Thursday, May 31, 2018
Simon Reade’s critically acclaimed Irish production of the one-man play Private Peaceful starring Shane O’Regan will make its New York debut Off Broadway in August, producers sai…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]Melody Herzfeld, the drama teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who hid with 65 of her students during the horrific February 14 mass shooting and a week later guided them in a per…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:48PM[SHARE]Escape to Margaritaville will blow out its final flip-flop at Broadway’s Marquis Theatre July 1, closing shy of the four-month mark after its official March 15 opening. The Jimmy Buffe…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:47AM[SHARE]Holland Taylor's Tony-nominated performance as Texas governor Ann Richards in 2013’s Ann will get a wider viewing next month with its exclusive debut on the Broadway streaming platform…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:10AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 30, 2018
The Tony-nominated Broadway revivals of My Fair Lady and Carousel, falling squarely in the midst of the MeToo moment, have given creative teams (and theater-goers) a chance to re-evaluate th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:15PM[SHARE]Jim Parsons, Armie Hammer, Matt Bomer and Zachary Quinto are set to appear on the 72nd Annual Tony Awards, to be hosted by Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban from New York’s Radio City …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Donna Murphy will return to the Broadway hit Hello, Dolly! for six performances during Bette Midler’s upcoming limited run, repeating the mostly once-a-week schedule that Murphy perfor…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:47PM[SHARE]Little Dancer, the musical by the Tony-nominated Once on This Island duo Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, will get a big-name industry reading next month, directed by five-time Tony-winn…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:14PM[SHARE]Friday, May 25, 2018
That old Broadway dictum – Never share a stage with fuchsia sea anemones – is blown to smithereens when Gavin Lee taps his way through “I’m Not A Loser,” the gl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 24, 2018
Paul Schneider (Parks and Recreation, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) will round out the Broadway cast of Young Jean Lee's Straight White Men, joining, among othe…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:47PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 23, 2018
The gorgeous, deceptively calming bedroom set that frames Three Tall Women at Broadway’s John Golden Theatre loses none of its beauty with the lights way up and the house empty (save f…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:10PM[SHARE]Three-time Tony Award nominee Andy Karl, last seen on Broadway in Groundhog Day, has been cast as the male lead in the upcoming Pretty Woman: The Musical. He’ll play Edward Lewis (Rich…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 19, 2018
Benedict Cumberbatch, Edie Falco, Hugh Dancy and Tony-nominee Tom Hollander were among the famous faces reading famous – or should-be-famous – correspondence from the past at Fri…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:58PM[SHARE]Friday, May 18, 2018
Carousel pulled into town this year as two seasons were well underway – the first a Broadway spring crammed with Tony-worthy new plays, musicals and revivals, from the thoroughly moder…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 17, 2018
A Pittsburgh “family-friendly” community theater has canceled a production of the musical Big Fish after a dispute with the director over the inclusion of a same-sex couple as ba…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:41PM[SHARE]The Secret Life of Bees, a new musical based on the best-selling novel and with music by Dunan Sheik, will make its world premiere next May at the Atlantic Theater Off-Broadway. The producti…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Gloria: A Life, a new play about Gloria Steinem written by Emily Mann and directed by Diane Paulus, will debut Off Broadway this fall at the Daryl Roth Theater. Roth is producing.
Previews w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:20PM[SHARE]May 25 will mark thirty years to the night when little Tommy Westphall gazed into a snow globe and revealed to nearly 23 million TV viewers that six seasons of heartbreak, joy, love, loss, e…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Disney’s Tony-nominated musical Frozen will skate across North America beginning in the fall of 2019, with an official, exclusive opening at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre in Los Angel…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 13, 2018
Richard Eyre’s staging of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, starring an ideally matched Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville, unfolds on a summer home set t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:00PM[SHARE]Friday, May 11, 2018
The magic of Broadway’s Harry Potter and The Cursed Child can be as simple as a lightning-quick costume change, as startling as a bolt of fire sent blazing from a wizard’s wan…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Mean Girls and My Fair Lady are taking to the road: With the Broadway productions of the musicals up for a combined 22 Tony Awards, national tours for both shows were announced toda…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 10, 2018
Jez Butterworth’s Olivier Award-winning play The Ferryman will arrive on Broadway with most of its acclaimed London cast intact. Paddy Considine, the Olivier-winning Laura Donnelly and…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 9, 2018
A new play by Dear Evan Hansen playwright Steven Levenson, a new musical from the creators of Red, Next to Normal and Avenue Q and a production of Christopher Shinn's Pulitzer Pr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PM[SHARE]Irish actress Denise Gough won her first Olivier Award in 2016 for the starring role as a recovering addict in Duncan Macmillan’s play People, Places and Things, and her second earl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]The new Andrew Lloyd Webber bio-musical Unmasked, which had been planned for a September debut at New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse, has been scuttled, for now.
The regional theater ha…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:36AM[SHARE]A single Tony Award nomination for Children of a Lesser God wasn’t enough to keep the production going: Producer Hal Luftig says the Broadway revival will close with the Sunday, May 27…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Broadway newcomers Anthony Boyle, who plays Scorpius Malfoy in Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, and Angels in America‘s Denise Gough are among this year’s Theatre World A…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:45PM[SHARE]Friday, May 4, 2018
Look closely at Carousel's dancing millworkers and you might see the patches. Maybe you’ll wonder whether the pipe-dreaming barflies of The Iceman Cometh scrub the collars of their thr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 1, 2018
I suspect we’ll be seeing more than one silly and misleading “frozen out” reference in coverage of this year’s Tony Awards nominations – starting with that one …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:58PM[SHARE]Friday, April 27, 2018
Comic and actor Mike Birbiglia’s return to Off Broadway this summer sold out within hours yesterday and is being extended by two weeks.
Mike Birbiglia: The New One begins a limited eng…
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