Monday, August 14, 2023
A newcomer will be easing on down the road next year. Nichelle Lewis has been cast in the lead role of Dorothy in the Broadway revival of The Wiz, which is slated to hit the boards in the sp…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 20, 2023
IATSE has reached a tentative deal with the Broadway League and Disney Theatrical on a new "Pink Contact," a day after talks had broken down. The agreement now goes to union members for rati…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:30PM[SHARE]Monday, July 17, 2023
Judith James, a film, TV and Broadway producer who was Richard Dreyfuss' producing partner for many years and worked on such projects as Quiz Show, Mr. Holland's Opus and Eleanor: In Her Own…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 11, 2023
Like live theater itself, the Tony Awards has had ample opportunity of late to accustom itself to curve balls, upsets and all sorts of real-world intrusions onto Broadway's rarified and belo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:27PM[SHARE]The 76th annual Tony Awards preshow is under way before tonight's televised ceremony tonight in New York, and Deadline is updating the winners list as they are announced. Have a look below t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:00PM[SHARE]Monday, June 5, 2023
Michael Lamont, who went from acting in Bye Bye Birdie and Oliver! on Broadway to a career as photographer for studios, theaters and actors, has died. He was 76. According to Patty Onagan, p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Broadway in Hollywood has tuned up the slate of musicals for its 2023-24 season. Headed to the Pantages Theatre stage starting late this year are the touring productions of MJ The Musical, T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 8, 2022
Michael Butler, the Tony-winning producer who brought Hair to Broadway in 1968 and later produced the film adaptation and many other productions of the show, died Monday in Santa Barbara. He…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 11, 2022
One of the world's most popular and enduring actresses died today, and tributes to Dame Angela Lansbury are raining down like a closing-night curtain call. Here is just a sampling that spans…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 18, 2022
Tony winner Jesse Tyler Ferguson and nominee Jesse Williams are suiting up again as stars of the baseball-themed Take Me Out, which is set to return to Broadway in the fall. The hit reviv…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2022
It'll be a shorter-than-planned reign for The Little Prince on Broadway. Producers said today that the show based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella will end its limited engagement…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:16PM[SHARE]Friday, April 15, 2022
Liz Sheridan, the veteran actress best known for playing Jerry Seinfeld's mother on Seinfeld and also recurred on ALF and appeared in several Broadway shows, died today in New York City. She…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 28, 2021
We got trouble, my friends, right there in New York City. It's trouble with a capital T and that rhymes with C, and that stands for … Covid. Broadway's revival of The Music Man has canc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 29, 2021
As Broadway gets ready to rock with you once again, there's a new man in the mirror for the Michael Jackson musical. The producers said today that Myles Frost will play the King of Pop in MJ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 31, 2020
As we finally turn the calendar on the Cruelest Year, let's take a moment to reflect on some of the memorable people we lost from the world of entertainment. Click through the photo gallery …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:52PM[SHARE]Friday, December 25, 2020
Roger Berlind, the 25-time Tony-winning producer of more than 100 Broadway plays and musicals ranging from Amadeus, City of Angels and Doubt to The Book of Mormon, Dear Evan Hansen …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:18PM[SHARE]Monday, December 14, 2020
Ann Reinking, a Broadway veteran who starred in the original production of Chicago, won a Tony Award as its choreographer and also co-starred in the films Annie and All That Jazz, has …
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:44PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 15, 2020
Broadway has been dark since mid-March, but its 2019-20 season already was winding down. In fact, there were 31 shows on the Main Stem boards when the coronavirus made this the cruelest of y…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Terrence McNally, the revered playwright behind such Broadway shows as Master Class and Frankie and Johnny at the Clair de Lune who also wrote the books for Kiss of the Spider Woman, T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Zoe Caldwell, a veteran stage, TV and film actress who won four Tony Awards and originated the Broadway roles of Maria Callas in Master Class and the title character in The Prime of Mi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:37PM[SHARE]Friday, January 31, 2020
Sony's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Netflix's Marriage Story, Searchlight's Jojo Rabbit and Lionsgate's Knives Out were among the film winners as the Casting Society of America handed o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 6, 2019
EXCLUSIVE: Tonight's performance of To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway ended abruptly after backfire sounds heard on the street outside the Shubert Theatre were mistaken for gunshots. A wi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Harold Prince, the Broadway icon who produced and/or directed some of the 20th century's most famous musicals West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Damn Yankees, Cabaret, Evita and The Phant…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 17, 2019
It's not one fine day for Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. The hit show's producers said it will end its nearly six-year Broadway run on October 27. Based on the songs of its titula…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Rip Torn, who played the Garry Shandling's profane, fiercely loyal producer on HBO's The Larry Sanders Show, co-starred in the original Men in Black films and won a Tony during a long Broadw…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:40PM[SHARE]Friday, May 31, 2019
Many a true word hath been spoken in jest, but this is legit: Glenda Jackson's King Lear will end its Broadway run on June 9. It originally was pegged to run through July 7. Producer Scot…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:59PM[SHARE]Friday, March 1, 2019
Katherine Helmond, who played the ditzy Tate matriarch on the groundbreaking 1970s comedy Soap and later starred on Who's the Boss? among many other roles, died February 23 of Alzheimer's co…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Once on This Island is shoving off for good soon. The show, which won this year’s Tony Award for Best Revival, will stage its final Broadway performance January 6, its producers said t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:55PM[SHARE]Friday, September 28, 2018
These boots were made for Broadway, and that’s just where they’ll be — until the spring. Producers Daryl Roth and Hal Luftig said today that Kinky Boots, which won six Tony…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 4, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your morning report: A host of Broadway actors have been recruited for guest voice roles on Season 3 of Disney Junior’s The Lion Guard.
Among those headed from …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 10, 2018
Three weeks before its scheduled trial date, the lawsuit over the Aaron Sorkin-penned Broadway adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird has been settled. The estate of book author Harper Lee and …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:05PM[SHARE] 
