Wednesday, January 17, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Composer-actor Shaina Taub will lead the Broadway cast of her musical Suffs, reprising the role she played in the original, sold-out 2022 Off Broadway production. The casting make…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Harmony, the Barry Manilow/Bruce Sussman musical that opened in November to good reviews that never translated to big audiences, will play its final performance at the Barrymore Theatre on S…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:52PM[SHARE]Winter doldrums and a closing night be damned: Shucked just had a very good week, with news of a planned movie adaptation and its best-ever Broadway gross of $1,111,038. The Brandy Clark-Sha…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:38PM[SHARE]Charlotte St. Martin, whose 18-year leadership of the Broadway League has included both good times " record-setting revenue " and bad " the historic 18-month Covid shutdown " will step down …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:55AM[SHARE]A new musical adaptation of The Great Gatsby starring Smash's Jeremy Jordan and Hadestown's Eva Noblezada will open on Broadway this spring, producers announced today. The musical begins pre…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:35AM[SHARE]Complete casting for the upcoming The Heart of Rock and Roll featuring the songs of Huey Lewis has been announced: Newsies' Corey Cott and Wicked's McKenzie Kurtz will play the leads, a will…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 9, 2024
Recent events in Gaza could lead some to view Joshua Harmon's blistering, funny and heartbreaking Prayer for the French Republic as uncannily prophetic, but let's not give the playwright ove…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Broadway box office was back on earth last week following the previous week's unusual double-holiday surge, when both Christmas and New Year's Eve fell within the same theatrical window. For…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:46PM[SHARE]Daniel Dae Kim will return to Broadway this fall in the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of David Henry Hwang's comedy Yellow Face, to be directed by Tony Award nominee Leigh Silverma…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PM[SHARE]Lola Tung, best known for her role as Belly in Amazon Prime's The Summer I Turned Pretty, will make her Broadway debut next month in a Hadestown limited engagement. Tung will take over the r…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:31PM[SHARE]Monday, January 8, 2024
Sarah Rice, who performed the pivotal role of the endangered Johanna in the original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, died Saturday o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:28PM[SHARE]Purple Rain, Prince's smash 1984 music-packed film, is being developed for the stage by a Broadway producer, with a book by two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and direct…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 5, 2024
Kimberly Akimbo, winner of five 2023 Tony Awards including Best Musical, will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, April 28, producers announced today. Remarkably for Broadway, the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 4, 2024
Trey Curtis, the actor-musician whose credits include numerous roles in various productions of Hamilton, will take on the lead role in the Lin-Manuel Miranda Broadway musical this month. The…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]The original Chicago cast of the newly reimagined The Who's Tommy will join star Ali Louis Bourzgui when the musical revival opens on Broadway in March. Producers Stephen Gabriel and Ira Pit…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]The hit London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard is heading to Broadway later this year and bringing star Nicole Scherzinger and the rest of the West End principal cast with …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Jonathan Bennett, the Mean Girls heartthrob and star of the Hallmark Channel's Christmas House franchise, will make his Broadway debut when he takes over the role of Spamalot's Sir Robin fro…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:40PM[SHARE]The national union of stage directors and choreographers has reached an agreement with producers on a new four-year pact being called a landmark for some theater workers, the groups announce…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:32AM[SHARE]Friday, December 29, 2023
Perhaps no single theatrical image sums up Broadway's 2023 more effectively than Jessica Chastain's Nora leaving her dreary, unfulfilled doll house life to exit directly into the unlimited p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:09PM[SHARE]Monday, December 18, 2023
Pay attention to those loud, annoying cicadas " they seem to have a story to tell. At least they do in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins superb, marvelously performed Appropriate, the Second Stage prod…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Michael Blakemore, the only director in Tony Award history to win twice in one year, died Sunday, Dec. 10, following a short illness. He was 95. His death was announced by the London-based U…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:40PM[SHARE]The Lost Boys, the 1987 cult classic horror-comedy about hunky teenage vampires that made stars of Jason Patric, Kiefer Sutherland and Coreys Feldman and Haim, is being adapted as a stage mu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Broadway held steady as it continued through the holiday season, with a total gross of $30,723,247 for the 26 productions up a small 4% from the previous week, and attendance of 227,099 up a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:29PM[SHARE]Pat Monahan, appearing with his band Train on today's episode of ABC's The View, said the group is at work writing the music for a new stage adaptation of the 2013 musical-comedy film Begin …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:06PM[SHARE]Monday, December 11, 2023
While Broadway shows are attracting a more racially diverse audience and tourism from outside the U.S. is fairly strong, the New York theater industry has been slow to recover from Covid-19:…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:16PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 10, 2023
Not since the perfect (what other word is there?) Kimberly Akimbo first made us laugh and bent our hearts two years ago has a stageful of youthful characters so inspired our best, heartfelt …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 7, 2023
EXCLUSIVE: Heartstopper breakout star Joe Locke will make his Broadway debut next month when he joins the cast of the hit Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 6, 2023
A new production of Samm-Art Williams' 1979 play Home, to be directed by Kenny Leon, will begin performances May 17, 2014, at the Roundabout Theatre Company's American Airlines Theatre / Tod…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:35PM[SHARE]Ariana Madix, the Vanderpump Rules reality star who made it to last night's finale round as a contestant on ABC's Dancing With The Stars, will make her Broadway debut in January as Roxie Har…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 5, 2023
Broadway box office and ticket prices fell back to earth last week following the previous week's Thanksgiving holiday-inflated numbers, with the total gross for the 26 productions dropping 1…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:31PM[SHARE]Merrily We Roll Along, the hit Broadway revival of the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez, is extending performances through S…
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