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 10:45AMMorrissey, 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 08:13AMIn 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 05:43PMWNET, 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 01:22PMCarol 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 08:39AMCarole King surprised the Broadway audience at last night’s fifth-anniversary performance of Beautiful, the musical about her journey through the music business, performing the title s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:52AMEXCLUSIVE: After acclaimed and sold-out runs in London and New York, current-events-based play The Jungle will have its West Coast premiere at the storied Curran Theater in San Francisco thi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:00PMEXCLUSIVE: As it continues to set records, the new Broadway production of To Kill a Mockingbird has released a new block of tickets through November 1. That will extend the run of the Scott …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:07PMEXCLUSIVE: In its first full week of performances, producer Scott Rudin’s new production of To Kill A Mockingbird has broken the all-time weekly box office record for any Broadway play…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:47PMConcord Music has acquired 188-year-old theater publisher and licensing mainstay Samuel French, combining it with other assets in its burgeoning Concord Theatricals unit. The deal, whose ter…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:08PMThe Broadway adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! will begin its run on the boards next summer, producers announced, with previews starting June 28 and opening night on June 25. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:42AMFox Stage Productions and producer Kevin McCollum have announced the creative team for Mrs. Doubtfire, which is headed by director Jerry Zaks, a four-time Tony Award winner. John O’Far…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:01PMMelissa Benoist broke out on television, but her original show business ideal was being where she is right now: Broadway. Her summer stint playing the lead in the long-running Beautiful: Th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:08AMThe Michael Jackson estate and Columbia Stage are developing a musical based on the King of Pop’s catalog, adding one more jukebox show to the Broadway boards. Lynn Nottage, a Pulitzer…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:27AMWhile Broadway grosses for the week ending June 10 did not directly benefit from the Tony Awards (which were held June 10), the clear path for established titles saw many post week-to-week g…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:48PMStudents from Parkland, Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School took the Radio City Musical Hall stage to deliver a rendition of “Seasons of Love” from Rent that bro…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:08PMIf you blinked, you might have missed it, but Bruce Springsteen did amble onstage and accept a special Tony Award recognizing the commercial powerhouse that he has been presenting in recent …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:58PMBroadway shuffled toward its biggest night, Sunday’s Tony Awards, with overall box office declining for the week ending June 3 compared with the prior week, according to figures from t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:10PMAnonymous Content has hired its first theater scout, Whitney Dibo, who most recently was working as director of development and acquisitions for The Weinstein Co. Dibo’s new title at A…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMAided by a 53rd week in the year (added every seven years for statistical reasons), plus aggressive pricing of certain shows, Broadway box office ended 2017-18 up 17.1% over the prior year. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:33PMWith Broadway in the final days of its statistically extended 2017-2018 year (53 weeks instead of 52, long story), grosses held steady for the week ending May 20, according to figures from t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:40PMProducers of the long-running Off-Broadway production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street said the intimate, immersive rendering of the Stephen Sondheim masterpiece will close…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:11PMEXCLUSIVE: Mean Girls led the field by winning eight prizes, including Favorite New Musical, and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child won Favorite New Play in the 18th annual Broadway.com Audi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:49AMStrong grosses for several shows pacing the field of Tony Award nominees — including Angels in America, Mean Girls and SpongeBob SquarePants — nudged the Broadway box office last…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:51PMThe return of Bruce Springsteen’s long-running engagement at the Walter Kerr Theatre, which was on hiatus last week, and the initial previews of a starry revival of The Boys in the Ban…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:36PMCost of Living and School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play tied for Best Play and KPOP captured Best Musical at the 33rd annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Of…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:33PMIllusionist Vitaly Beckman, who fooled magicians Penn & Teller on their CW magic show Fool Us, will have an Off-Broadway run in the same theater where the duo launched their career in th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AMEmotions — mostly the good kind, like ebullience, delight and satisfaction — ricocheted around today’s press event honoring the 2018 Tony Award nominees. Time, though, was …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:39PMThe 2018 Tony Award nominations this morning spread the honors around, with Mean Girls and SpongeBob SquarePants leading the field with 12 nominations apiece. Tied with 11 nominations each w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:29PMBruce Springsteen’s sold-out run on Broadway was ineligible for the Tony Awards by design. Given the scarcity of tickets, producers (and the Boss) didn’t want to take seats from …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:54AMThe Tony Award nominations favored the familiar, with Mean Girls and SpongeBob SquarePants leading the field with 12 nods apiece, while the American debut of Harry Potter and the Cursed Chi…
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