Wednesday, June 14, 2023
EXCLUSIVE: In a move designed to “extend the intersection” of Hollywood, Broadway, London’s West End and regional theater, the movie-ticket site Hollywood.com and theater producer Nede…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:40PMBroadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, where Tina – The Tina Turner Musical ran from 2019 to 2022, will dim its marquee lights for the iconic singer on Wednesday, June 21. The one-minute dimm…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:23AMTuesday, June 13, 2023
With the Tony Awards – and a seriously orange New York City sky – prompting some Broadway productions to reduce their playing schedules last week, total box office and attendance was dow…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:55PMRecording artist Deborah Cox and Chicago-based actress and singer Melody A. Betts have joined the Broadway-bound cast of The Wiz, with Cox taking the role of Glinda and Betts cast as Aunt Em…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:27AMFriday, June 9, 2023
Twelve musicians will be included in the upcoming Broadway production of the David Byrne-Fatboy Slim musical Here Lies Love, an agreement reached today in a labor dispute over the use of pre…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:29PMThe 76th annual Tony Awards are set for Sunday, June 11, with plenty of musical performances, returning host Ariana DeBose, a new location venue — and no writers. Airing live from the Unit…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:00PMHas there ever been a less predictable Tony Awards? Just a few weeks ago there were doubts that a televised ceremony would even happen, due to the ongoing WGA strike. That problem proved to …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:58PMBroadway will dim its lights on Saturday, June 17, to honor the memory of Robin Wagner, the triple Tony Award-winning scenic designer who died May 29 at age 89. The traditional memorial marq…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:40AMThursday, June 8, 2023
Ellie Kemper will join the cast – temporarily – of Broadway’s Peter Pan Goes Wrong for a one-week guest-starring engagement. The star of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and The Great America…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:42PMThe Tony Awards broadcast this Sunday will feature performances from the casts of Tony Award nominated best musicals and revivals including Camelot, Into The Woods, & Juliet, Kimberly Ak…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMThe show went on at Broadway’s Shucked last night, though New York City’s bad air quality did have an impact on the staging: Book writer Robert Horn and composer Brandy Clark stepped in …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:31AMWednesday, June 7, 2023
Broadway’s Hamilton and Camelot are the latest New York City productions canceling performances tonight due to issues caused by the region’s historically bad air quality. “The hazardou…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:34PMJust hours after Broadway star Jodie Comer left the stage of the hit one-person show Prima Facie due to breathing issues caused by New York City’s poor air quality today, Actors’ Equity …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:57PMLorna Courtney was barely out of the University of Michigan when Broadway first came calling. A native New Yorker – Queens, to be exact – and graduate of Manhattan’s performing arts La…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:24PMActor Jodie Comer halted today’s matinee of Broadway’s Prima Facie due to New York City’s bad, smokey air, telling audience members she was having difficulty breathing. An audience mem…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:51PMBroadway box office was down 6% last week – the second week of the 2023-24 season – with even some Tony-nominated productions taking noticeable hits. Camelot, New York, New York, Life of…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:10PMJulianne Hough and Skylar Astin will host The Tony Awards: Act One, the live Tony Awards pre-show with on Pluto TV this Sunday. The 90-minute pre-show begins Sunday, June 11 at 6:30 p.m. ET/…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMFive-time Emmy winner and Grammy Award nominee Wayne Brady will play the title character in The Wiz revival when it lands on Broadway in spring 2024, producers announced today, with Doom Pat…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:45AMEXCLUSIVE: Shucked, the Broadway musical nominated for nine Tony Awards, will begin a London run on the West End next year, producer and theater owner Cameron Mackintosh announced today. “…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMTuesday, June 6, 2023
Suzan-Lori Parks’ acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning play Topdog/Underdog debuted Off Broadway in 2001, so it’s a safe bet that a significant portion of the audience at last fall’s limi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:37PMMonday, June 5, 2023
Anthony Ramos, the In the Heights star who’ll soon be seen on the big screen in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, revealed in a podcast today that he’s signed on to star as Mozart in a B…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:26PMEven longtime fans of singer Josh Groban could be forgiven some degree of surprise upon seeing the multiple-Grammy nominee in his 2016 Broadway debut Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMFriday, June 2, 2023
Fat Ham, James Ijames’ Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy nominated for five Tony Awards, will add one week of performances to its Broadway run, producers announced today. The production, direc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMThe 104-year-old theater formerly known as the Selwyn – and soon to be formerly known as the American Airlines – will be renamed to honor the late Todd Haimes, the artistic director and …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMThursday, June 1, 2023
When it comes to horror, Broadway typically cedes turf to Hollywood, the occasional Martin McDonough play notwithstanding. There have been giant apes, operatic phantoms, and a misguided vamp…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMThe new Alicia Keys musical Hell’s Kitchen will make its world premiere this fall as part of the 2023-24 season of New York’s Public Theater Off Broadway, the Public announced today. Wit…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMThe Broadway-bound revival of The Wiz, which will launch a national tour in Baltimore this fall, has cast Kyle Ramar Freeman (A Strange Loop) as the Lion, Phillip Johnson Richardson (Apple+�…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:26AMJulie Benko, who has built a devoted following as the Funny Girl understudy and alternate Fanny Brice, will originate her first Broadway role this fall in the new musical Harmony by by Barry…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:50AMPrayer for the French Republic, Joshua Harmon’s play that was staged in an award-winning Off Broadway production last year, will make its Broadway debut this season. The Manhattan Theatre …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:27AMTyne Daly and Liev Schreiber will star in a new Broadway production next February of John Patrick Shanley’s Tony Award & Pulitzer Prize-winning play Doubt: A Parable, with direction by…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMWednesday, May 31, 2023
Klaris Law, a boutique media, entertainment, technology, and intellectual property firm based in New York, announced today that Nevin Law Group, a Broadway production law practice, will join…
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