Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Alec Baldwin, Cecily Strong, Rachel Dratch and Susan Lucci are among the stars heading to Broadway for a four-night stand of Celebrity Autobiography, the comedy in which celebrities re…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Monday, November 5, 2018
Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird joins this week’s Broadway box office roster, taking in $520,357 for three preview – and sold-ou…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:59PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 4, 2018
Kerry Washington carries the weight of a nation on her back in American Son, and I’m tempted to say this fine actress makes it look easy. But that would be glib and wrong: Easy is nowh…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Friday, November 2, 2018
A two-CD Springsteen On Broadway soundtrack will be released Dec. 14, two days before the Netflix launch of a filmed performance of the sold-out Broadway show.
Springsteen has released a sin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 1, 2018
Harvey Fierstein’s glorious voice, that frog with a human stuck in it, remains so powerful you might swear you still hear it, loud and, well, loud in a Torch Song that can often onl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 31, 2018
The Broadway-bound Hillary and Clinton has completed its casting, tapping Broadway vet Peter Francis James as “Barack” and Wet Hot American Summer‘s Zak Orth as Hilla…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:14PM[SHARE]Monday, October 29, 2018
Two new productions – Mike Birbiglia’s The New One and musical The Prom – joined the Broadway roster but couldn’t keep overall box office from slipping: Grosses for B…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:13PM[SHARE]Broadway’s mighty King Kong is taking this Wednesday afternoon off. Producers announced today that the Oct. 31 matinee has been cancelled to allow for “final adjustments” p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 25, 2018
Kenneth Lonergan, along with his Manchester by the Sea discovery Lucas Hedges and Lobby Hero star Michael Cera, team with the astonishing Elaine May and Joan Allen for The Waverly Gallery…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PM[SHARE]Monday, October 22, 2018
Broadway box office continued apace as fall settled on the theater district, with a raft of recent arrivals helping to push grosses up a slight 3% over last week to $34,344,693. Attendance f…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:23PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 21, 2018
When the banshees of the past come calling in Jez Butterworth's fearsome The Ferryman, you can bet their shrieking will be blood curdling. Directed by Sam Mendes (Skyfall) and opening ton…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Friday, October 19, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: UK-based Eon Productions has hired theater, film and TV producer Patrick Daly to oversee production and development of the company’s theatrical projects.
Eon, best known in …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 18, 2018
Is there such a thing as just a little fake news? Or is that like being just a little comatose? Broadway’s The Lifespan of a Fact, a new based-on-reality play starring a totally-commit…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:20PM[SHARE]Joe Mantello’s recent Broadway staging of Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band will be eligible for a 2019 Tony Award – no surprise there – but theater trivia bu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:59PM[SHARE]American Idol rivals Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken will reunite on Broadway for a limited engagement holiday show of Christmas songs and comedy sketches. Ruben & Clay’s Christmas S…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:19PM[SHARE]The 73rd Annual Tony Awards will be broadcast live on CBS on Sunday, June 9, 2019 from Manhattan’s Radio City Music Hall. The announcement was made today by The Broadway League and the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:11AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 17, 2018
So maybe Joan of Arc plays second fiddle to few saints in history, but on stage even she’s no match for Glenn Close. As the title character in Mother of the Maid, Jane Anderson’s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 16, 2018
An apologia, playwright Alexi Kaye Campbell reminds us in his play so titled, is a defense, not an apology. With that in mind, would any play need an apologia beyond the words “Stockar…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Broadway box office held steady as the fall season settled in, with a batch of recently arriving productions joined by Torch Song, last year’s Off Broadway hit taking up a limited enga…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:46PM[SHARE]Alec Baldwin will host the Arthur Miller Foundation’s inaugural honors gala in New York celebrating the work of HBO Documentary Films and playwright Tony Kushner.
The inaugural Arth…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:46PM[SHARE]Friday, October 12, 2018
Carol Hall, the composer and lyricist for Broadway’s long-running The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and one of the musical forces behind Marlo Thomas’ classic 1974 TV specia…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:18PM[SHARE]Jonny Lee Miller and two-time Olivier Award winner Bertie Carvel will star in the spring Broadway production of Ink, James Graham’s play about a young Rupert Murdoch and the R…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 11, 2018
John Larroquette will star in Nantucket Sleigh Ride, a new play by John Guare directed by Jerry Zaks and heading to Lincoln Center Theater’s Off Broadway Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater i…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Sleepwalk or wake-walk with Mike Birbiglia for a couple miles Friday and you might get a free ticket to his upcoming Broadway show The New One.
The publicity stunt – hey, it worked …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Three of the most anticipated Broadway productions of the fall season – King Kong, The Ferryman and American Son – began previews last week, helping to boost total box office by …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:33PM[SHARE]The New Group’s upcoming Off Broadway Clueless, The Musical – with Dove Cameron in the lead role of Cher – has announced the rest of its cast. Among the players: Dave Thoma…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:57PM[SHARE]Monday, October 8, 2018
Nearly 10 years ago, Billy Crystal and writer Quinton Peeples started work on a screenplay they’d eventually call Have A Nice Day. Not terribly long in Hollywood development years, but…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:04PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Dove Cameron, a 2018 Daytime Emmy winner for Disney Channel’s Liv and Maddie, will take the lead in the upcoming Off Broadway production of Clueless: The Musical.
Cameron, s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 4, 2018
Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow will return to Broadway next spring in Hillary and Clinton, a just-announced production by A Doll’s House, Part 2 playwright Lucas Hnath. To be di…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:21PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, the West End musical based on the life of the legendary “What’s Love Got To Do With It” singer, will arrive on Broadway next fall, producer S…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:16AM[SHARE]Monday, October 1, 2018
Mining Bob Dylan’s unrivaled songbook – even if he’d never written a tune beyond the 20 or so included in Off Broadway’s Girl From The North Country, his contribution…
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