Tuesday, June 25, 2024
A double-digit slip in the Nielsen ratings notwithstanding, the Tony Awards worked their magic at the box office, with this year's winners, contenders and show-stealers reporting big increas…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:24PM[SHARE]Leslye Headland, creator of the new Disney+ series Star Wars: The Acolyte, will make her Broadway debut this fall with the Second Stage Theater production of her play Cult of Love. Trip Cull…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 22, 2024
About three-quarters of the way through every performance of David Adjmi's Tony-winning play Stereophonic, two characters " Holly, the British keyboardist/vocalist (played by Juliana Canfiel…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:25AM[SHARE]Friday, June 21, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Tom Francis, the Olivier Award-winning actor who will reprise his West End portrayal of Joe Gillis in Jamie Lloyd's West End production of Sunset Boulevard when the revival moves …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Zoë Chao of Peacock's sci-fi rom-com If You Were the Last and Hadestown's Amber Gray will be among the cast of Manhattan Theatre Club's Broadway staging of Jonathan Spector's new comedy E…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 18, 2024
For those keeping track of such things, nearly 10% " or $3,239,838 " of Broadway's total $36.8 million box office last week was earned by productions directed by Taymors: The Lion King's Jul…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:14PM[SHARE]Merrily We Roll Along, the smash Broadway hit starring Tony-winners Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe and nominee Lindsay Mendez, is being professionally filmed by RadicalMedia, the same p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:29PM[SHARE]Swept Away, the new musical featuring the music of folk-rock band The Avett Brothers, will begin performances at Broadway's Longacre Theatre on Tuesday, October 29 with an opening set for Tu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:25AM[SHARE]The Heart of Rock and Roll, the struggling musical built around the hits of Huey Lewis, will play its final performance at a matinee on Sunday, June 23. The show will have played 24 previews…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:59AM[SHARE]Monday, June 17, 2024
UPDATE, with League statement: Actors' Equity Association, the labor union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theatre, will cease issuing contracts …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:27PM[SHARE]In the week leading up to Jeremy Strong's Tony Award victory, Broadway's An Enemy of the People broke the box office record at Circle in the Square Theatre, grossing $1,266,338 and topping i…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:55PM[SHARE]Last night's 77th Annual Tony Awards featured some terrific musical performances. We've compiled them all, so take a look and decide for yourself which shows should have taken home trophies,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:21AM[SHARE]Andrew Rannells, walking the red (actually blue) carpet at the Tony Awards yesterday for his nominated Gutenberg! The Musical had some disappointing news for fans: Contrary to previous repor…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:05AM[SHARE]No awards show makes it to the end without a few surprises, and tonight's Tony Awards on CBS had a whopper: It went off without a hitch. The Pluto TV pre-show, not so much. But more on that …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:56AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 16, 2024
Singer-actor Nick Jonas and Tony Award-winning Tina actor Adrienne Warren will star in the first-ever Broadway production of Jason Robert Brown's musical The Last Five Years, a show that's b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 14, 2024
Rap icon Nas is joining a creative team to bring a stage musical adaptation of the 1984 hip-hop film classic Beat Street to Broadway. Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, better known as Nas, made the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30PM[SHARE]Tony Mordente, who made his mark on Broadway as a dancer and choreographer, played the hot-headed Jet named Action in the 1961 film West Side Story and later segued into a long and busy care…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:41PM[SHARE]Rock icon Pete Townshend will not only introduce the musical performance of The Who's Tommy cast, but will take part in it: Deadline hears that Townshend and the Tommy cast are set to perfor…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:18AM[SHARE]Ron Simons, who had a busy if low-key TV acting career before making his greatest impact producing such acclaimed Broadway plays as Thoughts of a Colored Man (2021) and the 2022 revival of f…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 13, 2024
With important discussions raised recently about whether (and which) new categories should be added to the Tony Awards competition " Hair, Wig & Makeup? Casting? Ensemble? Projections? "…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]Tony-winner Idina Menzel will return to Broadway next year in the new musical Redwood written and directed by Mother Play director Tina Landau, producers announced today. The musical, which …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 12, 2024
The Who's Tommy composer Pete Townshend, The Outsiders producer Angelina Jolie, and the Wicked movie's Cynthia Erivo are among the roster of Tony Award presenters announced today by producer…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Stereophonic, the David Adjmi play about a 1970s rock band that prominently features the fictional band's songs, will perform a musical number at the Tony Awards this Sunday after all. The e…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Broadway is heading into its final pre-Tony weeks doing robust business, with box office for last week up 7% over the previous week, nine shows selling out (including the two most-nominated …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:41PM[SHARE]Three months ago, members of the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion made national headlines when they interrupted the Broadway staging of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People to bring att…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:55AM[SHARE]& Juliet, the playful, pop-infused musical that gives Shakespeare's lovestruck heroine a second chance at life, has recouped its $17 million capitalization, the first new musical of the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:33AM[SHARE]Monday, June 10, 2024
When Angelina Jolie announced nearly a year ago that she'd signed on as a producer of the Broadway-bound musical The Outsiders, folks in the theater community could be forgiven for assuming …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]An Enemy of The People, the Broadway revival starring Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli, has recouped its $5.5 million capitalization, producers announced today. Nominated for five Tony Aw…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:10PM[SHARE]Floyd Collins, the 1994 musical that has built an enduring popularity due to an Off Broadway cast recording, will finally receive a Broadway staging: The Adam Guettel-Tina Landau musical wil…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 6, 2024
The 77th Annual Tony Awards on CBS later this month will feature performances from such nominated productions as Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club (with nominees Gayle Rankin and Eddie Redmayne), …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Hello, I'm Dolly, a new bio-musical about country legend Dolly Parton and featuring her music, will arrive on Broadway in 2026, with Parton writing the music, co-writing the book and serving…
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