bening and Tracy Letts in the Roundabout Theater Company’s upcoming revi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30AM[SHARE]Monday, February 4, 2019
Broadway producer Ken Davenport, whose revival of the Caribbean-themed Once on This Island took the top Tony Award in its category last year, has obtained the Broadway stage rights to the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:48PM[SHARE]With New York City temperatures hitting single digits, virtually every Broadway show saw at least some decline at the box office last week, and with two fewer productions on the boards than …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:02PM[SHARE]Broadway’s The Band’s Visit, winner of 10 Tony Awards, a commercial success and widely praised by critics, will play its final performance on Sunday, April 7, producers announced…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 3, 2019
As far as we know, Michael C. Hall has no designs on the upcoming Cats movie, but he’d have made a fine Rum Tum Tugger, at least judging by today’s one-time-only, nice-way-to-pas…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 29, 2019
John Malkovich is set to portray a Harvey Weinstein-like “depraved Hollywood mogul” in a world premiere UK production of David Mamet’s new play Bitter Wheat.
Just how close…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:18AM[SHARE]Monday, January 28, 2019
Broadway box office survived the New York chill last week, with receipts dropping a small 5% despite the loss of two productions and some widely spread, if undramatic, downturns. Total recei…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:18PM[SHARE]She’s here to remind you:Â Alanis Morissette’s ’90s cultural touchstone Jagged Little Pill is heading to Broadway. The new musical, inspired by the themes of Morissette&#…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:39PM[SHARE]Reeve Carney, André De Shields and the rest of the original principal cast of London’s sold-out production of Hadestown will star in the upcoming Broadway staging, producers announced…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:43PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: The much-anticipated staging of Oklahoma! will be Broadway’s first partner in Hollywood’s Gun Neutral Initiative: For every visible gun that is seen onstage in Oklahom…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:30PM[SHARE]If last night’s Rent didn’t meet your weekly minimum requirement of earnestly performed, socially conscious pre-taped musical ensemble productions, enjoy this amuse-bouche for…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Broadway Brands, publisher of website Broadway News and newsletter Broadway Briefing, has signed on to present this year’s Drama Desk Awards. The 64th annual event wil…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tech glitches, broken bones, ghosts of stage productions past and, worst of all, live television’s unfortunate and intrusive vogue for giving studio audiences far, far too much screen …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:11AM[SHARE]Friday, January 25, 2019
Michael Greif knew Rent would stay in his life – his entire life – by the late 1990s. Jonathan Larson’s rock musical inspired by Puccini’s La bohème – makin…
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