Monday, May 26, 2025
When Jonathan Spector first staged his now-Tony-nominated play Eureka Day in 2017, he couldn’t have known just how timely it would be eight years later. The Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:39PMFriday, May 23, 2025
There are so many startling, perspective-shifting scenes in Kimberly Belflower’s Tony Award-nominated play John Proctor Is The Villain that two people discussing the plot can easily make i…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMThursday, May 22, 2025
Bobby Cannavale, James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris will return to Broadway this fall in the first-ever Broadway revival of the Tony Award-winning Art by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:30PMWednesday, May 21, 2025
Producers of Broadway’s The Last Five Years – the Jason Robert Brown musical starring Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren – have taken an unusual step as a way to honor the industry’s all…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:50PMTom Hanks will star in the Off Broadway world premiere this fall of This World of Tomorrow, a new play the actor co-wrote with playwright James Glossman based on short stories written by Han…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:32PMTuesday, May 20, 2025
Heading into the final stretches of Tony season – the awards are June 8 – it’s interesting to see what contender shows have benefitted from their nominations the most, the least and ho…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:35PMMonday, May 19, 2025
Two non-Equity national theatrical tours – Mrs. Doubtfire and Chicago – are on the 2026 schedule of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., marking a majo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:09PMA cemetery in Guthrie, Oklahoma, is seeing an unusual increase in foot traffic lately, ever since real-life dead outlaw Elmer McCurdy has become Broadway’s most famous corpse. McCurdy’s …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:37PMThis June, Jonathan Groff will have the rare chance to win Tony Awards in two consecutive years. If he repeats last year’s triumph for Merrily We Roll Along with one for this year’s Just…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:30PMLincoln Center for the Performing Arts today announced the preliminary design for a $335 million transformation of the west side of its Manhattan campus, a project that will include the crea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:50PMFriday, May 16, 2025
The New York Drama League has named Nicole Scherzinger winner of its annual Distinguished Performance Award for her performance in Broadway’s Sunset Blvd., while Cole Escola’s hit comedy…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:56PMThursday, May 15, 2025
Charles Strouse, the musical composer for such Broadway hits as Bye Bye Birdie, Applause and Annie, films including Bonnie and Clyde (1967) The Night They Raided Minsky’s (1968) and All Do…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:35PMJasmine Amy Rogers grew up feeling like a cartoon character. “My voice for a kid my age was a little lower than all the rest of the girls,” she says, “but it was also very, very raspy …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:30PMWednesday, May 14, 2025
The world premiere production of The Balusters by Kimberly Akimbo writer David Lindsay-Abaire has been added to Manhattan Theatre Club’s 2025-2026 season, joining the previously announced …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:32PMEXCLUSIVE: The upcoming Off Broadway revival of Heathers The Musical has announced the casting of its title trio: McKenzie Kurtz (Broadway’s Frozen and The Heart of Rock and Roll) will pla…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMTuesday, May 13, 2025
Broadway reached a major post-pandemic milestone last week, with season-to-date box office receipts of $1,801,023,860 for the 2024-2025 season surpassing the same week of the record-setting …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:33PMGlengarry Glen Ross, the hit Broadway revival of the David Mamet play starring Kieran Culkin, Bill Burr and Bob Odenkirk, has recouped its investment, producers announced today. Financial de…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:19AMMonday, May 12, 2025
Louis – he pronounces it Louie – McCartney had only recently learned the name of the young actor who, 28 years before McCartney was born in Nothern Ireland, won the Tony Award for Best A…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:00PMThe musical formerly known as Gun & Powder will be rebranded to the new title Wanted for its Broadway bow in 2026, producers said today. The production also announced the addition of Tra…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:59AMGood Night, and Good Luck, the new play by George Clooney and Grant Heslov directed by David Cromer, has announced that it has recouped its initial investment of $9.5 million in only 7…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:40AMThursday, May 8, 2025
Concord, considered to be the world’s leading independent music company, has acquired Broadway Licensing Global and its imprints Broadway Licensing, Dramatists Play Service, Playscripts, a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:57PMRichard Grenell, the Kennedy Center’s interim director appointed by President Donald Trump, is blasting what he calls politically intolerant entertainers who won’t perform at the Kennedy…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:59AMWednesday, May 7, 2025
Some cast members of the Kennedy Center performance of Les Misérables plan to skip the show on June 11 when President Donald Trump is in attendance, according to an exclusive CNN report. Ac…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:29PMThe producers of Broadway’s Maybe Happy Ending and Buena Vista Social Club have announced national tours for the shows to launch in 2026. Both shows were nominated for 10 Tony Awards last …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:20PMEXCLUSIVE: Playbill Inc. has named Jolie Schaffzin as Publisher of Playbill magazine, the theater magazine and guide. A veteran of the publication with 27 years of service, Schaffzin becomes…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:24AMA new musical with music and lyrics by “Chandelier” performer Sia is planned for fall 2025 at the prestigious Off Broadway venue New York Theatre Workshop. The musical, titled Saturday C…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMTuesday, May 6, 2025
Maybe Happy Ending, the Will Aronson-Hue Park Broadway musical starring Darren Criss and Helen J Shen as life-like “helper-bots’ who, despite all their wiring, find romance, and Branden …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:32PMLincoln Center Theater has announced today that incoming Artistic Director Lear deBessonet’s inaugural season will open with a new production of her acclaimed New York City Center Gala rev…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:15AMGood Night, and Good Luck, the new play by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, and directed by David Cromer, has broken its own all-time record for highest grossing play in Broadway histo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:37AMMonday, May 5, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Dolly Parton has announced the trio of actors who will play her in this summer’s pre-Broadway world premiere of Dolly: An Original Musical in Nashville. Katie Rose Clarke, Carri…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:55AMAdam Lambert will join Cynthia Erivo in Jesus Christ Superstar this summer for three nights Aug 1-3 at the Hollywood Bowl, with Lambert playing Judas to Erivo’s Jesus. The role Mary Magdal…
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