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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 24, 2019
As Sam Shepard’s True West brothers grim, Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano dig deep into the loamy earth of that macho post-hippie neo-cowboy near-masterpiece, mucking about the desert-edg…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]The Broadway-bound Magic Mike The Musical will begin teasing Boston audiences November 30, producers – including the film’s Channing Tatum and Steven Soderbergh – announced…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon will star in a Broadway revival this May of Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, producers announced today. The production will b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:30PM[SHARE]FX will premiere its Fosse/Verdon limited series on Tuesday April 9, the network announced today.
Production on the eight-episode series starring Michelle Williams as dancer/actress Gwen Ver…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:35PM[SHARE]The previously announced Michael Jackson stage musical has gotten a name and a pre-Broadway premiere date: The newly titled Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough will begin performances in Chica…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:03PM[SHARE]Furloughed federal employees have got a friend in Broadway’s Carole King musical Beautiful: Producers have announced that workers hit by President Donald Trump’s partial governme…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Broadway box office found a mid-winter groove as departing shows departed and recent openers moved beyond the comps and press seat period, leaving ticket buyers to buoy the 31-show roster wi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:49PM[SHARE]A decades-old stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird won’t be flying around the UK and Ireland after all. Announced in the summer, the theatrical version of Harper Lee’s novel…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:31PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Rocker Melissa Etheridge will provide the musical ingredients for a stage adaptation of Mystic Pizza, the 1988 MGM rom-com that launched Julia Roberts and gave an early look at a …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 21, 2019
Michael C. Hall will star in what may be the strangest Super Bowl commercial that’s not a Super Bowl commercial: The star will appear live in a one-performance-only half-hour Broadw…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Nick Hornby’s 2007 novel Slam – which includes pro skateboarder Tony Hawk as a character – is being developed as a Broadway musical, with Hawk along for the ride as a produ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Broadway will dim its lights for Carol Channing tomorrow night at 7:45 pm ET, The Broadway League announced today.
"Carol Channing personified everything we love about American musical comed…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:16PM[SHARE]Refresh for updates The one-of-a-kind Carol Channing is being remembered today by friends, colleagues and the Broadway community. “She was show business and love personified,” tw…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:38AM[SHARE]Monday, January 14, 2019
What The Constitution Means To Me, Heidi Schreck’s critically lauded Off Broadway production that landed on many best-of-2018 lists, is heading to Broadway for a 12-week limited engage…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:28AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Chasing Rainbows: The Road To Oz, a new Judy Garland bio-musical that got an industry presentation in New York last week, has received the rare endorsement of Garland’s daug…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 8, 2019
When Choir Boy, the coming of age story from Tarell Alvin McCraney that predates his Oscar-winning, co-written screenplay for Moonlight, finds its sweet spots – and they are many ̵…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Lin-Manuel Miranda, his Hamilton director Thomas Kail and producer Jeffrey Seller are coming to the rescue of a beloved New York bookstore. Along with theater owner James L. Nederlander, the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:37AM[SHARE]Broadway’s Brian d'Arcy James will join the cast of Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman next month, leading a largely new company of replacement players in the primary adult roles beg…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 7, 2019
Broadway fell back to earth last week following a massive holiday box office run, with ticket prices and attendance settling into a post-Christmas routine. Box office receipts of $38M were d…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:16PM[SHARE]Actors’ Equity has declared a strike on all new Broadway show development with members of the Broadway League, a potentially costly move after two years of what the union is calling un…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:09PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 6, 2019
The finger snaps, angled poses and glimpses of Weimar decadence come fast and furious in FX’s first teaser for Fosse/Verdon, the upcoming limited series about Bob Fosse and Gwen Ver…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 3, 2019
Nicholas Sparks’ The Notebook is headed to Broadway as a musical, with playwright and This Is Us supervising producer Bekah Brunstetter writing the book and “Girls Chase Boys&…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:39AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 2, 2019
With record-breaking newcomers like To Kill A Mockingbird, Network and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child joining long-running stalwarts including Chicago, Wicked and The Lion King in smashin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:40PM[SHARE]Broadway productions celebrated the end of 2018 by shredding box office records like so much confetti, with Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and To Kill a Mockingbird setting all-time weekl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:36PM[SHARE]Monday, December 24, 2018
Fair or not, when I think of movies that made the screen-to-stage transition, two notorious flops come to mind. The great screenwriter Bud Schulberg himself adapted his 1954 classic Brando m…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Will Roland, George Salazar and the rest of the popular Be More Chill Off Broadway cast will take the Broadway stage when the Joe Iconis musical hits the Lyceum Theatre in February.
Pr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Monday, December 17, 2018
Springsteen On Broadway has left the building, departing Broadway’s Walter Kerr Theatre just as it arrived – sold out and going for top dollar. The final four performances of the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:23PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Composer Joe Iconis, whose Off Broadway viral sensation Be More Chill is headed to Broadway in February, is developing a new stage musical called Punk Rock Girl featuring songs wr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 13, 2018
When Scout, Jem and Dill take the stage in Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird, they’re not rolling a tire down the sidewalk or peering into the knothole of some old oak tree. T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]Several years ago, producer Scott Rudin contacted Aaron Sorkin with an idea that was either bold or insane: A new To Kill A Mockingbird. For the stage. Harper Lee’s beloved 1960 book b…
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