Thursday, December 21, 2023
UTA 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 10:00AMTuesday, June 13, 2023
Lin-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 09:13PMMonday, June 12, 2023
While 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 12:17AMSunday, June 11, 2023
Alex 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 10:23PMMonday, June 13, 2022
After 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 12:12AMSunday, June 12, 2022
Jesse 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 08:56PMSaturday, June 11, 2022
Lin-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 07:17PMMonday, May 9, 2022
Reactions 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 11:14AMFriday, March 4, 2022
New 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 11:07AMSunday, September 26, 2021
Moulin 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 07:57PMWednesday, June 16, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: 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 04:27PMMonday, February 8, 2021
NY 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 03:39PMMonday, November 16, 2020
Tourism — 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 05:33PMTuesday, October 20, 2020
Imagine 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 09:28PMMonday, February 3, 2020
Disney 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 12:29PMMonday, December 30, 2019
The 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 05:33PMFriday, August 30, 2019
A 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 10:48AMThursday, July 18, 2019
EXCLUSIVE: 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 11:02AMSunday, June 9, 2019
Anyone 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 08:38PMThursday, May 16, 2019
TodayTix, 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 11:36AMTuesday, April 30, 2019
The 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 09:45AMTuesday, March 19, 2019
With 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:45AMMonday, March 4, 2019
Morrissey, who will release an album of classic 1960s and ’70s covers on May 24, has booked his first Broadway engagement May 2-11 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
The announcement of the gig…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:13AMSunday, January 27, 2019
In one of the more serious obstacles to broadcast networks’ recent run of live musicals, a serious ankle injury to actor Brennin Hunt has altered Fox’s plans for its version of R…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:43PMThursday, January 24, 2019
WNET, the parent company of New York PBS stations Thirteen and WLIW21 and operator of NJTV, is launching a free, 24-hour broadcast and streaming channel dedicated to dance, film, literature,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:22PMTuesday, January 15, 2019
Carol Channing, the star of Broadway classics like Hello, Dolly! who continued performing well into her 90s, has died of natural causes at her home in Rancho Mirage, CA. She was 97.
B Harla…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:39AM 
