Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Death Becomes Her, the new musical adaptation of the 1992 comedy fantasy film, worked up some Broadway magic in its second week since beginning performances at the Lunt-Fontanne, grossing an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:10PMMonday, November 4, 2024
The Broadway League will no longer be involved in announcing the dimming of marquee lights to memorialize the deaths of performers, writers and other members of the Broadway community. The a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:04PMFriends and family of the late Broadway actor Gavin Creel will host a public memorial celebration at Broadway’s St. James Theatre on Monday, December 2 at 4 p.m./ET, with the tribute conti…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AMFriday, November 1, 2024
Broadway will dim its marquee lights for the late Dame Maggie Smith at 6:45 pm/ET on Thursday, November 7, theater owners announced today. “Maggie Smith was a singular talent, whose artist…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:04PMPatti LuPone, famously fired by Andrew Lloyd Webber from her role as Norma Desmond in the 1993 London production of Sunset Boulevard, is putting old grudges aside – kinda, sorta – and pl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:40PMAndrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, one of the most successful musicals in Broadway history when it ended its 35-year run in 2023, is coming back to North America in a tour fea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:02AMWhen Operation Mincemeat, the lauded West End musical comedy, begins previews on Broadway this February, the original London cast will be reprising their acclaimed performances for New York …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMBusy Broadway producer Ken Davenport (Oh, Mary!, the upcoming Othello, among many other credits) has another project in the wings: A stage musical adaptation of the Oscar-winning 2008 film S…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMThursday, October 31, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: The Broadway revival of Othello starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal has added to the cast with Andrew Burnap (The Inheritance, Disney’s upcoming live-action Snow Whit…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMTuesday, October 29, 2024
The strong (well, some of them) got stronger on Broadway last week even as the overall box office trended slightly downward, with 28 productions on the 36-show roster reporting receipt dips.…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMMonday, October 28, 2024
George Clooney’s Broadway debut in Good Night, and Good Luck will begin performances March 12, 2025, at the Winter Garden Theatre, with an opening date of April 3. The Winter Garden venue …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:41AMFriday, October 25, 2024
No, Stevie Nicks has not seen Stereophonic, David Adjmi’s hit Broadway play about a fictional (but very Mac-like) ’70s band recording what will become its (very Rumours-like) masterpiece…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:28AM“Man of the House,” a new song co-written and produced by Jack Antonoff and performed by Rachel Zegler in Broadway’s Romeo + Juliet opening tonight, has been released as a single. Both…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00AMThursday, October 24, 2024
Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers sure are getting a work out these days, what with Tom Holland’s recent stab in London, the enduringly popular girl power take of & Juliet and no dou…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00PMThe Broadway stage musical adaptation of Back To The Future will play its final performance on Sunday, January 5, producers announced today, bringing an end to its 18-month run at the Winter…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMActor Louis McCartney will reprise his West End performance as Henry Creel in the upcoming Broadway production of Stranger Things: The First Shadow, producers Netflix and Sonia Friedman Prod…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30AMWednesday, October 23, 2024
If nothing else, Delia Ephron’s autobiographical romantic comedy Left on Tenth, opening tonight on Broadway, proves that Ephron, like her late sister Nora, can find the feel-good in even t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30PMBilly Magnussen has left the Off Broadway production of Robert O’Hara’s Shit. Meet. Fan. due to what producers say is “an unforeseen health concern.” With Magnussen’s departure –…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:07PMTuesday, October 22, 2024
Sunset Blvd. and Romeo + Juliet added some major heft to Broadway’s autumn box office last week, with the ecstatically reviewed Blvd. grossing $1,211,699 even with press comps during its o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:45PMEXCLUSIVE: Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, the upcoming Broadway revue of the great composer’s classics starring the previously announced Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga, will also fea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMMimi Hines, who along with her comedy and musical partner (and husband) Phil Ford was a staple of late-night talk shows and variety shows of the 1960s before making a name for herself on Bro…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:20AMSmash, the new stage musical adaptation inspired by the cult favorite 2012 NBC TV series, will begin Broadway previews on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at the Imperial Theatre, with an official o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMFormer NSYNC member Joey Fatone is returning to Broadway for the first time in two decades as part of the cast of & Juliet, the musical comedy “sequel” to Romeo and Juliet featuring …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:05AMMonday, October 21, 2024
Diana Baffa-Brill, a dancer and choreographer who assisted the legendary Mame choreographer Onna White and later re-staged scores of productions of that classic musical, died in Los Angeles …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:01PMActors David Rasche and Mare Winningham have joined the previously announced production of Leslye Headland’s Cult of Love and a cast that includes Zachary Quinto, Shailene Woodley, Molly B…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:50PMSunday, October 20, 2024
All that madness in Gloria Swanson’s eyes at the end of Billy Wilder’s 1950 masterpiece Sunset Boulevard is amplified to breathtaking lengths in Jamie Lloyd’s commanding and gorgeous r…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMThursday, October 17, 2024
Stranger Things star Sadie Sink will appear on Broadway this spring in John Proctor Is The Villain, a new comedy with Danya Taymor (The Outsiders) directing, producers announced today. The p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:26AMWednesday, October 16, 2024
Not far into Kenneth Lonergan’s fame-is-hell-but-what-isn’t fable Hold On To Me Darling, Adam Driver, playing a country music crossover megastar about to begin filming his latest blockbu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMThe mother of missing Broadway dancer Zelig Williams made a tearful, heartbreaking plea today asking for information on her son’s whereabouts. “I just want Zelig to come home,” said Ka…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:02PMTuesday, October 15, 2024
Broadway newcomers Sunset Blvd. and Romeo + Juliet, both in previews, topped the $1M mark in weekly grosses last week, while interesting things were happening over at Wicked: The long-runnin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:22PMEXCLUSIVE: Newsies fans have reason for a little Extra! bounce in their step today: The director, composer, lyricist and cast members of the Broadway musical and 1992 movie adaptation have r…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM 
