Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Harry Potter and The Cursed Child: Parts One and Two, Angels in America, the Denzel Washington-starrer The Iceman Cometh and the Tina Fey-penned Mean Girls were among the Broadway product…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:13PM[SHARE]Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban will host the 72nd Annual Tony Awards live from New York’s Radio City Music Hall, the awards producers announced today.
The awards are set for Sunday,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:23AM[SHARE]Exclusive: Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young, former American Idol contestants and real-life couple, have signed on to star in Hit Her With The Skates, the musical that premiered at New JerseyR…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:57AM[SHARE]New York City’s Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment has announced what it calls a groundbreaking series of initiatives targeting the underrepresentation of women in the ent…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 17, 2018
The Cher Show, headed for Broadway, has found its remaining Chers for the pre-Broadway run in Chicago: Actresses Teal Wicks and Micaela Diamond will join the previously announced Stephani…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Producer Scott Rudin has fired back at the estate of author Harper Lee, charging in a lawsuit filed yesterday that a lawsuit filed last month by estate executor Tonja B. Carter could shoot d…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:23AM[SHARE]Friday, April 13, 2018
Lin-Manuel Miranda is finally going to be in the room where it happens, “it” being the Emmy-nominated DuckTales. The Hamilton creator will make his debut as Gizmoduck (aka Fen…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 12, 2018
Let’s state the obvious. Carousel is a masterpiece, a sublime piece of 20th Century musical theater that includes among its abundant treasures a song, “If I Loved You”, tha…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:00PM[SHARE]Broadway’s Frozen will be Tony Award-eligible for Best Original Score despite a portion of it – and “Let It Go”, of course – coming from the movie.
That eligibi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:36PM[SHARE]Broadway producer Jordan Roth is schooling us with another episode of his mostly-animated The Birds and the BS, the kids show for adults that routinely features some of Broadway’s bigg…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:38PM[SHARE]The Tony Awards nominations announcements will be co-hosted by Leslie Odom, Jr. (Hamilton) and Katharine McPhee (Waitress), the organization announced today.
The nominations will be announce…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Decades before “mansplaining” came along to fill a void in our national vocabulary, Mark Medoff’s Tony-winning play (and later movie) Children of a Lesser God provided both…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]Erika Henningsen was just a year out of the University of Michigan when she made her Broadway debut as Fantine in the 2015 revival of Les Miserables. Now, she’s back in high school …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PM[SHARE]Actors’ Equity thinks Broadway’s choruses and ensemble casts should be eligible for Tony Awards, and is now actively campaigning for just that. A petition on a new website called…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:31PM[SHARE]The Actors Fund named Warren Beatty, Chita Rivera, Uma Thurman and film/theater director Kenny Leon (currently on Broadway with his new production of Children of a Lesser God), as its 2018 M…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:26AM[SHARE]Elaine May, Lucas Hedges and Michael Cera have been cast in Scott Rudin’s production of Kenneth Lonergan’s The Waverly Gallery, a 2001 Pulitzer Prize finalist set for its B…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:19AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 10, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: Anika Noni Rose is coming back to musical theater. The actress will star in an off-Broadway production of Carmen Jones, her first appearance in a musical since winning a Tony Awar…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PM[SHARE]Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt duo Jane Krakowski and Tituss Burgess will announce the nominations for the 63rd Annual Drama Desk Awards on Thursday, April 26, the organization ann…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:15AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 8, 2018
At least one of the characters in Broadway’s Mean Girls would describe this musical adaptation of Tina Fey’s 2004 not-for-teens-only film comedy as absolutely fetch. And fetch it…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Friday, April 6, 2018
Empire Records, the 1995 music-stuffed cult film set in a record store has been acquired for stage adaptation and is being developed for Broadway by producer Bill Weiner, who’ll work w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 5, 2018
Though no relation to NBC’s highly-rated Easter special, Jesus Christ Superstar is heading to North American theaters next year. The touring production hails from London, where it w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Anna Deavere Smith, whose solo play Notes From the Field aired on HBO in February, will debut a new production during summer 2019 at the New York Theatre Workshop, the NYTW announced toda…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:41PM[SHARE]The name Jerry Springer isn’t one you’d likely connect with Off Broadway’s prestigious Lucille Lortel Awards, but there he is, or the opera named after him anyway, with 4 n…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:50PM[SHARE]Tony-winner Karen Olivo, Next to Normal‘s Aaron Tveit and six-time Tony nominee Danny Burstein have been set as the principal cast in the upcoming Moulin Rouge! The Musical, the world …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Michael Urie, TV’s former Ugly Betty actor heading to Broadway next season in Torch Song, will host the 63rd annual Drama Desk Awards ceremony in June, his third consecutive time as em…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Playwright Tony Kushner, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America is back on Broadway, will be the honoree of TDF’s 50th anniversary gala in June, TDF announced today, with playw…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:35PM[SHARE]Matthew Morrison, Rachel Bloom, Wayne Brady and cast members of Hamilton, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and The Band’s Visit will be among the Broadway and TV performers in a one-night-onl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 29, 2018
Nearly 30 years ago, when Edward Albee was explaining why he’d develop his new play Three Tall Women in Vienna, the great playwright excoriated New York’s commercial stage. Broad…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PM[SHARE]Even by Hollywood-meets-New York standards, the production of Lobby Hero at Broadway’s newly renovated Hayes Theatre is an impressive crossover affair. Written by Kenneth Lonergan 15 y…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Broadway just got a step closer to summoning Beetlejuice: The stage musical adaptation of Tim Burton’s ’80s classic will make its world premiere next October in a pre-Broadway ru…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 25, 2018
Angels in America, that winged masterwork of Tony Kushner and the 20th Century, is back on Broadway in a revival weighed with expectations as heavy as the angel Bethesda in Central Park. Wit…
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