Friday, August 24, 2018
A musical about the great Temptations is headed to Broadway. Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations, directed by Des McAnuff and produced by Ira Pittelman and To…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 23, 2018
Tony Award winner Laura Benanti will take over as Eliza Doolittle in Broadway’s My Fair Lady, replacing the departing Lauren Ambrose. As reported exclusively by Deadline yesterda…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:05AM[SHARE]A filmed performance of the Tony-winning Lincoln Center Theater production of The King and I, currently on stage in London’s West End, will screen in cinemas globally for two nights on…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Complete casting for the pre-Broadway production of Beetlejuice The Musical is set, with Tony Award nominees Kerry Butler (Mean Girls) and Rob McClure (Something Rotten!) nabbing the ghostly…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Stage actor and director Brian Murray, who arrived in New York in 1964 with the Royal Shakespeare Company touring production of King Lear and would go on to earn three Tony Award nominations…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:19PM[SHARE]Actress Barbara Harris, who capped Robert Altman’s masterpiece Nashville with a strangely haunting musical performance, won a Tony Award for 1967’s The Apple Tree and co-founded …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:37PM[SHARE]Broadway’s The Play That Goes Wrong has recouped its $4 million investment, producers announced today. The comedy followed its hit London run with a Broadway opening on April 2, 2017, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:53PM[SHARE]Monday, August 20, 2018
Broadway box office wilted a tad in the summer NYC heat, slipping to $35,465,012 for Week 12 of the season. That’s a 5% drop from the previous week.
Some of the slip during the week en…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:16PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 16, 2018
I might not be the target audience for Pretty Woman – The Musical, seeing as how I was never a fan of Pretty Woman – The Movie. Just never thought it was cute, funny or charming …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:01PM[SHARE]The pre-Broadway Beetlejuice has found its ghost and the teenager who summons him: Alex Brightman (School of Rock) will play the title character, and Sophia Anne Caruso, who knocked ̵…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 15, 2018
The Americans‘ Keri Russell will join the previously announced Adam Driver in Michael Mayer’s Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's Burn This, producer David Binder announce…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PM[SHARE]Composer, actress and accordion player Shaina Taub will hang up her squeezebox – temporarily, rest assured – this Sunday when her acclaimed Shakespeare in the Park musical adapta…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre, home to the Academy Awards, America’s Got Talent, movie premieres and concerts, will begin hosting Broadway touring productions in 2020, the venue̵…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:13AM[SHARE]Monday, August 13, 2018
Middle-age urges to re-live old garage band pipe dreams are typically best kept to dank basements and sound-proofed garages, and Broadway’s Gettin’ The Band Back Together doesn&#…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Pretty Woman: The Musical and The Boys in the Band broke house records last week as Broadway’s box office held steady into the summer’s dog days. Total b.o. for the 31 s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:16PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 9, 2018
An all-female cast will hit Broadway in David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Glengarry Glen Ross next year under the direction of Chicago P.D. actress Amy Morton.
The new producti…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:00PM[SHARE]Cora Cahan, a key figure in the transformation of Times Square from porn wasteland to New York’s premiere family-friendly tourist destination, will step down next year from her positio…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:32PM[SHARE]Tootsie, the musical adaptation of the hit 1982 Dustin Hoffman comedy, has announced its opening date and Broadway venue: Director Scott Ellis’ staging will begin previews March 29,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:50AM[SHARE]When Derek DelGaudio's 72-week, four-time-extended Off Broadway run of his accurately titled In & Of Itself vanishes August 19 from the 150-seat Daryl Roth Theatre, the one-man-show will…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Bryan Cranston will bring his Olivier Award-winning performance of mad-as-hell Howard Beale to New York in November when director Ivo Van Hove’s acclaimed London production of Network …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Michael C. Hall will hit the stage solo in an Off Broadway revival of Thom Pain (based on nothing), Will Eno’s 2004 monologue and Pulitzer Prize finalist.
The Signature Theatre prod…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:09PM[SHARE]Monday, August 6, 2018
Broadway’s Pretty Woman: The Musical passed the $1 million box office mark for the second consecutive week – no doubt the beginning of a habit – playing seven previews, inc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Hugh Dancy will join the previously announced Stockard Channing in this fall’s Roundabout Theatre production of Apologia, Alexi Kaye Campbell’s West End hit.
Also newly cast in t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 31, 2018
New Yorkers couldn’t ask for a sweeter summertime lift than Free Shakespeare in the Park’s vibrant, contemporary and very funny musical adaptation of Twelfth Night. Conceived by …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Monday, July 30, 2018
Pretty Woman played seven previews to nearly SRO audiences and Mean Girls set another house record, but the Go-Go’s musical Head Over Heels just couldn’t find its footing as it o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 26, 2018
For better or worse, Broadway’s Head Over Heels is stuck with being known as “the Go-Go’s musical” – better because of the good will floating on stage with all …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Tony Award-winning director Michael Grandage will produce and direct Jack and Lem, a feature film chronicling the thirty-year friendship between John F. Kennedy and Kirk Lemoyne …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 24, 2018
A week after Netflix announced it will film Bruce Springsteen’s hotter-than-hot one-man Broadway show for streaming in December, a similar – but big-screen – plan reportedl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]Monday, July 23, 2018
Armie Hammer, Josh Charles and Paul Schneider, names and faces well-known to film and TV audiences, make self-assured Broadway debuts in Straight White Men. No sarcasm about artistic stre…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Broadway’s Pretty Woman: The Musical showed other summer newcomers how it’s done. Though it performed only two previews during the season’s Week 8, the show with the big ti…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Gary Beach, the Broadway actor who created the role of Lumiere in Disney’s Beauty and The Beast and won a Tony Award for his unforgettable turn as director Roger DeBris in Mel Brook…
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