Thursday, June 27, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Producers Robert Greenblatt and Neil Meron are developing the Broadway-bound Studio 54 The Musical, a new work with a book by Chad Hodge and set to feature a full playlist of hits…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:26PMEvan Cabnet, currently Artistic Director of Lincoln Center Theater’s LCT3, will be Second Stage Theater’s new Artistic Director beginning in September, Second Stage trustees announced to…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:30AMGrant Gustin, TV’s star of The Flash, will play the final performance of his well-received limited run in the Broadway musical Water For Elephants on Sunday, September 1, producers announc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:23AMBoop! The Betty Boop Musical directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell, will open on Broadway in April 2025 at a Shubert theater to be announced, producers said today. The Broadway produc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:57AMWednesday, June 26, 2024
Christian Borle, the two-time Tony winner for Something Rotten and Peter and the Starcatcher, will replace the previously announced Andrew Rannells in this fall’s Broadway production of Ta…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:00PMTuesday, June 25, 2024
A double-digit slip in the Nielsen ratings notwithstanding, the Tony Awards worked their magic at the box office, with this year’s winners, contenders and show-stealers reporting big incre…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:24PMLeslye Headland, creator of the new Disney+ series Star Wars: The Acolyte, will make her Broadway debut this fall with the Second Stage Theater production of her play Cult of Love. Trip Cull…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMSaturday, June 22, 2024
About three-quarters of the way through every performance of David Adjmi’s Tony-winning play Stereophonic, two characters – Holly, the British keyboardist/vocalist (played by Juliana Can…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:25AMFriday, June 21, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Tom Francis, the Olivier Award-winning actor who will reprise his West End portrayal of Joe Gillis in Jamie Lloyd’s West End production of Sunset Boulevard when the revival move…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:37PMWednesday, June 19, 2024
Zoë Chao of Peacock’s sci-fi rom-com If You Were the Last and Hadestown‘s Amber Gray will be among the cast of Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway staging of Jonathan Spector’s new co…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:12AMTuesday, June 18, 2024
For those keeping track of such things, nearly 10% – or $3,239,838 – of Broadway’s total $36.8 million box office last week was earned by productions directed by Taymors: The Lion King…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:14PMMerrily We Roll Along, the smash Broadway hit starring Tony-winners Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe and nominee Lindsay Mendez, is being professionally filmed by RadicalMedia, the same p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:29PMSwept Away, the new musical featuring the music of folk-rock band The Avett Brothers, will begin performances at Broadway’s Longacre Theatre on Tuesday, October 29 with an opening set for …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:25AMThe Heart of Rock and Roll, the struggling musical built around the hits of Huey Lewis, will play its final performance at a matinee on Sunday, June 23. The show will have played 24 previews…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:59AMMonday, June 17, 2024
UPDATE, with League statement: Actors’ Equity Association, the labor union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theatre, will cease issuing contract…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:27PMIn the week leading up to Jeremy Strong’s Tony Award victory, Broadway’s An Enemy of the People broke the box office record at Circle in the Square Theatre, grossing $1,266,338 and toppi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:55PMLast night’s 77th Annual Tony Awards featured some terrific musical performances. We’ve compiled them all, so take a look and decide for yourself which shows should have taken home troph…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:21AMAndrew Rannells, walking the red (actually blue) carpet at the Tony Awards yesterday for his nominated Gutenberg! The Musical had some disappointing news for fans: Contrary to previous repor…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:05AMNo awards show makes it to the end without a few surprises, and tonight’s Tony Awards on CBS had a whopper: It went off without a hitch. The Pluto TV pre-show, not so much. But more on tha…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:56AMSunday, June 16, 2024
Singer-actor Nick Jonas and Tony Award-winning Tina actor Adrienne Warren will star in the first-ever Broadway production of Jason Robert Brown’s musical The Last Five Years, a show that�…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AMFriday, June 14, 2024
Rap icon Nas is joining a creative team to bring a stage musical adaptation of the 1984 hip-hop film classic Beat Street to Broadway. Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, better known as Nas, made the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30PMTony Mordente, who made his mark on Broadway as a dancer and choreographer, played the hot-headed Jet named Action in the 1961 film West Side Story and later segued into a long and busy care…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:41PMRock icon Pete Townshend will not only introduce the musical performance of The Who’s Tommy cast, but will take part in it: Deadline hears that Townshend and the Tommy cast are set to perf…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:18AMRon Simons, who had a busy if low-key TV acting career before making his greatest impact producing such acclaimed Broadway plays as Thoughts of a Colored Man (2021) and the 2022 revival of f…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:27AMThursday, June 13, 2024
With important discussions raised recently about whether (and which) new categories should be added to the Tony Awards competition – Hair, Wig & Makeup? Casting? Ensemble? Projections?…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMTony-winner Idina Menzel will return to Broadway next year in the new musical Redwood written and directed by Mother Play director Tina Landau, producers announced today. The musical, which …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:19AMWednesday, June 12, 2024
The Who’s Tommy composer Pete Townshend, The Outsiders producer Angelina Jolie, and the Wicked movie’s Cynthia Erivo are among the roster of Tony Award presenters announced today by prod…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMStereophonic, the David Adjmi play about a 1970s rock band that prominently features the fictional band’s songs, will perform a musical number at the Tony Awards this Sunday after all. The…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:36AMTuesday, June 11, 2024
Broadway is heading into its final pre-Tony weeks doing robust business, with box office for last week up 7% over the previous week, nine shows selling out (including the two most-nominated …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:41PMThree months ago, members of the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion made national headlines when they interrupted the Broadway staging of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People to bring a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:55AM& Juliet, the playful, pop-infused musical that gives Shakespeare’s lovestruck heroine a second chance at life, has recouped its $17 million capitalization, the first new musical of th…
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