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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Broadway’s Network, the National Theatre production starring Bryan Cranston in a critically acclaimed performance, has extended its limited engagement through Sunday, April 28, 2019. T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 11, 2018
For their first Broadway Christmas show, American Idol rivals Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken are dreaming of holiday TV variety specials of yore from the likes of Andy Williams, Sonny and Che…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:00PM[SHARE]The acclaimed production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! that sold out Brooklyn’s St. Ann's Warehouse this fall will transfer to Broadway in March, producer Eva Price anno…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:34PM[SHARE]Avenue Q, the Tony-winning adult-friendly puppet show that played Broadway for six years before moving to its current Off Broadway home nine years ago, will close April 28, 2019.
The departu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:08PM[SHARE]Monday, December 10, 2018
Broadway jingled with silver, gold and holiday season tourists last week, ringing up $40M at the box office – a solid 6% jump over the previous week and a whopping 34% better than t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:57PM[SHARE]Friday, December 7, 2018
Jeff Daniels can sense the moments during performances of Broadway’s To Kill A Mockingbird when audiences jump aboard for the Aaron Sorkin ride, when fans of maybe The Newsroom or T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Sara Bareilles, Broadway’s Waitress composer and lyricist, will return to the starring role for a limited engagement in January, launching the hit musical production’s third year…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 6, 2018
Bryan Cranston’s blistering performance as Network‘s mad-as-hell prophet of the airwaves – now ranting from Broadway’s Belasco Theatre – is all the proof anyone…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:01PM[SHARE]Faye Dunaway is coming back to Broadway. And she’ll be playing Katharine Hepburn.
In a brief and surprise announcement, producer Ben Feldman dropped the news that Dunaway, after an abs…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song will end its Broadway run on Sunday, January 6, 2019 at the Hayes Theater before embarking on a national tour next fall with star Michael Urie reprising his Bro…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:34PM[SHARE]This weekend’s New York Stage and Film winter gala will have a decided thirtysomething aura. In addition to the previously announced honorees (and real-life marrieds) Ken Olin an…
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