Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Paula Vogel’s drama Indecent, which won two Tony Awards on Sunday, announced this morning that it will close following the matinée on June 25 at the Cort Theatre after 79 performances…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:19PMTuesday, June 13, 2017
The culling of shows denied a boost from the Tony Awards began this morning with the announcement that John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation, directed by Trip Cullman and starring seven-tim…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:01AMMonday night was the official opening of the Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare In The Park production of Julius Caesar. But reaction to the show, which depicts Caesar and his wife as F…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:46AMMonday, June 12, 2017
Broadway showed plenty of life last week, as crowds pumped the box office during the run-up to Sunday’s 71st Tony Awards. Seven of the 35 shows running exceeded their official gross po…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:21PMOn Sunday afternoon, a few hours before the Tony Awards, Delta Airlines declared that the Public Theater had gone beyond the boundaries of civil discourse with its production of Shakespeare&…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:15AMWith no Hamilton to electrify the TV audience, the 71st Tony Awards tried hard to generate some excitement Sunday night with first-time host Kevin Spacey and a slew of competitive races that…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:07AMSunday, June 11, 2017
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Gavin Creel of Hello, Dolly! has won Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
Gavin Cree…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:22PMWill Come From Away edge out Dear Evan Hansen for this year’s Best Broadway Musical? Welcome to Deadline’s live blog of the 2017 Antoinette Perry Awards, better known as the Tony…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:46PMDelta Air Lines said today that it was terminating its sponsorship of New York’s Public Theater because a production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar “crossed the line”…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:05PMSaturday, June 10, 2017
Julius Caesar, his strawberry blonde hair teased and coiffed, a cigar in one hand as he paws his wife Calpurnia’s crotch with the other in a crude public display, swaggers about the st…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:03AMFriday, June 9, 2017
The 71st annual Tony Awards are Sunday night, telecast live on CBS beginning at 8 PM New York time (delayed in CA). Even if Golden State fails to nail the NBA championship tonight, Broadway …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:21PMThursday, June 8, 2017
Condola Rashad’s eyes convey volumes. Any fan of Showtime’s Billions knows the camera can’t resist Assistant D.A. Kate Sacker’s peepers. But you don’t need a sc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:16PMCBS will take advantage of Late Show host and Broadway devotee Stephen Colbert’s ratings blitz by injecting him into the lineup of Sunday’s Tonycast, along with Lin-Manuel Miran…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:39AMWednesday, June 7, 2017
You don’t always know the names of the working actors who make up the vertebrae of Broadway, even if you’ve scanned them in a dozen Playbills over the years. They may understudy …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:38PMWith growing support from Broadway unions and individual celebrities, including Liam Neeson, casting directors and their allies will rally Thursday morning outside Radio City Music Hall, dur…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:10AMCrazy For You, the Tony-winning musical that led to a revival of interest in the songs of George and Ira Gerswhin 80 years after their reign in popular music, will be produced by Center Thea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:41AMTuesday, June 6, 2017
Having found worldwide success with her songs for the Broadway blockbuster Kinky Boots, pop star Cyndi Lauper will turn her attention to a stage adaptation of Working Girl, the 1988 Mike Ni…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:58PMA few days ago, Keegan-Michael Key took time off from rehearsals for director Sam Gold’s production of Hamlet at the Public Theater – in which he plays Horatio, the best friend o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:08PMYou may not know it, but Scott Rudin is an old-fashioned kind of guy. He believes in the sanctity of marriage, the centrality of hands-on producing and, as anyone with functioning eyes knows…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:44PMMonday, June 5, 2017
If you’ve scored seats in what was the stage area of the Imperial Theatre, where Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 is running, be prepared to negotiate a daunting catwalk i…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:45PMRoger Smith, who achieved semi-stardom as the adult Patrick Dennis opposite Rosalind Russell in 1958’s Auntie Mame and TV icon status opposite Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in ABC’s hip, h…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:16PMWith one week to go before the Tony Awards on June 9, producer Scott Rudin today announced that his multi-nominated best play hopeful A Doll’s House, Part 2 has extended its original 1…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:28PMThe 62nd annual Drama Desk Awards were announced Sunday night, with top awards going to Come From Away for best musical and Oslo for best play. The best musical and play revival honors went …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:17AMFriday, June 2, 2017
The actor and director Ruben Santiago-Hudson spent 11 years pushing, prodding and cajoling theater owners to let him bring Jitney to Broadway. It was the first in what would become August Wi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:51PMThursday, June 1, 2017
The Broadway community will mark the passing of producer Elliot Martin, who died May 21 at home in Connecticut at 93, by dimming the marquees of Broadway theaters tomorrow for one minute at …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:59PMOnly rarely do Broadway plays and musicals, analogs of entertainment in a digital world, break into the larger culture. as they once did. In 1990, however, John Guare’s Six Degrees of …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:19PMWednesday, May 31, 2017
The New York Times this morning announced the elimination of its Public Editor column, a widely read print and online insider’s critique of the paper that followed a national trend of …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:09PMThe 2017 Tony Awards, which CBS will telecast live from Radio City Music Hall a week from Sunday, threatens to be “a little muted,” a Broadway insider whispered in Michael Reidel…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:04AMTuesday, May 30, 2017
For most actors, a 102-line monologue is a challenge. For Laurie Metcalf, who pronounces just such a pamphlet of words near the beginning of A Doll’s House, Part 2, it’s a piece…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:38PMWith the rains came Week 1 of the 2017-2018 Broadway season, showing a glimmer of sunshine through the clouds that have been hovering above the Street’s non-musicals. Newcomer 1984, at…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:11PMMonday, May 29, 2017
Eight times a week, Carlo Albán gets beaten senseless with a baseball bat. It’s been going on for two years, and even though it’s a stage fight, he has the bruises to prove just…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:48PM 
