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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 22, 2018
Just before the start of a recent performance of Frozen, Disney’s winter blast in a two-decade flurry of remaking Broadway in its own animated image, a tiny girl a row back explained t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Cheap Trick singer Robin Zander will closes out the limited run of Broadway’s concert musical Rocktopia, appearing as a special guest vocalist for the show’s final week beginning…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:15PM[SHARE]Bruce Springsteen will stick around Broadway longer than expected: The Boss has extended his one-man show until December 15. The announcement, made today, means Springsteen will perform an a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:29AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano will square off in a new Broadway production of Sam Shepard’s True West, the Roundabout Theatre Company announced today. They’ll be directed by James…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 18, 2018
Denzel Washington, about to hit the Broadway stage in George C. Wolfe’s production of The Iceman Cometh, will receive New Dramatists’ 2018Â Distinguished Achievement Award, an …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Bob Mackie will bring decades of Cher experience – he designed, among her many other gowns, the jeweled black stunner with feather headpiece for the 1986 Oscars – to the design t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Broadway’s Tony-winning producer Ken Davenport (Once on This Island, Spring Awakening) has acquired the musical rights to the life of Miracle Mop inventor and home-shopping entrepreneu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 6, 2018
The Broadway community is offering condolences and raising funds for Tony-winning actress Ruthie Ann Miles, whose four-year-old daughter was killed yesterday in a horrific Brooklyn car cr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:22PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 1, 2018
Harvey Schmidt, composer of the longest-running Off-Broadway musical whose tunes for The Fantasticks included the poignant, haunting “Try To Remember,” died Wednesday in Texas, w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:04PM[SHARE]Name-calling gets us nowhere – except maybe the Oval Office, but let’s call that a fluke. So in the spirit of radical, extreme kindness, actress Sutton Foster schools Broadway pr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:53AM[SHARE]Friday, February 23, 2018
Nanette Fabray, a Tony Award winner at 28 and the TV moms of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and One Day at a Time in the 1970s, died Thursday at her Palos Verdes, California home. She was 9…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:45PM[SHARE]That David Mamet play about Harvey Weinstein? Safe to assume there will be cursing, but other than that it’s anybody’s guess. In an interview with the Chicago Tribune to plug his…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Thomas Schumacher, the president and producer of Disney Theatrical Productions and the president of the Broadway League, has been accused by former employees of sexual harassment and miscond…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 15, 2018
Jeff Daniels has been cast as Atticus Finch in Aaron Sorkin’s Broadway-bound adaptation Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. The play, to be directed by Tony winner Bartlett Sh…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:14PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 8, 2017
King Kong will hit the stage at the Broadway Theatre for previews on Friday, October 5, 2018, with an official opening on November 8, producers Carmen Pavlovic (Global Creatures) and Roy …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 28, 2017
A musical based on the life of Cher is heading to Broadway, with a stop in Chicago on its way. Producers Flody Suarez and Jeffrey Seller announced today that The Cher Show, covering the s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 31, 2017
After selling out an initial Bruce Springsteen’s upcoming Broadway run has been extended by 10 weeks after selling out the initial run in a single day. Springsteen on Broadway, which b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:33AM[SHARE]Friday, August 18, 2017
Stuart Thompson, the prolific, multiple Tony-winning theatrical producer and manager behind such landmark stage productions as On Golden Pond, Proof and The Book of Mormon, died Thursday of …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:47PM[SHARE]Friday, June 30, 2017
The New York Times and theater critic Charles Isherwood have reached a settlement after arbitration following his firing in February.
A statement released by the newspaper said, "The New Yor…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 20, 2017
Nina Lannan and Alan Wasser, two of Broadway’s most successful general managers behind productions from Cats to Lysistrata Jones, will receive this year’s Tony Awards’ H…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Linda Hopkins, one of Broadway’s great gospel and blues voices, died Monday in Milwaukee at 92. Perhaps best known for her popular one-woman show Me and Bessie – a 1970s tribute …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:27PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 20, 2016
Filling an entire White House cabinet apparently leaves plenty of time for the future leader of the free world to continue reviewing television comedies and Broadway smashes. This morning, P…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:14AM[SHARE]Monday, August 8, 2016
Norman Twain, a prolific Broadway producer of the 1960s and ’70s whose Hollywood credits later included 1989’s Lean on Me starring Morgan Freeman, died August 6 following a brief…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:14PM[SHARE]Broadway box office for Week 11 (ending August 7) was down 5.6% from the previous week to $24.1M, a drop in keeping with a trimmer roster (two productions – Fully Committed and Motown …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:40PM[SHARE]Monday, August 1, 2016
Cats notwithstanding, Broadway headed into the summer dog days with a dip in box office, as ticket sales for Week 10 (ending July 31) slipped about 4% from the previous week to $25M. The tot…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:53PM[SHARE]Monday, July 25, 2016
The new Cats held strong in its second week of Broadway previews, grossing $853,633 and keeping the Street’s total grosses for Week 9 (ending July 24) from wilting more than a coupl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:49PM[SHARE]Monday, July 18, 2016
Broadway’s box office climbed a bit with the summer temperatures during Week 8 (ending July 17) of the 2016-17 season, with gross ticket sales for 30 shows hitting $27,125,138, u…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Broadway’s Week 6 didn’t exactly end with fireworks, as total box office for 29 shows was $26,033,649, down from last week’s $29 million take for 32 shows. Gone were The…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:34PM[SHARE]Monday, June 27, 2016
Broadway held steady last week as the post-Tony season welcomes New York’s summer tourists, with attendance inching ahead of last week for a total 273,633. In all, the 32 shows grossed…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:35PM[SHARE]With an a capella score being billed as a Broadway first and involvement from some of the talents behind Hollywood’s Frozen and Pitch Perfect, the new musical In Transit is heading for…
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