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Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Mike Birbiglia’s ‘The Old Man & the Pool’ Sells Out First Week, Gets Two-Week Extension – Broadway Box Office by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: Comic monologist Mike Birbiglia has made an early Broadway splash with his new show The Old Man & the Pool, selling out his first four previews last week – the only other pr…

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Phillipa Soo, Andrew Burnap & Jordan Donica To Lead Cast Of Broadway’s ‘Camelot’ Revival by Greg Evans

Lincoln Center Theater’s upcoming Broadway revival of Lerner & Loewe’s Camelot will star Andrew Burnap as Arthur, Phillipa Soo as Guenevere, and Jordan Donica as Lancelot Du Lac, LCT…

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Lea Michele & Cast Of ‘Funny Girl’ Set For Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade; Other Broadway Shows Include ‘The Lion King’, ‘A Beautiful Nois by Greg Evans

This year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will include the traditional line-up of Broadway performances, with Lea Michele and the cast of Funny Girl scheduled to be among the holiday re…

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Thursday, October 27, 2022

Anna D. Shapiro, Ian Barford Among Quartet Launching Highwire Media Production Company For Film, Theater, TV; Jane Lynch, Chris Rock Projects In Pipel by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: Tony Award-winning director Anna D.Shapiro (August: Osage County), Oscar-nominated producer Leelai Demoz (On Tip-Toe), Tony-nominated actor/writer Ian Barford (Linda Vista) and en…

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Wednesday, October 26, 2022

New Kander & Ebb Musical ‘New York, New York’ Sets Spring Broadway Opening, Venue by Greg Evans

The new Kander & Ebb stage musical New York, New York, inspired by the 1977 Martin Scorsese film starring Liza Minnelli and ‎Robert De Niro, will begin performances Friday, March 24, 2…

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Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Broadway Box Office Holds Steady At $29M; ‘Phantom’ Nabs $1.6M; Gabriel Byrne‘s ’Walking With Ghosts’ Joins The Roster by Greg Evans

Broadway box office held steady last week, with impressive attendance for recent arrivals Almost Famous and Kimberly Akimbo, and Leopoldstadt again setting a house record at the Longacre wit…

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Nathan Lane, Danny Burstein & Zoë Wanamaker Set For Broadway’s ‘Pictures From Home’ In January by Greg Evans

Nathan Lane, Danny Burstein and Zoë Wanamaker, three of the theater’s most acclaimed artists, will return to the New York stage this January in the Broadway premiere of Pictures From Home…

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New Lucy Simon Video-Podcast Series Features Late Composer And Broadway Performers Sierra Boggess, Ramin Karimloo & ‘Secret Garden’ Stars Dais by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: A five-part video and podcast series celebrating the life and career of Broadway composer Lucy Simon – one of the final projects the sister of Carly Simon worked on prior to her…

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Monday, October 24, 2022

Chet Walker Dies: Tony-Nominated Choreographer And Creator Of ‘Fosse’ Was 68 by Greg Evans

Chet Walker, a Broadway dancer and choreographer who created the Tony-winning 1999 hit musical Fosse, died October 21 at his home in Cornelius, NC, from a glioblastoma tumor. He was 68. His …

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‘Life Of Pi’ Stage Adaptation Sets Spring Broadway Opening by Greg Evans

Lolita Chakrabarti’s stage adaption of Yann Martel’s best-selling novel Life of Pi will premiere at Broadway’s Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre with performances beginning Thursday, March 9, …

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Sunday, October 23, 2022

Carly Simon Honors Sisters Joanna & Lucy Simon In Poignant Statement by Greg Evans

Pop superstar Carly Simon paid tribute to her sisters – opera singer Joanna Simon and Broadway composer Lucy Simon – who each died of cancer last week within one day of the other. In a s…

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Friday, October 21, 2022

Lucy Simon Dies: Broadway ‘Secret Garden’ Composer, Sister Of Carly Simon Was 82 by Greg Evans

Lucy Simon, the Tony Award-nominated composer of Broadway’s 1991 musical The Secret Garden and sister of singer Carly Simon, died of breast cancer Thursday at her home in Piedmont, New Yor…

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‘Back To The Future’ Musical Coming To Broadway This Summer; Teaser Trailer With Surprise Guest Unveiled by Greg Evans

Broadway is going Back to the Future this summer when the Olivier Award-winning musical stage adaptation of the 1985 film begins previews at the Winter Garden Theatre. Making the trip states…

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Thursday, October 20, 2022

‘Topdog/Underdog’ Broadway Review: Corey Hawkins & Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Deal A Winner by Greg Evans

Twenty years after it first arrived to shake up a complacent Broadway and make a Pulitzer Prize winner of its author Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/Underdog has lost none of its vitality and power…

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Susan L. Schulman Dies: Longtime Broadway Publicist Worked With Lauren Bacall, Vanessa Redgrave & Katharine Hepburn by Greg Evans

