Wednesday, April 11, 2018
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…
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…
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