Tuesday, May 7, 2024
The great Broadway Crunch of Spring 2024, when 18 new productions opened between mid-March and late April " 19 if you count the commercial transfer of Appropriate " seems to be showing early…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:53PM[SHARE]New York's Public Theater announced its upcoming season at their Astor Place home as well as Central Park's to-be-reopened Delacorte Theater where the Public will stage Twelfth Night, direct…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]Robert Downey Jr. will make his his Broadway debut in the lead role of McNeal, the new play by Ayad Akhtar, author of the Tony-nominated Junk and the Pulitzer-winner Disgraced. Downey will p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:45PM[SHARE]Schmigadoon! the musical comedy TV series is about to become Schmigadoon! the musical comedy stage production. Kennedy Center's Broadway Center Stage in Washington D.C. announced today that …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:58AM[SHARE]Monday, May 6, 2024
Primary Trust, Eboni Booth's play that was given an Off Broadway staging by Roundabout Theatre Company last summer, won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama today. The play was described by the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:53PM[SHARE]Broadway's Stereophonic and Hell's Kitchen took home Lucille Lortel Awards for their earlier Off Broadway productions. Lortel Awards (for outstanding Off Broadway shows) were awarded to Eli …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 2, 2024
Lempicka, the much-anticipated but cooly received musical directed by Hadestown's Rachel Chavkin, will play its final performance on Sunday, May 19, producers announced tonight, just a month…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:07PM[SHARE]Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone will return to Broadway starring in new comedy The Roommate by Jen Silverman this August, producer Chris Harper announced today. Directed by Jack O'Brien, The Roo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:43AM[SHARE]Alex Edelman, the comedian, actor and writer who made his Broadway debut last year in his solo show Just For Us, will receive a Special 2024 Tony Award for the production, the Tony Administr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:50AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Broadway's busy, busy spring of new shows came to an end today with this morning's Tony nominations announcement, and while the impact, if any, of the nominations won't be felt at the box of…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]Two of the more anticipated star turns on Broadway this season " Steve Carell making his Broadway debut in the Lincoln Center Theater revival of Uncle Vanya and The Sopranos Michael Imperiol…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:20PM[SHARE]The first six batches of Tony Award nominees has been announced on CBS Mornings. The remainder will be announced at 9 p.m. ET on the awards YouTube channel. So far, the nominees are: Best Mu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:27AM[SHARE]Monday, April 29, 2024
Close races and sharp elbows are likely when the 2024 Tony Award nominations are announced tomorrow morning. With so many shows opening during the onslaught of the past two weeks, nominators…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:47PM[SHARE]Friday, April 26, 2024
Forbidden Broadway on Broadway, the updated iteration of the long-running Off Broadway musical-comedy review, is postponing its scheduled summer Broadway debut at the Hayes Theatre due to wh…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 25, 2024
Mary Jane, the Amy Herzog play starring Rachel McAdams in her Broadway debut, has been given a two-week extension by producer Manhattan Theatre Club. The play, which opened to excellent revi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:34PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 24, 2024
The sold-out, twice-extended Off Broadway comedy Oh, Mary! will transfer to Broadway this summer, producers announced today. Written by and starring Cole Escola and directed by Sam Pinkleton…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]LuckyChap, the producing team Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara behind Barbie and Saltburn will team with multiple-Tony-winning Broadway producing veterans Sue Wagner and John J…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 23, 2024
A very busy Broadway held its own last week, with 36 productions pulling in a combined $34,650,614, a good 10% increase over last year at this time. About 92% of all available seats were occ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:49PM[SHARE]Tony winner Idina Menzel will launch a North American tour this summer featuring signature songs from her stage career " including Wicked and Rent " and albums including her latest, Drama Qu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:32PM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2024
Stereophonic, David Adjmi's Broadway play about a '70s Fleetwood Mac-type group, has announced a six-week extension following a slew of rave reviews. Initially set to close July 7, the play,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Wicked director Jon M. Chu will make his Broadway directorial debut with a new stage adaptation of his 2018 hit film Crazy Rich Asians, producers announced today. The new musical, still in d…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Broadway's spring newcomers continued pulling in the city's tastemakers, tourists and the merely curious last week, with overall box office down about 10% from the previous week but most new…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:22PM[SHARE]Carrie Robbins, whose more than 30 years as a Broadway costume designer saw her involvement in 1972's Grease, for which she contributed the production's signature poodle skirts, and the nuns…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:59PM[SHARE]Heartstopper's Kit Connor and West Side Story's Rachel Zegler will star in the new Broadway production of William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet this fall, directed by Tony Award winner Sam Go…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:24AM[SHARE]Monday, April 15, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Kip Williams, the adapter and director of the buzzy West End production of the Sydney Theatre Company's The Picture of Dorian Gray starring newly minted Olivier Awa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 11, 2024
Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the dates for its 2024-25 season, with David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face starring Daniel Dae Kim kicking off the company's Broadway line-up with an Oct…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 10, 2024
The critically-acclaimed hit Broadway revival of An Enemy of the People has announced a one-week extension at Circle in the Square Theatre. The Ibsen revival will now play through Sunday, Ju…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:26AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Broadway's busy spring was reaching peak bloom last week as the season's final batch of new shows " save for the upcoming Sufjan Stevens musical Illinoise " was in previews, boosting total b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:37PM[SHARE]The Lord of the Rings musical that opened last year in the UK will stage its U.S. debut in Chicago this July, producers announced today. Based on the books by J.R.R. Tolkien and directed by …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:54PM[SHARE]A group of Democratic lawmakers is proposing new legislation that would provide $1 billion annually to the nonprofit professional theater industry still struggling to recover from the Covid …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:20AM[SHARE]Monday, April 8, 2024
The Broadway premiere of Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends starring Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga will begin previews March 25, 2025, in a Manhattan Theatre Club production at the Samuel J.…
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