Saturday, April 2, 2022
There will be no Daniel Craig appearances in the latest Broadway staging of Shakepeare’s Macbeth for a while. The Longacre Theater announced that the actor has tested postive for Covid-19 …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:58PMThe ill-fated run of Rocketman and Kingsman star Taron Egerton in the London play Cock has apparently come to an end. Show producers announced that Egerton has withdrawn from the starring ro…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:13AMSunday, February 27, 2022
Veteran actress Patti LuPone tested positive for Covid-19 before Saturday’s Broadway matinee of Company, triggering increased testing protocols for the rest of the performers and staff. L…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:18AMFriday, January 28, 2022
From West Side Story through Bye Bye Birdie, from Chicago to Kiss of the Spider Woman, one actor has been a constant – Chita Rivera. Now, the two-time Tony winners is recapping her Broadwa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:12PMFriday, December 24, 2021
They won’t be singing “Ya Got Trouble” at the Hugh Jackman Music Man revival. At least, not on the scheduled Christmas Day and Dec. 26 shows, which have been officially canceled becaus…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:32PMSaturday, December 11, 2021
It’s a happy 90th birthday to iconic actress Rita Moreno, celebrating today the renewal of interest in one of her most famous roles, that of Anita in the 1961 version of West Side Story (s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:25PMSunday, November 28, 2021
Geoffrey Johnson, whose Johnson-Liff Casting was behind the roles for Cats, Les Miserables, and Phantom of the Opera, Broadway’s three longest-running shows, died Friday, Nov. 26. He was…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:52PMFriday, November 26, 2021
The unexpected death today of songwriter Stephen Sondheim at his Connecticut home will no doubt catch many by surprise, given his relatively robust persona, even at age 91. But while his pas…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:15PMStephen Sondheim, one of the giants of Broadway songwriting, died early Friday at his home in Roxbury, Conn. He was 91. Attorney F. Richard Pappas, announced the death, which he described as…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:16PMSunday, October 17, 2021
Betty Lynn, a veteran actress who was best known as the girlfriend of bumbling sheriff’s deputy Barney Fife on television classic The Andy Griffith Show, has died at age 95. She passed on …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:52PMWednesday, September 15, 2021
Mark Lin-Manuel Miranda as grateful for Broadway’s return. The creator of smash-hit musical Hamilton went all-out to welcome the returning audience, singing outside the theater and then ma…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:42PMSunday, September 12, 2021
Singer/actress Alanis Morissette said she was raped by multiple men when she was a 15-year-old Canadian pop star in a new documentary for HBO, reports the Washington Post. “It took me year…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:06PMFriday, August 6, 2021
UPDATE: Confusion among prosecutors almost led to the release of the man charged in the New York hit-and-run death of actress Lisa Banes, who appeared in the films Gone Girl and Cocktail, as…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:20PMSunday, June 6, 2021
Clarence Williams III, who was a Black power icon in the 1960s and 1970s as the cool detective “Linc Hayes” on television’s The Mod Squad, has died. Williams died in Los Angeles on Fri…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:51PMSunday, April 25, 2021
Actress/singer Rita Wilson has joined the outcry against producer Scott Rudin, claiming he tried to find a way to legally fire her from a Broadway show when she was diagnosed with breast can…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:48AMSaturday, April 24, 2021
In the wake of a Thursday protest march that called for the Broadway League to take action, producer Scott Rudin has said he will resign from the trade organization. Broadway actors and Acto…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:37PMThursday, March 25, 2021
Los Angeles agent Anthony Boyer has been named a partner in the Theatrical Division at DDO Artists Agency. A graduate of Kent State University, Boyer began his career on the stage as a music…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:44PMWednesday, March 3, 2021
Radio City Music Hall, Lincoln Center, nightclubs and music venues can reopen as of April 2, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday. The Broadway announcement was tipped by Deadline e…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:47PMFriday, February 12, 2021
Stewart Talent has announced it has signed Daphne Rubin-Vega and Brooke Smith for representation. Brooke Smith can currently be seen on David E. Kelley’s Big Sky. She was recently seen in …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:33PMFriday, February 5, 2021
Stewart Talent has two new additions to its star stable, adding Gina Gershon and Laila Odom for representation. Gershon recently wrapped up a supporting role in Adam McKay’s Don’t Look U…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:39PMThursday, January 14, 2021
Peter Mark Richman, a star of Broadway, film and television who had guest starring roles on more than 500 TV shows, including a recurring role as Rev. Snow on the classic sitcom Three’s Co…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:37PMThursday, December 24, 2020
Lee Wallace, who starred in several Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, died Dec. 20 in New York after along illness. Born Leo Melis in Brooklyn, he moved with his family to the Lower East Side…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:14PMAmanda Kloots has shared a video today of a ring that incorporates some of her late husband Nick Cordero’s ashes. “Something very special arrived yesterday,” she captioned the post. �…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:32PMFriday, November 13, 2020
The third edition of Disney’s singing franchise has announced its first round of appearances. The Disney Holiday Singalong will have Andrea Bocelli, BTS, Michael Bublé, Ciara, Chloe x Hal…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMFriday, October 16, 2020
Anthony Chisholm, whose long career spanned Broadway, film and television, died today at age 77. No cause was given by The Katz Company, his talent management. Chisholm earned a 2007 Tony no…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:48PMWednesday, September 30, 2020
The final film of Chadwick Boseman’s incandescent career has released its first images of the late star. Director George C. Wolfe’s adaptation of August Wilson’s stage play Ma Rainey�…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:11PMSunday, August 16, 2020
Howell Binkley, considered one of Broadway’s premier lighting designers, died Friday, Aug. 14 in North Carolina, his wife, Joyce, told the Winston-Salem Journal.. He was 64 and had lung ca…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:44PMFriday, July 17, 2020
Widow Amanda Kloots said to her Instagram audience on Thursday that she has received a sign from her late husband. Kloots said she asked for a “sign that you’re here” and she claimed i…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:55PMSunday, July 12, 2020
Amanda Kloots, wife of the late Broadway actor Nick Cordero, has posted details of his memorial service online today, a week after he died from coronavirus complications. Kloots shared the �…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:44PMSaturday, July 4, 2020
There’s nowhere to go and little to do this July 4 weekend (thanks, coronavirus!). But Disney+ has capitalized on the downtime to bring a streaming treat to masses with the debut last nigh…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:57AMWednesday, June 3, 2020
Bruce Jay Friedman, an author, playwright and Oscar-nominated screenplay writer for Tom Hanks’s 1984 ilm Splash, died today in New York City. He was 90 and no cause of death was given by h…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:04PM 
