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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:39PM[SHARE]Both Erika Henningsen and Taylor Louderman of Broadway’s Mean Girls will be Tony-eligible for the leading actress in a musical award, the Tony Awards Administration Committee determine…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:13PM[SHARE]Last week, Brian Tyree Henry was having the sort of moment his Atlanta character – the reluctant, verge-of-success rapper Alfred “Paper Boi” Miles – might observe wit…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 26, 2018
Well before Denzel Washington’s glad-handing salesman Hickey makes his fateful arrival in the dive bar of George C. Wolfe’s strong new Broadway staging of The Iceman Cometh, Euge…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Nevertheless, she persists, that maid of Orleans, and by the end of the Manhattan Theatre Club’s attractive, not flawless, Broadway revival of Shaw’s Saint Joan, starring the end…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]A New York Times photographer, a premiere beader of stage costumes and a drycleaning business that’s been removing opening night sweat stains since the days of George M. Cohan will rec…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:01PM[SHARE]Frozen‘s Patti Murin missed a show last week. Not unheard of, certainly, but rare enough at the peak of this high-focus (and high-stress) Tony Awards season. And Murin stands a better-…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Tom Stoppard’s Tony-winning 1974 play Travesties, stuffed thick as a English gentleman’s armchair, its ideas on art, war, patriotism and purposeful nonsense fashioned into a nons…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PM[SHARE]Nick Scandalios, Executive Vice President of the Nederlander Organization, will be this year's recipient of the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award, the Tony administration committee announced tod…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:56AM[SHARE]Christiani Pitts, currently starring in A Bronx Tale on Broadway, will star as Ann Darrow, and Eric William Morris, who played Sky in Mamma Mia!, will play Carl Denham in next season’s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:13AM[SHARE]Monday, April 23, 2018
Anyone who worked as hard for her money – and for a professional respect that came too late – as Donna Summer did deserves so much more than this. A jukebox musical that could un…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 22, 2018
Like any magic worth an incantation, Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, opening on Broadway at the Lyric Theater tonight, depends on unspoiled illusions, a delight in life’s wonders an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:19PM[SHARE]Friday, April 20, 2018
When Nyle DiMarco won the Mirror Ball Trophy on ABC’s Dancing With The Stars in 2016, he was following in the ballroom steps of deaf actress Marlee Matlin, who danced (but didn’t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Bette Midler is heading back where she belongs, returning to Broadway’s Hello, Dolly! for the final six weeks of the hit Tony-winning show that won her a Tony of her own. Bernadette Pe…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 19, 2018
While Carousel spins its gorgeous melodies and troublesome social politics in Midtown Manhattan, My Fair Lady, its lighter-hearted companion in the Big Book of treasured musicals toting outd…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:38PM[SHARE]Andrew Lloyd Webber will be honored at the American Theatre Wing’s 2018 annual gala in September, the organization, which co-presents the Tony Awards, announced today.
"There was only …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Do you know Chet Baker? Among its other achievements, Broadway’s acclaimed musical The Band’s Visit has handed the theater community its best pick-up line in ages. Repeated…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]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…
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