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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 9, 2019
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]Monday, April 8, 2019
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]Sunday, April 7, 2019
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]Thursday, April 4, 2019
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]Wednesday, April 3, 2019
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]Tuesday, April 2, 2019
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]Monday, April 1, 2019
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]Sunday, March 31, 2019
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]Thursday, March 28, 2019
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]Wednesday, March 27, 2019
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]Tuesday, March 26, 2019
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]Monday, March 25, 2019
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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2019
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]Wednesday, March 20, 2019
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]Tuesday, March 19, 2019
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]Monday, March 18, 2019
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…
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