Susan L. Schulman, a longtime Broadway publicist whose five-decade career included such theater milestones as Applause starring Lauren Bacall, Death of a Salesman with George C. Scott and Bo…

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Broadway Producer Garth Drabinsky Sues Actors’ Equity For $50M, Claiming Defamation & “Blacklisting” Following ‘Paradise Square’ Collaps by Greg Evans

Three months after his hoped-for Broadway comeback Paradise Square closed amidst bad box office, legal battles, a Covid outbreak and allegations of a toxic work environment, producer Garth D…

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Covid Still Heckling Broadway With Canceled Performances And Cast Substitutions by Greg Evans

Covid isn’t done with New York’s theater scene just yet. At least four Broadway and major Off Broadway productions have either canceled or postponed performances or temporarily replaced …

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A Casino In Times Square? Broadway Divided On Development Gamble by Greg Evans

Times Square, the heart of New York City’s Broadway district, could possibly – possibly being the operative word – gain a glitzy new attraction in the years ahead: The owners of Caesar…

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Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Lena Horne Theatre Coming To Broadway Next Month by Greg Evans

Stage, film and musical icon Lena Horne will officially become the first Black woman to have a Broadway theater named for her when The Nederlander Organization rechristens the Brooks Atkinso…

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Tuesday, October 18, 2022

‘Almost Famous’, ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Prove Popular With Strong Attendance; ‘Leopoldstadt’ Tops $1M – Broadway Box Office by Greg Evans

Broadway box office held steady at $28,621,480 last week as a slate of new productions began or continued previews (Almost Famous and Kimberly Akimbo filled more than 90% of their seats), MJ…

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Patti LuPone On Leaving Actors’ Equity: “They Don’t Know Who I Am Basically” – Report by Greg Evans

Broadway star Patti LuPone is offering additional details on her decision to leave the Actors’ Equity union after completing her run in Company last summer. “They accepted my resignation…

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Stage Musical Featuring Petula Clark Songs & Other ’60s Hits In Development by Greg Evans

A Sign of the Times, a new musical featuring the songs of Petula Clark and other hit-makers of the 1960s, is being developed and will have a reading in New York later this month. The musical…

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Krysta Rodriguez, Erik Jensen Join Broadway’s ‘The Collaboration’ Cast by Greg Evans

Krysta Rodriguez (Into The Woods, Spring Awakening) and Erik Jensen (The Exonerated, Coal Country) will complete the cast of the upcoming Broadway production of Anthony McCarten’s The Coll…

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Monday, October 17, 2022

Patti LuPone Says She’s Given Up Actors’ Equity Card, Signaling Possible Broadway Retirement: “No Longer Part Of That Circus” by Greg Evans

Triple Tony winner and stage icon Patti LuPone says she’s given up her Actors’ Equity card, a move that could signal an end to her celebrated Broadway stage career. “Quite a week on Br…

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Michael Jackson Musical ‘MJ’ Announces London Production by Greg Evans

MJ, the hit Broadway musical about Michael Jackson and featuring many of his most popular songs, will open in London in March 2024, producers announced today. The announcement comes as the m…

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Friday, October 14, 2022

‘Hadestown’ Audience Member With Hearing Loss Urges Social Media Users To “Stop Harassing” Lillias White: Actress Is Not “The Enemy” by Greg Evans

The Hadestown audience member with hearing loss who was reprimanded from the stage by Lillias White when the Broadway actress mistook a captioning device for a recording device is urging soc…

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Max Woodward Dies: Longtime Kennedy Center Producer Was 76 by Greg Evans

Max Woodward, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts executive and producer who oversaw the production of its theater programming for years before his retirement in 2016, died to…

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Thursday, October 13, 2022

‘The Piano Lesson’ Broadway Review: Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington & Danielle Brooks Rouse The Ghosts In A Spirited Revival by Greg Evans

There’s abundant magic still in The Piano Lesson, August Wilson’s grand, 1987 Pulitzer Prize winning tale of a Black family torn between legacy and ambition, the past and the future, and…

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Broadway To Dim Lights For Angela Lansbury by Greg Evans

Broadway will honor the legendary Angela Lansbury with the traditional dimming of marquee lights this Saturday evening. “Angela Lansbury was without a doubt one of Broadway’s most endear…

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‘Hadestown’ & Jujamcyn Theaters Apologize And Reaffirm “Commitment To Accessibility” After Actor Calls Out Hearing-Impaired Audience Membe by Greg Evans

The producers of Broadway’s Hadestown and Jujamcyn Theaters have apologized to an audience member with hearing loss whose use of a captioning device drew repeated onstage reprimands from o…

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‘A Wrinkle In Time’ Set For Stage Musical Adaptation by Greg Evans

A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle’s beloved and acclaimed children’s book classic, is being developed as a stage musical, producers announced today. The adaptation will feature musi…

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