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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Broadway was shaking off whatever summer blues lingered last week, with an expanding roster and a 12% jump in revenue from the previous week. Total box office for Week 18 (ending Sept. 30…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:30PM[SHARE]Veteran press agents Jim Byk and Shane Marshall Brown are launching a new theatrical and entertainment publicity office, the duo announced to Deadline today. The new company will be called T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 28, 2018
Joe Masteroff, the librettist for two of Broadway’s most beloved musicals – Cabaret and She Loves Me – died today at the Actors Fund Home in Engelwood, New Jersey. He wa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:38PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning choreographer Justin Peck has joined the production team of Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story film.
Peck, the resident choreographer and soloist dancer with the New…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:19PM[SHARE]Broadway’s Gavin Lee will play the green villain in this holiday season’s Madison Square Garden production Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical. The casti…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:02PM[SHARE]Merle Debuskey, a longtime theater press agent and one of the most significant players in providing free Shakespeare in the Park for generations of grateful New Yorkers, died Tuesday at the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:39AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 27, 2018
The Nap, Broadway’s latest laugh from London, tries to fool us and sometimes does, though not in ways playwright Richard Bean might have intended. Teased with the appealing prospect of…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tony Goldwyn will return to Broadway in Ivo van Hove’s much-anticipated production of Network, joining Bryan Cranston and Tatiana Maslany in the stage adaptation of the 1976 Oscar-winn…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]NBC’s love affair with Broadway isn’t limited to Christmas and Easter seasons: just in time for trick or treat, the network will broadcast A Very Wicked Halloween: Celebrating…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:27AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Mike Birbiglia's sold-out Off Broadway show The New One will move to Broadway’s Cort Theatre next month, the producers announced today.
The limited engagement begins previews on Oct. 2…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Whatever combination of passion, narcissism and bravery swirl to form an actor’s decision to tackle Hamlet must merit a spot in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disor…
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