New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she has made an “aggressive” effort to reassure film and TV production executives and the Broadway theater community that the state ardently supports thei…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:43PMEXCLUSIVE: Peyton and Eli Manning have won Super Bowls, Emmys and countless other trophies. But their mantel lacks a Tony Award – for now, anyway. In an elaborate promo for the fourth seas…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:45AMEXCLUSIVE: Following a Tony season in which it collected 28 nominations and a number of notable wins, UTA has upped Patrick Herold and Rachel Viola to co-heads of its theater practice. Based…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:40PMLupita Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Sandra Oh have been cast in Shakespeare in the Park’s summer 2025 production of Twelfth Night. The show will mark the return of t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:54PMUTA has added veteran lit agent Max Grossman to its expanding theater department. Grossman comes to UTA from A3, where he served as co-head of the theater division and co-ran day-to-day oper…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMLin-Manuel Miranda wants to keep directing movies, but don’t look for him to mount any large-scale spectacles. “My responsibility as a filmmaker — and I really hope to make more movies…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:13PMWhile she was ebullient about Leopoldstadt‘s Tony Awards wins, including a crowning one for Best Play, producer Sonia Friedman offered some sobering thoughts about plays of its scale and c…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:17AMAlex Newell of Shucked and J. Harrison Ghee of Some Like It Hot broke ground Sunday night as the first openly nonbinary Tony Award winners. Newell won for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:23PMAfter A Strange Loop capped the Tony Awards by taking the Best Musical prize, playwright Michael R. Jackson offered his main takeaway from the show’s unlikely path to the top: “It’s OK…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:12AMJesse Tyler Ferguson, who won a Tony for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Take Me Out, said the leaking of a naked photo of cast member Jesse Williams from a performance…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:48PMDazzling in a bright white topcoat and pants, Tony Awards host Ariana DeBose trumpeted progress on Broadway in a high-energy opening number and monologue. (See video clip below.) The West S…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:56PMLin-Manuel Miranda promises that Tony Awards host Ariana DeBose, an original cast member in Hamilton before her Oscar win for West Side Story will have “a doozy of an opening number” kic…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:17PMReactions are coming in to Monday morning’s Tony Awards nominations, an event that feels like a reassuringly familiar sign of springtime after two-plus years of Covid upheaval on Broadway.…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:14AMNew York City has rolled back its strictest anti-Covid measures, including vaccine mandates for indoor spaces. Public school children from kindergarten through 12th grade will also no longer…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:07AMMoulin Rouge! The Musical producers Bill Damaschke and Carmen Pavlovic reflected during tonight’s Tony Awards on how differently the show plays in 2021 than it did before the onset of Covi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:41PMKenny Leon, director of A Soldier’s Play, which won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play, expanded backstage on his acceptance-speech call for greater diversity in the theater. “We�…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:03PMMary-Louise Parker, a Tony winner for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, offered a sense in a backstage interview of what it felt like to attend tonight’s show. “It’s rea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:34PMDanny Burstein, after seven Tony Award nominations, finally took home the trophy tonight for best featured performance in Moulin Rouge! The Musical. While he said he hasn’t obsessed about …
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:57PMEXCLUSIVE: Miroma SET, a new branding and marketing firm, has been established through the integration of several companies previously managed by London-based Reach4Entertainment. Marc Boyan…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:27PMNY PopsUp, a months-long festival starting February 20 that is billed by organizers as a model for how live performances can return amid Covid-19, has set details for its high-profile inaugu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:39PMTourism — a critical part of New York City’s economy and a lifeblood for industries like Broadway theater — may not return to pre-COVID-19 levels until 2025, according to a new forecas…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:33PMImagine Entertainment partners Ron Howard and Brian Grazer expect COVID-19 to have an impact on Hollywood for some time to come — just not necessarily on screen. “This period of our live…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:28PMDisney will release a feature film of the original stage musical Hamilton in the U.S. and Canada on October 15. The studio is teaming with Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeffrey Seller and Thomas Kail …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:29PMThe holiday season boosted Broadway box office for the week ending December 29, with a spate of weekly records established by shows including West Side Story, Beetlejuice, a couple of bio-m…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:33PMA revival of Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 musical Company that played London’s West End has announced its Broadway opening on March 22, 2020, with a cast headed by Patti LuPone and Katrina Le…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:48AMEXCLUSIVE: Just as Hollywood studios did a generation ago, Broadway producers are now actively investigating the potential of China as a newly maturing marketplace with vast revenue potentia…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:02AMAnyone watching the Tony Awards from the official media room got a clear sign that history was apt to be made: For the first time in recent memory, the small stage where winners would be tak…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:31PMJames Corden got the Tony Awards off to an electrifying start with a nearly 10-minute song-and-dance extravaganza that persuasively extolled the virtues of the live stage while smuggling a c…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:38PMTodayTix, a six-year-old purveyor of tickets for Broadway shows and theater and other arts and culture events in several international cities, has gotten a $73 million equity investment led …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:36AMThe reactions to this year’s Tony Award nominations didn’t take long to materialize. Gayle King, who was emceeing this morning’s announcement of the noms along with Bebe Neuwirth and B…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:45AMWith the Broadway production of Frozen about to mark its first anniversary, Disney Theatrical Productions has announced versions of the show will be performed in Australia, London and German…
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