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…
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…
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